Friday, February 22, 2008

sleeping



I don't know about the rest of you with your perfect children:) but we have major issues with getting the kids to sleep. As I am writing this (11pm) Colette is in her room with Rob, who is trying to sleep, while Colette kicks and whines and cries until she finally goes to sleep, a couple of hours later. Then there's Johnathan. He is hanging out with me, chewing on stuff because he is getting all four of his front upper teeth at the same time. Granted they both wake up fairly late for little kids-Colette wakes up anywhere from 7am to 10am, and Johnathan if left alone will sleep until nearly noon. Anyways, I am not asking for advice, maybe a little pity, and just a tad of gratitude if your child doesn't do this. Actually I am just venting:)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

new blog

I just made a new blog: http://yu-zen.blogspot.com/
Lately I have been wanting to make all kinds of stuff. I started an Etsy account to try to sell things but the blog is to kind of test out my ideas first, get suggestions and exposure. Anyway I love you all and I hope you have a great week

new song

I've been recording again. I want to release an album collaboration with my friend sean curran, this is the first of many tracks like this, I really dig his beats.

http://www.robbennion.com/mp3s/highschool.mp3

tell me what you think, give me some feedback if you please

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

can't sleep


I can't sleep because I have a cold and took dayquill which is keeping me awake all night.

Well I have to say I love my job. It's extremely challenging but so rewarding. Trying to organize an entire organization . . . I feel we're making progress daily.

the kids are so much fun. Johnathan is a speed crawler now and Colette is finally learning that bottles are only for bedtime. nicolle's teacher today told her she has the most drawing talent of anyone in her art class, she made some really cool pictures mixing pencil and watercolor today. I hope she'll stick with it, she's really good.

i love the snow but it was nice to have some sunshine. I got to go snowboarding a few weeks ago with a group of korean kids and it was so fun. I'd like to make it out into the mountains more, nicolle and I went cross country skiing this past weekend and the sunshine was great.

Oh mom and chris sorry I have your guitar, I took it for a talent show on Saturday with our branch. I played the guitar part, recorded and looped it, played a bari sax, looped it, and then played a song on the flute for nicolle, all live in front of the branch. It was a little awkward but fun to do something different. nicolle tells me she likes the bari better than any of the other saxes, she says it's sexy. mom says the bari's sexy because it's like an older man who takes his time, and hits the lower notes not because he can't go high anymore but because slow and low is so much better. My friend's letting me borrow it until august so hopefully by then I can find a permanent bari addition to my saxophone family.

well I voted for Obama of course. who else? but I don't talk politics with family or in the workplace, too much conflict. It seems about everyone I know is pretty conservative politically, so it's best to keep it hush.

It's been fun doing the hip-hop thing again, I like the combination of jazz and rap. We filled the club to 70% capacity on our first show, hopefully this will go far. I'm learning moderation as I burn my musicians out by working them all too hard. My boss tells me constantly to slow down, that other people don't want to go at that pace. It's a learning process, that's for sure. Managing my own bands has taught me a lot abut managing employees, it's slowly coming into place at work. At first I thought I had to fix everything and get it all under control right away, but I see now that it's a process. who wants to be done with something too fast anyway, the journey's what it's all about. Keeping your integrity and ethics in place throughout the journay is more important than having the successful accomplishment.

well I'm all doped up on over the counter cold medicine, imagine if I got some real drugs. I drank some coke the other day and it wiped me out the next day. pretty sad.

well if anybody's in town tomorrow night I'm playing a valentine's dinner at La Parrilla Latina 7-9pm, 4115 South Redwood Road Taylorsville. Maybe the snow won't be so bad tomorrow, but the way it was coming down tonight I guess we'll have to wait and see.

hasta luego

Monday, February 11, 2008

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Valentines day show


Good music, good food, good fun, what could be better on Valentines Day?

Monday, February 04, 2008

Fun times





Colette found a big empty box and entertained herself for a solid 15 minutes. Then on Saturday we saw Amy! We hadn't seen her for over a month! Needless to say Colette was overjoyed. Amy and snow? It doesn't get much better than that!