{"id":7386,"date":"2014-02-08T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2014-02-08T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:45:47","slug":"enjoying-my-last-free-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=7386","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying my last “free” weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting next weekend I have something major going on for the next 5 weekends in a row–capping off the final weekend with my piano contest.\u00a0 Which means, this weekend is really the last “relaxing” weekend for a while.<\/p>\n

So, Tim and I went on a wonderful date today.\u00a0 We went to Bonfire grill (I had a gift card, yippie!) and ordered a Chicken Club sandwich (Yum!).\u00a0 They put us at a high top table right next to a fireplace which was nice and cozy.\u00a0 Then we scoped out a natural foods store that I found just down the road (which is actually really awesome, especially if I need something specific or organic) then we went to Lowe’s (that’s right folks, all awesome dates once you’re married end up at Lowe’s or Menards!) and then we capped it off with a much needed car wash.\u00a0 See, doesn’t that sound like fun?\u00a0 I thought it was spectacular!<\/p>\n

This week was very taxing on me emotionally.\u00a0 I had a rough encounter with a parent of one of my students that really upset me for a bit.\u00a0 I don’t want to go into any details on here (just in case…) but let’s just say it upset me.\u00a0 It’s all over now.\u00a0 I’m actually still waiting to hear back from the student, but I’ve communicated as kindly and clearly as I can and now have my peace in the situation.\u00a0 Tim said it well, when he reminded me that in all the years of teaching and\u00a0 ALL of the students I’ve had contact with I really only had a small handful of problems.\u00a0 And for that I am EXTREMELY grateful.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note… wanna hear about my sad lamp story?\u00a0 Here is my lamp (yes, they were in a cheap 3 pack set from WalMart, so I really shouldn’t be surprised)…<\/p>\n

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Exhibit A: Cheap Lamp.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u00a0 noticed the other day that my lamp was starting to smell funny and, wait for it… smoke.\u00a0 Yes, smoke.\u00a0 And I thought to myself… that’s not good. So I looked more closely and the whole top of the plastic lamp shade had disintegrated and was falling directly onto the light bulb.<\/p>\n

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Exhibit B: Notice the hole at the top…which had been hiding under the metal cover.<\/p><\/div>\n

Even now there is plastic melted ONTO the light bulb… which I tried to take a picture of but it really doesn’t show up well on camera.\u00a0 I guess you’ll just have to use your imagination.\u00a0 So, I quickly moved the metal plate to the inside of the lamp shade which protected it more, but the damage was already done (and no, I didn’t originally install it backwards, because I know that’s what you’re thinking…) So today on our date to Lowe’s we used part of a gift card we had to purchase new lampshades with METAL brackets inside.\u00a0 You know, the way lamp shade should be made…\u00a0 See how pretty!<\/p>\n

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Exhibit C: Pretty new lamp shade!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Starting next weekend I have something major going on for the next 5 weekends in a row–capping off the final weekend with my piano contest.\u00a0 Which means, this weekend is really the last “relaxing” weekend for a while. So, Tim and I went on a wonderful date today.\u00a0 We went to Bonfire grill (I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}