Ah, the power of a microphone! Image by Rusty Sheriff via Flickr
Found this blog post in the drafts! Never got published! Written on May 13… oops! Better late than never, right? Or totally out of context and boring? Oh well…
Just home and winding down from our “Over the Back Fence” radio show premiere! Take Note!, our singing group, performed three songs, and the whole thing was such a blast! We sounded great at sound-check and in the little room we practiced in and during the singalongs and during our songs. And there were many laughs at the expense of Norwegians everywhere! Tonight’s show paid tribute to both Cinco de Mayo and Syttende Mai. What a great little show. I must try to get there again – and for sure try to listen more faithfully. I naively thought it would be broadcast live but it is simply recorded live – played later. It was a great night leading into a great week of music ahead!
On the other hand, I haven’t been getting as much reading done! Book reading, anyway. I’m so far behind in my magazine reading but I’m feeling better about that, so I started reading “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” this week. I finally made some headway today. I am really liking it! I thought it would be all heavy and sad and ominous, but it isn’t. It’s about children. So I imagine there will be sadness and heartbreak ahead, but it doesn’t seem like it will tear my heart out, so that’s a good thing.
Well, as I said, a music-filled week ahead! Our big spring concert (with my solo!) coming up on Wednesday, Thursday a performance for a church family night, and Saturday we are performing at Minnesota City days! It’s been such a great spring with the choir. Can’t wait for the next adventure!
And the days go by… and the blogging doesn’t happen! Well, maybe 22 days isn’t too bad of a lag, but I think it is. Mid-May was a very busy time, as “Take Note!”, the choir I am in, had a lot of rehearsals and performances over an 8 day span, with busy weekends and weeknights before. It was a great time. The third time I sang “Please, Mr. Postman” I really nailed it. I should have front-loaded that work rather than being in panic mode. But panic mode usually works for me, so c’est la vie! I’ve had quite a bit of time off (for me) and haven’t been cranking through the books too much but have read a few.
I got official and final word Tuesday night / Wednesday that my position at work is being cut due to budget reasons, so the last five or six weeks I have been in crisis mode mentally. I’m so “in my head,” as I call it. Introverted. Immersing myself in meaningless tasks. Choosing audiobooks or podcasts over live conversations. These last few days at work will be difficult – it’s hard to say goodbye over and over again – so I am looking forward to it being behind me. June 7 can’t get here fast enough. And all of this brings to point something I learned about myself after the flood – I really can only do one big thing at a time. I couldn’t look for a new house until I sold my old house and had actually signed the papers. Likewise, I can’t focus as much as I should on looking for a new job until this job is wrapped up. So although I am going to pretend that I will do some serious job searching and applying tomorrow, most likely I will find some putzy jobs to do and then learn more about my rights through the union. Hopefully soon I’ll be ‘normal’ again. Ha.
But I have finished a few books since I last wrote. I am half done with “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” and really liking it. It’s quite easy to read, which is unexpected. I thought it would be heavier, but maybe I’m just not there yet. I hopefully will finish that soon. I finished listening to “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (see above comments about immersing myself in audiobooks) and was amazed at how much I don’t remember from reading the book! But it was nine years ago that the book came out, so that’s a long time. I’m sure I’ll remember less about book six and I already know that I remember very little about book seven (it was the last book I read before my house flooded and something changed in my brain that day and that book disappeared – along with a little sanity!). I am pretty sure I’ll reach the goal of reading the books before July 19 so that is exciting!
And I also finished my very first e-book loaned from the library! I checked out one book, just any old book I could get, as most had a waiting list, and I didn’t like it. I couldn’t tell if it was the book I didn’t like or the e-book that I didn’t like. So I waited and finally got one I wanted to read (“Twenties Girl” by Sophie Kinsella) – a light and fun romp – and I ripped right through it! It was easy to read and a good, fun book. The 14 day loan period from the library is a little pressure, so hopefully the others will come spaced out good enough for me to not panic! I read the book in less than three days, but I had to stop reading “Hotel…” which I didn’t like to do.
And so I ramble. I must blog more so that I don’t have quite so much to say! Yikes! I’ll just update my “Spring Thing Reading List” below and be off to read!
Walkie Talkie Book Club 