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Not quite a month ago, I wrote about something going a bit awry with our larger choral group. One of the Basses had decided to pull something rather nasty, which caused quite an uproar. (Things are better now, and we’re working on new material for our June concert.)
When I mentioned that they’d be singing [...]

So that was fun. Not.
As most of you know, I underwent PRK Advanced Custom Wavefront laser eye surgery last Monday. Following that has been, in all honesty, the week from hell.
A quick [simplified] lesson in the differences between Lasik and PRK surgeries:
With Lasik, there is a flap of tissue lifted on your eye, [...]

A few weeks ago, Jenn asked me to do this particular guest post as she had spent the day babysitting Little Bit while Frank #2 was having surgery. Just a disclaimer folks… this post is a bit of a downer. I tried to jazz it up, but it hits a little too close [...]

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
As of February 3, 2010, Silly Haiku Wednesday became “Sensational Haiku Wednesday”. Please adjust bookmarks and blog posts accordingly!
This week’s [...]

Something unsavory has been going on in our larger choral group that we sing with lately.
We are a great group of about 55 voices. Strangely enough, out of that nice number, only 5 are tenors (including John-Boy), and out of that 5, only 4 are men (um, also including J-B!). That leaves, of course, [...]

Yesterday I shared a song that we recorded at our first Studio session last week. I have to tell you, that night was one of the best ever. Definitely an item that we could all cross off of our collective bucket list! ShaMoo, Knarf, John-Boy and I sang our hearts out and had a wonderful [...]

Recording Studio = Bucket List Cross Off

The group spent Wednesday evening in the recording studio, and we had the BEST. NIGHT. EVER!!
Want a sample? Here’s ShaMoo, John-Boy, Knarf and I singing “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You”. Enjoy!
Note: The mix is a little off towards the end, so Knarf shines through a bit [...]

Nope, not a new meme, I just couldn’t come up with a better title.
First, the contest news!
JennyMac is one of the best bloggers out there – I enjoy her so much. I don’t usually need much prompting to extol the many virtues of this brilliant, vibrant gal, and today is no different – its [...]

I’ve been asked a lot recently about who the folks I talk about on my blog actually are. I’m sure some of you wonder what the heck I’m up to sometimes, too.
It can get a bit tedious (for you as well as me) to explain relationships every time I mention someone, so to that [...]

Yesterday was a long, long day.
Wee One and I arrived at ShaMoo’s for babysitting duty in the early AM, because her youngest son was due at Toronto’s Sick Kids hospital for a serious procedure that morning, and I offered to stay with Princess Little Bit. I won’t go in to the whole thing [...]

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”
Click here for info and background on this weekly event!
The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)
This week’s theme is: FreeStyle – your choice
My submission for this week:
Knarf, John-Boy, ShaMoo
Kindred souls, a harmony
Thankful for such joy

Next [...]

Recently I organized a fundraiser for our larger choral group, which took place last night. That I didn’t have a camera on me will forever have me mentally kicking myself!!
I haven’t put together too many fundraisers before, all by my lonesome. Ok, I confess; this was the first one. The opportunity just hadn’t presented [...]

Jenn should learn to keep quiet.

I hurt a loved one’s feelings this week without meaning to – and I feel absolutely awful about it. He should know that I would never hurt him for the world, and that I am truly sorry.
P.S. Unrelated to yesterday’s post, in case you’re wondering!!
P.P.S. 6WS visitors – thanks for [...]

This post will only make sense to a small handful of people, so please feel free to ignore. (heehee, I have so much fun, don’t I?)
See, for a while now, I’ve been trying to get a certain someone to participate in the finer aspects of online life. Mostly Facebook, and, to some extent, this blog. [...]

Along this journey of mine, in getting to know you all I’ve discovered that my readers and friends have more depth to them than a simple comment now and then can portray. This inspires me to delve deeper, and to that end I’ve decided to introduce a new “an Interview With…” feature. Let me know [...]

Thom tagged me with this Lucky Chinese Tag called “Eminent Eights”, so I guess I need to step up and do it!

Here goes:
8 TV shows I like to watch: (I don’t watch a lot of TV. Hrm.)

Heroes
Chuck
House
Breakfast Television (Toronto)
Little Mosque on the Prairie (shocker, eh?)
Anything Star Trek related
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Looking back, it’s been a pretty fantastic year for me. I started blogging only 8 months ago, yet I feel that I’ve been doing this all my life. It’s just something that feels right to me.
I’ve made many bloggy friends, and for that I am grateful. You’ve all enriched my life in so many [...]

I had been waiting to talk about our concert on the 12th until I had some of the recordings to share with you – it went so well, and we’ve been asked to come back again next year. We were high on adrenaline for days after, and continue to get terrific feedback even now. So [...]

This is what it’s doing here today… *sigh*… but wait!

My back yard… and my group! This is a rehearsal recording (meaning I stuck a cheap recorder in front of one speaker while we were rehearsing) of ShaMoo, myself, and 2 of our closest friends singing “Let it Snow”.
Our first major concert as a quartet [...]

My throat was a bit sore today, so instead of joining my comrades in a caroling gig the large group had scheduled (they can do without me for this!!) I decided today was the day the tree would go up. I did wait until the Hubby went to work though – he gets all huffy [...]