Yesterday Buddy, Dad and I drove to a place in MD to visit a guys shop where he repairs instruments. It's an awful messy place - instruments, pieces of instruments and cases literally covering the floor. (You think I'm kidding? think again!) The whole place kind of looks like a back room. He has what he needs to work on and what he has worked on for customers all over. Mixed in is the different things that he is selling, both needing and having had work done on them. He says that up stairs is more instruments! None the less, he does really good work.
So anyhow, we went up there because my flute needed some work (The pads mostly) and because (drum roll please) he wanted to get Buddy a trumpet!!!! When Dad suggested the idea to him, his eyes just lit up! We have always said that trumpet would be a good instrument for him, and he is so excited! He woke up this morning asking how long until we could go and get it. (The guy needed to do a little work on it before he gave it to us as it was used.)
I, on the other hand, am trying to live without my flute for a week. I have successfully done it before when it needed work, and when we were out of town, but when you're out of town it just isn't the same - you're doing something else with your time! Mom is missing it too.
And so comes the answer to the title: what would we do without music? Well, we read more, we go and blog about our missing it, we write more, and we ultimately end up listening to "the great ones" play some over the radio.
While thinking of all this, I am realizing that I may go for quite a few months without a teacher once we finally move to CO. :-(
February 28, 2007
February 26, 2007
Driving - I Got a Learners Permit!
I am officially alowed to drive with a licensed driver in the front seat! It happened on Saturday. Exciting!!!
The First Post
Well, it took me long enough to figure this thing out, but I think I have it now. And so you all know, I have been requested (OK, required) by my mom and dad to not use my name or anyone else's name. so, if you leave a comment that has my or my fam's name in it, I am afraid I will have to moderate it out.
I have started this blog for the main purpose of having a place for people to come and see what I've been doing and how things are going.
To this end, here are some things that are going on (I sent this out in an e-mail to a bunch of people, but just for the record as they say):
Moving (Please don't cry, it'll work out by and by)
Just to review, we are doing our best to move to Colorado. Our house has been on the market since November '06 and we will be out of here six weeks after the house sells, whenever that is. We are now on our third realtor, and this one we really like. We have had quite a few people come and see it, and know that we are on the top of a number of people's lists.
Please pray that it will sell REALLY fast. We are REALLY tiered of living in an on-the-market house, and just want to get the process over with.
General life (May be more fun, but don't only read this one)
I Have been writing, cooking, writing, keeping up with flute, writing, reading, and then I go and write some more. Been writing poems, stories, and articles.
I've been doing a lot of the family's cooking, which I have enjoyed more than I thought I would. At the same time I have been teaching Birdie (Sis) the basics of cooking (chopping, browning meat, measuring, the correct order to add ingredients in different kinds of recipes, etc.), and trying ever so hard to get Buddy (Bro) to join in, with little success.
I'm also "teaching" Birdie about writing. This is a hilarious process as I thoroughly dislike grammar. Note: I have the ability to USE grammar, but could you remind me what a pronoun is? The funny thing is, she learns much the same way I do, and so we understand each other perfectly (her grammar has improved by the way).
Just in case you think Buddy fell off the face of the earth, he has been shoveling to his heart's content (he can't stand the fact that it is impossible to snow-blow ice, so he's stuck with shoveling). Also, he's been sledding, doing school with Mom, and trying to convince himself that he will like the things that I've been making for dinner. Lego's, taking apart VCR's, creating things out of random parts of the VCR's as well as other very boyish activities are also daily happenings.
I have started this blog for the main purpose of having a place for people to come and see what I've been doing and how things are going.
To this end, here are some things that are going on (I sent this out in an e-mail to a bunch of people, but just for the record as they say):
Moving (Please don't cry, it'll work out by and by)
Just to review, we are doing our best to move to Colorado. Our house has been on the market since November '06 and we will be out of here six weeks after the house sells, whenever that is. We are now on our third realtor, and this one we really like. We have had quite a few people come and see it, and know that we are on the top of a number of people's lists.
Please pray that it will sell REALLY fast. We are REALLY tiered of living in an on-the-market house, and just want to get the process over with.
General life (May be more fun, but don't only read this one)
I Have been writing, cooking, writing, keeping up with flute, writing, reading, and then I go and write some more. Been writing poems, stories, and articles.
I've been doing a lot of the family's cooking, which I have enjoyed more than I thought I would. At the same time I have been teaching Birdie (Sis) the basics of cooking (chopping, browning meat, measuring, the correct order to add ingredients in different kinds of recipes, etc.), and trying ever so hard to get Buddy (Bro) to join in, with little success.
I'm also "teaching" Birdie about writing. This is a hilarious process as I thoroughly dislike grammar. Note: I have the ability to USE grammar, but could you remind me what a pronoun is? The funny thing is, she learns much the same way I do, and so we understand each other perfectly (her grammar has improved by the way).
Just in case you think Buddy fell off the face of the earth, he has been shoveling to his heart's content (he can't stand the fact that it is impossible to snow-blow ice, so he's stuck with shoveling). Also, he's been sledding, doing school with Mom, and trying to convince himself that he will like the things that I've been making for dinner. Lego's, taking apart VCR's, creating things out of random parts of the VCR's as well as other very boyish activities are also daily happenings.