the spinning is slowing

mood: less frazzled
listening to: nichole nordeman
last read: celebrity baby names shower game

thursday night we had the mops dessert here at mi casa. 20ish women ranging from 26 to 75. we played a cherade/tabooish game. STRAIGHT COMEDY YO!

friday we went to the dmb concert. it was really sad. i cried kinda a lot for someone i don't personally know. they didnt do a tribute to leroi, but his absense was very apparent and the look of emotional exhaustion on the 4 remaining founders' faces was just heart breaking. it was incredible to see them express their sorrow and grief through their music. they started of the show with the song Bartender. they actually wrote a song a couple years ago about the minute or seconds surrounding a car accident called so damn lucky. they sung it last night and it was just so sad. one of the lines is "it's amazing what a minute can do." you could see the pain in their eyes. it gets me choked up right now--to watch 4 best friends grieve so publicly and artistically for their 5th. =( the musician they had as a stand in for leroi, in my opinion, did not go well with the rest of the band. he seemed too flashy. and he was really distracting. his performance made me realize just how amazing of a musician leroi was. and i just could not get over that in leroi's (who is a big, chill black softy of a man) with a tiny bald white beedy wannabe zen master (he was wearing some sort of asian robe and had a thin scragly long beard and no hair). i am sure he is amazing as well. it was just eerie to see him on the same stage with a sax/piccilo/flute in his hands playing leroi's parts. but kudos to the band for their show must go on mentality.

we got home around 130, only to wake up 5 hours later. im getting too old for this man! it was fun though.

this morning we had a post-birth baby shower for a friend. it was a small, but cozy group of ladies. lori made a fabulously yummy chocolate cheesecake. trevor stepped in as rockstar and watched our boys and lori's upstairs during the shower. he sure is a good guy.

now i am off to catch up on emails, catch up on mops registration and then it's off to church!