Sunday, October 02, 2005
Miss your purple hair
It's almost that time of year again--time to decide whether or not I'm going to do NaNoWriMo again. I've done it for the past three years, but I only finished it the first year (come to think of it, Becky's had my copy of that for almost a year now! She tells me she's still working through it, but who knows how long it'll take... maybe by the time I get back, she'll have finished!). I have no idea what I'd write about; but then again, I had no idea the first time, and that was the most successful year for me! I guess we'll see, won't we?I think I may have found a church... I went to Forefront Church this morning, and I really enjoyed it. It's a younger demographic--a lot of 20- and 30-somethings, and quite arts focused. They have good small groups, it seems, and I really liked the style and vision of the church. So, I think I'm going to try that, and hopefully it'll stick. :o) The funny thing about it is that I really chose this church based on everything but the "personal contact" level. I wasn't really approached by anyone; I didn't go out for lunch with a young-adults group, like I did at FAC or NLF; I came and went, but even in all that, it was enough to make me want to go back.
Small groups start next week, and the nice thing about these is that they're studying a book (there are about 6 or 8 different groups, each studying a different book--Purpose Driven Life, Captivating, Reaching for the Invisible God, among others), and each group is only a 10-week commitment. That's nice, because as I'm looking into classes, I've been realizing that Tuesdays are my only evening for classes, small groups, whatever, and if I want to take something, it has to be on a Tuesday evening. I don't really want to get into a small group, and then have to pull out because I'm taking a class.
If it's only a 10-week class, though, it's not a commitment for the full time I'm here, and if I take a class at a local college or something after Christmas, I can reevaluate how/if a small group fits into that sort of schedule, but at least by then, I'll know a few people, and there will be some sort of connection made.
So, that was my day. Lourenzo and Alexandra are out of town this week--he has Tuesday and Wednesday off for Rosh Hashanah (gotta love this multiculturalism--they get every religious holiday for every religion off!), so they went camping in the Adirondacks for the week. Yay for not having to get up at 6! I still work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but I don't need to be out of the house until 9. Far cry from 7:30, that's for sure. I need to spend either tomorrow or Friday (or parts of both days) in the kitchen, making casseroles and other such dishes that I can freeze in Tupperware... there's just not enough time to actually cook supper when we get home, so this--while I've got the time this week--is my biggest job for the next couple of days.
Oh! I almost forgot. You know how I was talking about the piano yesterday? Well, yesterday afternoon, after I dropped Lourenzo off at a birthday party, I was walking around the neighborhood (while I was talking to Grandma), and discovered that L's school hosts a flea market/yard sale/antiques sale on Saturdays. I was browsing around a bit--not planning to buy anything, but just looking--and I found an old book of piano classics for $3. It's got all kinds of stuff--Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Rubenstein... it'll keep me busy for a while, even if I just work on one or two pieces. I think, especially since there's a piano in the house, that I want to work on one or two the way I would if I was taking lessons--do some scales and work on some technique, and get a piece or two up to a good standard, just for the sake of doing it, and for the sake of the discipline. We'll see if it actually happens, but it's a thought, anyways.
6 Comments:
Hanons, here she comes! I was about to ask if you wanted us to send you some music, but I guess you have enough to keep you going, and how could you forget the Hanons?? I'm glad you have a place to play.
Dad downloaded a new Netscape tonight, so we were finally able to get all the blog updates since Monday. Now he's going to see if he can find the emails that are lost in space!
By the way, perhaps the word you are looking for two or three entries back re: work (then I only have to write one comment)is "initiative," of which you have an ample supply!
Love you!
Mom
"Self-starting-ness"--that was it!
A third one from me! Nice new format--new since we looked you up last night. The print is easier to read--certain relatives will appreciate that!
Happy Cooking! It's Laundry Day here!
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I should just write an email! We also looked at the Forefront Church website last night--looks very interesting and promising, though I didn't see any specific mention of drama in the Arts profile. Will pray that you will know God's leading. Now that should be all for today! P.S. It was snowing huge flakes here earlier (but it's gone noW)! Just think what you're missing!
My turn -- I didn't know Mom would comment on this, and I was just going to say I, too, like your new format. I was surprised to read your blog last night, and then look at it again this morning at work and see it so different. (So I told her to look it up again to see the changes.) We figure you must have had some time on your hands last night. :o)
--Dad
Yeah, I was bored, watching a movie, waiting for Kat to call, and enjoying the fact that I could sleep in and didn't have to be up at 6 the next morning. I don't think I went to bed until 2, which is pretty rare for me these days!
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