Bored Thoughts

I am currently housesitting for a family from church. They have 2 dogs and a cat. The other day. I was in a different room of the house than one of the dogs. And I thought I heard a noise. So I went and found the dog. She was laying on one of the girls beds and had somehow pulled back the fitted sheet and ripped a hole in the mattress pad and was pulling the stuffing out. It was so random! She didn't chew a hole through the sheet and she didnt chew a hole in the mattress(phew!) but I was like...... what possessed you to do this?

I don't know how many know this.. I meant to blog about it a long time ago(but then my niece was born two weeks early and I felt lame posting pictures of a bass instead of her, ya know?). But I got hooked up with an awesome bass and amp and cord for a super great deal (courtesy of Ed at Cassells). I had taken a semester of bass in college and really liked it and always talked about starting it up again and now I am! I've been taking lessons from Todd Johnson and it has been really great! I'm enjoying it and he has been so encouraging!

I'm still really liking my job. I've been there 2.5 months now. The people there are so kind and so funny. It's been a great time. I've had many many spiritual conversations and have fallen in love with all of the operations guys. Probably not professional for me to say I love my co-workers but I do and I pray for them all the time. No word on permanence of the position yet.

Tomorrow night is an acoustic night at church. I'm really looking forward to it. Nate is bringing his upright bass, we will have an extra guitar and Mike is bringing his ukelele that has a hook up. Should be superfun. I've been in the Sunday Night Band for the past 5 or 6 years and it is one of my favorite parts of every week.

This morning at violin lessons. My first student was sitting in her chair getting her violin out of the case. There was a piece of paper on a boombox that is kept in the room and we could hear something rustling against the paper. So I looked over there and the paper was kind of moving. I was like ,"what in the world is that?" she was like "i have no idea." so I told her to back away a bit and i nudged the paper off the CD player and there was a giant cockraoach sitting there. Oh it was so gross. So we calmly walked out of the room and I went over to Ed and told him there was a giant cockroach in my room that I didn't want to take care of. So he did. Except he didn't get it... So I lived the lessons on the lookout for that gross bug.

What is it with giant gross insects/arachnids lately?

Also, I finally went to the Farmer's Market over in Newhall. Sarah DeWolfe and I went on Thursday and ate delicious tacos and fresh horchata. The produce looked amazing but was expensive so I passed on any purchases except for one thing. I bought some Tzatziki.. I can't say no to that stuff. I love it so much.

My friend Jonn gave me a CD to listen to. It's an oldie, but I had never bought it. It is praise from Oasis Church in downtown LA. Titled Bring It On, the cd is pretty amazing. Probably a bit wild for most of the folks who read this blog, but I turn it up and bump bump in my car everyday now. It gets stuck in the head like good music should. Makes me happy and makes me want to sing. And it praises Jesus!