Seriously, Smoke Detector, Seriously??

I was fast asleep, enjoying my slumber.. so happy that I could sleep in this morning.

Then the world played a cruel joke on me.

My smoke detector BEEPSSSS loudly--- ear piercingly loud--- 3 times. Naturally, this freaks me out to the max. That's right, to the max. what the hell?! So I go back to bed thinking that it won't happen again- WRONG. It beeps again like 8 minutes later. I jumped out of bed, ran and got a chair from my kitchen table. to look at the smoke detector because I'm pretty certain this means it needs batteries. Well, I can't see the damn thing in the dark, so I turned the hall light on so I could see---the hall like is a ceiling lamp just above the smoke detector. I flipped the switch and felt like someone maced me in the eyes.... you know when you first turn a light on after your eyes have not adjusted to light. So the damn thing was beeping and then I couldn't see and then you can't take the cover off of the detector, but you can take it off the wall. wtf?!

So now I am wide awake- it is nearly 6:30am on a Saturday morning and I don't know about you, but I don't do well when I'm woken up by anything, especially on my day to sleep in. What does this mean? It means that Lauren = kinda cranky. Mar-boy already got a text about the whole thing and now he's probably rolling over and going back to sleep. Lucky.

Well now that I'm up, I guess I'll catch up on my TV programming that I missed during the week and start making my shopping list. I could probably go to Wegman's now and it would be perfect. I wonder if they have fresh brewed coffee at one of those stands in the morning. That would make everything better... Oh well.

Happy Saturday day me.

A Case of the Intern Blues

Yeah, I have a little case of the intern blues. I'm feeling a little homesick, my friends are graduating in the next week, and I can't seem to get my documentation to where I think it should be. I got an e mail about how I need to work harder to catch some silly stuff and that was enough to tip over my cup. So I officially had my first in-supervision meltdown. We worked through it and I have a journaling project to do this weekend to help process and get to the root and come up with some solutions. It's all good. And to make things better, Mar-boy made me dinner tonight and we rented a movie from the Redbox. I'm feeling zen for Betty White day tomorrow.

Mar-boy and I went to the local Walmart to find a Mothers Day card for his mother. He handled the Walmart outing like a champ. I like to look at all the really stupid stuff that I don't need and try to come up with reasons as to why I would need to purchase each item. Mar-boy kept me focused, although he did let me browse the 5.00 DVDs. I also like to point out everything in the store- which I didn't know I did until this evening. He didn't seem to mind. What a guy.

There is this amazing thunder/lightning storm happening right now. Its so beautiful to see the sky lit up. I've turned out all my lights and opened my blinds. It was really cool to see on my way home too. Tomorrow I think I've decided to make some Macaroni and Betty White Cheddar Cheese for our main dish. I love a good theme. Kari will be over at some point in the day and Mar-boy and his buddy will be here later in the afternoon/early evening. I haven't even picked out the Golden Girls episodes yet. Oy. I better get to bed!

Enjoy Betty White Day!!

RCRD

ROC City Roller Derby!!!!!

Home bout- Jun.12

They called themselves the "Rottenchesters" led by Captain Jessie Kaboom.

rocderby.com

Okay now I have to finish getting ready! have a great day everyone.

almost forgot....

The sunrise was amazing this morning. Ignore the Lowe's sign and look just beyond that.

Cinco de Mayo?

Hmm Cinco de Mayo isn't as big of a thing here as it is back home.

Kari and I celebrated at the ONE Mexican restaurant in Newark. We had margs and cheap food. All in all, a successful evening.

Yesterday was Dad's birthday- Happy Birthday Dad- love you. hope you have a good time celebrating tomorrow!

Today was a great day. We had an inservice day with our ITD and my ST. All of our sessions were canceled for the day. We discussed termination of services and non-inclusion reports (meaning, when you assess someone for music therapy and it is determined that they are not appropriate candidates for MT at this time). We got to watch another Nordoff-Robbins movie- "The Music Child" - which was interesting to see. I'm going to have to watch it again. There is so much happening in every scene that its difficult, nearly impossible, to absorb everything after one viewing. We also had another piano inservice on Classical Improvisation. Our ITD calls it: Improvisational Sight Reading---- can we come up with anything more perfect?! no. Improvisational Sight Reading- I love that. I love sight reading in general--- which in the music world, makes me sort of strange. No one really enjoys sight reading. Except for me, apparently. Anyhow. This idea of classical improvisation is looking at a piece of "classical" music --- serious art music.... not necessarily from the classical era-- and reducing a portion of it, taking it apart and then finding ways to reconstruct it. This means that I should be sight reading every day. I love that idea. The only way to get better at sight reading is to practice and do it constantly. I am looking forward to putting together a classical improvisation. We had to do a write up and whole thing about it. I am really excited.

We also watched this online seminar today on ethics and stuff put on by the State of New York.... kind of like "Live... from Albany.... its the Governor." NY is in the hole big time- huge deficit. In fact, we just got an e mail today saying that Furlough Days will begin in a couple of weeks for selected state workers. We're not sure how or if that will affect us. More on that as it comes.

Tonight I am looking forward to going to bed early and washing some dishes left over in my kitchen. Still getting ready for Betty White Day. We've expanded the menu to include Betty White Waffles which will embrace her likeness using various fruits and whipped cream and Pasta in (Betty) White sauce. Man, I love a good theme.

Its Glee Night

Tonight is Glee. Mar-boy is coming over to suffer through it with me. Its not that I think Glee is the greatest thing since sliced bread--- I enjoy it because I think its bad... Its like watching Grease 2 or Xanadu. I love it.

Last night Mar-boy came over for dinner. I hadn't seen him since last Tuesday's hockey game. It was nice to just hang out. We caught up on last week's episode of Glee. We didn't want to get behind or anything!

Work is kind of crazy right now. I started being observed by my ST for my midterm evaluation next week. NOt only do I have my midterm eval next week but I have TWO update meetings coming up and there never seems to be enough hours in the day nor the attention span to get all of this paper work done! My midterm evaluation requires I do a self and site evaluation-- add that to the paper work pile. Eck. So I feel like I'm drowning a little bit and really all I had time and energy left to do in the evening is be a blob in front of the tv, eat, and/or read. I wish I could read more--- I still have to get through this other book and on to the next one to discuss in the next few weeks! yikes. This week and weekend (aside from Saturday) is going to be about getting all the important stuff done. I know I have time- but its that build up that I use to drive myself crazy. :) Believe it or not, this whole build up thing has gotten a lot better since coming here.

I am trying to get all this stuff done this week because Saturday is Betty White Day. Saturday is the day the Betty White hosts SNL. Kari and I decided to make a day of it, complete with Betty White Russians, St. Olaf inspired snacks, and only the best episodes of Golden Girls hand picked by the resident Golden Girls expert: Me. Mar-boy I think is going to join us in the evening when he's done with all of this stuff. Kari is coming over, she's bringing her books so we can get our reading done and other miscellaneous work before settling into our Betty White Marathon.

Chipotle run for dinner!

My 100th Episode

You are seeing the result of "Mindless Fun Night." I couldn't think of a more appropriate picture for my 100th Episode! 100 blog posts since January... which means I've already been here for over 100 days. wow!

Kari and I had been talking about doing something fun this weekend. She sent me a text while I was scrubbing my apartment asking that we do something fun that required A/C. It was really muggy yesterday and her apartment doesn't have AC.

When she arrived (around 2 or so) she was telling me that our ITD instructed us to do something mindless and fun. We decided on grabbing some dinner, grabbing some dessert, and some adult beverages for games and movies. Turns out playing scrabble after enjoying a lovely bottle of wine can be extremely creative. We had to look up almost every word. BUT we accomplished our goal for relaxing fun. We went to a sushi place in the plaza near my apartment, then headed to Wegmans- found a cheesecake and then stumbled upon a 4-pack of Cannoli. we were sold. We played a few rounds of scrabble, enjoyed our wine and then put in Alice and Wonderland- the Disney animated classic. Both of us had never really played Scrabble before (Mar-boy encouraged me to purchase the game a couple of weeks ago) - we were proud of ourselves.

Anyhow- Today I need to get to my laundry and do a few errands, like buy a few groceries and deposit a check at the bank. I think I'm meeting Mar-boy and his parents for lunch today. I should probably check my phone as I'm still in pjs and on the couch.

It was nice to just hang out and get my home life back in order--- the last thing being laundry which will be done this afternoon. I took care of most of my to-do list this weekend and I did NO work. It felt amazing. Now I Love Lucy is on. This is shaping up to be a fantastic morning!