Taxiing for Takeoff

Here I am, taking my plane down the runway that is graduation. How do you say goodbye, politely, to your childhood?

I've decided to post a collection of thoughts and things going on recently.

1~   A big thank you to everyone who contributed to and came to my party. It was a blast. I want to have all of you come back, one at a time, so I can actually talk to you!

2~ Though we did not win the concerto competition, it was an educational experience and I'm glad we did it.

3~ Learning bar chords is not something you can do overnight, even if you have strong hands. I do love a musical challenge.

4~ This background does not quite capture my day, as I paddled up and down a rather small stretch of a rather slow river.

5~ I wonder what the movie The Brothers Bloom is like.

6~ I hope whatever is hitting its head against the window behind me does not hurt itself.

7~ I am excited about the new Chopin preludes book I've been told to buy. I'll have all of them, right at my fingertips, just waiting for me to play them! Joy! Alas, I have to decide which edition to get; the untried-yet-scholarly edition which contains stories behind the songs, the favored-yet-expensive, or the cheap-o?

8~ Have you ever had a staycation, where you take a week off and go sight-seeing close to home? That's what I'm doing right now, starting today, and I'm not sure I'm going to get to all the places I want to see. But hey, it's day one and I already have a sunburn. I must be on vacation.

9~ First goal for the summer: work on pushups.

10~ Thought: the zombie voice for alerts on Macs is quite creepy at 10:40pm, even when you're expecting it to say "you're now running on reserve battery power". *shivers*

11~ Second summer goal: work on guitar.

12~ I have to choose: iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad? Tough one.

13~ Poison ivy, be gone! Rats. It's still there. Ugh.

14~ Now the thing on the window is playing a drumroll. o_O

15~ I like green.

16~ I miss the loons in Maine.

17~ Arrivederci