Propping up a dodgy memory

Husband has a gig coming up to play in the orchestra pit for a live production of My Fair Lady. Yep, he does it all, and before you ask, he used to play cello in a classical orchestra in South Australia so I really mean everything. Modern and trad jazz, church choir, European folk music, heavy metal, bush band, 70's glam (complete with tight trousers and a running crash into the drum kit), pop, rock, blues, soul, musicals, Wiggles, Wild Thing on piano accordian (in public, for money), one shattered ulelele (for love of a woman - and it wasn't me, although I was there), and more renditions of Happy Birthday than you can poke a bow at. It adds up.

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Have achieved much in the last couple of days and am pleased, although am literally shaking from muscle fatigue. Oops. Still, it's been nice to have the option of overdoing things which I've not enjoyed for over a month.

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The vet recently sent me a Senior Pet Questionnaire to help me assess the health of the cats (and to drum up business). I say cats, but there is a certain canine bias in the questions. It's much more fun to apply the questions to Husband or the human of your choice.

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Today started well: up early, fed, bathed, dressed. Confidence was high that I'd be going to work. All I had to do was kill half an hour to let the traffic subside, particularly as the radio warned that the freeway was a carpark due to the weather.

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If one is trying to quietly tiptoe out of a darkened room so as to not disturb someone sleeping, this pretty much guarantees maximum noise and chaos.

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I think it's fair to say that the Magic Rain-Detecting Bodyparts(tm) have been keeping their part of the bargain this week. ( Read more... )

Today the rains came, and brought friends. I'm much too tired to do justice to storm reporting today, but I'm very glad I wasn't away from the house. ( Read more... )

Husband and I went to The Blue Room's 21st birthday party this evening as proper invited guests. ( Read more... )

Pumpkin has a lot of love in his heart and a limited ability to spell. He likes to dress up for Swancon and is fond of the classics, but sometimes gets the characters mixed up. This was Husband's Valentine's day card to me for 2010: ( Read more... )

Husband once opined that if anyone could build a better rubber duck it would be the Swedes, so today we went to IKEA to find that better rubber duck.

We didn't find a rubber duck :-(

But we found Other Things :-)

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