So, to revisit this message of a month and a half ago, that Sunday I did take the remaining pebbernødder plus a new big batch of pepparkakor over to the shape-note holiday party, where after keeping company with large quantities of many other delicious foods about half of them made the trip home with me again.

Then a few days later violetclm carried the ( Read more... )

The Westside Community Folk Song/Gospel Choir concert was tonight, and other than the church getting hotter and stuffier by the minute, everything was going fine until the next-to-the-next-to-the-last song ("The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy", a calypso "traditional West Indian carol" which had replaced the last two songs on the original list) when I ( Read more... )

Tuesday I was back in the dentist's chair for the fourth time in recent succession. It started a month ago with sore teeth and a checkup, broccolipwns hanging out reading in the waiting room so we could shop for Halloween costume supplies afterward. Then on election day, after riding my bike to the polling place as previously mentioned I rode it downtown for ( Read more... )

Sunday the 14th having been the last day of the Santa Cruz County Fair, on Monday the 15th broccolipwns and I went over to the fairgrounds to pick up his contest entries. He had won a first place ribbon for his Mentos collection, second place ribbons for his Neopets collection and "Tall" photograph, and third place ribbons for his "MySpace photo" and "Applause ( Read more... )

Yet another message that originally started with "this morning", but then that I didn't finish/get back to for a while!

On the morning of June 1 broccolipwns and I took the bus downtown to watch the Santa Cruz Pride parade. We had on matching Vancouver Pride shirts we got last summer, as usual he got many compliments on his "Ambidextrous" sunglasses, and I ( Read more... )

So in my beginning piano part I class fall semester I could basically do no wrong, but with part II this semester, although I continued to be the default person to get called on to answer/demonstrate various things, I was finding the class in general more and more frustrating, because my abilities had improved enough to be able to play more complex ( Read more... )

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day I moved to Santa Cruz, back when I was about 32 months older than violetclm is now. And speaking of the juxtapositioning of such numbers, 33 is how old I was when violetclm was born. And as I walked through the Cabrillo cafeteria this evening I was having strong flashbacks of eating many not-too-great meals there with violetclm 31 ( Read more... )

As usual I haven't been managing to get around to writing about most of the things I've been supposedly intending to post about, so in that vein the first mention you get of the beginning piano class I've been taking this semester is that tonight was the midterm already.

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Back in June (suspected yesterday of being another lifetime) I had saidI want to take another music class in the fall, both in the hope that it will be great and in the practicality of wanting another four-month bus pass, but I'm not seeing anything in the fall course catalog that both even mildly jumps out at me and wouldn't require seriously ( Read more... )

I can tell my music classes have been over for weeks, because when I used my iPod a few days ago (for a DVD-making-related experiment) it was the first time I'd turned it on all month. No more learning and practicing songs as a matter of course, though obviously I am perfectly capable of doing that on my own at any time, classes or no classes. I ( Read more... )