SuperGreatAnn: Lost Lips (SDSU Homecoming & Alumni Band)

When the hell did I lose my lips? And what’s with my teeth? They look brown and chippy…. in my next life I will come back as a plastic surgeon’s wife.

This is my good friend Lori from college. We were in the SDSU marching band together and were roommates for a brief time. (Wow….I met Lori 29 years ago!)Lori told me about SDSU’s homecoming game a few weeks ago, and asked me to join the alumni band for game. What the hell… a night out from the kids? Count me in! So I rummaged around and found my flute, cleaned off the tarnish and attempted to play. I had music I was supposed to learn, but when I had to get out magnifying glasses to even read the notes, I decided it was probably going to be a lost cause. I had sort of forgotten how to read music… so I decided to just wing it. We had a GREAT time. By the end of the night, I was sounding better and better! (better to all those around me who were drinking a lot of beer) Lori and I hung out with our friend Rhea who also was in band with us. (We looked super cool when all 3 of us had to bust out reading glasses to see the music.)

It was of fun… we got to join the band on the field at halftime to play for the homecoming court. I haven’t been on the stadium floor in YEARS! Well, 25 years I guess. I saw a lot of old faces I hadn’t seen in as long. There were about 120 alumni who showed up to play and another 60+ who came to watch the game and festivities. We sat in the stands with the band to play during the game. I think the young girls, also alumni, sitting behind us in the flute section (who looked like I could be their Mom…. biologically that is) thought we were super-cool as they snickered about how out of tune we were… or perhaps they were just talking about me….. Oh, and band geeks are still band geeks and forever will be. I told Lori I didn’t think we were so band-geeky when WE were in band. She assured me we were. I will definitely do it again next year. And more more Oh… the Aztecs played TCU, and we lost, by a lot. It was Marshal Faulk hat giveaway night. They gave him an award at halftime and had some little ceremony as he had just been inducted into the football hall of fame. I’m not a Faulk fan, but that’s another boring story for another time.

On a side note, I kept looking at a girl during rehearsal who is a current member of the Marching Aztecs. She was very familiar to me and I couldn’t figure out why. She turned and looked at me and said: “Hey, you’re David’s Mom!” Turns out Melissa was an aide in David’s PEPP (kindergarten) class last year. That made me feel old when I told her I was in the band from 1982 through 1985. She wasn’t even born yet. This is her below: