August 23, 2005

Cheddar!!! YAY! We have a kitten. A little boy named Cheddar and he's soo cute. He's about 10 weeks old. The age where his ears and paws are way bigger than the rest of him. haha. He looks really skinny but I guess it's the breed of cat here, you know..Siamese. hahaha. His mom was a street cat that was taken in before she gave birth. So he's a healhty little guy. I put pictures up on my website.

It's Tuesday and it's a really bright sunny day. I teach a lesson at 4pm and then I have studio class at 5:30pm. I think Dave taught 3 classes and 2 lessons..hahaha.

We had our 2nd TPO concert on Saturday ngiht. It was Dave's first concert as 2nd trumpet. He did awesome. We played Beethoven 1 and some Thai music and a Chinese violin Concerto. I found out more about our season. We go full-time is November which means 4 concerts a month on weeks 1 and 3. Week 2 is recording sessions of Thai music and week 4 is either off or extra rehearsals. I'm so excited. Our first November concert, we're playing Pictures by Mussorgksy. Should be fun. I also found out the date that I'm playing with TPO. March 3, 2006. I'll be performing Kerry Turner's "Low Horn Concerto for horn and Chamber Orchestra." For anyone at my masters' recital, it's the same piece I played at that. Gotta start practicing that piece again!!

Dave and I had a meeting with another resort for the wedding. They're currently closed for rennovations because they lost so much business after the Tsunami but they open March 2006. We're taking a 4 day/3 night vacation over labor day weekend to stay at 3 different resorts. I'll definitely take pictures like crazy! I hope one of them stands out. I want this part of the planning to be over but I can't complain.....we get to hang on the beach for a few days to find one that we like! Speaking of wedding stuff, I went with a friend of mine to her last dress fitting. She's getting married in October and I wanted to go along and maybe try on a few gowns. Well, yeah. The typical size here is about -6 so they had to find the larger dresses for me to try on. hahaha. But this one dress, I put it over my head but there was nooo way it was going to fit over my hips so I started taking it off. But it wouldn't come off! So I asked the lady to come in and help me and we were both tugging away but nope, wouldn't budge. I started sweating, which made it worse because the fabric stuck to me. hahaha. The lady kept trying, meanwhile we're both cracking up and literally 10 minutes later it was still not coming off. hahah. I was thinking that I'd have to pay for it and they'd have to cut it off of me. hahaha. About 10 minutes later, another woman came in and the three of us finally pulled it over my head. hahaha. Good times...I think I'll have a dress made.

Hope everyone has a good week. We miss being home right now. Not sure what it is. Even our tummy's are craving for anything Western. Take care!