I'M BACK!

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I'm the first to be back in our apartment... as usual. Ah, the peace and quiet, and relative cleanliness! Who knows when the rest of them will arrive, probably while I'm gone, which is unfortunate.

I almost died on the way back since there was an insane lull in conversation and I was ready fall asleep at the wheel. I'm surprised I didn't end up careening into oncoming traffic or something. Thankfully there were Wint-o-green Lifesavers in the back seat to keep me awake. Other than that... apparently there are endless versions about 10 different Christmas songs that the local radio station has chosen to play ALL month long! I was initially excited at the idea of Christmas songs, but with the lack of any snow here it just seems lacking somehow. I'm hoping that we'll get a major snow storm here and remedy the situation immediately. It's always fun when the Friday night Christmas Concert comes with a snow storm.

Hell should be classified as the next 3 weeks of my life, because I have a ton of stuff going on. Christmas Concert rehearsal from 7-10pm ALL week long, Friday night is our first real concert, followed by 3 more over the next two days. My marketing group project manager is ready to kill me because I won't be able to attend any meetings this week considering no one is available before 7. Following the performances here we go down to Minneapolis for 2 nights and perform at Orchestra Hall (which my mother is much more excited about than I am). From there... FINALS!!!!!! Please tell me how I'm supposed to make it through the next few weeks. And, I'm missing Loco Motives because of the Choir concert. I think I'll die! I survived last year and didn't get to watch the episode until a week or two after it aired. This year I have other sources. it's taken care of.

Off to rehearsal, 3 hours of standing and pretending to know music I have no clue about! Absolute torture! Fun!