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Well, I joined a community choir tonight. Stay tuned as to how it goes. The people were all very nice and welcoming which is a plus, but as I pretty much expected, I am the youngest person in the choir by 15-20 years. I have commited to singing their next concert with them in mid-Feb, and I will probably stick around for the April one but past that we will just see how it goes. The Feb concert theme is LOVE SONGS so its a bunch of musical numbers and other standard type stuff. Fun stuff, but on the initial read-through lets just say this group wasn't really "swingin"! We were (myself included sad to say) pretty square. I think my professional jazz musician husband will have intersting things to say about our renditions of some of these tunes.
I also want to try out for a musical this summer. This one community group is doing the show "Sugar" so I think that will be fun. Again, I dont know anything about the dynamic of this community group, or anything about their calliber or level of professionalism, but why not just give it a try! Right? I cant sit at home and only work, clean and go to gigs with the hubby all the time, forever. I need some "creative outlet" too. * Not that I mind any of the aforementioned things!
ALTHOUGH, knitting has been SO fun to me lately. Will post more on that later, so I can start a new project now!

hair

I dyed my hair a few weeks ago and no one has noticed. (btw: I cheeped out and used box color. but got 2 boxes so that I had enough to thoroughly cover everything because my hair is getting pretty darn long these days.) I tried really hard to choose a color that was between my “highlighted” length but closer to my darker roots so the upkeep would not be as hard as it is with having highlights. I am so bad about getting highlights done frequently enough. Its so dang expensive!


So, do you think since no one said anything I chose a really good color? Or that they think it looks bad? I like to try to think that it is the 1st choice but then, maybe its not. I actually didn’t like the color myself at first, but its grown on me a lot.

I have been trying to grow out my highlights for several months now. At least 6. I have gone once to a professional place to have my hair dyed a bit darker, in the hopes of matching the roots, but it really turned out to be too light still once more roots grew in. Such a pain.

new laptop here...

I am posting from my brand new laptop! WHO HOOO. Very exciting. I have never owned a brand new laptop in my life! I have bought two computers, both desktops over the years and have own 3 other laptops which were all either used or hand-me-down. The latest two laptops were both since moving here to TX and they had been Stocks. They were good machines, but just had issues which made them not good for him to travel with.

ANYWAY. Now I have my own, new portable laptop. I think I will blog alot more now because I can sit down in the living on the couch and play around online.

I bought a Gateway and its from Best Buy. I think it should be a pretty good machine. I am super excited about it having a built-in webcam. My good friend "A" just had a baby and recently started using Skpe with him so now she can see me too. cool!

I am so jealous- I just got off the phone with my sister who is leaving for a cruise tomorrow. She is going with our cousin, aunt and a couple other people. Interesting group, but still fun! I hope she has fun. I am sure she will come back "black again" because if you know my sister, she likes to joke about being "mixed."

Decorations- stored!

I got all the Christmas decorations put up today. I feel pretty accomplished! I still have to get the outside decorations "taken down" but they are very minimal. 4 stings of 100 lights and a spotlight to be exact. cake. I think the red ribbon will just get thrown away. I dont think it will store that well.

Lots of people have been posting on facebook how sad they are to take down their Christmas decorations. It is a little sad, I guess. I will miss the pretty glow of the tree but I will be glad to have the other furniture back in its place.

Taking down the Christmas cards from the mantel really makes it look bare. I need to get some more decorations for up there. We are also still looking for a trunk type thing for the first landing of the stairs. I would like to have those things before my friends S and K come visit in a couple of weeks.

So, we had to spend a bunch of money on my car today. What a bummer. 3 new tires, some new light bulbs (because they were out and it already was in the shop) and then an oil change. I am glad to have the new tires. I knew the ones I had were not great so I will feel better driving on wet or possibly frozen roads now.