No dice?

so Jake has had fun playing with the dice (or number cubes) from our risk game. Last night, he was rolling them in the big jetted tub, cause it made nice sounds, (and I had closed the drain so as not to lose them). I could not find them later, but it was time for bath and bed for Jake, so I started running the water, but decided to use the big tub. It has a fancy faucet witha goose neck curve tha teh water comes out of, and while running the water, a die pops out, lol. I turned the flow up and the other four come out, one at a time. Jake thought it was the greatest thing ever.

What else will be stuffed in there?

Hope all of our new parent friends are excited about stories like this.

So my heart sunk last night....
They announced the plans for the 'Dance team' at the U of S ballroom dancing club, and how next semester they will perform a medley of 8 dances in 4 minutes. (this team works ona choreographed program for the big year end dance, like a half time show) It will either be a really good show, or a bust to get that much into one routine. I looked at Amanda and we talked through the idea of joining next semester, but it lands on the night that we do small group. It also, our instructor said, would be a steep learning curve if we don't have lots o time to work on it during the week.

When we got home from class, I looked at our calendar, and Amanda works either right before or during 4 out of the first 5 classes for dance team. We will stick to our regular intermediate class, and just continue to get better at that.

Anyways, that is what is in the news today.

I love dancing.

So yeah, i get to play Sax on worhsip team tomorrow. I am very excited about that. It has been a long time, and the last time I played, the team leader was always telling me to play less. Lol. The new leader on this team is much more hip to the Saxophone scene, and though I am not going to take any attention from the heart of music, I love adding to the feel and sound. It is a team I wnated to play on because of members on it already.

anyways, I will probably have many more short posts.
Later

So, I usually don't have trouble getting out of bed. bu this bed, now has a goose down duvet(from amanda's birthday last march), and a feather bed mattress topper (picked up from jysk rain check last night) and now it is very tough to get out of bed. At least jake let us sleeep till 8, unfortunately the cat only let us sleep till 7:45. for the record, the mattress topper was $39 on sale, rain check, and today it goes back on sale for $59) (reg . $89)

In other news, yesterday i returned a pair of 2 month old shoes, worn outside, no reciept, and got an exchange. I move beyond futureshop returns now.

A four level spilt, a two car garage, and a drive way that would fit 5 of Joel's car's end to end and still leave room for the mailman to walk. My wife and I have never liked the design of a garage jutting out in front of the house, so that you see the garage as more prominent than where the humans dwell on a property. That is one of the reasons we bought our house. But a garage hidden in the back of the house alos results in a long drive-way to stare down from the side walk.

Why do I blog about this now? cause, as many of you know, we had our first dumping of snow. I heed the advice of my boss who last year advised me that he would take 3 shovlings of the drive that are smaller than waiting for it all to be done at the end of the dumping...pushing snow is easier than having to carry it cause there is too much to push.

Already by the time i arose this morning, there was a heavy load. I did my best to clear some of it, knowing full well that there would be more to clear cause it was still falling.

but I shall not complain. I am thankful that we have a house that holds lots of friends and their cars as well. (though Joel typically still parks on the street). I am thankful tha tmy wife said thanks when i cam in (I may not be the fastest dish do-er, but managing the outside of the house at this time of year is as important as the inside.) I am thankful for leather winter boots that were warm enough to keep my father's feet toasty during minus 30 days in construction. and I am thankful that half way through my struggle, my son came bundled up to the hilt, dust pan in hand, out the door and headlong into the blustery snow fall to help his dad. At that point, it all became less productive, but more meaningful.

It was even enough motivation for me to shut off the car and tug him in the toboggan to his day care. I thought he would like it more.

anyone care to start a pastoral snow blower fund?

He's coming to town soon, I am so excited! (and I am not talking about some old guy with a weight managgement problem, who wears solid red, with only a bit of white trim for relief)

Colin James is returring here for Little big band 3, adn the last time he was here was LBB2, 8 years ago, and i was there. There are concerts to get excited about, and this guy's name is small compared to others who get mor radio play, but I appreciate him cause he is not commercial, going for radio play. he is an artist. he has reinvented himself for CD's at least 8 times (totally diff style on each) His live act is so amazing (walking through crowd soloing, etc) and each song is done differently each time you see him (cause he is an artist, not a live recording wearing shoes). Last time I saw him, he played songs from 7 diff albums, and 3 songs I had never heard before, which is wierd since I ahve owned every album from each release date.

So I purchased 8 seats in a special fan club presale, which are great seats, but tried again today, and was able to purchase even closer. Now I have some seats to sell, so let me know if you are interested. (9 rows back, not bad at all). I will ask around before putting them in the paper.

Anyways, that's my news, go visit www.colinjames.com and click on discography if you are interested in seeing a journy that spans styles far beyond most any 3 bnads combined.

Mike
thanks for reading, who is aware I am back online again?