Hello, people!
I'm thinkin' it's about time for another post. I'm sorry to have missed last Sunday's post...I know that a very high level of un-motivation (with some busyness thrown in) is not a very good excuse, but maybe it's a passable explanation. :)
I auditioned this morning for the CYS. (Thanks to all of you who prayed for me and told me I'd survive...I do appreciate my friends.) It's something I have been interested in for a long time, but it never seemed quite right--until last Saturday when a friend told me the group is short on violinists. God basically dropped it right in my lap. :) So I cram-practiced all week long and played for the director this morning. I'll be playing second violin and have 22 pages of music to work over before the first rehearsal on Tuesday. This will be a great motivation...I foresee large amounts of violin practice in my near future. :)
It was cool and cloudy out today. A good day for pulling out the fall-ish scented candles and wearing cozy sweaters and thinking about turning on the gas fireplace. Spring came late this year, and it looks like fall is coming early. I don't mind too much, as long as my garden doesn't get frozen too soon. Speaking of gardens, after my audition I went out in the cold and picked about a dozen tomatoes of varying shapes, sizes, and degrees of splittage. (Do YOUR tomatoes split their skins as they ripen?) I used some of them for fresh salsa this afternoon...very yummy!
Good News Orchestra starts on Wednesday. I still need to finish those arrangements. One of them is almost done, and the other one is very nearly almost done. :) Hopefully I can get them (or at least one of them) good and done by tomorrow. I start teaching again on Monday. I'll have somewhere in the vicinity of 10 students this year--a fairly manageable number.
I'm reading...not as much as I would like to be reading. Working on Recapture the Wonder by Ravi Zacharias (a very good book so far) and A History Of Wales by John Davies. The latter book is about 700 pages long. Some of you probably wonder why in the world I'm reading something like that. Well, my grandpa had Welsh heritage and I've been interested in learning more about that particular country--History of Wales has been on my book list for the past two years. Last year when we were in Reno my aunt kindly let me borrow her copy, and I'm finally getting around to reading it. It's actually quite interesting--clearly written, if a bit liberal at times. :) I'm sometime after the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
I ordered the music history textbook I studied from in college recently. It's going to be fun to have. I don't know yet if I'll work through it systematically (would be a good thing since I plowed through the entire book in less than 6 weeks when I was doing it for credit) or just use it as reference. With my younger siblings starting school this week, I'm thinking it might be fun to have something to study a bit in the morning. But then violin might take up that time now. :)
Piano...will have to take a back seat to violin for the moment. :( I hope to keep up with it though--I don't want to lose what I have gained over the summer.
Don't even ask about sewing. :)
Living History preparation is coming along well. Yesterday I had a music practice with my faithful little group; we'll have a lot of fun this time. We're playing folk and dance music. Our biggest problem will be deciding which song(s) to cut if we don't fit within our time allotment. :( We also had a drama practice last night. It's a lot of fun for us to do, and hopefully it will be engaging for our listeners. We're on the Virginia frontier in 1774-1775, dealing with frontier life and the threat of Indians. Hope you can come hear it!
...and with that, I think I'm done for now. I wish you a very good weekend--God bless!!
Till next time,
Rachel :)
6 comments:
Yay! An update! =)
Hey, congratulations on getting into CYS! If you work over your music as much as you sound like you're ready to, you'll know it better than the rest of the section, who may or may not have seen the music before. :P
Hi Rachel!
I've missed you and was about to write a "Where are you and are you happy" note. It sounds like you've been finding a few other things to do besides blog posting! Glad to hear that you are well.
New opportunities for you... hope that everything goes wonderfully!
Love & miss you,
Lisa
p.s. On tomatoes, ours did very poorly this year... often succumbing to blossom end rot and other maladies. I've been hearing this from others so hopefully its just a bad year. :)
Sound cool : ) Hope it goes well!
Hmm, Lisa--that's interesting. I'll have to look up blossom end rot; maybe that's what happened to some of my earlier tomatoes. I hadn't seen it before, I don't think.
Thanks for the comments, all!!
What a lovely, newsy post. Thanks for sharing about the many things that are keeping you busy. Fall seems to be coming early here too... I don't necessarily mind, but I do hope that it doesn't forecast an especially cold winter. Such weather makes practicing organ in unheated churches more of a chore. But at least winter cold won't leave me stuck to the bench as last week's summer heat did!
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