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I honestly do just work here. I ganked this off of a friend of a person on my friends list.
I worried myself today.
Maddie likes to sing. Everywhere you go, she's singing. She'll sing just about anything, too. From K0rn [it's cute and weird to hear her singing, 'But does it make me baaaaaad'...] to the little nursery school songs she sings, to Mary J [she blows it out on 'Be Without You' and best of all, if she's a little off pitch, she adjusts herself so that she's singing kinda on pitch which really blew me away] and Alicia Keys. Mr. Man bought every Alicia Keys CD in the store and he bought all of Mary J's stuff too [he's a huge Mary J fan - you'd never guess this big old 6'3'' guy is such a squeeze for female soul, right?] and he plays it all the time for Maddie and she sings right along with it. Pretty good, too.
So me and Mr. Man ended up having a long discussion about whether Maddie really has a talent for singing or not. We both think that she does, and I suggested that we look into music day camps for Maddie to go to this summer. There's one down at the performing arts center where kids from 3 to 12 learn art, TV production [!], theater, singing, and they even offer Suzuki violin and cello lessons [double !!]. They have classes where you can pay by the week, or by the month, or 6 week programs. Thing is, they cost an arm and a leg. So I brought the paperwork home and I actually had a sitdown with Maddie and asked her if she would want to be in a class with other kids that like to sing. She sounded excited about the idea. Mr. Man said that it sounded reasonable, and that he'd pay for half the cost. We also both agreed that if Maddie didn't like it, or didn't adjust, that we'd take her out and wait until she was a little older. [Keep in mind, Maddie will be 4 in June.]
Soooo...Mommy dropped off a 500 dollar check so that Maddie will be enrolled in music camp for 6 weeks this summer.
Part of me is kinda proud because me myself, I think Maddie is talented and I'd like the opportunity to see if it's something she wants to do and / or is truly interested in. My biggest fear is that I'll turn into my mother and be all stage-mom about it like she was when I was taking piano and violin. If Maddie likes it and has fun with it and handles it okay, that's good, and if not, I'll just wait a little while and see how she does with it just singing around the house and wait a few more years. The thing I like is that parents can show up to the classes, just like in daycare, and parents have to attend a one hour orientation before summer camp starts. Classes start mid-June and run to the end of July, 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, lunch and snack provided.
I really am turning into someone's mom. *blinks*
Suikoden II is nothing but money. Worth all 133 bucks I spent on eBay to get it.
My life really is boring. I don't do much, just write and talk to the same people every day. Oh, and run up my phone bill. Actually, what happened was, I bought a new phone and it took two months for it to show up on the bill. So I look and my phone bill is 350 bucks..."Oh yeah. The billing just came through on your phone." So if you take away the 159 that my phone cost, and the 42 bucks I spent getting programs so that I can make my own ringtones [yes, now I can finally get Franz Ferdinand singing 'Take Me Out' instead of the knobby midi version], my phone bill is normal. [Yes, 140 and change is normal - I've got one phone number that's my actual phone, and my other phone number that is the aircard for my laptop.]
I'm supposed to be going out to lunch today. I don't feel like leaving the house - I feel like curling up and playing Suikoden II. I want to finish the game before the weekend was out. We'll see what happens. Ta, possums.