Keeping up

I've been trying to be better about blogging. I try to write at least once a week. So, here it goes. We'll start with today and go backward. This morning I was awakened by my husband standing at the end of the bed calling to me in a rather loud voice (I sleep with earplugs in, and I was dead to the world). He had decided to go inline skating this morning at the local skate park. And fell. Pretty hard. He caught himself with his hands, but hyperextended both elbows. This makes it difficult to do things like feed oneself or pretty much anything that requires the bending of an elbow. So, it's been an interesting day. We went to the doctor just to be sure it wasn't anything worse, and they x-rayed his elbows and said that nothing was broken and it would just take time to heal. I'm hoping he'll feel better in the morning. Things have been pretty consistently busy, though. My week days consist of working for ten hours, eating dinner, practicing, then maybe going somewhere because Michael doesn't really like sitting around the house a lot. Plus, we've disconnected the cable from our TV so we actually will do stuff, not just sit like lumps for hours on end. My newest project that I've decided I would like to undertake (in addition to preparing auditions and all) is a patio vegetable garden. Doesn't it sound nice to just be able to open your sliding glass door and pick fresh tomatoes and zucchini and whatever else you might wish to grow for your dinner? I think it does. I'll let you all know how that goes.

Last Saturday we went to one of the Spokane Symphony's special concerts. It featured Doc Severinsen, a trumpet player, and his group. He apparently "retired" to Mexico where he came upon these two guys who'd been playing together for a long time on guitar and violin. Throw in a percussionist (primarily hand percussion) and a symphony and you've got a concert! It was really cool, actually, and we had great seats. Although, at the Fox there's not really a bad seat in the house. Tomorrow we have tickets again for their classical series concert. Anne Akiko Meyers is the featured soloist for Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. They're also playing Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Sibelius's Symphony No. 5. I'm not sure that Michael will actually be able go with me, so I might have to find myself a date. It'll be fun either way.