So my friend Becky O. wrote a blog post all about me and even created a wonderful card for me, just for my birthday…and now she’s sending people to my site! So I guess I ought to write something to amuse you all. Oh, the pressure!
I’ve been having a whole bunch of things knocking around in my head recently, and not very much time to write (although today I’ve been kind of goofing off because it’s my birthday and I can goof off if I want to), but since my friend Tammy seems to be able to write up a storm, I think I ought to put some of these thoughts onto the screen.
So, here we go – Random Thoughts for November (hopefully to be fleshed out into real posts soon):
- Guitar Hero and Rock Band are to actual music-making as American Idol is to actual singing. Not that I’m not fascinated with both, but I fear that some parents might think their kids are getting some semblance of a musical education by giving them these toys, and they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
- Starting up one’s own business is lonely, hard work. Did I mention it was lonely? And hard? Especially doing it alone?
- Don’t get freaked out on me, because I KNOW I’ve never talked about this before, but partly in reference to #1 and #2, I am looking into public schoolteaching.
- However, one of the best things about working at home is the fact that I can make my own food a lot more.
- I asked the guy who does our lawn to do some yard cleanup, and he weed-whacked my herb garden. I know it was a little weedy, but it was enclosed with a nice little white wire fence that clearly says, “I’m a garden!” No more chive-rosemary scrambled eggs for me in the morning. Oh well. I’m sure the rosemary would have died during the next cold snap.
- I’m knitting a grocery shopping bag out of all my used grocery bags. Ray thinks it’s silly to knit one bag out of many bags, but I think it’s kind of a cool way to recycle, so when I’m done, I’ll take a picture and post it on the site.
So that’s what’s been happening. Concerts, as usual, of course. I try not to write about those (although there are some good stories!) because I’m afraid I might reveal some of my true feelings about certain new artistic directors of certain local, internationally-known orchestras (ahem).
So thanks, Becky, for the beautiful card! If you’re new to the site, ignore all the Twitter posts and browse to the tags to the right. Some meatier posts are aboutmy gardening adventures…that’s a good place to start.
My Birthday Card