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Yesterday I was supposed to have 4 students come for saxophone lessons. Total number of students that showed up: 0! Can you believe it?!

I got called from one mom who said she forgot to put the saxophone in the car and they would never make it by their assigned time and then another dad called and said the clarinet was in the mom's car and he couldn't track her down. Then the two high school students- one said she didn't have an instrument because the band room was locked after school and the other one (who happens to be the boyfriend of the above mentioned student) just flat out didn't show up. No call, no show.

So, according to my lessons policy sheet- which each student gets when they start lessons- I made over $100 for just sitting around waiting for people yesterday afternoon. No show= you pay for the lesson anyway as if you were there. Pretty easy money, huh?

What is(n't) wrong with NM?

I have pretty much decided that the price of gas is just absurd and I really wish I didn't fall off bicycles or else I wouldn't have to drive so much. The price of gas here in the wonderful (sarcasm) Land Of Enchantment is $2.90/gallon! Can you believe it?!? We have among the highest number of people living in poverty and the gas is almost $3/ gallon! No wonder there are so many poor people here.

I saw on TV that the gas in all the other states of the 4 corners is among th nation's lowest priced gas. What is wrong with NM?!?!? I ask myself this question everyday.

I'm pretty sure that ol' GW has quite a bit of "interest" in this high price of oil, being that he and his family are oil men.

But I have decided to make the most of it. I moved some of the money in my IRA to a fund that is made up almost exclusively of foreign oil intersts and the one American oil company is Chevron, so the higher gas goes, the higher my IRA goes. I have just made lemonade out of lemons! :)

Doggie party

So here she is- the winner of the 2006 Steichen Dog Show "Best in Show"

Actually I have a little saxophone student who held her 2nd annual doggie show/party on Saturday and she really wanted me to come since I missed it last year. Keep in mind this little girl is 10 years old.

She had all kinds of fancy dog treats, you know the kind you go to the dog bakery for and pay ridicilous amounts for? Yeah, those. She also had prizes for EVERYTHING! Lila won a prize just for getting locked in the garage and no one noticing she was gone for about 10 minutes.

Then there was the dog show. And there was this super-cute ballerina costume and can you believe she didn't even win best costume?!? She did win "most obedient," which I am glad she did, because we pay the dog school lots of money each month to become more obedient!

And she also won....drum roll please...."Best in Show."

Well, her prizes for all this were: a little thing you clip to the leash or your belt so when you go walking and the dog poops, you have bags accesible, a squeaky dog toy and also a squeaky frisby toy. Plus all this dog cake from Three Dog Bakery, which I happen to know costs about $1.50 per piece, and a doggie bag full of treats to take home. I'm serious, Lila didn't eat again for a day and a half.

Plus there was all this food for humans, plus beer for the adults (a group consisting of myself and this little girls parents and grandma). This must have cost a fortune for all the food, plus doggie food- which might have actually cost more than the human food- plus all the toys, which I know came from Target and their dog toys aren't really all that inexpensive.

Ahh, I love teaching at a private school! :)

My bicycle adventure

So, I konw I don't blog that often, but let's face it, my life is just not all that exciting and I really just want to blog when there's something worth saying, so the few people who actually read this won't be totally bored. I hate reading mindless blogs.

Anyway, today I went out bike riding with this lady who is my swin coach for the triathlon. I have been riding a mountain bike and it is taking me FOREVER to ride the race distance, so she has an extra road bike she said I could try out.

So I get to her house and get all set up to ride and she informs me that her bike has clips instead of pedals- for those of you that don't know, you buy these special shoes that clip on to these really attachments where the pedals would normally be. You're supposed to have more power and be able to go faster with clips. Anyway, when you clip in, you're basically stuck in the bicycle.

All was well for about 28 miles and on our last couple stops to cross the street, who failed to get out of the clips?! You guessed it. Well if you can picture this- basically your feet are stuck and in a very short time, the bicycle comes to a complete stop. Well, if you're still on the bicycle, then you pretty much just fall over and hit the deck- HARD. And because my feet were still in the clips, I fell right over and killed my knee and my hip and my elbow- luckily I was wearing long sleeves, so all that really bled was my knee- although it was a mess.

Well, I was proud of myself that I didn't get all pissed off and throw a tantrum. I just got up and sprayed some of my water on my knee and got back on the bike- the bike that I happened to be borrowing, don't forget. So I rode another mile or so and had to stop one more time to cross the final street before arriving back at her house. Well......you guessed it! I fell again, only this time, I scraped my knee even worse and I killed my hip and totally went through my long sleeve shirt. So this time, I got up again, but this time, I just walked the bike across the street and hobble home without my feet in the clips.

So, tomorrow I am supposed to go swimming again and I don't think I will go because I'm too afraid that the water will sting ALL my wounds. I told her that my husband might not let me play with her anymore. :)