Sleeping

I don't really know when this happened, but my sleeping pattern has changed... It's 3 am and I'm up and as awake as I am at noon. How odd. Maybe it's because I was deathly ill the last 10 days or so. Would go to sleep around 3 or 4 and wake up at noon. It's really hindering my productivity... (that sounds so familiar) I don't believe my neighbor would enjoy me blasting music, cleaning and vacuuming at 2 in the morning... so instead, I sign on to Youtube and just watch crap for hours. I've managed to clean my room - which my mom approves of, via Skype. I have quartet practice tomorrow morning, so I'm sure that I will be able to clean it all in time.

Went to a pumpkin patch place and bought fresh apple cider on Saturday. Bought 2 gallons, left both in the fridge and while we were drinking the 1st gallon, the 2nd somehow went bad and fermented. I had a small apple cider explosion to clean up in my fridge and $5 worth of apple cider to pour down the drain. Weird - it's not supposed to ferment that quickly, is it? Really wonder what went wrong.

Going to cook lunch for the quartet tomorrow... as well as decide on business cards and such. It will be a busy day and hopefully, very productive. I will be trying out a new recipe for Lemon Spaghetti and will tell you all how it goes. Hopefully, fabulously.


Re-loving: Hellogoodbye - Baby it's fact


Youtube channels I subscribed to today:

Mobilitytoday
Maangchi
Miaarose

(didn't mean to do just "M"s... things just happen that way)



Maangchi has been my favorite for a long time, I just never signed on to subscribe, but I was at the Korean market today and was talking to some woman and was telling her how much I loved Maangchi and that she should look her up. How terrible of me if I don't even favorite her myself! So, I did, and there. Dilemma is over.



Okay, time to at least attempt to sleep since I'll be up in a few hours to clean for rehearsal. Ick. But yay. HOPEFULLY, we'll be playing the Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27... It's pretty much amazing. Look it up if you're interested. It's basically just a mouthful of "WOW".

Once a year

There are tons of things people do once a year... some people make resolutions (to be broken several times a year), some people sleep in, some people do a good deed, some people volunteer...

Then, there are things that happen to you once a year... Like, today. I was woken up at 6am to THUNDEROUS booming sounds. Not reminiscent of the booms from cars that sounded like they were going to explode from when I lived back in "da hood", but a very in-time, very well-practiced kind of booming. Oh... it's the band invitational. You know, where every band known to man shows up and competes against one another. Joyous rapture. I'll be listening to mediocre high school marching bands from now until the end of time... (Does anybody know when that is, by chance?) I need to go get some coffee until then.


Anywho, I know it's been a while since I've blogged. *not that anyone is reading* But, I've been suuuppppeeerrrrr busy with everything. Work, quartet, life - you know. Last week was homecoming for Cathy and I got stuck baby-sitting the kids at the dance instead of going out to have my own party. Super duper lame.

Am I complaining? I sure feel like I am. So, I'll shut up now and get ready to teach.


Current Sound: Out of tune scales with Dvorak's New World Symphony in the background (also done by a phenomenal marching bad... I mean, band) There is also that AWESOME sound in the farther background sound that sounds similar to beating on tin trash cans and throwing metal recyclables around...

Current Mood: Looks a little something like this: o.O

Stupid People on the Line

Why do companies let incompetent people talk on the phone? I  called Sprint today to see what my pricing would be on the new Touch Pro 2 as well as if they could offer me any other discounts - and here's what happened:

1) Talked with a guy who said I could get the Touch Pro 2 for 199.99 today if I extended my contract, as well as a $70 credit on each of my lines. Really? I say... I double check, he says he's right, I agree.

2) He transfers me to the telesales department so I can buy the phone, the lady says no, he was wrong. You pay $450 and get $100 mail-in rebate in 2 months. WTF. That's totally different from what this punk kid just told me.

3) I say, ok, then I want to undo my contract renewal since you obviously have the terms all messed up. The lady says, you already agreed to the credit so we can't undo that. Bitch keeps trying to sell me the phones anyway. I say she doesn't know what she's doing and need to be transferred.

4) On hold for a million hours while I blog this....

Interim thought: FUCK YOU, Sprint. I hate you for this.

5) Wonderful Billy gets on the phone, and of course, I'm stuck with Sprint again. HOWEVER, he takes off Cathy's contract renewal, gives me an $80 credit instead of $70... and the BEST part... he lowers my plan to $110 instead of the $130 I'm currently paying... WITH an additional 10% off my bill every month.  Okay, so he was super. I'm happy-er and going to go shopping for a new phone! 

Yay, Billy.

FUCK YOU, Sprint. Not that I don't like you... but I could have gotten an Iphone at that price.