Well ok, I didn't get my meals posted this week and its been kind of a crazy one at that! But its finally Friday and it couldn't have come any sooner! I've been on the go since the week started, and even though we didn't have school on Monday it seems like I couldn't have been busier! Here's the break down of the week I had:

Monday we had a teacher inservice which was great in the morning b/c the related arts staff were able to spend their own time in their own rooms working. The afternoon however, seemed to drag on forever - we had a special webcast conference with an educator who wrote a book that focused on supporting struggling students. The content was important and those of us who participated in the book study prior to the web conference got some good, valuable information from the book. The conference that afternoon was from 1-4, but it seemed to go on and on and on...it turns out that even though the author had great ideas and content in her book, she isn't much of a public speaker. It was long, flowed poorly and we lost a lot of the content that we read about. When I went home that night I worked furiously getting my house back in shape - I had let it go for a while :S I love the feeling of a clean house, and to make it better I had just bought some great candles with fall scents! So my apartment was clean and smelled of pumpkin pie and harvest spice~yum! I also took that evening to decorate my apartment for fall. I put out some pumpkin decor and I have some really beautiful paintings that my grandmother painted years ago that I like to keep hung at my place. Through regular seasons I keep up her signature lilacs painting, but for fall I have one of her harvest paintings. So now my apartment is set for autumn - and now I can do a little more for Halloween, it being October and everything :)

Its been a great school week, and my choirs are sounding the best they have yet this year! Any progress that was possible seemed questionable in the last couple weeks, but we seem to have risen above whatever funk we were in and I feel we'll be ready for our upcoming concert. Memorization is there and expression is following shortly behind it! Tuesday night I kept scorebook at the high school volleyball games, which is so much fun! I really enjoy being there to support the kids and keep the book! Wednesday night I directed church choir rehearsal and we have a performance in church this Sunday - we've only had 4-6 consistent choir members so far, so hopefully we'll have enough confidence to sing the Lord's praises! Make a joyful noise!!!

Last night I supported our 7th and 8th grade volleyball girls at their home games - although they weren't all victorious, they all gave a great effort and succeeded in my book! I have some great kids this year :D

Today has been great, and I look forward to the restful weekend. I made some chocolate cake last night (my mom's "Lake Cake" recipe-yumm!) to bring to school today. I told some friends at work I would make Crispitos for lunch today, but I couldn't find a recipe, so instead I decided to bring some cake. It went over very well! Tonight I'm planning on going to my sister's and spend an evening w/ her, which will be nice. We live pretty close, but her family is so busy that when school is going on we don't see much of each other.

On Sunday last weekend I traveled to Wichita to audition for the Wichita Grand Opera. I auditioned for a chorus member position and for their young artist program, and I felt like the audition went very well - vocally I felt so good about it! I sang a french aria for them that I had just recently started working on. I should've maybe started with an italian aria that I've worked on and had in my repertoire for about 3 or 4 years, but I thought the french aria would show off what I can do vocally - which it did! I tried my best to memorize it, but despite my best efforts, my nerves took control and I ended up mumbling my way through some of the words. The people in the audition had a lot of really positive things to say and they said I would hear from them by this week - or at least that's what I thought they said, but I haven't heard anything from them at all - no emails, calls or snail mail...I'm not sure how they're going to let me know, but I hope its soon, I've been on pins and needles all week! We'll see what happens, and I'll go wherever the Lord takes me! :D God is so good!

That's all the news I have to report as of now, here's hoping for a restful weekend! Maybe I'll have a menu for next week posted.....maybe....haha