A hazy shade of winter

I was so happy to wake up this morning. As I opened my eyes, I could see that the sky was gray. This could only mean one thing - precipitation was in the air. Then I head the unmistakable sound of someone stamping his feet in the lobby of the building. There's only one reason to stamp your feet in the lobby. Could it be???

I quickly threw off the covers and leaped out of bed. As soon as I got to the window, I had my confirmation.

Snow! Snow! Snow!!!

Winter has arrived! The ground was covered! The trees were covered! And it was still falling gently from the sky!

I lost no time in going outside for a short snow romp. It was delightful. I had forgotten how good snow smells.

Welcome winter!

G D A E

Tonight I went to see Natalie McMaster and her Leahy husband Donnell. The show was full of delightful fiddle tunes, including a few songs I remember from my Singing Strings days (Devil's Dream and Hungarian Dance No. 5, anyone? Actually... I don't think it was Hungarian Dance No. 5, but it was definitely a Singing Strings song. But I digress.). It made my fingers itch to play a violin again.

The best part of the night was when they broke out into St. Anne's Reel, which just happens to be my favourite fiddle tune of ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME.

I really needed this tonight. My work day was busy, and I had one particularly difficult case that has stayed with me throughout the day.

Treasure your hearing, everyone. Protect it and cherish it.

Here comes winter!

It snowed today.

Not a lot of snow, but it was beautiful.

She's back.

Well, aren't I a delinquent blogger.

What can I say, I've been very busy. This is what happens when you work full time and sing in two choirs and a Christmas show. And it's only going to get worse... now we're ramping up for Christmas season, which means lots of rehearsing and lots of singing.

Example: this Sunday my Tuesday choir has a concert in the evening. We also have dress rehearsal in the afternoon. Unfortunately, I also have four hours of Christmas show rehearsal on Sunday afternoon as well. I'm quite devoted to my Christmas show, and not so devoted to Tuesday choir, so it's very tempting to skip the dress rehearsal and even the concert. Except that I have a very minor solo-ish part in the Tuesday choir. And when I spoke to the choir director about missing rehearsal, he was seriously displeased and strongly advised against it.

This made me quite cranky, because really, who is going to see me in this choir concert? No one. NO ONE. It is insignificant to me. I don't care. I want to rehearse for the Christmas show. I don't want to miss rehearsal.

If anyone has access to a Time Turner, please let me know.

Anyway, in other news, I have finally said goodbye to my PVR. I returned it to the cable company today. I haven't been watching a lot of tv lately, and I've had it unplugged for about a month now. I even had the cable outlet in my bedroom disconnected. I cut my cable services too. I tried to go with just the basic cable, but then I realized that I wouldn't get TLC, which would cut off my access to my guilty pleasure, aka "Jon and Kate Plus 8". And really, that would be silly, because why would I stop watching a show about a family of twins and sextuplets when I have finally figured out how to tell all the kids apart?