Toasted ravioli
Spending time with friends
Free books
Christmas music
Snugly, purring kitties
Time to play video games

I think I had a migraine this afternoon/evening, as it hurt so bad I was pretty much incapacitated for a few hours in the middle. I still have a headache, but at least now I'm reasonably functional ( Read more... )

I just woke up to the most lovely piece of music! I keep my alarm set for 8:30 because every day at that time the local classical station has Keith Lockhart (current conductor of the BSO and Boston Pops) on. He picks some random piece, talks about it a bit, and then they play it. Today's piece was by Yo-Yo Ma and I missed the name of the second ( Read more... )

Good things for today:

Sunshine
Beatles on the iPod
Making dinner/crafting/tea plans with friends
Completed blaster (finally!) waiting on glue to dry
Upton Snowbuds white tea
Superglue on the fingers. Er, maybe not.
Clone Wars cartoon on tonight
Design on a Dime's Top 35 Secrets set to record on HGTV at 8

I pulled out my Hanon finger exercises today and ran through #1 and #2 several times. I did relatively well on the ascending scales, but my descending scales need a lot of work. My fingers are pretty rusty, and having not played regularly in so long, they have forgotten how to work independently. I'm not very coordinated; it took lots of ( Read more... )

Here's the answers for my Song Lyric and Artist meme. Sorry they're so late. I saved them on the desktop, which hasn't been turned on much the last week. (And will quickly be going into a box for transport, oh noes!)

( I need a hero... )

A [not so] quick game of "name the song and artist." Because on Livejournal, every repost is a repost repost ( Read more... )

Everything in my apartment smaller than about one cubic foot needs to go into boxes, so that it can be moved across the county to our new condo. I'm fighting a cold and feeling quite lethargic. A spoonful of sugar and some magically snapping fingers would be a God-send ( Read more... )

Curling up on the couch with a warm blanket, a good book, and a cup of hot cocoa or tea ( Read more... )

The Purdue Handbell Choir
2002 PMO Christmas Show

Angels We Have Heard On High

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May you all have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas!

~ChristmasJedi

Many thanks to sajuka for ripping and compressing the video file for me!