a new day, a new lady

OK so I am totally laughing at the fact that last WEDNESDAY I wrote about being able to blog more often because I had finally picked up more hours at work. Well, I guess I spoke too soon or something! lol…so here is what’s been happening the past week…

I have been ridiculously busy at work. Which is GREAT because it makes the days go by so much quicker, but leaves no time to blog. All last week was spent preparing for a Motivational Interviewing training that we ran this morning for 60 people. A LOT of preparation goes into compiling notebooks for each registered individual, making sure the room is equipped with everything the trainers (my bosses) could possibly need, all sorts of correspondence. Just tons and tons and tons of work. So that’s number one…

Number two - MY BEST FRIEND HAD HER BABY GIRL FRIDAY MORNING!!! She went into the hospital Thursday around 4pm and I was at the hospital with her from 8pm until 3am. Baby Addison RyAnn Jones was born at 12:41am April, 25, 2008 weighing in at 6 pounds 4 ounces, measuring 20 inches. She is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Her mama is Hawiian and already, Addison has her mother’s head full of hair, eye lashes and luscious lips, haha.

I was absolutely exhausted Friday morning. I actually over slept and was about an hour and a half late to work (which I NEVER do - that tells you how tired I was, lol), but fortunately my bosses are REALLY cool and didn’t mind at all. I got straight to work and got everything that we needed accomplished, so it was all OK.

So number three, this weekend was the Longhorn Singer’s 50th Reunion!!! All my years at UT, I was a member of the Longhorn Singers (singing is my PASSION, it’s my lover!) So the whole weekend was filled with events from alumni and current members. It was SO much fun! Friday night we went at Sholz Beer Garden where the current members of Longhorn Singers performed for us and it was fabulous. That basically went on until the weather got really nasty and since they were performing on an outside stage, they had to stop. However, I got to drive out to my friend’s house because I am cat sitting (this is reason number 4 on the busy list). My best friend is in Europe for 3 weeks and it’s my shift to look after Cruba cat now. I love him to death so I totally don’t mind but when you are utterly exhausted, and it’s thunderstorming, hailing, etc. the last thing you want to do is drive North to look after a cat, lol. But I am a good friend and a COMPLETE animal lover, so of course I went!

Saturday was filled with more Longhorn Singers’ events. We met in the morning, 5 decades worth of members and rehearsed a few songs to sing at the evening banquet. This was SO MUCH FUN!! I knew that I missed singing but I didn’t realize just how much until I was in there, with a conductor and sheet music in an official rehearsal all over again. I have GOT to find an outlet for myself. I absolutely loved this reunion though. I learned things I never knew about Longhorn Singers! I mean, I’ve always felt so blessed and lucky to have found LHS because not only did it provide me with a place to sing music but it also provided me with SO many FRIENDS that I KNOW I will have for the rest of my life!! And what made the weekend so cool was actually getting to see that I was a part of something SO much bigger than myself, or the current members of LHS. I mean, to talk to some of these people, look at old videos, and pictures and to know that songs that we sing now, parties we have, initiations we have, just traditions we have - have been going on for 50 years!!! I guess I always assumed that they were traditions from the past 10 to 15 years but NEVER 50 years worth of traditions! It just touched my heart and I honestly felt so extremely lucky!! I was a total sap and cried more times than I can count, hahaha. So that basically took up my day from 9:30am until 9:30pm and after that Longhorn Singers’ had our traditional Wine and Cheese party, haha. I was absolutely exhausted though and so while I am known as a “party closer” I was home and in bed around 1:45am.

So the following video is a small snipet of us sinigng March Grandioso, which is one of our “fight” songs but it’s the fight song the BAND plays! (In the youtube video link, the first half is March Grandioso) However, we’ve always prided ourselves and being a pretty damn good choir, so we actually sing the instrumental song! (oh yeah, I’m in the front row, kind of hidden by the conductor, but I’m wearing a black and white dress)
Download Longorn Singers singing March Grandioso

I slept in late yesterday and while I had a million errands to run because of my busy week and weekend, I did absolutely NOTHING but watch TV with my roomie ALL DAY LONG! hahaha…and it felt WONDERFUL!! But I do have a million and one things to do. On top of work, where the training went REALLY well today and we had no glitches or anything. I want to go visit Barbie and her baby again - now that they are back in the comfort of their own home and without a bunch of people around them. My best friend Bonnie moved to Austin on Sunday from Houston. I’ve been waiting 5 years for us to live in the same city again so I’m super excited about that and I want to go see her new place and help her decorate and stuff. My other best guy friend just made the decision final that he is moving to Dallas in 2.5 weeks. I am REALLY sad about this because I have never known Austin without him. I pretty much met him as soon as I moved to Austin and we dated for a year and have been best friends the past 2.5 years. I am SO sad for him to leave but I know it’s probably what is best for him and his career. But I want to get in as much quality time with him as possible before he goes!! And then of course there is the mundane things like doing laundry, cleaning up my room, buying groceries. I haven’t been to the store since I returned from Houston LAST weekend and I am down to the BARE BONES! I NEED to go to the store really really bad!

Tomorrow is my one day off and I am going to have to utilize it to the best of my abilities. Not only do I have all these things to do BUT tomorrow night is Longhorn Singers’ Year End Banquet. I really want to buy a new fancy dress to wear but I don’t know if I am going to have to the time to go shopping, lol. Worst case scenario I have a dress that no one has really ever seen me in before so I can always just do that! But yeah…ALL OF THIS is why I haven’t posted in literally, almost a week. It’s funny the way things work out huh? OH and guess who is going to Houston this weekend for the Kanye West, Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco, and N.E.R.D concert?? Yeah, that would be me! And I’m either going to Galveston Saturday OR driving all the way back to Waco which is on the OTHER side of Austin to go to Longhorn Singers’ last campout. I wasn’t able to make it last semester because of my back and I’d REALLY love to attend this one, especially considering its so many of my friends last campout too. So I have yet to decide on that but there goes another busy ass weekend, haha. But better busy than slow I say!!

Hopefully I will be able to find some time to do some more posting though and do some reading and commenting on everyone else’s blogs. I totally missed you guys and I hope everyone had a wonderful week and weekend!!

P.S. I am going to try to post a short video and some pictures of this past weekend, just so yall can kind of see what Longhorn Singers is! So check back!

P.P.S. Is the embedded video working for anyone??