Wow, Time Flies

So, moving into a new house takes up more time than you'd think.  We still haven't completely finished moving out of the old house.  One of our friends called it a really nice storage shed.  :)  Most of the stuff just needs to get sorted and tossed.  I found a home for some of the kitchen things, which is good.  I'll box that up on Wednesday and give it away.

So far this year, I've been continuing to direct the children's choir at church.  I'm trying to figure out how to exit doing that.  It just takes up a lot of my time, and makes things more stressful for me at Christmas.  The adult choir (which I'm a member of - and alto section leader) always takes a lot of time at Christmas, with multiple performances outside of church, as well as additional rehearsals outside of regular rehearsal time.   The children have a play that they do every year, and I have to direct them in their singing, as well as pick out the music.  Trying to get the performance to fit in with adult choir's schedule can get rather hectic.  For instance, in 2 weeks, the adult choir will perform at another church from 3-4:30, and the kids have their performance at 6.  I have to be there at 5, so I'll be rushing from one to another.  I had planned on not doing the adult performance, but am getting bullied into doing it.  The choir usually sings 2-3 songs at that performance, and then all of the local choirs perform the Hallelujah Chorus (from the Messiah) together en masse.  The choir director has given me permission to bail after our group is done.  Yeah, that's going to be noticeable.  However, there are a couple of others who have gotten roped into helping the children, so they'll have to leave with me, so it won't just be me.

On top of the concerts, and the play, the kids are going to be in the Christmas parade.  I'll have to be on the wagon with them, as they are singing, and since I direct, I'm being told that I need to be there.  My son will also be marching in the parade with the high school band.  I kinda want to watch him go, instead of being elsewhere in the parade.  I wasn't asked if I wanted to do the parade, I was just told that we were doing it.  I'm still a tiny bit miffed about this one.  I told the main Sunday school teacher that I was thinking about giving up directing the kids and was affectionately told I wasn't allowed to.

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My blue hair is gone.  We've switched it to red.  Having fun with it.  I like it.  I was ready for a change.  We'll see how long the red streaks last.  I think it's more socially acceptable than the blue was.  And now my husband has to stop calling me his "blue haired old lady."

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Had an interesting interaction with my 19 year old niece.  She's now pregnant.  She got fired from her job, and she and her boyfriend got evicted from their apartment and had to move in with her dad.  She's been a total bitch for the last 5 years, and she and I had it out on Facebook, as that's the only interaction.  What's funny is that she gave a bitchy response to what was me actually trying to give her help.  Par for the course with her.  On top of all the crap that she said to me (saying that we were mean, because we teased her - blonde and short jokes- so she stayed away from all family events because of that - it had nothing to do with the fact that she would just go off in her bedroom at 14 and have sex with her boyfriend while the rest of us were in the other room),  she had the gall to tell me that she didn't want to be around our son, because he was backwards enough, socially, that no one wanted to be around him.  It had nothing to do with the fact that he's autistic, and, according to her, is due to our "bad parenting."  She also had the nerve to say this where he could see it.    I'm hoping that she grows up with this baby.  Otherwise, it's in for a very sucky life.

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I've decided that the Kindle Fire doesn't currently call to me.  I don't like the fact that the home screen pulls up everything that you've looked at, or website that you've visited, for easier access.  Say I went to a more 'adult' website on the Fire.  There's no way to delete that from the home page.  If someone else looks at your Fire, you have no privacy.  That right there is a no go for me.  Until they fix that, I'm not doing it.  The iPad doesn't do that to you, but I don't need one of those to the tune of $600 or more (plus the monthly fee).  I already have an iPhone, and this would be an additional charge.  I wouldn't get rid of my Kindle, so it's just one more gadget.  Yeah, they're cool to play with, and play games on, but I just don't see it being a gadget that is worth that cost to me.  I love my Kindle.  It's seen better days, as I currently have the 2nd generation.  I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of it.  I've asked for the Kindle Touch for Christmas.  I have a feeling it's already on order from my husband.


Speaking of Christmas - my house is decorated.  At least, the inside is.  I'm rather excited by that fact.  Last year, it was only a week or 2 before Christmas that I got things put up.  This year, with the new house, there was the space.  I also took the week off work, so I had the time to pull things out and not feel rushed.  Our local schools get the whole week off, and it was my flex week, so with the holiday, I only had to take 3 vacation days and got to take 9 days off work.  I was lazy for part of the week, reading my kindle almost constantly.  I did catch up on some TV viewing.

Speaking of TV viewing, we had to get a new satellite receiver for the bedroom, as our DirecTiVo died.  Since we have HD in the living room, we decided to go ahead and upgrade our bedroom TV and get an HD receiver for it.  My husband has been spending more time in the bedroom, watching that TV as of late.  It's a little bit bigger than the old one, and is much easier to watch.  He's been watching DVD's of old Twilight Zone episodes.  Every time he says he's going to the bedroom to watch Twilight Zone, I hear, "I'm going to the bedroom to watch Twilight."  It takes a second for the Zone to click in my head.  He is SO not a Twilight fan, so it just jars me whenever he says it.  I guess that's a bit of a commentary on the popularity of Twilight these days that I just expect to hear that, instead of Twilight Zone.

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I'm still playing a lot of World of Warcraft.  I'm just kind of biding my time until the new patch comes out.  Right now, I'm farming reputation, which is about as exciting as it sounds.  My alt characters don't have the gear to raid, so I'm not doing any raiding with them at the moment.  My main character raids, but it's only 1 night a week now, instead of 2, until the new raids come out.  The friends I used to hang out with all the time have stepped away from the game, due to their new jobs (3 of them to be exact), so I'm kind of lonely when I log in.  I like the social aspect of it.  I guess it's time to make more online friends in that game.  Some of my other internet gaming friends are switching over to Star Wars: the Old Republic, but I don't know if I want to add another MMO to my gaming.  I haven't played WoW long enough to get sick of it yet (been playing about a year and a half, and I haven't even switched factions yet), so I'm not yet ready to completely give it up.  At least with the amount of time I've spent away from it, it just proves that I'm not addicted.  :)

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Things that have not changed:

Still a procrastinator.
Still overweight.
Still playing softball, but I might back off on this one come spring.
Still an avid reader
Still singing a lot - my trio is doing a performance in May, and then one the following year, so I still have to practice for that.

Beyond that, my life is kind of boring.   Oooh, I did get a second monitor, so now I have a dual monitor setup for my PC.  Yes, I'm just that geeky.  :)