davejenbarnes

I have never considered myself to be a good writer. I recognize good writing when I see it, but I am not able to reproduce what I see. There are so many facets to good writing; where does one begin? A subject. Yes, one must have a subject worthy of an audience. But there’s more… what else must a good writer have? It is a mystery to me. Like driving in an unfamiliar city without the aide of a map or passenger who knows their way around or even a GPS. I can remember being in several of these exact situations. Certain exciting and memorable things have happened… Just one memory was in San Angelo: I was pulled over by San Angelo Police for turning left from the next-to-left-but-not-left lane. Thankfully, I was in a formal and had my waco address on my driver’s liscence and the policewoman had a hunch that I was new in town and lost. Not only did she let it slide, but she gave me directions to my destination.
You always seem to arrive at your destination when you’re in those predicaments. Perhaps I will become a good writer!

Lessons
Yes, I finally have a lessons site for my clarinet kiddos! Isn’t it nice?! …and to think I did it all with the wimpy little pagewizards. Oh, to have a real piece of software. That’s on my TO BUY list, lemme tell you. The problem lies in finding something affordable for mac.

Well, wouldya look at the time. I need to catch some zz’s. Later!

Apple it’s the music. I gotta admit. This video is addictive because of the music. Not only is it a kick-bum machine, but the music is rockin’ as well.

I’m surfing while David is teaching at school.. by this time he should have already had his class. I hope and pray that this school year will be the beginning of a long and satisfying career for him at LISD. He emailed me which means he knows how to get into the mail program there.

Last night was rough. 3 am. late night. Boy, am I glad I’m not going to be there much longer. I don’t know how people can work retail and like it. Now I know why the mall closes so early each night. Not to get the kids home — when the mall closes, target gets busier — but to allow them to start cleaning up the mess left by the mob of shoppers.

On other topics, because who likes hearing about work, David’s parents came down. It was really tough finding time to visit because of the work schedule, but we did manage to go to Macaroni Grill for “lunch” on Sunday (actually it was my breakfast). Macaroni Grill has strange food. I don’t think I like it there, besides the bread, but David always manages to find something that I’ll at least nibble on. Maybe I should have him order for me whenever we go there again.

Mmmmmm…. new laudry detergent… smells so clean!

So today was advertised amongst the “team” at Target that we would be the host of the Target President… the store was in tip-top shape for such a highly esteemed visitor and every lane had a cashier all day long… 36 people standing waiting for the hundreds of people that were supposed to want to check out all at the same time I suppose. Turns out, the visitor was just the president of grocery or some food-related exec. so the clothing never even got a visit from the gentleman. I worked a short shift and proceeded to shop after my shift was over. I bought various items for snacks for our REALife group tonight and 2 items of clothing for me and some sushi… the total was over $80! I never realized it, but Target is EXPENSIVEr than “that other store!” but I didn’t use my discount since I didn’t have the checkbook and the discount doesn’t work with a debit card.

On other news, Dave came back from inservice with an official Leander ISD bum cushion. Since the school district had so many complaints about the chairs used for inservices being uncomfortable, they provided a plastic cushion with a star and a picture of the US flag which says in big letters: Leander ISD
I think it’s hilarious! His job came with a free bum cushion! HA!

My good friend, best friend, even, Becky Miller got back from Germany last night. I am afraid that she will be on German time for many days, so I eagerly await with much anticipation a time to visit.

Another friend, [name deleted to protect the secret], just told the REALife group that she and her husband, [name also deleted], will be parents in March! :-) We are all so happy for them both!

Yay! I have tomorrow off. Sort of. Lessons… Three of them at least.

I’m off to go watch Dave play PSO and try to get rid of this pain in my chest. again. -Jen

Today was a bee-euw-teefull day! Getting up at 10 am is a tough thing to do after getting to bed at 3 am earlier the same day, but it was well worth it… off to lunch then a quick stop by the SuperTarget where (it’s on the wrong side of Lakeline Mall Dr. on the map, btw) I picked up my paycheck, unsuccessfully looked for next week’s schedule, and discovered watermelon twizzlers for the first time. Once home, it was a whirlwind cleanup for the apartment and a nap for Dave then a visit from my parents! After talking and getting dad some Aleve for his headache, it was off to dinner and then back home. Are you kidding?!, I’m not going to link a map to my address!! Who do you think I am? -Jen