Another up lifting me higher!!
I'M PLAYING PRINCIPAL WITH THE TULSA SYMPHONY THIS WEEK!!!
Rehearsals Wednesday-Friday and then concert Saturday and then I leave
for New Orleans Monday!!
I also discovered this weekend that since mid-July I have put 25,000 miles on my car....oops!
January 11, 2010
January 06, 2010
2010
Well, 2010 has been an intersting year so far. Even though it's only been around for a little less than a week. There have been ups and downs like any year, but the ups this year are extremely high!! I'm talking a house flying around with helium balloons tied to it kind of high!! Which by the way, if you haven't seen UP you really should. :)
So I went down to Baton Rouge to play The Nutcracker for the first time ever! I dont' think I could have enjoyed it anymore than I did. I danced in it as a kid, and I always wanted to play it but the opportunity never presented itself. 20 years from now I'll probably be blogging about how tired of it I am....but I doubt it. Who gets tired of The Nutcracker?!
Less than 2 weeks later I had to be back in Baton Rouge for New Years Eve. This might not sound too exciting to some people, but I'm a girl who the last couple of years has been asleep by 10:30 and the 4 or 5 years before that I was always on a bus headed to a college bowl game. So the thought that I'd be up at least past 11pm playing music and not sitting on a bus was totally awesome! And not only was I playing in an orchestra, but I was playing songs I absolutely LOVE with an orchestra!!! Sing Sing Sing, In the Mood, String of Pearls....big band stuff I never thought I'd get to play as a bassoonist. At heart I'm a pure jazz musician. I even wanted to pick up jazz bassoon, but I completely suck at improv. BOO! Anyway, it was a great night with great music and watching the audience actually dance to every song was incredible. I have to admit I was having a really hard time sitting still....16 years of dancing still lives in me I guess. It was especially difficult when we played a Santana song and the bongos were right behind me. Talk about self restraint!! They're lucky and didn't thrown down my bassoon and shake what my mama gave me!
So the most incredible UP is when this very week I got a call from the personnel director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. They needed a 4th bassoon player for the Verdi Requiem this month and they asked me to come play!! I'm finally making the connections and feeling like this is actually my career! So at the end of this month I'll be in Louisiana for 2 weeks straight! Actually I have a 3 day break between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and my aunt and uncle in Houston have kindly offered their spare bedroom to me so I don't have to drive 10 hours back to OK only to drive 10 hours to Baton Rouge 3 days later. I am also thankful for my INCREDIBLE boss and his wife who are more than willing to work with my schedule so that I can make these trips and slowly expand my career. I could not ask for a better situation or better people for whom to work. THANK YOU JEFF AND KAYE! Oh!!! One of the most important things.....I will be moving to Baton Rouge in August. I realize it's probably THE hottest month of the year so if no one wants to help I understand. :) I dont' really want to move before then because I have been asked to be in a wedding for one of my oldest friends. I'm also doing her wedding cake. DOUBLE DUTY! I'm really looking forward to it though. But the moving brings up my next subject........
The ever popular NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!
I've decided to put it out in the universe so that I will be held accountable for it. Seeing as how I'll be moving I'll have to find a job aside from playing in the orchestra. now I've been wanting to do this for a long long time, but I never got around to saving the money or actually doing it. In the next few months (once some money has been set aside) I will be getting my personal trainers license. It's something I'm very interested in and I love working with people. Living a healthy lifestyle is something I feel is very important, and the thought of helping someone achieve this makes me bubble over!! And since I decided not to change my major to nutritional sciences I think this is the next best step. I figure once I get to Baton Rouge it could also provide another career avenue. People in the South have to work off all of that delicious cajun food right?! ;) Of course I will also be getting my Zumba license somewhere down the road. The more I go to classes the more I love it and the more I want to teach! Who would have thought that Shaking your butt + absolute fun = an incredible workout?!
One last thing before I end what turned out to be a ridiculously loooooong post.
RECITAL!!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 @ 2PM
SAINT STEPHENS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
NORMAN, OK
*there will be pictures from my trips but I havent' had time to get them from my camera to my computer.
So I went down to Baton Rouge to play The Nutcracker for the first time ever! I dont' think I could have enjoyed it anymore than I did. I danced in it as a kid, and I always wanted to play it but the opportunity never presented itself. 20 years from now I'll probably be blogging about how tired of it I am....but I doubt it. Who gets tired of The Nutcracker?!
Less than 2 weeks later I had to be back in Baton Rouge for New Years Eve. This might not sound too exciting to some people, but I'm a girl who the last couple of years has been asleep by 10:30 and the 4 or 5 years before that I was always on a bus headed to a college bowl game. So the thought that I'd be up at least past 11pm playing music and not sitting on a bus was totally awesome! And not only was I playing in an orchestra, but I was playing songs I absolutely LOVE with an orchestra!!! Sing Sing Sing, In the Mood, String of Pearls....big band stuff I never thought I'd get to play as a bassoonist. At heart I'm a pure jazz musician. I even wanted to pick up jazz bassoon, but I completely suck at improv. BOO! Anyway, it was a great night with great music and watching the audience actually dance to every song was incredible. I have to admit I was having a really hard time sitting still....16 years of dancing still lives in me I guess. It was especially difficult when we played a Santana song and the bongos were right behind me. Talk about self restraint!! They're lucky and didn't thrown down my bassoon and shake what my mama gave me!
So the most incredible UP is when this very week I got a call from the personnel director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. They needed a 4th bassoon player for the Verdi Requiem this month and they asked me to come play!! I'm finally making the connections and feeling like this is actually my career! So at the end of this month I'll be in Louisiana for 2 weeks straight! Actually I have a 3 day break between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and my aunt and uncle in Houston have kindly offered their spare bedroom to me so I don't have to drive 10 hours back to OK only to drive 10 hours to Baton Rouge 3 days later. I am also thankful for my INCREDIBLE boss and his wife who are more than willing to work with my schedule so that I can make these trips and slowly expand my career. I could not ask for a better situation or better people for whom to work. THANK YOU JEFF AND KAYE! Oh!!! One of the most important things.....I will be moving to Baton Rouge in August. I realize it's probably THE hottest month of the year so if no one wants to help I understand. :) I dont' really want to move before then because I have been asked to be in a wedding for one of my oldest friends. I'm also doing her wedding cake. DOUBLE DUTY! I'm really looking forward to it though. But the moving brings up my next subject........
The ever popular NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!
I've decided to put it out in the universe so that I will be held accountable for it. Seeing as how I'll be moving I'll have to find a job aside from playing in the orchestra. now I've been wanting to do this for a long long time, but I never got around to saving the money or actually doing it. In the next few months (once some money has been set aside) I will be getting my personal trainers license. It's something I'm very interested in and I love working with people. Living a healthy lifestyle is something I feel is very important, and the thought of helping someone achieve this makes me bubble over!! And since I decided not to change my major to nutritional sciences I think this is the next best step. I figure once I get to Baton Rouge it could also provide another career avenue. People in the South have to work off all of that delicious cajun food right?! ;) Of course I will also be getting my Zumba license somewhere down the road. The more I go to classes the more I love it and the more I want to teach! Who would have thought that Shaking your butt + absolute fun = an incredible workout?!
One last thing before I end what turned out to be a ridiculously loooooong post.
RECITAL!!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 @ 2PM
SAINT STEPHENS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
NORMAN, OK
*there will be pictures from my trips but I havent' had time to get them from my camera to my computer.
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