Woke up a bunch of times before the alarm this morning. One time was because the phone rang at 5:30, but the other times were for no apparent reason. Ugh.

I was super tired last night so when I went to bed I set my alarm for 15 minutes late than usual, thinking it wasn't much but it might help. So of course I woke up an hour before I usually get up. I actually felt pretty well-rested (if aggravated) at that point, but now I am super tired again.

Oh well, tomorrow night I can just sleep until I wake up and go back to sleep if that isn't enough.

Glad your Dad was found quickly, Jesse. When do you move, isn't it soon?

Yep, end of the month. I have got to start finding boxes! And then packing. Of course it was raining all afternoon, so today was a no-go on that front.

Too bad I can't teleport all the empty boxes cluttering up my garage to you. Many of them with packing material!

Of course, if we could teleport stuff around, you probably wouldn't need boxes to move.

Why am I getting the red squiggle for teleport? Looks right to me.

I recommend Berklee's The Contemporary Singer by Anne Peckham. It's a self-study book with lots of great vocal technique info, but importantly, it comes with a disc that has excellent, directed vocal exercises in two ranges. I've copied the exercises over to my phone and I wander around in parking lots warming up before I perform. It's pretty great and also you get to have random late-comers to the show looking at you weirdly.

Of course, if we could teleport stuff around, you probably wouldn't need boxes to move.

That would be so awesome, OMG.

Wings tonight! With grown ups!

msbelle is taking flight.

pass it on.

msbelle is talking a fight? wha? I thought she said no mayhem.

Msbelle is Tolkien at night. Pass it on.

I was looking at a Facebook group for people in my home county in Pennsylvania and discovered my favorite high school teacher is A) still alive (cue Big Jake McCandles quote) B) on Facebook, and C)a right winger, declaring Obamacare will bankrupt us and proudly talking about the Smith & Wesson he carries for protection. And he wouldn't sign a Sandy Hook sympathy card if it was going to be used to promote gun control (he signed it, so apparently it met his principles).

Very sad. He taught us the beauty of literature, used Tolkien for extra credit, reveled in the intelligence of his students. But if Hubby's face isn't in the dictionary next to Curmudgeon, it would be Mr. Berryhill's.