It's me, Charity

 Last Monday I tried a new drink at DD, their Iced Coffee with Mocha. I ordered it on the mobile app and missed the part about adding milk, so it wasn't quite my favorite but it wasn't bad either! Also, I believe it is ALWAYS an appropriate time for iced coffee. 20 degree weather, who cares!  I got the cutest valentine's day card in the mail from Audra, and it got me all teary eyed. thankful for friends who love me well!  The daily countdown to my birthday!  Wednesday I got up early to go to the Minute Clinic for the sinus infection that will never end. And got a person whom I was NOT a fan of. Despite the rough start to the morning it perked up when one of my students brought me a heart shaped pretzel for Valentines day! SO sweet! And so very yummy.  Thursday I was up early again, and in need of extra caffeine. I tried the Iced Coffee again and liked it much better with some milk involved.  After I was sufficiently caffeinated, I...

This is what happens when you're a week late on your week recaps. You have ONE picture from week 5 and can't remember anything else from it! Whoopsie. I guess we can sum up week 5 with, I came, I saw, I taught, Barbie and Ken got married. One of my students was learning to wedding processional and recessional, so I decided that  we should make it extra special, and she brought her dolls in and we had a wedding in her piano lesson. It was cute and hilarious. The Alter was my side table. Ken wasn't so great on standing up so he is posed on my water. HA!  OH, and I finally got a new watch! It looks basically identical to my old watch and that makes me very happy. I'm loving being able to look down and see the time without having to press a button and read the dots. (Misfit Flash)  Last week started off with the Superbowl, which I could care less about, and the halftime show featuring my boy JT!! I danced my booty off and was glad there was no one t...

 The words to describe last week would be Snow & Snot. Sunday I started feeling like I was getting a cold. Monday when I got up it was clear I had one. It had snowed over night, so I got to use my new to me borrowed snowblower for the first time! Despite not feeling well I was pretty jazzed to try it out!  Don't ask me about the weird gloves I'm wearing.  I have no clue. After a slight technical difficulty with the extension cord not fitting the plug in, I got it going, and managed to clear my driveway and sidewalks and my neighbors sidewalk. My cord didn't get me to his driveway. Which I felt bad about until I was teaching later and heard a snowblower. Someone had come to do his driveway!  Wednesday. Oh Wednesday. There were numerous times that day when I wanted to sit down and bawl I was super sick by Weds, and realized I needed to see my Dr. So I made a same day sick apt for later that afternoon. I got ready in the hopes I could ...

Let's see if I can keep up with a weekly recap for the second year in a row! I rather like this, as it helps me remember what I did, or didn't do. HA! And it's less work than having to blog about single events.   By Tuesday my tree was down and my living room was back to being clean and roomy! I couldn't say the same for the rest of the house, but baby steps! Thankfully before I left for the farm, i.e. before the snow and negative temps, I carried all of my tubs that hold my trees and decorations inside, and put them in the piano studio. That was a really wise decision! Next year I am going to start taking down decorations before I go home. Just because it is a lot of work, and when I came back I wanted to relax, and have a clean and christmas free house.  I revelled in being able to drink a glass of coca cola at 5:30 pm and not have to worry about falling asleep! That week of no alarm was GLORIOUS.  I finally got both trees down, and things packed up....

 Well I started off last week with sickness. So we join in the week on Weds, my next to last day of teaching! Christmas party in your lesson week was still happening for some students who couldn't come the week before so I busted out my antlers again!  Thursday I was feeling tired, and I had a ton of errands to run before teaching so I loaded up with a big ol mason jar of coffee.  I had to go get a frame for this AMAZING painting that one of my students Dad's made for me! That is Audra and her family in front of their old house when they sold it. It was her birthday gift.  Last day of lessons called for a festive headband! I snapped this in the middle of the afternoon when I was down to 4!! students!   I also got cozy, because I had had a rough day. Break was never needed more!  This is random but oh my word these chicken tenders are SO good! I got them at Target and now I need to buy more. It's a rare chicken ten...