Memorial Day!

This feels like the first full day that I relaxed. And then of course I remembered what Memorial Day is for...I read the paper and I salute those who serve.
What a crazy week it's been-school done, band concert, band practice, Maddie's high school graduation, work, Memorial Day party and now the glorious day after. What a fun day. All the friends, the music, the kids. Seeing the kids and adults play together is great-classic rock with alt rock-love it!
Speaking of music my son, Nic is doing a project for leadership called "Songs of My Life" He has to list 10 songs that have been important to him in his life. I've been getting nostalgic reading the list. Like "All My Loving" I sang it to him as a baby to go to sleep and when he heard the Beatles version he was surprised because he thought I wrote it (I wish!) Then there was "The Cup of Life" Ricky Martin-in preschool he was CRAZY for Ricky Martin-Iplayed that song at least a million times! And "Beverly Hills"-the first song he played on guitar in a talent show in 4th grade in his first band "Blue Fire". And his first song on vocals at the Willow Glen Tree Lighting-"All the Small Things". And the first song "No Reason" wrote in rock camp-"No Idea" -wow! The list goes on. I love this project!
I'm not sure where the time went today-it's been the best doing absolutely nothing, except going for a walk. In a week I'm doing an online essay workshop. I forgot I signed up and felt like backing out, but I'm going ahead-it is just what I need after all the term papers, poetry explications, etc. to get back to my own writing.

The last final of

this long semester. I'll be leaving soon so I can get there by 8am. What a fabulous professor! She changed the final time from 715 to 8 am-so much better. My head is filled with definitions of literary criticisms and the essays are all blending into one giant essay-they all seem to mean the same thing.
No matter what it is all over by 945 and life as just a mere worker and all my other names will seem SO easy.