An hour or so later..

I just wrote a too-long post about pretty much nothing, so after posting it and thinking about all I had typed while getting ready for bed, I came to the conclusion that it was not necessary for others to concern themselves with my trivial and as above noted, too long post.

So I deleted it.

Now you will never know what it said - but you aren't missing out on anything.

So, to make this worth something, Updates:

The students start school on Thursday
I'm excited to see them :-)
I have good feelings about teaching and this year in general
I love swimming at the pool (1500 m 3xs a week - pretty good, eh?)
My life is good. Real good. (knock on wood)
I'm about 2/3 of the way finished with the blanket I'm crocheting (I'll post a picture when I'm done)
I made zucchini bites for a potluck tonight and they were rather delicious
I'm getting better at talking with the tongue crib in my mouth - hooray!
Life is wonderful - I am so very blessed.

Hope you are well!

Acoustic Night

To celebrate all things ukulele and acoustic music in general, I invited a bunch of people over to my house Saturday evening for an acoustic night. What I thought it would be and what it ended up being were two different things, but it turned out 10 times more fun and awesome than I could have anticipated. Instead of going around in a circle and people playing one song at a time, we hooked up the laptop to the TV and surfed the internet for chords for songs, then played along as we all sang. Lisa Loeb, Dixie Chicks, Weezer, The Darkness, whatever came to mind. It was kinda like play-it-yourself karaoke. Then we proceeded to create our own songs about Nachos, Nacho (a different kind), Ikea, and various ladies in the room. One of the best parts = We recorded the silly songs we made up. Wanna listen? (Be sure to listen to the Nachos and Ikea Song - those are two of my favorites)

http://soundcloud.com/jabrook

(They were all 1st run, on the spot recordings. Nothing was planned - except for the chord progressions)

Instruments: Ukuleles, guitars, a mandolin, keyboard, small keyboard (with beats), glockenspiel, bongos, saw, egg shaker, small handbells, and ... I think that is all.

It was so much fun. I can't wait till next time. Oh, and I think we could use a new name - Maybe something like Acoustic Karaoke Creations? Thoughts?