Life in the doldrums

So this will be a short one, (twss) as we didn't really do anything spectacular this week. Life moves on in our days of school and homework and, in Brittany's case, actual work. She's been sick this week with a cold she caught from the boy she works with. It's mainly just sniffles and a nasty productive (as the doctors would say) cough, but hopefully she'll be better soon. I don't know if I'm getting it from her, but I've started getting a sore throat. I think it's mainly just exhaustion on my part.

One reason for the exhaustion is that marching band has been stepping it up a bit because we had our first home game yesterday. We've been hard at work preparing our half-time show. This week we played the theme from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and also from the original Star Trek, Hernando's Hideaway and Amazing Grace. It was a fun show, but the crowd didn't really react to it. People were kinda preoccupied with BYU losing 14-30 at the end of the first half. Unfortunately the losing continued and we ended up with 54-28 loss, bringing our AP ranking from 7 to 19. Sheesh. I'm not even going to rant because the players probably already feel bad enough about themselves.

Monday there was a party for the French horn master class. This is a class I'm taking with basically all the horn music majors. We all met at the horn professor's house and ate pizza and chatted for a while with everyone. It was raining pretty hard and we lost power for about 30 min during the middle. After dinner was done, the majority of people went home, but Brittany and I stayed with a few others to watch a movie on Dr. Lowe's HD 60" flat screen. It was even Blu-ray lol. We watched I Am Legend. It was fun to watch it again, but Brittany was a little freaked out because they kept jumping in through windows, and she has a thing with windows in her nightmares. It's ok though. We know that the monsters aren't going to come get us for another couple years. (The movie was supposed to take place in 2012, with the "cure" supposed to be happening this month actually).

Anyway, nothing else has really happened. We're boring, we know. Love everyone

Christian (and Brittany)

P.S. the shake and bake chicken we posted last week went well. It was delicious. So go try it. NOW!

P.P.S. Recipe this week is Cline's Shepherd's Pie

2 lbs ground beef, browned and drained

10 servings of mashed taters, hot

2 cans of condensed veggie beef soup

about 2 cu of shredded cheese

Preheat oven to 400000000000000 degrees (or just 400). Mix ground beef with the veggie soup and put it in the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Cover it with the taters and then sprinkle cheese on top. Cook for 15-25 min, until cheese is melted and deliciously gooey. Doesn't really need to be salted or anything because the veggie soup takes care of that. It's good.

Kbye