In This House…

All my roomies are sick too. Now I’m beginning to wonder whether it was the bike riding or not. But they are all in varying states of disease. The funny thing is that Frank still wanted to desparately go into the hottub tonight even tho it would be a primordial soup of germs. Otherwise I bought some NyQuil too. The liquic stuff that’ll hopefully put me out really fast really soon. Sleep – what sweet bliss. 🙂

Piano blues

So I’m getting a little concerned about the piano lessons. They are going pretty well and I like my teacher. Demanding and assertive, but also encouraging so I don’t feel too lame. But all of a sudden there is so much to remember. Pedaling at the right time, phrasing of the notes, keeping everything in correct rythmn, I’m even trying to do “voicing” which is when the right hand plays 3 notes – one with the thumb, one with the middle finger and one with the pinky – to play the note that is the melody louder than the other two notes. Arggg! Who can remember to do all that?

Cooking overload…

So it’s 11 o’clock at night. The cheesecake is done. The crusts for 2 apple pies are in the fridge. The only thing I can say is that one never fully realizes how much fat/butter/sugar there is in these things unless you really make them by hand.

Sp we are also featuring drinks at our party. Cosmopolitans (NY), margaritas (Texas) and gao-liang liquor (Taiwan).

Vince is still awake. He’s crashing every day at 3 or 4 pm and sleeping well past 5 pm. I’m not sure how to remedy the situation.

Library time…

Today we went to the East Fishkill library for our weekly exchange of books and CDs. It’s pretty hilarious. Sometimes I’m grateful that we don’t have a big house because then I would have to look in 2-3 times more space for lost library books. Today we were there just in time to go to the 11 am storytime, which Vince loved. I finally got to see in person the sitting down in a group that he learned in nursery school. I used to take him to these things a year ago and he didn’t want to sit down and he would scream at the top of his lungs if anybody sang songs.

I finally had to put the child gate up in our house. We have a staircase in our apt and today was the first day that Edda is really capable of crawling a distance when I’m out of the room blogging or going to the bathroom or some other nonsense like that.

SIck Again…

Blah. I’m sick again. This sucks. It’s probably from all the riding recently. I blame it on the fat issue. Sorta amazing how you immune system goes south if it really is due to that. I can see why pro racers get sick all the time. Well, I’ll just try to eat well and take care of myself. not much more you can do about that.

I think it’s time to clean up my room at some point also. it’s bee messy for way too long really. maybe i’ll do that tonight.