I’m nearly to my first weekend post Funny Girl and it’s going to be great! We are having some friends over for dinner on Saturday night–doing our go to of fish tacos, since we haven’t made them yet for these particular friends, so it should be low stress and fun. Sunday we have a short quartet concert in the afternoon and then I know Sunday night for many is the Super Bowl, but we aren’t big football fans here, so it’ll probably be dinner and watching something on Netflix. We started Griselda the other day so maybe that if we haven’t finished it yet.
It’s been a good week overall. I had an orchestra rehearsal last night for a group I play with: we are doing Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream along with some other stuff, and it was fun to play in a big group. My real love is orchestral playing, and I rarely get to do it, so it’s always nice.
The weather this week has been mild and lovely, and either we are going to seriously regret this in the summer, or it’s a nice respite, and I guess I’m saying nice weather in early February makes me a little nervous, but I’m still trying to appreciate it. If it hangs around for Saturday we’ll get out for a hike or trek in the park or something at least.
I haven’t been taking any interesting photos, sorry, so assume my cats are doing cute things. Miles has become more friendly and has started coming out to say hello to some of the students, which is a truly astounding thing: he has been so shy and his typical MO is to hide, so coming out to say hello is really exciting for everybody!
We had a meeting of the neighborhood movie club this week. Due to my schedule being tight, we attended on Zoom, which wasn’t as fun but it was less stressful and we enjoyed discussing Godzilla Minus One (perhaps a strange movie for a movie club, you might think, but it was really good with many layers and things to discuss.) It’s fun to have a little group, even though we are the youngest in the group…we won’t always be the youngest, so it’s probably fine to still be in that number.
How are you doing? Does nice weather make you nervous for the future? Any big plans for Valentine’s Day?
Just wanted you to know that I saw Funny Girl and it was fantastic. I forgot you were working, but the music was great.
Loved the previous post with cat pics.
I am wondering if there are any events I could bring my aunt to that you play at…hmmm..
I’m not worried about the temp changes because we usually have some kind of January thaw and it’ll be cold again next week. It does benefit me to have slightly warmer weather because I’m hoping to take my aunt out for a haircut.