WHAT A BUSY WEEK I HAD LAST SEPTEMBER SHOPPING FOR MY DAUGHTER EMMA AND GETTING HER SETTLED INTO HER DORM ROOM AT DARTMOUTH!

MY ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 4,  2014

What a busy week this has been for me shopping for Emma and moving her into the prestigious Ivy League Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire! She knows and I know that she's truly Blessed to be attending her dream-come-true Ivy League Dartmouth College. I expect her to continue to be academically successful in her studies and make this world a better place! As I previously posted, Emma's dorm room is amazing now, and has her special flair and touch that way she had envisioned it after spending hours decorating it late Wednesday night. We ended up having a great late dinner with our Shih-Tzu Princess at a close to the campus late night awesome pizza place called "Everything But Anchovies". Then Emma spent the night at my hotel suite with me and Princess - since hardly anyone on her floor was staying at her dorm. She and Princess slept in my deluxe king size bed - while I slept on my sofa bed.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 

I took Emma back to her dorm so she could shower and shampoo her hair with her own hair products that I bought. Then Emma gave me two loads of her dirty clothes from her canoe trip to wash at my hotel since she didn't have any quarterrs. After almost 2 hours waiting for Emma her to shower and do her hair and get dressed, I took her and Princess shopping in Lebanon, NH for college supplies at Staples and for a wireless HP Printer and ink cartridges (so she can print from her iPhone and the new 13" MacBook that I bought her) and some sustainable foods and other stuff for her at JB's Wholesale in Lebanon, NH. JB's is just like Costco - so I felt at home shopping! I got Emma and myself ice tea and a slice of delicious pull- pork pizza at BJ's. Afterwards, I dropped her off at her dorm and she spent the night there since her roommate Leigh was also there.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I drove to Main Street at Dartmouth to the "Always Trendy Store" and bought Princess a green-platted Dartmouth jacket and a green Dartmouth leash, a Dartmouth key-ring for Emma and a Dartmouth T-shirt for me since Emma already has loads of Dartmouth clothes that I bought for her in April when we were here. Then after I inadvertently went nearby to the Local post office in Hanover, I met Emma and her LA college friend Raven at the Dartmouth HINMAN post office to pick up the two large boxes of Emma's stuff that I packed and shipped to her at Dartmouth. Raven had a big box there as well that her mom had shipped to her - so I loaded the girls' boxes and drove them took to their respective dorms to unload the boxes and then dropped Emma and Raven off for an event on campus. Then I went to L.L.Bean to pick out some things and had the store hold some thermal boots, socks, sweaters and coats for Emma to approve and try on on Saturday. Then I went back to JB's to get a clothes Steamer, a desk fan and more stuff that I think Emma will need. Then I drove nearby to Wal-Mart and bought Emma a tall floor fan, light bulbs for her lamp, and some microwaveable ceramic bowls & plates and some utensils. While I was at Wal-Mart in New Hampshire shopping for Emma, one of my great saxophone players named Doug Webb called me and asked me to play with his all-star fusion band featuring some of my "Mind Transplant" fusion music at The Baked Potato on September 19th. I accepted!! I need to start playing every gig I can get now - in order to continue solely paying for Emma's tuition at Dartmouth, which cost as much as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, USC and.', etc. I need a hit record!! So I'm now making myself available to play, record and tour with anybody who is interested in hiring me, as long as the music is good. There's only two types of music: good music and bad music! I don't care if it's rock, jazz, funk, r&b, pop, folk or country - because I play it all with the same integrity!! After shopping at Wal-Mart, I drove back to my suite at the Residence Inn and took Princess for a walk and fed her. Then she and I went to the laundry room at our hotel and washed Emma's sleeping bag and clothes from her 5-day canoe trip until 12:10am on Saturday. Then I took Princess back our suite and walk across the courtyard of my hotel to Juan's Margaritas Restaurant to have a well-deserved drink. I've had great margaritas in Los Angeles - but this place had the tastiest and best variety of margaritas ever - made by beautiful bar-maid Morgan. I ordered a crushed ice/frozen Blood Orange Margarita (Sauza Blue Silver Tequila, Cointreau and St. Germain Liqueur with blood orange squeeze) and it was strong! After only sitting there for 10 minutes, a guy named Hank with his girlfriend or wife ordered me a shot of a smooth vodka mixed drink called "Wow Wow". That was very nice of him. He and his wife/girlfriend left and after awhile Bar-maid Morgan suggested that I try the Silver Star Margarita , which I ordered on the rocks. It was even better than the amazing Blood Orange Margarita and even stronger. At 1:30am this morning, I walked 50 feet back to my hotel suite smiling to find Princess waiting and staring at me with a "Where the hell have you been" look on her face! I guessed she could tell that I had been up to something from the look on my face - so I started singing the Beyoncé song "I've Been Drinking", and all was OK . Ha ha .

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Princess and I picked Emma at Starbucks next to Dartmouth and. In my trunk were the clothes that I bought her last night, and the clothes and sleeping bag from her recent 5-day Dartmouth Freshmen Canoe strip that I washed and dried last night for her at my hotel. Princess and I were wearing our Dartmouth jacket and T-shirt. Then we took Emma to L.L. Bean have her try on the subzero winter coat, 2 thermal rain proof/snow proof boots, a warm thermal sweater, thermal long johns and a bunch of wool socks that I had them holding for her! She loved everything that picked out and bought for her. While she waiting for me at the cash register at LL Bean, I walked inside the mall down to Eastern Mountain Sports and picked out and bought Emma a solar panel natural light, a long down coat, knit beanie, ear warmer, infinity scarf, more wool socks, and mittens by North Face and EMS and had them hold the items while I walked back to LL Bean to pay for the things I bough there. Then I took Emma to EMS to show her  and had try on the things that I had bought for her while show was at LL Bean waiting for me. 

Emma  needed more clothes hangers - so we drove down the street to Wal-Mart and I bought her a bunch of hangers, 4 nice tights, pepper spray and a stress whistle while Princess and Emma waited outside in my rented SUV. Then Emma Alexandra Mouzon, Princess and I went to dinner at Chili's before driving back to Emma's dorm to unload all of the purchases. I had to assemble the floor fan that I bought Emma and helped her unpack all of her new winter clothes that I bought, and the clothes that I washed and dried for her at my hotel last night. Princess and I just got back to our hotel. We'll meet Emma early in the morning for breakfast and hangout with her at her dorm before Princess and I have to drive to Boston, return the SUV to Hertz Car Rental at the Logan Airport in time to catch our flight back to LA. Emma's now set for the winter at Dartmouth. 

What a Blessing it is to be a dad and father! A father helps to create a child - but it's the devoted dad who nurtures and raises a child. Anyone can be a father - but not all of us can be a devoted dad!!