A laid back weekend.

After all the activities and festivities from the last weekend, it was nice to have a pretty quite one. Anna had her students over to the house on Wednesday evening for a gathering and it was nice to meet a couple of them whom I’ve not met before. The ones who knew me were very comfortable with me. We had a good time chatting while a number of them were painting their t-shirts for all state auditions over the weekend. Prior to their arrival, I dropped some food off at someone’s house and that person would be delivering the food to a family from church. The family is someone I’ve known for years and I’ve seen their children grow up. Her husband has a very aggressive brain tumor and it’s not looking good. He was in ICU for a number of day, and the family is dealing with that. An e mail was sent asking people to volunteer to provide a meal for the family and since I work at Paradise, it was the least I could do. I just went onto the website and found out that he has the same kind of brain tumor that Ted Kennedy died from. He has been moved to the Hospice in Johnston which is so very sad. I will most definitely be saying a prayer for their family and do whatever I can to help the family. It’s tough to lose a husband and a father especially when the kids are just teenagers.

Saturday morning, I had breakfast with John and it was a very good breakfast. We’ve not caught up with one another for a long time so it was good to do that. I needed to talk to him about a couple of stuff that’s been running around in my head and it was good to let it off my chest. After the chat, I motored over to Barnes and Noble and caught up with some magazines and that’s always fun. Once that was done, I went to the Ankeny public library for the very first time and it’s a nice library that’s up to date especially with their magazine subscription. Yes! I got myself situated and I can see myself spending time there. Later that evening, I had dinner with Carola prior to the DM Symphony performance. Anna could not make it because her band had a gig just a couple of blocks away so Carola got to use her ticket which was just wonderful. The conductor was originally from China and he’s a very accomplished conductor, composer and a professor at the University of Michigan. He was the guest conductor for the evening. The soloist is a guy from China who plays the pipa which was just amazing. Talk about the skills involved in playing that instrument. It was out of this world. Needless to say, it was a most memorable performance to say the least and I’m glad we got to listen to it.

That’s pretty much all that took place over the weekend.