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darchildre) wrote2009-12-14 07:00 pm
darchildre) wrote2009-12-14 07:00 pm
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Things:
- Yesterday, we had our Christmas cantata at church, of which I was (again) the director. I think that it went quite well. The choir were all wimps and made me sing the solo, but they did a great job with the rest of it. (They do keep telling me I'm a good director. This is very kind of them but, y'know, I've worked with good choir directors and I know that I am not one. What I am good at is explaining how to be a good choir member. But still, it's nice to hear.)
- I discovered, just before we were about to go onstage for the cantata that my boots - my black stompy boots that I wear all the time - have a hole in them. I am sad about that, as it is winter and wet and I have no other boots that are quite that comfortable and stompy. I will have to replace them after Christmas.
- Yesterday was also the Revels, which is in the running for my favorite family Christmas tradition. This year, they did a lot of Spanish music - incorporating some Sephardic and Turkish stuff - along with more usual British/French stuff. Also, there were holy fools and death stealing the sun and moon and stars, but the fools got them back by trickery and also by singing the most badass setting of St Patrick's Breastplate ever. I'm really hoping that I can find an mp3 of that floating around somewhere. I love the Revels because, though it's nominally Christian (being about Christmas and all), what little story there is in the show is always very welcoming to pagan viewers. It's always more a solstice story than a Christmas story. And there's Morris dancing, which is awesome.
- Dentist this morning. I have cavities - that's what happens when you don't go to the dentist for several years. They are all on the left side of my mouth, too, which is completely unsurprising as that's the side of my mouth I chew on. The molars on the right side don't meet when I bite down. I know this, because every time I have ever gone to the dentist since I got my adult teeth, someone has told me about it. Also, I know it because it is my frelling mouth.
- I made cookies today - the cherry-and-mint cookies that I tried to make last year but was defeated by. This year, I am successful and they are delicious. Go me!
Net positive, I think. 8)
- Yesterday, we had our Christmas cantata at church, of which I was (again) the director. I think that it went quite well. The choir were all wimps and made me sing the solo, but they did a great job with the rest of it. (They do keep telling me I'm a good director. This is very kind of them but, y'know, I've worked with good choir directors and I know that I am not one. What I am good at is explaining how to be a good choir member. But still, it's nice to hear.)
- I discovered, just before we were about to go onstage for the cantata that my boots - my black stompy boots that I wear all the time - have a hole in them. I am sad about that, as it is winter and wet and I have no other boots that are quite that comfortable and stompy. I will have to replace them after Christmas.
- Yesterday was also the Revels, which is in the running for my favorite family Christmas tradition. This year, they did a lot of Spanish music - incorporating some Sephardic and Turkish stuff - along with more usual British/French stuff. Also, there were holy fools and death stealing the sun and moon and stars, but the fools got them back by trickery and also by singing the most badass setting of St Patrick's Breastplate ever. I'm really hoping that I can find an mp3 of that floating around somewhere. I love the Revels because, though it's nominally Christian (being about Christmas and all), what little story there is in the show is always very welcoming to pagan viewers. It's always more a solstice story than a Christmas story. And there's Morris dancing, which is awesome.
- Dentist this morning. I have cavities - that's what happens when you don't go to the dentist for several years. They are all on the left side of my mouth, too, which is completely unsurprising as that's the side of my mouth I chew on. The molars on the right side don't meet when I bite down. I know this, because every time I have ever gone to the dentist since I got my adult teeth, someone has told me about it. Also, I know it because it is my frelling mouth.
- I made cookies today - the cherry-and-mint cookies that I tried to make last year but was defeated by. This year, I am successful and they are delicious. Go me!
Net positive, I think. 8)