Frank made corn beef and cabbage for dinner last night, and it was so good. So good in fact, that I really don’t want to send him some with him to work so I can eat it! There’s enough for a couple of days anyway, so I suppose I can share. But maybe if I don’t mention it to him, he just may forget about it. He’s an awfully good cook, and if I’m not careful I’ll get fat on his food. :-)
I have a wedding on the 24th with just a violin & cello, so I’ve been practicing cello a lot. The calluses on my fingers are hardening again, so it’s getting easier to shift quickly and accurately. I’ve let my cello go in the last month with all the practicing for the X-Mas programs and the Handel performance. But now I need to get back up to par again for the wedding and the concert at the college. It’s coming along, so I’m not too worried. I’m on a string and a prayer right now, with three different clefs to read on two different instruments. I sometimes suffer a memory lapse and black out for a bit, but it happens to the best of us. It gets better the more I do it, and it’s not so confusing. The most challenging thing of all is switching back and forth between cello and violin for a performance; that’s where it takes all my mettle to get it right. It’s not so much the different positions; it’s the change of music notation, the spacing between notes, and the mental adjusting to two totally different things. In moments of frustration I sometimes wish I had never touched a cello. But when I have a cello in my hands I know exactly why I keep coming back to it day after day no matter how much trouble it is.
Back to practicing for me. Till tomorrow.
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