remember remember the first of december (238/365a)

remember remember the first of december... because i forgot today....
i remembered last week because i saw a do-it-yourself wall advent calendar at spektral and brought it back with me. but frantically i wrote up a single verse of "twas the night before christmas" and let felix open it, and then i spent the next 2 hours after they were asleep writing other things (the rest of the poem, songs, recipes) for them to find in the next 23 days. ....

complete with some random unused velcro.... what should i put there?

theodore and i had a looong rehearsal with thomas' orchestra. during half-time break (only 20 minutes before the official end of rehearsal) we switched locations to the chapel we are supposed to play in next week and couldn't find the lights.... on the way there we were late because theodore reminded me had had broken a string. usually we buy those on amazon, but amazon prime isn't that good yet....

and i picked them up early from school to take them to a kids-concert at the kug. henry had gone to enough concerts of the series last year that he earned a prize... and last year they ran out of prizes. this year, brian asked them to give henry one retroactively, and they said "sure!" and took our name and number but we got nothing more from them. now i waited around until the lady was free, and told her we would wait until henry got his silly swag water bottle. it's totally silly, i know, but ... i really feel that henry is justified being disappointed - it's not like he goes to the concerts for the prize, but if you promise a five year old (last year) something, and they keep track and get stamped etc. you should reward them appropriately blah blah blah. 

i got my siegl flyers printed, but forgot to bring them to the rehearsal with thomas, which was really stupid. 

....also made some really cool paper airplanes and had tea - not coffee - with nina.

the airplanes was a long time coming, because i had been promising for a week to show them something i had found somewhere about the world-record-breaking paper airplane the "suzanne" and finally did so, although we didn't get it to really fly THAT far....

the tea -not coffee... came about because i really really wanted coffee, but thought it was a bad idea. and when i asked "tea or coffee" nina told me "anything you want" ... so i started making coffee while explaining it was a bad idea. she reminded me that she would have coffee later in the afternoon anyways, so maybe she should have tea.... so we did that instead. probably a good idea, since it is 10:30 and i am tired, and maybe will actually go to sleep now.