Changing of the season

Well, hey there, guess what, it's officially Fall already. It's been raining plenty and because of that, it is really humid out there. But at least the temperatures are down and it's a little more tolerable.

Last night we finally made it to the Botanical Garden http://www.sabot.org/ for their annual Gardens by Moonlight event. I'd never been there before in the years that we've been here so i really wanted to go and it was pretty good. You got what you paid for. There were 5 stages with different types of music. My favorite was Deadman, kinda had like a southern rock feel to it.
http://deadmanonline.com/



I'm always looking for new music, because, quite frankly, i get bored easily, and this band sounds pretty good. We had a good "seat" so to speak, because we were standing up. We couldn't stay for all the show because since they were playing by the East Lake, the humidity was worse and it was getting packed in there, so it was starting to get hot, but the little bit that we caught was pretty good.


There was also a Jazz band but we didn't stick around here too much, there was so much more to see and hear but the little bit we heard was pretty good. As you can see, they have a lot of brass so it got kinda loud.

And one more picture of the musical acts there, I believe this was Lisa Flores. Not really my cup of joe so we just took a picture and left. Nothing bad about it, just not for me.

Another soggy day

Hey, it rained today, what a surprise. But seriously, it's been raining on and off for a few days now, hopefully it won't rain next weekend because they Gardens by Moonlight is scheduled for Saturday at the Botanical Gardens. http://www.sabot.org/. I've been wanting to go in the past so hopefully this year we'll make it since we're making an effort to explore other things out there. Plus, I AM a San Antonio Events Examiner. ha!

Last Sunday we made it to the Jersey Boys musical. It was pretty good, even though at the beginning I had to strain myself to understand the jersey accent, but i guess after awhile, you get used to it and the rest was pretty good. The beginning was kinda slow, but when they started to perform the songs it was nice, just like seing the Four Season perform back in the day. My favorite parts were when they were shown performing "live" like at American Bandstand and all, they were shown in front of "cameras" and above the stage, they were showing actual footage of the performance and they were moving just like onscreen, so it seemed like they were actually live on air. That was a pretty cool idea. Kudos to whoever thought about that.

Like in previous occasions, since we can't take any kinds of pictures inside the Majestic, the best i can do is a picture of the marquee, so here it is. I would highly recommend seeing this show. Well worth the time and money spent.

Since we usually get there well ahead of time to beat the crowd when it comes to parking, we took a stroll and took some pictures. Usually of me, cause Joel hates to take pictures. Oh well, it's like having my own personal photographer.

We didn't do much this weekend, cause it was raining on and off all weekend so we couldn't do anything really outdoors, but we did do some much needed stuff around the house.

We're supposed to be getting a new employee tomorrow, so wish us luck.

Wednesday was the latest Dr Who Appreciation Nite. We got to watch the next two episodes and next month will be the season finale. Boo! But seriously, my favorite episode was the one where they meet Van Gogh. It was very emotional at the end, they thought they had intervened because he committed suicide in his 30's, he died young but it turned out that after all they did, he still killed himself. He was bipolar. Very depressed young man, but his paintings are the best ever. I bought a poster of Starry Night w/the tardis in the background. That was pretty cool.

We did our good deed of the day Thursday when we headed over to Judy's to help her install her new tv. Man, it was a 19 inch. So, so small, i'm so used to having a big tv. Anyways, she was really thankful, but we made her promised she wouldn't give us money in return. She did give us a box of raising bran. LOL..oh, well.

Another week to get ready for, the last full week of September. Time flies, doesn't it? Pretty soon we'll be getting ready for the holidays. Time to start my Christmas shopping.

Labor Day!

Well, at leat it meant a day off from work because we really don't celebrate holidays around here. It's just a fact of life: just another day. No barbeques, pool parties or the like. The end of summer, you say, well, we did go to the beach one time. For about 15 minutes. Like i said, just another day. always working. that sucks.

At least it cooled off a little bit because there's a storm in the gulf that might bring us some rain for the next couple of days. Gees, rain + San Antonio = massive floods. Here we go again. Aside from that, it's a cool city to live in.

I've already published 5 articles for http://www.examiner.com. It's only part time and it doesn't really pay off moneywise, but it's a cool thing to do. To see my name in a national online publication is awesome. I'm one of the San Antonio Events Examiner, what that means is that I blog about events going on around the city, which is cool.

Am super excited because this week is the premiere of Jersey Boys at the Majestic. I have the tickets for Sunday's performance. It should be good, it won the Tony for best Musical and it's the first time in San Antonio, too.

Last night was the first roller derby here in town. wanted to go, but we kinda got sidetracked. maybe next time, next will be in two weeks. The 25th is this years Gardens by Moonlight at the Botanical Gardens. It sounds promising and we haven't gone in past years but i really want to go this time.

gosh, there's so much stuff going on this month, so much to cover. but i like it.

back to work tomorrow. Ugh! but the holidays are almost upon us, time to start the old christmas shopping. Yay! This year Christmas Eve falls on a Friday so we might go down to the valley to visit. Can't make any plans yet, so it might just be one of those spur of the moment things we do.