5 posts tagged “music”

I had a delightful weekend with Ginger Sister here!  The hubby made pizza dough and we loaded up the crusts with all sorts of marvelous goodies and loads of cheese.  Yummmm…  We spent a little time with her playing my piano (which sounded so cool!) and the two of us singing together.  If I wasn’t singing on the worship team we’d have played hookie, but since I did we went to church.  We ended up singing twice in the service Sunday.  First was "606" which came with a heavy dose of nostalgia for me and sounded really cool with two sopranos though we both missed the tenors and basses just a wee bit.  I took the high part and she put together elements of the alto, tenor and bass lines and made her own part.  Yeah baby!  We also sang a Misty Edwards song at the end which got a really good response.  I Loooooooooove singing with Ginger Sister again after all these years!  How I wishes that my music buddies lived sooo much closer!  I tried to tell her that there was this adorable little cottage available to rent that would be perfect for her.  I guess it didn’t look enough like London to entice her.  Tsk!  And she was willing to play carrier pigeon to our adoption announcements to save us money on postage to our friends that live near her.  That was lovely.  Yes indeedy!   

I wish I knew someone who lived around here who was a film maker, or at least liked to tinker around with video and the editing process.  (I have a film maker friend in Colorado, but that’s a long way away!)  I’d really like to try some video work but at the moment I don’t know how.

I want to create a video of my hubby and myself telling some of our story with infertility and talking about our adoption plans.  I’d like to be able to play it at church and make it available for other people to use it in venues where we can not attend – like the out of town fund raisers.

I just don’t know the first thing about this stuff though.  (Well, I've run a video camera and have a killer "eye" and tons of creativity.)  My digital camera has a video option, but I’ve never figured out how to download those images and actually be able to see them on my computer, much less be able to edit in music and photographs and such.  I’d really like to give this a whirl.  I can’t go out and purchase a bunch of expensive equipment and editing software.  I just want to be able to make something I could post on youtube, our blog and for use in church one Sunday.  That’s it.  Doesn’t seem like a tall order.  But when you are starting from ground zero – it seems like a big order indeed.

I have a 5.0 mega pixel Kodak Easy Share z730 that has the video option, and I have a tripod.  I can borrow a video camera from any number of someones, but what else?  Um…  can anyone tell me what else I need? 

I just filled up my mp3 player today.  2 GB really isn’t much.  And the FM radio doesn’t work at my place of work.  And that was the whole reason I got a Sony instead of an i-something.  Just for the radio.  Oh well.  I’ve been enjoying Josh Groban’s Christmas CD “Noel” which is really lovely with the headphones turned waaaay up!  Yeah!  Love that guy’s voice!  Love it, love it!  Opps, the secret is out – I like orchestral music with beautiful voices and killer arrangements.  I feel like I just admitted that I like Martha Stewart or something but hey, I like Josh Groban and I’m not (well kinda) bashful about saying so. 

Well, I’m supposed to be at church for music practice.  But I’m not.  I stopped by the studio on the way in to church and had such a bad bout of vertigo that I decided against going any further.  I walk like a drunken sailor.  So anyway, I turned around and made it home and here I am on the couch with the laptop on my uh... lap top.  Yeah. 

I think this vertigo thing was brought on by sinus pressure.  And that was brought on by missing a day of my Zyrtec for allergies.  That stuff is so freakin expensive, I don’t know how much longer I can justify buying it.  But it makes a huge difference in the livability of my life.  I guess that’s the way it is at the moment, but I find it very annoying.  I hate spending money on medication, groceries and anything that gets used up without being much fun.

I should go to bed, I’m exhausted.  I didn’t get much rest this weekend with the wedding cake and then going to the ladies retreat this weekend, it was a full tilt weekend.  And my day off yesterday was full tilt work in my studio.  I really should take an antihistamine and go to bed early.  One little problem.  But this is going to need to be our little secret cause I’m kind of ashamed to admit it…  House is on tonight.  And Bones.  My favorite tv shows right now.  Yeah, I want to stay awake to watch TV.  Kind of pathetic, but hey.  What can I say?!

I love Hugh Laurie, and I love it when he plays any instrument or sings anything, but this is my favorite today.  Yay for House!  LOL!