Orchestra @ MindSay 
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Lilr’s husband and I work together. For a brief time, he was directly over me as a supervisor, which made things a little rough, but he transferred to another department, so now we’re just in the same building.
Lilr and her husband are very sweet together, but they have a good-natured ongoing battle of surprising and attempting to vex the other (not seriously, just to come out with the upper hand). So, if I, say, wanted to surprise her…he’s completely up for not only letting me know her full schedule, but also arranging anything else I need.
In this case…this’d be the last Christmas that we’re going to have together for a few years. They’re moving to the Southwest come early summer, and I’m leaving for some traveling come fall. And lilr, despite being lovely, appreciative of art in many forms, appreciative of music, rather on the pure side, appreciative of ballet, loving the classics, being reasonably fond of Christmas…has never, ever seen the Nutcracker!
And, by happy coincidence, the Nutcracker in its entirety is being performed in our town. An evening, in fact, when I get off work an hour before the show starts.
Already having it on her husband’s word that she’s not up to anything that night, and he’s at work (thus having the car) – get off work, call her.
“Hey! Whatcha doin’?”
Paraphrase: Bumming around on the Internet.
“Aha. So, if I were to come by and kidnap you in, oh, ten minutes, would you be ready?”
Paraphrase: Uncertainty, for what?
“Your husband knows about it.”
This is also a wonderfully delightful aspect of her being married. I’m rather out there as a person, and once in a while (not so much anymore) I have been known to pull her out of her comfort zone. I’d okayed this with him the night before, and he knows her quite well – more importantly, she knows that he knows her quite well. I may from time to time (again, it doesn’t really happen anymore) get so excited about something that I just have to haul her along and kind of forget that she doesn’t share all my interests (I’m working on it, okay?). He’s much more laid-back, even-keeled, so while it may very well be something that I’m excited about, she knows that, A) by nature he wouldn’t so wholeheartedly endorse something of a nature against his grain, and B) he knows her, and wouldn’t subject her to something she would hate.
A most enjoyable time was had. We have a new random one-liner between us (while I fully expect that many of our one-liners should involve silly songs we know, I sometimes find it curious how many of those happen to be Christmas carols), we enjoyed the orchestra, we quite enjoyed the dancers. Lilr identified a half-dozen munchkins that she knows from her church (her husband is rather involved with the nursery), we talked about impending motherhood on the way home.
She views motherhood much the way I do marriage – she wants to, but she has things that she wants to take care of first. I will probably share a similar view when I’m married, but sheesh, if my biological clock didn’t wake up with full force in the last few years! More discussion on both of us thinking of the other as being older – lilr is actually a year older than I am (oddly, most of my friends from high school are. People who’d grown up with me thought I was weird.), but she sees me as being more emotionally and spiritually mature, whereas I think of her as the same.
Really, to have the truth of it, the problem is in our definitions – mature to me means having a solid center, even-keeled. To her, it means having a greater experience in this than one who is immature. I suppose the two are linked because the thought is that you’d develop that even-keel after experience, but it hasn’t worked out that way with us.
Watching the ballet, got to thinking a bit. I love dance. I wanted to minor in dance for quite a few years. It’s still something I sort of hold onto. But real dance takes so much commitment, and I already have a big commitment to music. Music is kind of a ‘me’ thing, and having a ‘me’ thing is good – but I want to be doing something to help other people. There’s so much in the world that I could be helping with. Ballet is beautiful, jazz dance is a blast, but neither one is helpful in a flood setting or building schools or shelters in war-torn countries.
So, then it comes back to, what DO I want to take with me when I leave? In more ways than one.
Still figuring out, “I got to be who God created me to be.”
I am usually not a fan of orchesta music, but I do have to say, that I would love to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert. One of our managers went to go see them just this last week.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon Rock
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards Of Winter
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards Of Winter
(Christmas Lights - Famous One On YouTube)
On the second video, the man is completey right. It's like Pink Floyd meets a White Christmas. lol!
I swear Im accident prone...
I've had this back injury since febuary. and I've been going to physio since july (because cassidy finally forced me to lol). and its usually pretty good for 2 weeks. but yesterday at practise when wrestling with a rookie who was 10 kg heavier it REALLY started to hurt....and that pain hasnt gone away....
and then today during band class we were in the practise rooms and peter cimone says something that caused me to want to hit him....so i did....sort of....I ment to hit his shoulder but he moved and i punched the wall....quite hard. So I hit my right hand pointer and middle knuckles and they were all red and sore. The pain in the pointer finger has gone down since. But I think I may have messed up my middle knuckle...theres something sticking out sort of, and it hurts; no swelling though...
anyways theres an x-mas concert tonight. thankfully chris isnt in everything less then i am acctualy :). im in orchestra, concert band and junior band. he's only in orchestra and concert band....so we'll be able to see eachother tonight lol.
last night him and i were supposed to hangout but his mother decided that he had to help decorate the christmas tree. no big deal right? well thne around 7:30 when they were going to start his sister decides to take a shower. no big? wrong. she took at 40 minute shower. spent 20 minutes watching tv. and then did her hair. but nooo chris cant hang out. his mom can be quite the bitch.
lol wow..
Miller
Wow so the past few nights have been cabaret at my school.
It was good, thursday night we were no where near as good or organized as we were friday night. And turns out cabaret lasted till 10:30 on thursday and 10 onfriday...but then we had to cleanup which took an hour lol.
So chris playing in EVERYTHING that played for cabaret; concert band, junior band, orchestra, stage band and his band Thursday Night Special. Him and Peter were crazy tired by the last act.
I was proud that chris played so much. but it kinda sucked cause i had no one to dance with during stage band or T.N.S....
the afterparty was cool it was at chris kraz's house. i swear hes rich :| his bathroom had a sauna in it! and in the sauna was a DVD player and t.v.! and there was a nice jacuzzi style tub, and walk-in shower. the kind of bathroom on like extreme home maker lol. OHH and the best part! i got to stay out til 1am. that was a first! but we didnt get to kraz's house till like a little bit after 11.
All in all Cabaret 2007 was fun :). and chris met my grandparents.
ha and like last years cabaret there was a bit of drama. which ill explain in another blog....
Miller
The talent show was amazing. I've never heard such an explosion of sound as when I finished playing Orange Blossom Special on Saturday. I'm used to the ITE parents, who only care about their own kid playing and most of the time leave the concert right after their kid is done playing. This was a lot different. First of all the MC, Marlene, announced me coming on by saying "I'm so depressed, because this next kid is a freshman, and he totally kicks my butt in orchestra!!" I played it about as close to flawlessly as I could have done. I was really really nervous, which I'm not usually, but this was different because all these kids know me from school and stuff. I also knew if I screwed up they probably wouldn't let me forget it. It was so much fun though, and random people kept coming up to me afterwards saying "Oh my god, you're like my new best friend! You rock!"
I need to figure out some way to learn English outside of school. I tell people I'm still homeschooling for it but it's not really true.
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