School play

The fourth graders put on a play tonight called The Empty Pot.  It was a really neat play.  The kids acted it out, narrated, and played music, along with singing.  It was really a cute play.  I read a review of the book at Amazon.
The music teacher said that the kids read the book in the third grade and that they wanted to put it to music.  It was a lot of fun.
The little guy was one of the "Proclamation readers" along with our real estate agent's daughter.  That was kind of neat.  She's really tall and he's still short, so it was an adorable mix.  I kept hearing a couple of kids behind us talking about my little guy and the young lady.  What's really funny is that the young lady doesn't really talk to the little guy at school and yet they did this play together.  
I didn't get very many pictures that were any good because we were in the bleachers and I didn't have my camera with a good range with me.  The little camera I had does the trick for close up and bright light shots, but not for distance and low light.  I'll see what I can salvage later...like tomorrow.

 

Reviewing books

Reading is something I do because I enjoy it. I don't like the stress associated with reviewing books, so I don't read books for review very often. At one time, I belonged to a reviewing website that was all romance books. I'm more of a contemporary fiction reader, but I also read non fiction. The book I'm currently reading is a book I received in exchange for a review.

I'm reading Sang H. Kim's Complete Kicking for review. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I think it's got some sort of subliminal message in it because I have been visualizing kicks and I've had the urge to practice kicking.

I'm going to have this book finished by the end of the week and will write a review to post up at Amazon.

Halfway through the week

It's halfway through the week. Not too bad, so far. My manager is out of the country on vacation, so things are fairly quiet around here. It's been kind of busy off and on. I haven't had any major stresses this week, which makes me a happy person. I made up my mind to NOT carry the stress of work home with me. I decided while I was on vacation to turn over a new leaf, so I did.
Found out Monday night at the CIT class that we've got something going on at the CVS Pharmacy on Saturday for a couple of hours. It's probably a drive to get more people to sign up. My "boss lady" (my friend, Susan, who is my black belt team leader) says I can pick my shift--either 1-3 or 3-5. I'm going to be where she is so that I can take notes.
We also went over some leadership training. He recommended a book, The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual for us, so I went ahead and ordered it yesterday. It's got a lot of information in it about leadership values. Mr. M has read it and recommends it, sooo...it's now going to be in my possession, as soon as Amazon ships it out and I receive it!!
I also gave myself permission to buy three CD's which are going to arrive with the book. One is The Renaissance Album by Windham Hill Artists, Thanksgiving by Winham Hill Artists and English Renaissance Music by John Bull. I wanted to listen to older music, hence the Renaissance music.

I've been taking a page from a friend's book, but instead of running, I walk. We go out at lunchtime and walk. It's been just DB and me, but one of my co-workers (from a different department) asked to go with us, so she's out walking with us too. She and I went out together yesterday--DB couldn't go because he was late getting to work yesterday. He's supposed to go today, so we'll see how that works.