a southern gal in the north

have been sick with the flu since last tuesday. it was Friday before i could sit up and do anything other than lie on the sofa and watch mindless TV [ yes you know you do too] caught up with four months of saved to DVR episodes of Gilmore Girls. (ok so i want to grow up to be loreli gilmore)

sad to miss Mary Dunleavy‘s role debut in Violetta at the MET on Friday night

Really had wanted to see it. but from some posts on Opera-L it seems to have gone exceedingly well which is grand for Mary deserves to be singing more at the MET than some other people whom I could name.

do whatever you can to not catch this – its a bad one.

ok so its not an earth shattering topic of concern – except when you are confronted with a long length of lace and make a curtain and then… how long do you make it?

Lace in the Victorian Era  go there and read the current thinking THEN… .  as this is a house built in that time period but i dont really want to deal with loops and pleats and all forms of top dressings, i think i am going to go with the glass curtain idea and make them the length of the bottom windowsill –  these are hanging in the hallway anyway and will be exposed to a lot of traffic and dust, etc.

so wish me luck while i go and cut!  yikes!

yesterday was beautifully scary – my cats were incredibly amazed – glued to the windows – there are quite a few here – and staring at the white stuff – i don’t think they have seen this much snow ever!

my backyard looks like a fairy land – i had cleaned up the patio on Saturday in anticipation of the storm.  well, kinda moved things around in smaller piles and raked the leaves. cleared off the table of all the pieces of leftover wood from our various carpentry projects of the fall – saving them for blocks for my nephews to play with when it gets warmer – put safely in a heavy plastic bag.  and closed all the folding lawn chairs up and leaned them against the kitchen wall.

moved the last boxes out of the music room down to the basement – now i just have to figure out where to hang all my pictures and where to put all the hooked rugs.  still have to finish unpacking the study and the katchkas but i hung lace curtains over the kitchen sink window yesterday and with the white out in the yard  – its very pretty. 

today i am at home dealing with the latest in the household drama – forget not having a porch light to come home to at 930 at night when i get off work, and a front door lock that works half time, today i get to wait for the plumber all day – i don’t trust my landlord any more… sigh.

off to hem some lace for curtains for the two hall windows- at least my windows can look pretty if i don’t (no hot water and what’s coming out is ORANGE!).   

i had a great day on Saturday – one of those lovely days when i practiced all day – 45–60 mins at a stretch and then would take a break and do a little chore or eat or read email or whatever. 

and then yesterday i guess i felt guilty and spent the day and night doing a lot of chores and other stuff and dealing with the detritus of life – still unpacking the last boxes – the desk/study stuff – its taking me much longer than i thought

but also was in a rotten mood – partly due to the fact that i knew that there was all this STUFF to do and i kept doing it and wishing i could spend the day at the piano again.

and then i over slept the alarm this morning and woke in a really bad mood – and realized – i feel sick.  ah ha the reason for the bad mood on Sunday and this morning. 

i do not like to be sick.

it messes up my schedule – and with only a few hours to practice in the morning and THATS IT FOLKS if i miss them i am screwed for that days music.  so when the week starts its a roller coaster til Saturday.

but yet i realized it .  a big step for me.  usually i just get angry and stay that way but lately i am working on stopping and analysing whats actually  happening.  Nine times is me and my attitude.  and then i can handle whatever the issue/situation is that i THOUGHT i was angry about.

hmm.

so today i gave myself a break – i am going in an hour later – took a long hot shower to help the migraine (thats why i don’t feel good – its the start of one and they always make me feel really icky). took my medicine and ate some yogurt (about all i could handle) and read some work email – it helps so that i am not hit with issues/problems when i walk in; even made a phone call to my carpenter about some work that needed to be done and was able to handle the conversation in a calm manner.

and now off to work, even feeling crappy.

A really good thing to report – I found the RECEIPT* for my BROKEN IPOD with the applecare info etc !!!! so i can either send it in (NOT) or take it to the SOHO store and REPLACE IT…. there will be joy in mudville soon!

*see there is a reason to be packrat!