Not Me Monday #16 - a bit overdue but worth the wait

I know, I know, I know...I haven't done a post in a long time. I am not going to blame my lack of posting on my lack of time for which I am not going to blame The Sound of Music. For those of you who do not know, I have been playing bassoon in CVFT's Sound of Music. The show ran for the last two weekends and we have this weekend to go still. Check in next week for a special Not Me Monday, Sound of Music Edition. Anyways, back to the post at hand... Since I haven't done this for a few weeks, I am going to try to remember as much as I can since my last post.

John did not get told that he is going to be going to Key Carrying Department Head classes. Yay!!

We did not run out of supplies twice, almost thrice, when making Angie and Jim's save-the-date magnets. Paper, adhesives and almost magnets.

John did not make me breakfast in bed for Valentine's Day. He also gave me some photo editing software and a really cute card. We spent the day at the Mall of America where we played mini-golf and ate at Famous Dave's. During mini-gold I did not get frustrated and start throwing my ball instead of putting. I actually did a lot better throwing!

I did not agree to play for up to 5 Sundays at the CM Church and recently find out what that would do to our 1-year anniversary vacation planning. I guess I hadn't really taken that into consideration when I was telling them when I could not play - at least I took our anniversary off. My manager at work is actually going to be gone over our anniversary weekend and that was one of the weekends I requested to not play piano. So...John and I did not book a March 10th-14th trip to Las Vegas. John has been there twice and this will be my first. We're looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the Bellagio and enjoying the Blue Man Group!

I did not witness a car accident on my way to an early performance of the SOM. Luckily I was through that intersection already.

I did not have one of my scariest drives home last Friday night from the SOM. I thought it was only supposed to snow an inch but it was 4 inches! Where were the plows when the roads were covered with snow and I couldn't see the road? I did not have to use the rumble strips down the center of the road to help me tell if I was on the right path or not.

At Grandpa's b-day party yesterday John and I did not give him a card that played the Chicken Dance. Best yet, I did not have the card for 6 months - luckily I was able to find it Sunday morning!

John and I did not power clean tonight. The house was a mess and we thought Jenny might come over. She didn't but at least we have a semi-clean downstairs!

We are not bummed that we can't find the plecostamus in the fishtank.

I did not have to go grocery shopping inbetween shows on Saturday because we were so low on food, and beef!

Saved the best for last...For anyone who knows me, I like good deals and free stuff by mail. When I signed up for a pantyliner sample, I did not receive an overnight pad. Seriously, this is one big pad. Anyone have nighttime leaks? I need to get rid of this thing!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just a simple picture I made up for my Valentine today. John surprised me with breakfast in bed this morning and also some photo editing software. We spent the afternoon at the Mall of America just taking it easy.

Not Me Monday #16

I did not get sucked into "Fish Wrangler", a Facebook application, by my husband and father-in-law.

John did not find out that Home Depot layed off about 7,000 employees from Expo stores. Luckily, his position is unaffected.

I am not even more convinced that our creepy neighbor does not own a pair of pants. We've really only seen him in short cutoff jean-shorts. Saturday it was gorgeous outside and he was wearing a pair of snowpants, probably with the short shorts underneath!

I did not go to my first Lia Sophia jewelry party on Saturday (and then soon realize that it was really, really expensive). My friend Angie and I did not combine our orders in an attempt to save money. I did not win the doorprize drawing!

I did not get home from dinner with the girls around 10:30 Saturday night...that means we were at the Ranch House for 4 hours!

I did not find out that it was the Pastor's wife who spread the news of Angie & Jim's engagement, and they tried so hard to keep it out of Carver County.

My whole Sound of Music rehearsal on Saturday morning did not seem to be a Not Me Monday post in itself. Highlights included:

• Me not using a luggage cart to wheel my bassoon into the practice room and then leave big puddles of dirty water from the wheels.
• Me not awkwardly taking the bassoon off of the luggage cart.
• Me not forgetting to tightly put the cover on my bassoon reed cup tupperware.
• Me not putting that tupperware full of water into my bassoon accessories bag.
• Me not putting that bag on my lap leaving the water to soak through the bag and onto my lap!
• Me not starting to play on a totally different piece than the rest of the orchestra - actually, multiple times...
• Me not realizing that maybe, just maybe, I should have ordered new bassoon reeds more than, um, two weeks before opening night. uh, oh...

I have not been tagged about 25 times now in the "Top 25 things about..." chain post that is going around. I do intend to come up with 25 things but I know that this Not Me Monday post is more important!