Glasgow university cheered me up slightly today.

Oooo. Have you got a nice offer from them?

Um...


Kind of!




...


Uncondtional!

Yay! congratulations. Great to be wanted !

Where do you want to go?

York (or maybe Edinburgh) preferably - still waiting to hear from them both. I've had got an unconditional from Leeds too though. So many decisions!

What's made me happy today?

It's my day off tomorrow!



Except that I have a deferred lesson to do.



But he's an okay pupil. Very dyslexic, but okay.



Edit: Congratulations, Miss Ross!

Many congratulations!

Well done, Miss Ross! Fingers crossed for equally good news from York and Edinburgh!

I'm happy, happy, happy... but I can't tell anyone until I have the photos

Bach trumpets

I got into the cinema for free last night! When the Oscar nominations came out the cinema started a special offer that if you went to see an Oscar nominated film in the weeks before the awards and it ended up winning an Oscar, following the awards you could get to see any film you liked for free (provided you still had your ticket stub for the Oscar winning film). So I went to see an advanced preview screening of "The Young Victoria". Saved me over seven quid!

And this morning...the weather is gorgeous: there's bright blue sky with bearly a cloud to be seen.

And as it's Friday there are biscuits in the office.

It's Friday, I have no lessons to give tomorrow and am having a weekend with Family I have not seen in ages.

I'm not happy YET... But I will be very happy if I manage to get myself to Cardiff to visit my cousin without missing a connection, getting on the wrong train, missing the train altogether etc.

I'm a very nervous traveller...

The fact that I'm going to Edinburgh this afternoon. Well, I hope it makes me happy. I've only ever been in the train station.

It's Friday!!!

Seconded ^^

I bought a new viola, I bought a new viola, I bought a new viola (a grown up one).

Wanna see photaes???

Yes, lottie, of course yes!

What's made me happy? A recorder lesson

Coming home

A lovely day out!

Oooo. Where did you go?

Nosey!

A very nice looking viola

Have you played it yet?

I practically sat up all night playing it (OH is away for the weekend or he would be deaf by now).

I think it's too big for me... I'm going to put a violin chinrest on it to see if that helps but it hurts my collar bone and jaw (even with a shoulder rest). I think it's that huge lumpy chinrest that came with it! It's got a great big 'sound' too... (and I'm such a shrinking violet really )

But it's pretty

Hope you find that you do get on with it long term.

I'm all happy again; I spent the afternoon sorting out the chinrest and shoulder problems and now's it's just lovely.. I played until my fingers were too sore to press the strings any more

A dark, but amazingly performed, production of 'A Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville this afternoon. Janie Dee is a star.

Being told the name of Ratty's new cockerel!!!

Finding a gap in feeling to spend a couple of hours at the

later (If I can breathe long enough )

A nice walk in the sun and a meeting with a wayward "Highland Cattle" type heifer who wasnt' about to do what she was told!

Decorating. At last getting on with some long-overdue painting.

Rachmaninov, Poulenc and Purcell

Having a lovely day skiing.
My skiing ability is, frankly, pants, because my entire life experience/training in it is 8 days, 5 of which were spent on a school trip, er, 30 years ago!

But our nearest mountain is ever so close and the views were magnificent and it was the "festa della donna" today which meant that everybody gave discounts to you simply for being female
and now I've had a nice hot bath to get rid of the aches and pains and feel really, seriously, chilled out!

Well I know it's only 7.30am but I'm just happy at the thought of what I'm going to do today.



(Nothing special actually, just some coffee with a friend and then work/study all day with a little viola/violin late afternoon, but I'm really going to enjoy it all!)

I'm going to work!

It's taken from the end of October until now for me to actually find some proper work after coming home from uni. So I may hate it (who knows?) but I'm going back to the real world!

YAY for Miss Ross...and if you really do hate it, at least you have the knowledge that it is a time-limited thing. You're not going to be there until retirement age

Erm, I don't know what's made me happy today yet. Remembering to put the brown bin out for collection, taking the plastics round to the recycling bin, getting to work...I'm think I'm still ludicrously cheerful from my recorder lesson on Friday (plus an hour of playing yesterday, even with my husband in the house, as now I can't worry about being overheard as I have homework to do And it's real proper music, a sonata ) Can't wait for home time and going off to tootle some more

Playing a piece in third position and almost getting it right. The sun shining also helps!

A winter's walk locally - in the woods and along the river- with my (nearly) 4 year old son

And feeling like my cold is finally easing up a bit.

Plus a satisfying spot of ptactice last night

A step forward in my process of 'moving on' with something. I did something today that I'd have been too terrified and embarassed to do a month or so ago.

Looking forward to a piano recital in Leeds this evening by Dmitri Alexeev (who won one of the early Leeds International Piano Competitions)

Programme:- Rachmaninov Preludes Op 23 no 3, Op32 nos 5 and 12
Scriabin Etude Op2 no 1, and Tweve Studies Op 8
Chopin Barcarolle Op60, Rondo in C Minor, both Nocturmes Op 32
Polonaise in A flat.

Should be excellent

nothing - anyone want to swap lives?

and

Booking a second music lesson each week - not sure that it will have made my teacher happy though!

I'm sure he/she will just be thinking of the money!

Playing my new recorder and being able to balance it at last without having to lean against the kitchen table.

A little compliment my husband paid me last night.

I'm still thinking about it today - in it's own little way it's the most affirming thing I've heard in years.