Accomplishments and Dreams
Well! It's not even 7pm and I feel rather accomplished. I guess it's because I updated our checkbook and financial spreadsheet, checked my info with the info our bank has online, and got some bills, etc. ready to be mailed tomorrow.
I often have trouble starting a task I don't want to do, especially if I have some catch-up to do. I normally do our finances every Thursday evening but, due to aforementioned schedule weirdness, I'd fallen out of that pattern. I managed to get some done this past Monday but still had a ways to go!
I'm glad it's done! Now, we still have most of the evening ahead of us.
This coming week I'm back to a normal work schedule, but I'll be in Pittsburgh a lot in the evenings. Verdi's Requiem is worth it! It is! But....it's at times like these that I wish we lived closer to, or actually in, the city. To bad I can't rent a teensy apartment there every December or every concert week!
Of course, I'd still have to drive back closer to where we live to work...but at least I could go to bed without having to drive 40 minutes home late at night!
Oh well. Of course, if I didn't have a day job it WOULD be more feasible...sometimes I fantasize about actually making money by singing...there are some people in the choir for which music does provide their income- they sing with the opera, in musicals, and/or get paid to sing in church choirs as section leaders or some such. Many are like me, though, with absolutely non-musical day jobs, and some have a middle path by teaching music during the day.
Well, I have some ideas that might lead to making a little money singing and/or writing some day, but boy do I have some work to do first! Hopefully I'll be able to get started in 2011. We'll see, of course. There's a part of me that says "if you haven't done it by now, you never will, so just give up, you're too lazy, you're not motivated enough." Another part of me says, "...but...no. I will not give up. I just have to get my butt in gear. I can work hard enough to pull my own weight in the MCP, so I CAN work hard. I just have to learn to work under my own direction."
We'll see which part wins out, I guess.
Advent circle, here I come! :)
I often have trouble starting a task I don't want to do, especially if I have some catch-up to do. I normally do our finances every Thursday evening but, due to aforementioned schedule weirdness, I'd fallen out of that pattern. I managed to get some done this past Monday but still had a ways to go!
I'm glad it's done! Now, we still have most of the evening ahead of us.
This coming week I'm back to a normal work schedule, but I'll be in Pittsburgh a lot in the evenings. Verdi's Requiem is worth it! It is! But....it's at times like these that I wish we lived closer to, or actually in, the city. To bad I can't rent a teensy apartment there every December or every concert week!
Of course, I'd still have to drive back closer to where we live to work...but at least I could go to bed without having to drive 40 minutes home late at night!
Oh well. Of course, if I didn't have a day job it WOULD be more feasible...sometimes I fantasize about actually making money by singing...there are some people in the choir for which music does provide their income- they sing with the opera, in musicals, and/or get paid to sing in church choirs as section leaders or some such. Many are like me, though, with absolutely non-musical day jobs, and some have a middle path by teaching music during the day.
Well, I have some ideas that might lead to making a little money singing and/or writing some day, but boy do I have some work to do first! Hopefully I'll be able to get started in 2011. We'll see, of course. There's a part of me that says "if you haven't done it by now, you never will, so just give up, you're too lazy, you're not motivated enough." Another part of me says, "...but...no. I will not give up. I just have to get my butt in gear. I can work hard enough to pull my own weight in the MCP, so I CAN work hard. I just have to learn to work under my own direction."
We'll see which part wins out, I guess.
Advent circle, here I come! :)