Category: Music



I’m finding myself at loose ends. Yet editing happened in the morning. One hour of Christmas pianoing happened. I finished the balloon diamond painting. Duolingo gave me ad-free time so I spent a lot of time on French, Spanish, and German.

Did NaNo drive me so hard? maybe knitting will settle me down.

Or should I aim to keep writing like a mad person?


Only three more days of NaNo. I need 1,200 words tonight to be on track. It has been such an ordeal this time. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’ll be glad to see December!

Managing to keep on track–i hope.

I’m trying to learn a couple Christmas songs. I’ve always wanted to play Lucy and Linus and now I’m also challenged by the song in Polar Express

I pulled out all the Christmas songs to play with.

Nearly finished with the Balloon diamond painting.
Duolingo is still fun for me.

The only knitting making progress are my experimental slipper socks.

No finishing here. Just cuties.

Milo keeps watch inside and out.
Shiloh is always nearby.

Well, back to work. Words to go before I sleep…


By next week this balloon will be finished. I think I’m tired of balloons.
Yay!
Sondheim is rolling around in his grave as I work on this and quite a few other of his songs. (That intro kills my eyes and hands!) By the way, I finally got brave enough to get back into Phantom songs. That has inspired much longer playing sessions. I started out last October 1, 2024 doing minutes or just an easy tune. This week I managed two sessions of over an hour each. And I was excited by how much fun I had!
On the other hand, I’m maybe 2k behind. At least TrackBear helps me adjust my daily goal making the 50k within reach — I hope.
No, my machines are not so fancy-dancy. Still, my time on both the stationary bike and treadmill increases. I hope it increases.

For the knitting, I’ll just use last week’s pic as I’ve done very little knitting.

One-Liner Wednesday


Laugh and Be Happy

Sheriff John

Welcome to last night’s earworm (click the link in the caption– I couldn’t get it to embed.)

Thanks for the prompt, Linda

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “something you enjoyed.” Write about something you thoroughly enjoyed. Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

I know my life might seem boring to others, but this blog is the place where I talk about the things I enjoy.

Would I love to travel or go to amusement parks? You bet. But my life seems to be on a different path. I find my joy where I live.

Learning something new gives me joy. Bring creative expresses my joy. And also do arts like drawing and diamond painting, music, like piano and my other recent pursuits, writing the story popping up in my head brings me joy. Yarning is delightful.

My favorite is visiting with family and friends. But that doesn’t happen as often as I’d like still it’s the icing on the enjoyment cake.


Finally working on the top ( which means I work upside down so I can reach that part.)
The Inktober prompts I’m using today: artic and rival. These are the only thing I could sketch to represent. The story perceived them differently.
Two faces facing off.
So far I have 8,951 words. I have more to write tonight. Yeah, I’m behind now. But I am having fun with my imaginary friends. NaNoWriMo 2025. By the way, that site is TrackBear. A way to keep track of wordage.
Some of the songs I’m playing with now.
All the socks in progress now.

It’s been a tough week energy wise.

Rainy Days and Mondays…


I was talking to myself and feeling down… Here Rainy Day and Monday hit at the same time

When I was in my early twenties my groom and I lived a year in a tiny town with no radio worth listening to and only three UHF stations to watch.

I lived on John Denver, 2001 Space Odyssey, and the Carpenters back then.

This morning feeling more of the song than ever before even with the best husband (not the same one). I was humming the song as I headed to play piano.

Suddenly I looked outside to see:

We could see both ends of the rainbow. Who knew Christmas Valley had two pots of gold?

Sunday Funny


I think my pets are getting a musical education.🤗

Not so finished as midway or just getting started.

I still had enough of this yarn to make one more pair of socks. Besides I can’t stand to see naked needles. Size 2 40″ Chiaogoo needles TwoAtATime socks, Turkish cast-on done now on increasing section. I’m at 20 stitches per side and foot. I need 32 so 12 more rows to the arch.
My last pair of Yoga socks. These seem so pretty and soft. These are the size 1 Hiya-Hiya Flyers. They take some getting used to, but I’m liking the process more and more.
Watermelon socks are coming along. Size 2 40″ Chiaogoo needles TwoAtATime socks. I’m working on the arches now.
I never quite know what to call these. They are acrylic. Still, the yarn is soft and warm. Thick socks or slipper socks. Size 7 40″ Chiaogoo needles TwoAtATime socks. I need 2 more inches of arch ribbing before the start of the Fleegle Heel.
Bottom third of balloon diamond painting picture is done. I have some Halloween DPs waiting that I am anxious to start.
Well, look at that. I still enjoy Duo. I am sick of ads but I can’t afford the super or max. Still, I’m learning as much as I was way back when everything was free.
I’m still sight reading my way through this book. I am highlighting the ones I really want to work on. Those I will print out and tape together so I won’t have pages to turn.
I’ve made it through the ‘S’s. So much fun!

What I still need to do is NaNo characters and nearly two weeks of Inktober prompts. I tried today but couldn’t seem to get myself together enough. Maybe tomorrow.


Yay! Finished! I need to seal it but I’m starting another balloon diamond painting tomorrow.

I finished a Kindle book, an actual visually read book. I’ll post the review Sunday.

I love socks!

Up to the arches in this pair of Yoga socks.
Ribbing the arch on my watermelon socks.1
Almost to the arch on these slipper socks.
Future scrappy socks. Or should I frog and make yoga slipper socks? I don’t have much of my favorite yarn leftover.
Reawakening an old project. Convertible fingerless glove mittens. They are completely knitted, I just need to sew up the finger bits and attach the mitten part. I sewed one index finger. Nine more to go. Have I mentioned, I don’t like the sewing parts of knitting or crocheting? Ugh. But I feel it’s a good project for a gift or because it’s getting cold.

Look what I found in my piano bench! I’m sight-reading through the book figuring out what songs to concentrate on. Eleanor Rigby I can sing while playing. Most songs are too hard for me to do both.

I’ve skimmed through about a fourth of the book so far.
Up, Up and away!
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