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This weekend I saw two musicals: First: Spamalot (live, Front Row Centre Players). Review: Super job by this amateur and mostly young company. Laughed a lot. Second: Les Miserables (movie). Review: Somewhat entertaining but Very Melodramatic (i.e. too much crying and too many dirty faces. Dear fictional French people: I don't care if you are poor and probably going to die tomorrow. You can wash your faces.) It probably didn't help that I had "The Song That Goes Like This" still in my head from Spamalot and that I thought of it every time there was an especially affecting moment.
And now for something completely different. Goals news.
This weekend I saw two musicals: First: Spamalot (live, Front Row Centre Players). Review: Super job by this amateur and mostly young company. Laughed a lot. Second: Les Miserables (movie). Review: Somewhat entertaining but Very Melodramatic (i.e. too much crying and too many dirty faces. Dear fictional French people: I don't care if you are poor and probably going to die tomorrow. You can wash your faces.) It probably didn't help that I had "The Song That Goes Like This" still in my head from Spamalot and that I thought of it every time there was an especially affecting moment.
And now for something completely different. Goals news.
1) I have been back at work for 2 weeks (I teach special education.). They were actually fairly fun weeks. I don't see the students again now till the end of the month (exam break).
Thing I learned: Even though I didn't overplan, everything went OK. (Background: January is a weird month at work because of semester end and it stresses me out. A lot.) The students, for the most part, were pretty relaxed and OK with having a different schedule, which is a good thing.
The next few weeks are a flurry of assessment, meetings, and preparation for the next semester. There's never enough time and it is not at all relaxing. (Deep breath here.) But I'm keeping focused on the fact that I can be very effective and productive and that yes, I will get enough done.
2) I have been knitting my Revontuli shawl regularly and it is growing nicely.
Things I learned: Techniques for "fancier" knitting. (Think zig zag pattern and slightly lacy). The importance of numbers and getting them right at least sometimes. That Julie's hand-spun, hand-dyed yarn is really beautiful. (I already knew that but it looks even better when it's being made into something.)
3) Persistent. Physical. Ailments. Have come back again, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I don't have a very happy shoulder and arm.
Thing I learned: NO REALLY IT DOESN'T GO AWAY IF YOU JUST IGNORE IT!!!!! (still trying to process this one.)
Also: I am capable of raising my pain threshold and Just Living With It. (But I still should do something about it.)
4) I can play 10 minutes of piano a day.
Thing I learned: Practice actually does help you learn new skills. OK I already knew that, but this is further evidence. I am pleased with myself for getting piano back into my routine. I should work on some mallets and snare drum next.
5) Journey. The basic outline of the journey has been decided. It isn't the journey I would have chosen if I had my 'druthers. But I am setting out on it with no hesitation, and with what I believe is a reasonable amount of optimism.
There might still a "destination" kind of journey, but on a smaller scale than I had initially considered.
6) Focus on positive things. So far, so good. "The glass is half full" is definitely the motto of the year. (Or, as Bryan puts it, "The glass if half empty if it was full something you didn't want to drink."
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