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I woke up before my alarm this morning, which turned out to be a good thing as I hadn't properly set it the night before. It wouldn't have rung.
The piano tuner is coming today, which has the side effect of having my mother-in-law at my house all day with Elizabeth. I wish it could be me who stayed home for the piano tuner - I love watching a piano getting tuned. Also, nobody knows that instrument better than I do. I can tell him exactly which notes are off and by approximately how much. The E flat an octave above middle C is jarring every time I play it, and the F in that octave isn't much better. He's going to tell me again that I need to restring it. I can't afford to restring it, so it's going to have to continue as is. At some point I'll manage that, and the myriad other minor repairs that a piano of such venerable age requires.
It was a good weekend. Yet another online friendship is being deepened and solidified, I spent lots of time outside with Elizabeth, and I had a two-hour catch-up chat with my best friend. I'm hoping she'll take the very broad hints I gave her and get a livejournal. Incidentally, she was the only person ever to realize upon first hearing my lj name exactly where it came from. It's nice to have at least one friend like that - who knows you so well you don't have to explain. I know her that well, too. When she told me two years ago what song they were thinking of for their first dance at their wedding, I burst out laughing. Her maid of honour and other bridesmaids didn't get the joke, but I did. (I wasn't in her wedding because it happened three months after Elizabeth was born. Childbirth and dress fittings simply don't mix.)
In case any of you want to try guessing, the "Velvet" part of my lj handle is a literary reference to a fantasy author I know some of you have read. There. Have fun.
Gotta go - I haven't actually decided on a math lesson for today, other than "review for tomorrow's test."
Happy Monday, especially those of you in Toronto for whom transit disaster has been averted.
The piano tuner is coming today, which has the side effect of having my mother-in-law at my house all day with Elizabeth. I wish it could be me who stayed home for the piano tuner - I love watching a piano getting tuned. Also, nobody knows that instrument better than I do. I can tell him exactly which notes are off and by approximately how much. The E flat an octave above middle C is jarring every time I play it, and the F in that octave isn't much better. He's going to tell me again that I need to restring it. I can't afford to restring it, so it's going to have to continue as is. At some point I'll manage that, and the myriad other minor repairs that a piano of such venerable age requires.
It was a good weekend. Yet another online friendship is being deepened and solidified, I spent lots of time outside with Elizabeth, and I had a two-hour catch-up chat with my best friend. I'm hoping she'll take the very broad hints I gave her and get a livejournal. Incidentally, she was the only person ever to realize upon first hearing my lj name exactly where it came from. It's nice to have at least one friend like that - who knows you so well you don't have to explain. I know her that well, too. When she told me two years ago what song they were thinking of for their first dance at their wedding, I burst out laughing. Her maid of honour and other bridesmaids didn't get the joke, but I did. (I wasn't in her wedding because it happened three months after Elizabeth was born. Childbirth and dress fittings simply don't mix.)
In case any of you want to try guessing, the "Velvet" part of my lj handle is a literary reference to a fantasy author I know some of you have read. There. Have fun.
Gotta go - I haven't actually decided on a math lesson for today, other than "review for tomorrow's test."
Happy Monday, especially those of you in Toronto for whom transit disaster has been averted.