CLARION BRASS at the KROC

monday
december 16 2013

had a horrible nightmare last night. we were in a strange house dusting out spiderwebs with sticks. maggie was sitting in front of a big web that had a snake in it. i woke up, frozen and could not move. took me several minutes to finally get up and go potty at 3:30am.

ben was in the bed when i got back, his little tail frantically thumping against the pillows.

i told him to "get down" and pointed.

when we got up in the morning, i made breakfast & latte. hubby went to work. the temp was already 35F. almost a heatwave.

however, i could not get warm all day. had all the heaters & the fireplace going and still not warm enough. caught a chill!

i was very, very tired. but i did dishes and put away laundry. vacuumed the house. cleaned off the bird seed from the deck. brought the snowman up on the deck so i could fix his lights.

there was a fly on the floor near the aloe vera plant, so i scooped it up and fed it to our bathroom spider. he attacked it right away. i wonder if we should get crickets at Petco to feed him?

made bacon. cut up salami we bought at super one the other night. made sausage/cream cheese roll ups.

made more sausage.

i need to wash my hair before the concert tonight at 7:30PM.

we will leave bones with the dogs tonight to give them something to do.

i got dressed. casual. jeans & sweater. hubby got home at 5:00 and came up the deck & knocked on the door. dogs did not even hear him. they were passed out sleeping.

hubby got changed and sat on the couch a while eating sausage cream cheese pinwheels for snack. then we left around 6:00. went into town (we were both exhausted so did not talk much) washed the truck at the car wash on ramsey. then parked and went into the Kroc. we sat around for 15 minutes. then walked over the concert hall.

we both had to go potty again. so used the restrooms before the concert.

music started right at 7:30. it was a good concert. brass band; french horns, tubs, trumpets, trombones, drums. there was a "Grinch" song and the tuba player came out in a Grinch outfit. that was cute. excellent renditions of traditional Xmas song with a brass sound twist. very good.

however, during intermission the elderly crowd decided to go outside & SMOKE. it was awful stink after they resumed the concert. hubby & i were both ready to vomit. hubby went out to get gum & came back with mints instead.

also after intermission, it seemed like someone had left a door open because i started to feel a cold breeze blowing under the seats. i put on my gloves and as i was just wearing a sweater instead of my warm winter coat, i started to get very cold. tried huddling closer to hubby but that did not make it better. i was freezing the 2nd half of the concert.

afterwards, we were both too tired to go grocery shopping so instead just went to Wendy's to get burgers for dogs & then drove home.

i fed dogs burgers, they were SO happy to see us again. found that Maggie had taken hubby's RMOR winter hat outside to cuddle with it? play with it?

hubby watched 30 rock and i went to bed.