Quote of the Day

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May 052010
 

“Girls, playing any instrument is hard. But when it is attached by muscle and tissue to your body, like your voice is, there is no comparison to just how personal it is. Your instrument is your body. And being a part of this world, we all know that hardly anything is subject to more criticism than the female body. The whole thing: the feet, the hands, the face, and the mind. When you sing, you claim your body back. Everything goes out of your throat, over your tongue, and through your teeth, out into the world. Once it’s out there, [...]

Looking around you house

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Jan 152010
 

I had a funny realization after the mattress delivery guys left yesterday. I looked around my house and realized that there are things I live with everyday, that i don’t think about, and sometimes don’t even really look at or see, that having a stranger, especially one who isn’t somehow attached to my social network might see and at minimum think is odd. I don’t really mean the dragon statues, or the massive stacks of books and dvds, the room full of yarn or the 5 computers . . . Well for example we have a piece of art we [...]

 

Its a sad commentary on my garden, that I can tell the soil is improving because now I have weeds . . . *sigh*

 

Had  a really nice weekend.  I skipped the local genCon (Windycon) I have been planning on skipping it for a while now, just needed the financial break, and having been at OVFF just a few weeks ago sort of blew my con budget for the fall. Friday night: Went to my voice lesson, took a really nice tumble on a crooked piece of sidewalk.  Went out for yummy Thai food, went home and had a nice cozy early night. Saturday: Woke up and went into a kitchen cleaning frenzy. Building on Thursday night’s success, in cleaning out all the scary [...]

 

*quick note – this list has been adjusted somewhat – and and do not have access currently – I do not plan on bad mouthing them particularly behind their backs – don’t worry. Just didn’t seem appropriate anymore to have them here. I have been hesitating to post things recently thinking that either of them will take it as a sympathy bid or a call for attention – when that isn’t what my goal is at all. edt – added Katy back at per her request and she and I have worked out concerns. On a more personal note – [...]

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