This season, on Survivor!

Excited for the NC Symphony tomorrow! Barber - Essay No. 2, Copland - Clarinet Concerto & Dvorak - New World Symphony. The Copland is MY FAVORITE CLARINET CONCERTO!!!! I have LOTS of thoughts, so we shall see. 😁

I LOVE reading at Epilogue on Franklin St. I reminds me so much of my beloved Trident on Newbury St. the Salted Banana Bread Italian Soda is totally yummy!

Curbie Curbie Curbs Curbikins Curbster Curbilicious Roo Roo

QUICK! Movie night suggestions.

I’m so proud of my A1C, I could cry.

Some pieces just stay in your soul, itching to be let out.

Happy #daughtersday to the most self assured, regal, take no shit of a cat, Princess Thumbelina

I’m having fun with oil pastels. I’d love to take an actual oil painting class, so I’d have some idea what my Great Aunt Inez did. She was a stunning landscape and floral artist.

Ratatouille + Coco. It’s been a good movie night.

I am a process person! If you can’t enjoy the act of doing something, what the point? And I work rather slow. Today I started on a tropical sunset over the water with a large palm tree in the foreground, in oil pastel, so we shall see.

Best thing I said while teaching today, “hold on, let me think with my ears.” And thankyou to my final student for the event movie recommendation of “Ratatouille”. This is the vibe!

Fin. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I especially enjoyed the female protagonist. Smart, clever, middle aged & child free #booksky

The time has come my friends, to walk away from Bluesky yet AGAIN because of McCleod et all. My hard won mental health is far to precious for me. We are all entitled to our opinions & I am categorically against kicking people out of my online life that don’t see 100% eye to eye. I encourage you to

I love when people tell me I smell good: today it was Pumpkin Pecan Waffle at the midwife. (I’m not pregnant, they can provide other care.)

I want facts. Not screaming into the void.

*Wanna change the world / there’s nothing to it.* Today’s passphrase is: Take. Actionable Change!

Y’all. Screaming into the void about McLoud et all wont change A THING! Take ACTIONABLE change. As a survivor, CONSTANTLY seeing this in the discourse has brought up some things I worked SO HARD to heal. Please think about others, aside from your own outrage.

First new piece I’m learning since I’ve started playing solo again? Danny Elfman’s “This Is Halloween”, because it’s fun, y’all! I’m pairing it with Carol from Finzi’s “Five Bagatelle’s”.

I started a documentary on the Nuremberg Trials, because I can’t seam to get out of WWIi, which I think is telling.

Suddenly every character in Dirty Dancing annoys me, except for Johnny’s cousin. Basically I’m just here for the soundtrack and the dancing. Perhaps I should’ve watched the Havana Nights ones. Patrick Swayze is still beautiful, though.

After finishing DWTS, I was in a dancing mood, so I put on Dirty Dancing instead of the pre season game. I’m sure @albhood.bsky.social with anything noteworthy. Eagerly waiting on delivery Pho.

My current biggest #DWTS gripe: maybe, just maybe don’t have them doing dances like the Jive & the Samba in week do. You’re NOT learning those dances in beginning ballroom. Give. Them. A. Chance. To. Work. Up. To. More. Challenging. Dances!

I loved Jan Ravnik on the Eras Tour, I love him even MORE on DWTS!

Sadly (or not) scrolling time was interrupted by the 4pm Dance Break Alarm. 16 minutes, pure joy.

Ok. First real scroll down Blsky in awhile…. Here we go: 🎶 Into the unknown……🎶

I have cleaned and organized the Master Bedroom, in hopes it’ll lift this nagging little amount of depression that’s been clinging on. All that’s left is to put up a couple of mountains of laundry. Now is the time for e-applause. 👏🏼

For a Jersey that has so divided the public they sure seem to be popular

Super posh tea service today. We were supposed to go kayaking today, but Hood sliced his finger open last night, so we both have an unexpected day off.

Stevie Nicks is Autumnal music to me, just as Tori Amos is.

I don’t know my Al didn’t want to use my Madonna MDMA Tour lanyard for his Press Credentials….

It’s warms my heart to know the elder nephew loves his Doctor Kit Aunt Kathleen & Uncle Al sent for his birthday. With younger nephew exclaiming, “listen to my heart! Listen to my heart.”

16 minute dance party: a great way to stave off the impending blues.

Inspired by my class this weekend. I’m going to try and do a bird calendar for my parents in oil pastels for Christmas.

This’ll be a fun class!

Where I started v where I am now

I could “fix” LeBanc’s jersey with one swift swipe of a Sharpie! #RaiseUp

I’m quite excited for breakfast tomorrow: warmed through whole wheat pita, a smear of hummus, and a few eggs cooked in olive oil, over medium with feta

Finally got to see the Nikishin open ice hit. It made my heart all warm and shit. #RaiseUp

Curbie’s first hockey game. I mean, MAYBE, he could’ve snuck in to Lonovo as a street cat. We REALPY have no way of knowing! He just meowed - “Let’s! Go! ‘Canes!” I can tell! #RaiseUp

Perhaps unpopular opinion: I REALLY like the new uniforms on the ice. ESPECIALLY how the numbers stand out in motion. #RaiseUp

MADE IT TO A TV! #RaiseUp

“If the Baltimore Ravens can have a gd-ed marching bad, why can’t every professional sports team?”

The Trader Joe’s parking lot in CH, is where automobile civility goes to die.

Hey Canes! (Soon the be interrupted by Trader Joe’s.) #RaiseUp

There’s hockey today! I teach, then it’s a Trader Joe’s run, then we’ll join the party! 🎈#raiseup 🖤🤍❤️

I am doing with witchy duty and listening to Stevie Nicks on this first day of Fall. 🧙🏻‍♀️🍂

Maria: the aria at the end gutted me

Hood cooked an AMAZING Hello Fresh Sunday Supper: Roasted chicken breast with a vegetable medley of Brusssels sprouts, carrot and red onion. So simple, but so satisfying. It was just what my soul needed!

I’m not ENTIRELY sure what @albhood.bsky.social’s cooking for dinner, but it smells like Thanksgiving & I’m here for it! 😋