And so it goes…and so it goes…and so will you soon, I suppose. That crazy mouse who insisted on digging and crapping and eating ANYTHING he could find in my room, decided that he needed to be in another environment..aka…mousie heaven. I know I sound mean and all, but you don’t understand how much BETTER my sleep was last night! After I finished blogging my last post about how this mouse from hell was annoying me, I went upstairs to see him in the trap…I felt bad in a way….but I would have felt WORSE if I was there when he ate his last meal…oy!! (more…)

MAKE IT STOP!! THAT SCRATCHING NOISE…NO it isn’t in my head…or in my imagination…it is a MOUSE!! A terror… when I see Mickey Mouse I will give him a kick in the head. The past 3 nights have seen me climb into bed TIRED and looking forward to falling asleep…when WHAT do I hear in my closet….scratching and chewing…and you don’t understand HOW annoying that is when you are used to sleeping in complete quiet!! I toss and turn…then make hissing noises so that the mouse will get scared and run off..or think I am a cat….it stops him for about 2 minutes and then he starts!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! I get up from the warm bed and go shuffle around where this mouse is….and do you THINK that scares him? Nope…he starts right back again..to no avail…I think he does it to see how long it will take before I jump out of the window! Then he can eat the entire room. (more…)

Just thought I would post these pretty song lyrics Russ sent to me…I wish I can hear the actual songs now too….

She don’t know how much I need her
She don’t know I’d fall apart
Without her kiss
Without her touch
Without her faithful lovin’ arms
She don’t know that its all about her
She don’t know I cant live without her
She’s my world she’s my everything
And the funny thing is
She thinks she’s the lucky one

Artist/Band: Shelton Blake
Lyrics for Song: Austin
Lyrics for Album: Blake Shelton

She left without leavin’ a number
Said she needed to clear her mind
He figured she’d gone back to Austin
‘Cause she talked about it all the time
It was almost a year before she called him up
Three rings and an answering machine is what she got

If you’re callin’ ’bout the car I sold it
If this is Tuesday night I’m bowling
If you’ve got somethin’ to sell, you’re wastin’ your time, I’m not
buyin’
If it’s anybody else, wait for the tone,
You know what to do
And P.S. if this is Austin, I still love you

The telephone fell to the counter
She heard but she couldn’t believe
What kind of man would hang on that long
What kind of love that must be
She waited three days, and then she tried again
She didn’t know what she’d say,
But she heard three rings and then

If it’s Friday night I’m at the ballgame
And first thing Saturday, if it don’t rain
I’m headed out to the lake
And I’ll be gone, all weekend long
But I’ll call you back when I get home
On Sunday afternoon
And P.S. If this is Austin, I still love you

Well, this time she left her number
But not another word
Then she waited by the phone on Sunday evenin’
And this is what he heard

If you’re callin’ ’bout my heart
It’s still yours
I should’ve listened to it a little more
Then it wouldn’t have taken me so long to know where I belong
And by the way, boy, this is no machine you’re talkin’ to
Can’t you tell, this is Austin, and I still love you

I still love you

Today was one of THOSE Mondays…things didn’t turn out right in one instant, but other things DID….I went into my music studio after being away from it for 2 weeks…I expected to teach 2 kids today but they didn’t show up…so I was left with “nothing” to do. I decided to clean out the piles of books and papers that I had accumulated over the year. Every summer I like to “spring” clean so that my room can be nice and fresh for the kiddies in September! I love organizing things and creating NEW things…my studio is full of neat things…cards from students over the years, letters, pictures EVERYWHERE, things hanging from the roof, decorations…oh yeah and a huge grand piano ($26,000!) and digital piano ($8,000)…so the not so average toys!! (more…)

Hmmm…now THIS will be a different tone from my last blog but I guess I am on a roll….Money makes the world go around, but many times it fills up too many stooooooopid ideas in the heads of some people who can’t seem to do things…FOR FREE!! Imagine THAT! Now as a teacher, I can easily tell you that teaching is NEVER about the money (or lack of it)…although being an independant one myself, I cannot complain. All you gotta do is ask a school teacher about their wages and listen to them roar…rightfully so! (more…)

I don’t know if I am just getting much too much too much too old or something, but it seems as if the summer JUST started for me!! I don’t know!! I always say, “ohhhhhhh where did the time go” but I know where it goes every day-out the window! This is one of the reasons why I dreaded hitting my 20s! I remember the year I turned 19, I actually cried on my brithday because I knew 20 was next…and from there…downhill. I was one of the younger kids in my nuclear family so my cousins were hitting their 20s way before me. They would always say, “Lisa enjoy your life now because when you hit your 20s, it is all over”. Think about it….you say THAT to a young girl who NEVER thinks she is gonna hit her 20s and ask her what she thinks. Needless to say I had that sentence looming in the back of my mind for all of my teen years! Course at THAT age who really cares?? (more…)

Well luck SURE was on my side tonight!!! Let me start back to about 2 months ago when I found out that my FAVORITE singer, Josh Groban was coming to Calgary! I remember going to a Sarah Brightman concert back in 2001 and this unknown man came out to sing only ONE duet with her. Well….when he finished singing, I remember my mom and I turning to eachother and saying OMG WHO WAS THAT???????? The next day I went out and found this mans cd…Josh Groban….self titled cd. I put it in my disc player and fell in love with the music, the voice AND the arrangements! Many of the songs were in Italian but I was lucky because I could understand the lyrics! WOW! (more…)

Some days I just get soooooooooooooooooo irritated!! I am a pretty casual person….kinda laid back…..never really stress over TOO much-but either you catch me in a fowl mood or something but SOME nights I can’t stand it!! It isn’t so much me….it is people….some are good souls-they get antsy, they discuss their feelings and you console them! I love that…discussion is always SO great….but then you get others who are live wires…and I don’t bother them…don’t talk to them-but they need to vent so who else but to vent on? The NICE person….no, why go and throw their negativity on negative people….instead they throw it on people who are in great moods-this way THEY can get bitchy and the mad person can feel awesome!

Funny how that works eh? Except one thing I don’t get anymore….is mad…..well not for long! I actually get MORE angry when someone bitches at me and expects me to act all nice….especially when it is ABOUT me…come on….how long do I have to keep saying “uh huh” “ok” “you rock” for? Nope…this is where the hot tempered Italian woman comes out to join the crowd. Then I get accused of being too over the top…hello….you come and bitch at me about me…and I just have to sit and relax? I gotta stand up for myself.

At any rate, I have ALWAYS hated mood swings….no matter on who….I respect those who will say, “Lisa I am in a terrible mood…here is why….thanks for listening”…AWESOME…I love it….but to flat out get mean for no reason and THEN say you are in a bad mood? Nuh uh honey….Sometimes I hate the misconception people have of me….they see me smile and see that I am a good natured person..so people think I will automatically just be so easy to take all the crap. They take it for granted though…..because they think I will just sweat it off..but some things DO bother me. I don’t like being thought of as someone who will take on peoples anger. Perhaps it is my foe, I dunno…..but when I smile it is always SO natural…..it isn’t cause I am always so happy…that is what throws people off! Maybe I care too much about peoples feelings to want to fight back…half the time when I fight it is for my own self defence…..

I can say that I am not a moody person….sure some days I will wake up and be CRANKY…I take it out on my mom or dad….well cause they are THERE….but I never let others see it…ever….I leave my anger at home-NEVER bring it to the workplace! Why should innocent people be on the end of my grumpiness? Especially when it is something they can’t control? So I assume others will do the same to me….but NO…some of them don’t….they think that nice Lisa will just go back to her castle by the sea and dream sweet dreams of clouds and fairies! I just wish they would understand that sometimes I, YES, Lisa…can get offended and upset….however, when I want to vent I choose to do it in a way that is more discussive…I don’t take it out on people that are there for me!

As usual though, THAT is me….mood swings throw the people you love TOTALLY off…and I have always vowed to keep anything negative for myself and bring some light into the world….negativity begets negativity….but some days, I gotta let loose too! I am always so caring about other peoples feelings that I try to word things so as not to hurt them, but I get INCREDIBLY irritated when they can’t offer the same decency to me…sometimes I tell myself I shouldn’t care so much, but that is my nature….when I close my eyes you can BET there are 5 different things I am thinking of-ways to improve myself..my teaching…my life….so the clock still ticks!

I swear ONE day, I will have no tolerance for ignorance….and those who choose to show it will just see me walk the other way-but that silly Italian-ness in me ALWAYS wants to say my own 2 cents back….gotta learn to walk away from it all….but see? I care too much….grrrrrrrrrr……when will it ever balance out? Too many people don’t care in this world so someone has to….as Princess Diana once said, “When I turn out my light at night…I am happy knowing that I have helped one person”…..but who said it was THAT easy???? haha. Some days a good blow up is necessary….but keep it in your home, for yourself…write it down…and maybe, find a friend you can talk to about it…NOT bitch at….sigh….if only…..perhaps I should give blogs to people as stocking stuffers!

Sometimes I feel like a slab of butter….firm on the outside but soft on the inside (on some days my skin DOES turn yellow…haha)….then I feel like EVERYONE wants to take a piece of me and smear me on their toast….but ya know, there is only ONE piece of butter left….how many times can you be smeared on toast?? When the butter runs out, GO FIND ANOTHER SLAB SOMEWHERE ELSE…..but DO they? Nope, they pick and pick….hell they even remove it from their toast, stick it in the fridge and hope that it turns hard again! I hate being recycled…so as a piece of butter I melt and soak RIGHT into the toast so that nobody can scrape me off….but somehow…some idiot out there finds ONE small piece and clones it……grrrrrrrrr……I guess I better get some breakfast….make that butter on whole wheat toast please!

Doesn’t that remind you of the Annie Lennox song?? Everytime I say that line I think of it….I hate rain storms…but what is even worse are the thunder storms…and we are talking the HARD lightning bolts that hit the city like there is no end!! I am so scared of big booms….tonight was no exception!! It started off as being a nice and warm day, but WAIT, this IS Calgary….when it starts off warm you can bet that it will be pretty darn cold a few hours later! Needless to say, half way through the day the clouds got dark…yup the rain was coming. Well if only it was THAT easy…the rumbling started..I don’t even like THAT sound because it shakes the house. Automatically I assumed that our house will cave in and I will be left under a table. Well the lightning bolts started…the flickering happened and then you hear this HUGE crack…almost in slow motion….you get the initial buzz and then the CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKLE POW!!

Ugh, that gets me right out of my seat and I go running for the basement…don’t ask me why….I just don’t want to be anywhere when the lightning bolt hits the house…IF it does! haha. The rain was pouring like no tomorrow and the wind picked up…I always get horrified into thinking tha this will be the great flood which will end the world…you know, from the bible!! haha. Yup, I AM a chicken-what can I say!! Again…when I am with people other than my family it isn’t so bad…but at home I just turn white…I HATE thunderstorms and lightning shows…some people go and watch it from their balconies, I go and plug my ears and close my eyes.

So how do you win in Calgary? Summer brings on lightning shows and thunder showers….don’t forget the tornados and funnel clouds….it doesn’t get any better in the winter..I just don’t know HOW those who live in areas that are devastated by floods and earthquakes handle it!! I guess for living in Calgary it isn’t too bad though….and at least I have only ever been stuck in that awful storm once on the highway….can’t wait for the sun to shine again!

Pic #1 Russ and I before dinner
Pic #2 Russ and I sneaking into the Elvis booth for a photo op
Pic#3 My fave upclose shot of him-cigarette and all!!!