Size 10 'shoes

I actually wear a size 9, but I have 10 things here that I just spouted off the last 5 minutes.

1. Halloween is on a Friday this year. That's exciting. I will be attending a house party 3 blocks away. I like to play it safe!

2. Buying hair weave glue really wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. A friend has some red weave we can put in my hair for halloween tomorrow. I am very excited about this experience.

3. Political ads are ridiculous and annoying. I am tired of them. I can't wait for Nov. 4th to be over so I won't have to endure them any longer. And we'll know who the next president is.

4. I hope all people I know that are 18 and over and live in MO, especially, know the importance of their vote. I hope everyone gets out there, waits in line and votes. It will be worth it in the end.

5. I am tutoring after school now. It's what makes my day. It's what makes me want to get up and go.

6. I hope Mona got the box I sent, it's full of halloween stuff.

7. I am glad tomorrow is a B day/C day.

8. I'd like to know who looks at my blog from 'Grandview, MO'

9. I often wonder weird things, such as, Do you think someone could live in KCI without getting caught?

10. (finally) Is it terrible that I'm excited for the pictures I'll be taking on Halloween, as I am for Halloween itself?

Halloween Hair

Thought some of you would enjoy pics of my halloween hair. :)

randy pandy

As I make my way out to popular places in KC, concerts, or the local hot spot I notice a few things:

1. The smoking ban has affected local bars, but not the big businesses or the big chain bars. This is sad, I would hate to lose Corner Cocktail or other Waldo favs. It's also happy because you CAN come home from a binder and not have to smell like cigarettes and beer.

2. More and more wanna be d-bags are wearing Affliction T-shirts. If you're a geek, you're become a geeky d-bag when you put on the affliction t-shirt. Those $80 shirts will not get you laid any more than the $7 screen prints at target will. More than likely your chances are nil anyway. Just say no to the Affliction wear.


3. It's getting increasingly harder to tell who's straight and who's not. Men are just as well groomed as women, and sometimes wearing women's jeans for the tight-jean show. Men are standing different as well. I believe that someday we could evolve into a unisex being. There won't be anymore playing with gender roles because they won't exist.

There's my two on some issues. That felt good.

Toadies

What a week. I had parent/teacher conferences this week so worked 13 hours straight on wednesday and thursday. Thursday night my brother and I went to see the Toadies at the Beaumont Club. The Toadies are an old early 90's band. They made it big with the album Possom Kingdom which came out in 94. I loved this album and listened to it religiously until my brother stole it, or I gave it to him (don't really remember how it went down). So when we heard they were coming to KC ~ we figured we should go.
It was a GREAT SHOW! It was short, they only played for about an hour and fifteen, but still really good. For as old as they are they can still rock. The sound was awesome, some of the best I've heard at the Beaumont. The crowd was eclectic. Of course more men then women, and more older kids than younger kids.
Toadies have myspace and facebook - check them out.

ohhhh the niceness.

So this is day 2 of my oh my goodness niceness. It has been pleasurable. I can't tell you the last day that has been pleasurable. I can tell you that yesterday and today I have woken up and not had to lay back down in between morning tasks. I also have gotten to work on time. I have been pleasant (for the most part at work) and had the best enrichment (the only real class I teach by myself this year) class I've had all year. Maybe I was just feeling so crappy, sluggish, and unable to really breathe that it totally altered my state of being. But now that I feel so good and can really breathe, (it's really a different feeling!) I am so struck to really get some of those life changes in effect. I really don't want to go out so much anymore. I don't really want to drink as much anymore. I do want to stay at home on friday or saturday night (I know, surprise) and just do whatever. I might want to hang out at a friends house one of those nights and maybe watch a movie or something lowkey, but I can't go out all weekend. I do want to limit my caffiene intake. I do want to drink a lot more water. I do want to keep feeling as good as I feel now. And I do want to be nice all the time and not feel a struggle to do it. And I was struggling, with everything.

BTW - I don't think any of this last fall has had anything to do with my usual fall 'funk' as I have referred to it in the past. I really haven't felt those funky emotions this fall. It is a pretty happy fall. I actually think that maybe there will be no more fall funk. I have a theory, but it'll probably take a few years to prove. Forgiveness is so healing. It might have healed me from my funk.

What does suck, but I'm not letting it get me down is the fact that when I woke up this morning, the sun wasn't up yet and now I'm still standing here (at another job, but still standing) at work and the sun is almost gone again. Reminds me of the DTA days.

Tomorrow is the vball recognition and then it's officially over. I'm excited to be productive with my extra time. I plan on doing some tutoring after school a few days a week (unless I get a homebound position) and I also plan on cleaning on the house everyday as well as working out at home everyday (I have lots of dvds).

Anyway - thanks for the comments and thanks for letting me have this outlet to write out stuff and know that the people that read it care! peace!

quick

I've had so much going on lately, but there will be a real slow down next week as I will not have volleyball any longer.

Anyway - I got really sick over the weekend and was in the worst shape ever! Thought very hard about going to the hospital on Saturday night, but decided I didn't have the funds for that. So I waited it all out with a variety of over the counter medication which didn't help diddly. But on Monday I got a breathing treatment and a few inhalers, nose spray, antibiotic and the cure all steroid pack. So my rash is all cleared up, my face is all clear, I can breathe and life is good. I actually felt nice today. Yes, nice - haven't been so nice in a while.
I am still feeling nice as a matter of fact, so it hasn't warn off yet even though I went to work today.

There's been a breakthrough at work btw - my boss might actually be human...

I have lots of other outings to post up with pics, but it'll have to be done at some other time when I shouldn't already be in bed. Friday evening, maybe. Anyway - they will be very entertaining so check back next week.

I am going to start making plans to get outta town and see people. I have to look at finances and Christmas, but once that is all taken care of with some other things, I think I'll have enough money left over to make a few road trips. Kodi, I'm coming your way. Alicia, I'll be coming your way also and then on to St. Louis. And anyone in the KC area - if you want to road trip, let me know, it would be more fun with fun people.

Results

We played well yesterday and I have a million pictures to put on here, maybe I'll get to that this weekend. We won the first game, but lost the 2nd and 3rd. My girls played hard and went after the ball. They had a really good time. I hope that they felt like true volleyball players.

Scores:

Game 1: 16-25 (w)
Game 2: 25-20 (l)
Game 3: 25-19 (l)

Thanks for all the positive thoughts! I have one more A/B game tonight and then the season if over! We'll have pictures and all next week and then officially, it will be over and I probably won't know what to do with myself.

me coaching


my girls

bump, set, smack it in their faces

Tomorrow marks my second and last opportunity (of the season)to actually coach against another team. Think really positive volleyball thoughts (such as the ball going over the net) around 3:30-6ish. I hope we go in and play really well. If they set the ball up a few times I'll be happy. If they win, it'll be phenomenal and I'll believe that it was all your positive thoughts.

I have lots to post with pictures - just finding the time to do it has been a problem.

-Coach Steen

TINA

Tina Turner was phenomenal! She pulled out all the stops. I was impressed. I really hope I look that good and still dance at her age! Here's a pic of the end of the concert. I took it with my phone, so the quality is poor. But she is out on this arm-like runway that is above the crowd.



The seats I bought were WAY UP THERE. When I bought them I was like, 9th row, yeah!!! We'll be so close. But we weren't they were like 3rd row from the last row in the place. And we were way up there. It was only the second time I've bought tickets at the sprint center, but now I know I need to buy only tickets in sections that are in 100 or the floor. The 200 sections are the high ones, which are fine - you see everything, but they aren't what I want. And I'm old enough now to be picky.

She rocked and rolled, sang the blues - did a full variety of her music, which I knew most of. I think there might have been 2 songs I didn't know. It was really a once in a lifetime show.

I haven't downloaded the pics of me and my mom from the rest of the day, so I'll blog about the rest of the day later...but I thought you'd enjoy hearing about the concert - so I got that up first.

Oh - Proud Mary was my favorite, but overall the concert was, well, rockin' phenomenally amazing....;)

Today

I took the day off today and I put on gas for $3.03! What a fantastic day! Here's what's also to come in my day that I am looking forward to: brunch/shopping with mom, getting my hair did, dinner out at the p&l or downtown somewhere, seeing Tina Turner live (with my mom)!!!

So exciting!