Technonerdboys, recitals and The Goose Girl

We had been planning to go to the cottage this weekend, but decided to stay in the city instead.

Major e-mail woes (yes, again). I had been reorganizing my Applemail and hadn't realized that putting an asterisk at the beginning of a folder name (which Eudora was fine with) could cause the contents of entire mail folders to vanish into the ether. :-( Fortunately Jeff figured out what had gone wrong and was able to restore older mail from a backup. I'm going through the two versions of my mail now, trying to figure out which mail needs to be moved where.

The photo above is of MY NEW OFFICE SHELF! Jeff made and installed it for me yesterday in his basement workshop, what a sweetie. I feel incredibly lucky, having a technonerdboy husband who is also handy with the hammer. He's also going to build me another bookshelf, one for paperbacks that will fit on the wall beside my office door.

I'm not going to have any trouble filling my new shelf above my desk, believe me. Some of the more astute of you will observe that I have covered up my office window in that corner. I forced myself to admit that I never look outside while I'm working and that the space would be much more useful as another place in which to put things. I know, I'm such a hermit. If I lived alone, my place would consist entirely of bookshelves, with an occasional peephole to look outside when I wanted to know if it was raining.

Anyway, instead of looking at the underside of our deck, I'd much rather look at Beckett Gladney's oil painting for our Myths and Urban Legends CD. :-)

Also in that little alcove at the moment: red scarf from Andrea (hanging above), that little gorgeous pot that Luisa made, card from my sister and her family (each member drew themselves on the front), photos of my sister and brother and their spouses, photo of Jeff & me on our honeymoon, a little funny cloth monster-guy that Jeff gave me, and a small teddy bear from Ruth. Just to the right of the alcove, you can see my Patrick Stewart Literacy poster. Someone who saw my mention of this poster in Blatherings years ago offered to buy it, but I said it wasn't for sale.



Above: My Dad has recently been cleaning out the basement and found this flyer from a recital I gave with two others in 1989 as part of the annual music festival in the town of Elora, Ontario. I remember being so excited because people had to actually pay money to go the recital! A whopping $3!! We actually did have a full house and I was dead nervous, but I recall it going pretty well. I performed Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 #10 and Gershwin's Rialto Ripples on the piano.

Just finished reading:

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. I LOVED this book, and hoovered the entire thing in one day. I especially enjoyed the author's lyrical writing style, so appropriate for the re-telling of this fairy tale. A highly satisfying read. Thanks so much to Sara and Ruth for recommending it to me! I have to get my own copy for my Comfort Book shelf; I know I'm going to be re-reading this book many times.

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