How are you doing right now ?

[db05]

I'm exhausted now after two days of traveling...

Crazy how some folks make praying so complicated. Going to the other end of the island to do Stations of the Cross... never again!

[littletune]

Well I'm tired and my head hurts a little (and my face... well the right side of my face... under my eye, like my cheeks )... well but it doesn't matter. My recital on Sunday went better than I thought it would!!! I was very happy about that!!  my mum liked it a lot too, and my teacher was very happy too!!! she even hugged me and said I played really well!      and my mum almost didn't record it! because she was recording the whole recital (cause I always tell her to, cause I want to watch other kids too) and I was almost last so the camera ran out of memory card just a little before I was supposed to play and then my mum got really nervous and she didn't know how to erase things and then she recorded me with her phone, but I think it's a good recording! Maybe I'll post it... 

And now I will start learning pieces for my exam!!!! I kind of know almost all of them... well... for the slovenian piece my teacher was saying that maybe I would play a piece that her friend wrote... but that's not for sure yet, so I don't know about that one yet. Then for the older piece I will play Bach's prelude, but I don't know yet if I'll play the BWV 924 (which I'm learning now) or the BWV 939 which is a little easier (that's what my teacher said), but it's going to be one of these two. Then for an Etude I will maybe play one that is the last one in my Etude 3 book and it was arranged by Bach but my teacher said she would look for some others that maybe I should play something faster (that goes more up and down or something like that) so I'm not sure about that either. But I am sure about the Sonatina which will be Sonatina op.36 number 1 by M. Clementi. And I know about a newer piece which will be Sweet Reveries by Tchaikovsky (from Children's album).    so I'm kind of excited about that!!   

[db05]

Pain in my arm, pain in my heart.
I wasn't able to practice today. Making up for it by listening to recordings.

[hastur]

Cold is mostly gone it seems, cough still lingers (It's been three weeks since it all began). Still going crazy from attempting Beethoven's Pathétique II. Adagio Cantabile. It's very difficult for me to read the piece. Also trying Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, where I'm facing similar issues, mostly from the complete lack of measure bars... I suppose I could draw them in, but not entirely sure if it would help me enough to motivate the time and effort.

Other than that, I've got a hectic bunch of days in front of me with re-packaging everything that I own in those neat little boxes used when moving from one place to another. Then I have the "fun" of going through all the clothes I never use and decide what to keep and what to shove in the laundry, also in preparation of moving. But the most stressful of all, is that I'm yet to find someone who can drive me and my junk to the new place (it's about 500km from where I'm currently situated).

James signing out.

[pianowolfi]

I'm so tired. Nothing exists but this tiredness. I wish I could do so many things that I have planned, but I'm just too tired. Maybe it's because it's good friday and I should just go into the silence and meditate.

[m1469]

I can understand this very well, but I am slowly snapping out of it.


I am taking little steps forward ... constructing an email and letter I've been needing to construct, for example.  

[flyinfingers]

Landscape cloud still looming over my head!  I like yardwork to an extent but this is ridiculous and causes me anxiety!  I look forward to winter here because it means I won't be a slave to the slope (450 plants on the stupid thing with weeds and I have to go out and pull weeds dressed in armour so the spiders won't get me) and the rest of the property!  I had two spider bites that got infected and had to go to the doctor!
Tip:  Don't ever build a house with too much yardwork!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm doing fine, but not dandy.  You hear a lot of people say, "fine and dandy", but I'm never both at the same time!l

[m1469]

ahh... Well, the school asked me to play for the seniors' graudation, which will be good for me.  It will be very similar to a church service lineup, but I'm going to see if I can seep some of my performance repertoire in there, too.  Also, aside from the outside playing I'm going to line up for myself, I may schedule myself to play at the church a few times in the next couple of months.  That seems smartish.  

[ted]

My wife's choir is singing the Brahms Requiem, which I've been hearing for the last two months. I didn't like it at first, and continued exposure has reinforced my opinion. To me it sounds like that sort of thing they play in undertakers' offices. Were I not able to counter the effect with large doses of improvisation I would become very irritable. Nonetheless, she has a nice voice and her present choir is giving her the discipline to work on it, so I have been helping with the score and recordings as required.

[birba]

I'm just curious, Ted.  What choir is this?  Is it an amateur or a professional one?  I can't imagine an amateur choir singing the brahms requiem.  Well, maybe in Tokyo.  I had a choir out here in the sticks, for a few years, and it got SOOOOOOOOOO depressing.

[ted]

Two combined church choirs. No professionals as far as I know, but they contain a particularly talented bunch of musicians. See here :

https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/OurAuckland/Events/Pages/brahmsrequiem.aspx

I might stand corrected there. I see two of the singers belong to groups which appear to be semi-professional. Mainly amateur though.

Mark Rosser is very good. They put on a concert two years ago with a lot of Rutter and other modern stuff, some quite complicated, and it seemed very good to me.

[jesc]

Tired. Muscles tired, brain tired due to some last minute pieces being added to the recital. I'm not worried about the technical difficulty but about my memory. Sometimes it just goes... out of nowhere... ZING! mental block. No choice but to keep playing them, using brute force to hammer them into my mind.

My teacher seems to have more faith in me than I do myself. That bothers me a bit.   

[m1469]

WOO!  I think I've nailed down 7 arias for some events within the next several months.  I think it's a little bit of a kick pants lineup:

English:  Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten

Italian:   D'amor sull'ali rossee from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
            Lo sguardo avea degli angeli from I Masnadieri by Giuseppe Verdi
            Come Scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte by WA Mozart

German:  Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
             Dich, theure Halle from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner

French:   Il est doux, il est bon from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet


Now all I need are some Latin American Classical suggestions ... anybody reading this happen to have anything that comes to mind?  I'm all ears!

Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them.  I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering  .  Cheers!

[costicina]

Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them.  I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering  .  Cheers!

What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!!

[j_menz]

My teacher seems to have more faith in me than I do myself. That bothers me a bit.   

Methinks the reverse should be more troubling.

[49410enrique]

WOO!  I think I've nailed down 7 arias for some events within the next several months.  I think it's a little bit of a kick pants lineup:

English:  Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten

Italian:   D'amor sull'ali rossee from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
            Lo sguardo avea degli angeli from I Masnadieri by Giuseppe Verdi
            Come Scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte by WA Mozart

German:  Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
             Dich, theure Halle from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner

French:   Il est doux, il est bon from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet


Now all I need are some Latin American Classical suggestions ... anybody reading this happen to have anything that comes to mind?  I'm all ears!

Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them.  I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering  .  Cheers!

miss mayla, you should totally add a 'surprise' ending ala this gal , big kick in the pants. and your shapety shape work should help. actually pretty impressive if you consider the shoes and dress, her alignment was actually  really good.
[ Invalid YouTube link ] i.e. around 45-52 seconds in ....but watch the whole for the best effect

[birba]

Hysterical!!

[db05]

Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them.  I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering  .  Cheers!

What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!!

Would want to hear it too. Pretty please.

[m1469]

What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!!

Would want to hear it too. Pretty please.

Thanks, that's encouraging!  I just went through my calendar last night and mapped out performances for the next couple of months, and my very first "performance" will be to video record all of it at the end of this month over the days of 27-29th.  That's an ambitious goal, I think, but I will be planning my first house concert about 2-3 weeks after that.  The title will be:

"Pu pus and piano"    That is Hawaiian for hors d'oeuvres.  I will probably video record that, too, I guess.  

My program:

Beethoven, Sonata in f minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
Chopin Etude in Ab Major, Op. 25 no. 1
Schumann, Theme and Variations on the name ABEGG, Op. 1
Rachmaninov, Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 no. 4

miss mayla, you should totally add a 'surprise' ending ala this gal , big kick in the pants. and your shapety shape work should help. actually pretty impressive if you consider the shoes and dress, her alignment was actually  really good.

haha ... D natural   ... well, I gave those up ages ago (not the D naturals ... I have yet to really start those  ), when once my shoulder went out of socket midway.  The Opera scenes director always commented that we should be able to sing anything doing anything, so in the Opera Scenes workshops that we've been doing, sometimes we're laying on the ground, rolling around, etc..  I'm not positive what I think about that, but I get the principle.  Anyway, that was pretty gutsy of that young lady!

[m1469]

I have informally invited my second guest to the first house recital I will give, and she has a friend who she would like to invite, too, and this gave me a *brrrrrriiiiiilllllliiiiiiaaaannnnnnt* idea  .  Soon, I will send out an actual message to people and I will soon start formalizing dates and times and even call places for the June recitals.  YIP! 

[m1469]

OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th  .  It feels really neat  .  This one just so happens to be individuals in their 50's and 60's ... who happen to be single *casually whistles and looks upwards* either because a significant other has passed, or because they are just ... single (but looking!  ).  They can also use friends.  

I have also talked with some of my middle school and high school students who will be another house concert audience, and that will be an icecream social .  I will probably send out some of those messages this evening, too.  My students were excited seeming .  I'm going to rearrange my living room (yes, including the big, giant piano) in order to get it feeling more concert-like and seating people better.  hmmm .

[birba]

Am I the only one who doesn't get "pu pus"?  Apparently.

[j_menz]

Am I the only one who doesn't get "pu pus"?  Apparently.

Nope, me too.  I'm guessing it's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter

Looks yummy!

[m1469]

Nope, me too.  I'm guessing it's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter

Looks yummy!

Yeah!  Although, it will be more loosely employed for this event and just include any kind of appetizer.  mmmmm ... food.  I have been on a strict diet lately and have sometimes been pretty hungry, sometimes so hungry that I am convincing myself I want to move to other, bigger cities just for the delicious foods ... haha ... that's actually kind of real.

[goldentone]

OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th  .  

Hey, that's the night I've planned to go hear Beethoven's 9th!  What time does your concert  commence?

[pianowolfi]

OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th  .  It feels really neat  .  This one just so happens to be individuals in their 50's and 60's ... who happen to be single *casually whistles and looks upwards* either because a significant other has passed, or because they are just ... single (but looking!  ).  They can also use friends.  

I have also talked with some of my middle school and high school students who will be another house concert audience, and that will be an icecream social .  I will probably send out some of those messages this evening, too.  My students were excited seeming .  I'm going to rearrange my living room (yes, including the big, giant piano) in order to get it feeling more concert-like and seating people better.  hmmm .

Haha just last monday I have set a date for a home recital at a student's house, the same day, May 12th, ! 

[m1469]

Hey, that's the night I've planned to go hear Beethoven's 9th!  What time does your concert  commence?

Well, individuals will gather at about 6:45pm, and I am planning to give them time to select some delicious snacks and then I'll probably start playing at about 7pm.  It seems it will truly happen, though I may branch out to some individuals who are married, too, etc..  One person got back to me saying she couldn't because she will be out of town for mother's day, but she was really excited and wants to be included in the next one that I do.  

Haha just last monday I have set a date for a home recital at a student's house, the same day, May 12th, !  

Very cool .  I guess there will be lots of music in the world .


It also appears the icecream social will be on Saturday, May 5th.  I've extended my invitation for that to select students in my piano classes and three in my violin class at the school (plus some others from last semester).  It's really ... inspiring how excited they are about it.  It's already bringing a new and very needed dynamic to my life .

Since it seems quite sure these will happen, the next steps will be to start more officially planning the next levels up.  For me this is not just a single event, but I find myself having a whole new concept of life to embrace, which I am happy to be doing.

[littletune]

May 12 ?? That's my doggie's birthday!!!    the one who is an angel now...

Oh today I have a little more time even though it is Monday... but my piano teacher didn't have time today so I will have my piano lesson on Wednesday instead... and not that I wouldn't want to go to my piano lesson but it's just too many things in one day for me, because then in the evening I also have my music theory... so when i have my piano lesson I feel like I'm just running around the whole day!! but now I'll have to go try practice music theory, because I haven't for a reeeeealllyyy long time even though I'm always planning to. 
And I'm tired... I mean I just get so nervous cause there are so many things I want to do or need to do and then I just can't! and after a while I start feeling really bad! But this week on Friday holidays start!!! so I'm happy about that!!!!!!     

[littletune]

Well I haven't practiced music theory as much as I thought I would... had too many other things to do and I couldn't find my music theory books!  but it wasn't too bad at music theory... I only got confused at the end with intervals fourths and fifhths... now I REALLY need to start practicing!!!

[roseamelia]

I'm fine and can't wait till I eat my dinner having Delicious Kabob's  can even smell them. (I'm in the USA so it's about six o'clock.)

[m1469]

Well, my icecream social concert for my students has turned into two concerts, one on the 5th and one on the 6th, both from 2-4pm, with parents watching and even my Mom!!  eeeky weeky!  Let me tell ya', there's a fire under me bum!  I'm going to be *so* systematic and like a queen of efficient practicing  .  I'm going to circle wrong notes and everything  .

[thalbergmad]

Let me tell ya', there's a fire under me bum!  

Did not know curry was popular in your neck of the woods.

Thal

[m1469]

Did not know curry was popular in your neck of the woods.

Thal

   ah gawd... I *love* curry!  But, after a couple of days off, I'm back on my barely even vaguely-delicious diet, so no curries for me for awhile.

[littletune]

Guess what? I'm sick!  Not much, but I had a fever at night (I don't know if I still have it now or not) and my throat hurts. Well it's not good that I don't have my piano lesson today cause my teacher said it's better that I still rest today, but I have it tomorrow anyway. You know that when I get sick and my fever is getting higher I always feel like laughing... it's funny  and then my mum is like: have you been drinking?  (she's kidding of course!). I don't know why, but it just seems funny. Is that weird? are there some other people who feel like laughing when they start to get sick and their fever is getting higher?    Probably not. I said to my mum that probably the viruses are having a party cause they think they won or something and they're getting drunk and then I feel like laughing too, but that's why I beat them really quickly!   

Oh today's my mum's birthday!   

[49410enrique]

Guess what? I'm sick!  Not much, but I had a fever at night (I don't know if I still have it now or not) and my throat hurts. Well it's not good that I don't have my piano lesson today cause my teacher said it's better that I still rest today, but I have it tomorrow anyway. You know that when I get sick and my fever is getting higher I always feel like laughing... it's funny  and then my mum is like: have you been drinking?  (she's kidding of course!). I don't know why, but it just seems funny. Is that weird? are there some other people who feel like laughing when they start to get sick and their fever is getting higher?    Probably not. I said to my mum that probably the viruses are having a party cause they think they won or something and they're getting drunk and then I feel like laughing too, but that's why I beat them really quickly!   

Oh today's my mum's birthday!   

get well soon, i know being sick is yucky, hopeuflly you can get mum to make your favorite dish or just have lots of ice cream, that' always helps 

_______________________________________
on my end just trying to cope...

i should know better by now than to schedule my biggest performances for the end of the term as they always fall right in the middle of the hardest exam weeks! i generally have verylittle time to practice, little sleep and high stress all of which always affect my playing negatively yet here were are i am at it again and counting down, i just have to take it one day at a time.

breath, breath, first this, then that, oh gosh those will have to wait!....

[db05]

Get well soon, littletune. 

I'm doing pretty good. Just discovered that some arcades still have games for 5 pesos (around 10 American cents). And hammering is a good stress reliever. You win tickets, too. Wheee.

The only downside perhaps, is that I do very badly at musical simulation games. Whether it's guitar or percussion. I wonder if a pianist is usually good at this stuff? I knew a drummer who learned the basics with Drummania, and he turned out to be really good despite the lack of formal training.

[littletune]

Thank you 49410enrique and db05 !!  I'm doing better, but I'm tired and today when I woke up I had a really bad muscle cramp in my whole left leg!!! Like below the knee and above, but it was worse below. I mean it didn't last very long but it was painful and now my leg still hurts! Oh and the wird thing is that I don't feel like eating chocolate and things like that now... (usually all I want to eat are sweets!) but I did feel like eating pancakes and strawberries...  so I ate a lot of that! 
I hope everythng goes well for you Enrique!

I am happy because tomorrow holidays are starting!!!   

[m1469]

Well, both the ice cream and piano concerts next weekend are seriously happening and it's starting to seem like the house is going to be really full on both days (bear in mind our house is tiny)!  So is the pu pus and piano one during the weekend after that.  I am really happy that I will be giving two next weekend, back to back.  I think that's going to be really good for me, and then to be giving one again the following week!  Also really good for me.  Also, I have a venue for my first singing plus piano concert ever (and people already wanting to come to that! )... that will probably be in later June, but I'm thinking about trying to find another venue in a nearby town, too.  hmmm...

I guess I better start deciding on all my outfits  .  I think I will just do one video recording this weekend, on Sunday.  I will treat it like a performance.  I'm not going to do take after take, just once as though that's all I have.  I *think.*

 

[m1469]

Yippeee!  I got a check in the mail today; somebody donated to my cause   !!  It is encouraging .

I'll tell ya', though, there seriously might be 15-20(+?) people at each of my icecream concerts ... don't forget, my Mom, too!  She's going to be at both!  That's really nice of her!  OK, this is the part where I must start growing beyond planning stages and into the part where I am doing it ... in a week.  ONE week!!!   I realize I will need to be a better person ...

*I'm starving*

[m1469]

Today I had a first lesson with my new voice teacher and her husband.  It was ME.GA .  They said I have a lot of metal in my voice ... that's a new description for me ... what does it mean?  me don't know.

[Bob]

I'll take some money if anyone's handing it out. 

[m1469]

Would you like to know something else?  They think that maybe my voice will devour the whole planet once I get rid of some tension (which is really there, and I've kind of been aware of it but not fully, but now I'm aware of it and I know why it's there!)!  

Piano moved into new position ... check.  I am about to vacuum the moses outta this place.  Our vacuum broke a couple months ago and all we have is a ragedy ol' shopvac ... that's what I'm going to use to vacuum this place up ...

Plus, I *did* wear a dress all day!  And, I *am* going to wear a dress maybe all week!  Ta da!  I'm about to vacuum in a dress.  Plus, would you like to know what?  Some pants are HUGE on me now ... unwearable, in fact.  Ta da!

Pretty soon I will take care of a few more things, but I am then going to officially begin my voyage into that other place ... *gets on the sailboat*  Pretty soon, I might get *hilarious*  

I'll take some money if anyone's handing it out.  

*intercepts all "purse" going towards Bob and reroutes to personal, off-shore banking account*

Would anybody like to be in the circle of supporters for my studies and performances?    That's what my in-laws called it ... they forwarded the message to me, which they sent out to people ... no aliens ... it's a very cool circle, don't ya' know.


 

[goldentone]

Today I had a first lesson with my new voice teacher and her husband.  It was ME.GA .  They said I have a lot of metal in my voice ... that's a new description for me ... what does it mean?  me don't know.

They may have meant mettle.  That works.

[m1469]

They may have meant mettle.  That works.

Maybe!  It was in conjunction with her talking about a voice's ability to carry over an entire orchestra (but related to concepts for me technically, too)... which, intellectually doesn't make sense and has to do with quality of sound (which, btw, I think is very interesting in conjunction with something Marik recently posted about regarding the quality of sound with piano playing, too!).  I have this intuition that I am embarking on a new era in my singing, and that this has a fundamental importance to my musical development overall.  Day by day, step by step, the path is trod .

[pianowolfi]

They may have meant mettle.  That works.

Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before.  
On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice 

[pianowolfi]

"How are you doing right now?"

I love my life, I enjoy my life!

The older I get (I'll soon turn 48) the more I look back and recapitulate my experiences.

I have so many thoughts and feelings about everything. About music and life, about my particular individual life, about love, about humanity, about earth, knowledge, consciousness, awareness, about the fact that we actually have no limits to knowledge (this is in particular very important to me).

But what stroke me most on my little bike ride, today (I'd love to have more time for bicycling btw  ):   

In some sense I really love the "dark" sides of my life! I don't mean "evil", just "dark", shadowy. I encountered them quite early, when I was young (like 17-18):  Extreme lonelyness, extreme sadness, often walking on a precipice between life and death, struggling with overwhelming metaphysical questions that nobody in my environment could answer. I love all those questions. Sometimes they kept me alive, sometimes they made me want to die
 
Nothing could ever convince me if I didn't understand it in depth. Nothing ever had the power to kill me, nothing ever had the power to make me surrender.

So, still going strong, for no absolute reason. Only to live my life and my message and my voice.

If I fail 1000 times at communicating my message and everybody's laughing at me, so what? I'll try a 1001st time

[m1469]

"How are you doing right now?"

I love my life, I enjoy my life!

The older I get (I'll soon turn 48) the more I look back and recapitulate my experiences.

I have so many thoughts and feelings about everything. About music and life, about my particular individual life, about love, about humanity, about earth, knowledge, consciousness, awareness, about the fact that we actually have no limits to knowledge (this is in particular very important to me).

But what stroke me most on my little bike ride, today (I'd love to have more time for bicycling btw  ):  

In some sense I really love the "dark" sides of my life! I don't mean "evil", just "dark", shadowy. I encountered them quite early, when I was young (like 17-18):  Extreme lonelyness, extreme sadness, often walking on a precipice between life and death, struggling with overwhelming metaphysical questions that nobody in my environment could answer. I love all those questions. Sometimes they kept me alive, sometimes they made me want to die
 
Nothing could ever convince me if I didn't understand it in depth. Nothing ever had the power to kill me, nothing ever had the power to make me surrender.

So, still going strong, for no absolute reason. Only to live my life and my message and my voice.

If I fail 1000 times at communicating my message and everybody's laughing at me, so what? I'll try a 1001st time

I like this.  I would like to say that people don't laugh, because somewhere in me I really believe that if we speak straight from the soul, it's impossible for there to be no communication, but I waffle on that subject for years now.  I do think more and more that if people are inclined towards laughing at a person who expresses something very deep and personal, that it is more that person's own shortcomings that they are uncomfortable with (even if on a subconscious level).  In any event, I appreciate that you feel you have a message to communicate, and that you are a person in the world who bothers to do so.

Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before.  
On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice  

Thank you, that's very nice - what I can say is that I feel already a transformation taking place ... granted, I was very ready, too (in almost every detail of being ready).  But, it is quite interesting how I found this teacher and how it all came about, and the fact that it seems like just the right step for now.  I feel like I am getting to know my voice, my real voice, for the very first time.  And, I feel I have the space of the whole world to sing into.  Still, step by step, day by day, the path is trod .  I am happy to be on my path and it's amazing, sometimes, to me, to find the absolutely amazing individuals I encounter along the way.

[littletune]

m1469 and Wolfi that's really great!!     

Well this cold that I have (or whatever it is) just doesn't want to go away completely... I mean I'm ok and I don't have a fever... but I am still more tired for no reason and a few days ago I started coughing really a lot and twice my nose started bleeding (first time just a little and yesterday night more)... but well it doesn't matter.  It's cool cause I have holidays!  but tomorrow I have my piano lesson anyway, but then I won't have piano lessons for a whole next week cause my teacher is going somewhere. Oh and it's sooo warm here now since last week it's like summer!!!   

[goldentone]

Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before.  

On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice  

I told her once Wolfi that she was like Sinatra, who they simply called, "The Voice".