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Name: Abigail
Gender: Female
Interests: Harp and music, antique furniture and books. Whatever else suits me at the moment.
Expertise: Harp
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Art
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/2/2005
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| Merry Christmas everyone!
What are your goals, resolutions, plans for this next year? | | |
| 1. Watch tv
2. Peek out into the parking lot
3. Find the nearest Wendy’s (get seriously lost doing it)
4. Paint your toe nails
5. Take the longest bath ever
6. Call a friend
7. Update your blogs
8. Jump on the bed (no I haven’t done this…yet!)
9. Serenade the hotel staff cleaning the rooms next to you
10. Get your once a year workout…trying to find the workout room
11. Call the takeout restaurant of your choice, and ask them for items not on the short menu in your room…make sure you ask the price of each item, and then when you pay, forget that your card is in your purse on the other side of the room.
12. Unpack ALL your stuff, and place it around the room for a homey environment.
13. Consider purchasing a candle, then disregard due to the non-smoking sign in your room.
14. Text message friends.
15. Watch old movies with all their commercials…it takes longer by about one hour.
16. Try to put in the contacts you forgot to take out of your eyes the night before watching said movie.
17. People watch…in the lobby.
18. Read the hotel manual thing that tells you about the town and the amenities of the hotel all the way through.
19. Try to figure out the coffee machine
20. Try to find all the trash cans in the room
21. Rearrange the furniture
22. Bring your own speaker system and play it really loudly.
23. Imagine what you would be doing if some else where there with you.
Um ya, I am learning to travel alone...can you tell? I still can't get used to all these people wearing hunting colors in the city though...Go Colts, Go Gators!
I think I have listened to every Christmas station servicing Indy, Nashville and Knoxville and Lexington, and Lousiville. I have even been reduced to listening to some Country...BTW "My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw is SO my Dad I can't even believe it!
Enjoy the little things in life...everthing is better that way. | | |
| Nate reminded me that I really should update...a good idea don't you think?! It has been too long!
What has kept me from updating? Well, I have been busy with life in general. I have been really escallating my work with the next set of degrees trying to get this finished very soon. Practice and teaching as well as research and paper writing.
Nate is coming home from Israel soon, and I guess I will have to let him have his car back. It has been fun to drive!
Christmas music time, and with it comes decorations and lights! Tradition states that you wait to decorate until after Thanksgiving. The problem with that is, by the time Thanksgiving is over, the rest of the world wants their musicians to already know what they are playing for Christmas. So, we have to be ahead of the game. And if we aren't careful, we miss the fun of Christmas entirely because we work it so much.
I try to make sure that I remember the reason and the fun of Christmas by starting early, taking time to enjoy the lights, family and friends, listen to Christmas music (not just play it), and make priorities of performances that will make Christmas special and "real." Like, holding Christmas Eve for my church to be with my family and my church.
So now I am off to work! I'll update more often. :) | | |
| I came home from teaching today, and my mom and dad were watching one of my favorite movies. I had forgotten how much I loved it and why. It was "Mr. Holland's Opus." If you haven't seen it, you definitely should! It is the ultimate peek into every teacher's heart and totally into mine. It always makes me cry, and I normally don't like that. I don't wear my emotions on my shirtsleeve, and would rather not have to wipe tears of off the same shirtsleeve over a movie! If you think you want to teach anything, watch that movie. If you think I am crazy for teaching, watch that movie. If you think you would never want to teach, watch that movie. Then thank you teachers for wanting to teach you more than you realized that you would learn...things that make people, not just educate them.
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| It was recommended that I update...so update I will!
Random collections of information...
Harp camp was great for all my students who went. I see so much growth in their playing, and in other areas...different areas for different people. It is exciting for me to see.
So now students are on to getting back into the swing of things since summer is almost up. Exams, Grossi, Pozzoli, etc. We are getting ready to start the next harp transition. I love seeing kids on their new harps, working on things they couldn't do before!
My brother is off to Israel on a relief drop of materials. I guess I shall have to find other people to tag along with, or stay home and get work done! That would be good, since I am launching into the next phase of this set of harp degrees.
I love the State Fair. Last year I went three times. This year I limit myself to one, or at the most two. I can't decide what I like best about it, so I will just say I like it all. Another opportunity to "Soak up the Sun!"
Have a happy day! | | |
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