Lucky me. Guess which girl got breakfast in bed this morning. :) This one did. My husband is fantastic. I had a headache last night and went to bed early. But this morning I woke up to this:
Isn't he amazing. Waffles and Hot Chocolate. :) Thank you Spencer!
So I think the apartment is pretty much put together now. I'm getting things put away and finding places for all of my... stuff... so all is well. This place now looks nothing like it did last semester when there were four guys living here. Mwahahaha. I really like it though. Like a ton! (not just a lot) We've made a couple of trips to Wal-Mart. I now have a step stool so I can actually reach things :) haha and I have most of my cute decoration stuff all over on the walls now. Yep. Nothing like the bachelor pad it used to be.
Lori Trujillo took my bridal pictures for me. The first day we tried taking pictures it was snowing pretty hard. Kaitlyn and my mom had to follow me around with an umbrella and a sheet to put down for me. It was super cold!! They would hold the umbrella over me and then run away long enough for Lori to snap some pictures. Sadly, after all that, none of those pictures turned out because it was so dark.
It always seems to be snowing when I try to take pictures.....
We tried again the next day and got some pretty awesome pictures. Just in time too! We took those pictures on Wednesday and I got married the next day. Luckily we had time to get some prints before the reception on Saturday!
The only thing was the stupid cat that followed me everywhere! I was so mad at that dumb thing after..not very long. It would come up and try to sit with me. Once it snuck up behind me and jumped on the back of my dress and got mud on it. So I picked up that flipping cat by the back of its neck and chucked it as far as I could. Luckily for me Lori was laughing too hard to actually get a picture of that.
My fantastic finance surprised me with flowers today. :) He was really worried that I wouldn't like them. But he is amazing and I love daisies. Spencer has never given me flowers before and it sure meant a lot to me. One of the sweetest things he has ever done. I am so looking forward to spending the rest of my life with him. I really appreciate the way he treats me and hope I can be a good wife for him.
Giving that it is Thanksgiving, (ha) I am going to list some of the things I am very most thankful for:
1. Spencer! I sure love him :)
2. My family. They are the greatest. (I learned tonight that my siblings pray for me to "be safe at college" every day.) ((tender!)) 3. My parents specifically. I owe them... everything.
4. My In-Laws to be. Thank you for raising the man of my dreams.
5. For the testimony I have of Christ.
6. That I have been able to obtain an education. (and am still going)
7. For the love and support of so many friends and extended family members.
8. My awesome student-friendly job. (Thank you Kevin!)
9. Music. I read somewhere that "music is what emotions sound like".
10. .......did I mention Spencer? :)
For my wedding reception, I have been looking for good old classic jazz music. Like Michael Buble (number one!), Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr., Nat King Cole and the like. Isaac suggested I check out some Mel Torme too. So... I took a trip to the Marriott Library to find as much of this music as I could. Well guess what. I found tons! It sure took a while, because apparently no one looks for this music on a regular basis, but I got it. Actually, I found 5 cds of Frank Sinatra (between all there are 6 song duplicates), 1 Nat King Cole, 1 Harry Connick (that I liked), 1 Dean Martin (that I liked), and 6 Mel Torme cds to go through. So I think I will have plenty of music for my reception. It will be awesome.
Ok! :) I just got done with my practicing a few minutes ago and I'm feeling really good about that one. I felt like I made a lot of improvement and made some really great progress on the pieces I'm playing. Since I took my clarinet to Bob Joffs (highly recommend! He's amazing!) it has been playing a lot smoother for me. And I think I sound pretty good. Now.... I realize that my ears suck... and I'm probably hearing what I want to hear, but I was happy with it. (.....still would love to have a Buffet R13... just saying)
I reeally like my jury piece for this semester. It is a Brahms concerto. Brahms Clarinet Sonata #2 In E Flat, Op 120/2 - 2 Allegro Appassionato to be precise. It's so pretty! I love it. And it's starting to come together for me too.
I know I still have a lot to work on but I am impressed with myself and the point I am at now.
So I've been listening to it for the last few.... months. ha. But now I really really like it. A lot.
I've also been doing quite a bit of reading on Brahms himself. (Mostly because I have a Music History assignment where I need to write two pages of concert notes on my above jury piece.) I really like this one biography that I'm reading. The author does a great job of telling the story without being completely boring and textbook like. It's more story like and I have really enjoyed learning about Brahms. He lived a very simple life and was on his own for a lot of it. And of course he has several tragic love stories because he lives a I'm-a-musician-and-have-to-establish-myself-off-on-my-own kind of lifestyle. I decided I could never lead the life of a musician like that. But he obviously did well with it. ha.
Now.... to just write those two pages on it.... Oh I mean:
"Yes Dr. Rorke, I'm almost done and have already given my paper to a peer for review today!" ................
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