Spring Doings and Surprises

Already this morning Marc and I took the car to the garage to be serviced - it's been making a clunking noise for months and it's getting worse. Now that the weather will permit me to drive more, I want to get out and about but the car made me afraid, so he's finally having it looked at. While we were out we picked up breakfast pizza - it's not on the diet, but it's something I love to have on a rare occasion. We used to get them about once a month, but now it's more like a couple of times a year. I do hope the car repair isn't too expensive, but I can't wait to get out and wander the stores - if for no other reason than to just see something other than my own four walls for a day!

Not much planned for today - I'll do some cleaning and my work-out this morning, then I may walk over to the scrapbook store and work on some cards while I chat with my friend Jeannie. She's the one that fell and is still healing but has gone back to work a few hours each day and working one handed.

The snow is finally melting, I actually have my drive-way back and patches of brown grass along the edges!! We have lost a little over a foot it looks like and our sump pump is running nearly constantly. I'm sitting in the living room chair which is right in the sun. I'm getting it full force as it streams in the window and it feels so good. I've actually convinced myself it's healthy to be sitting here this morning and blogging. I was noticing yesterday my skin is so pasty, white.

Recital plans are making me crazy - it's been on again off again on again. My mentor hasn't mentioned it again since his melt-down in front of me a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to try and get over my disappointment and proceed or not proceed without him. It is just not going to seem right without him involved. I had nearly decided to forget the entire thing all together until I saw my Hubby's face when I mentioned it. I can't disappoint him in the same way I have been...I just can't do it to him. He has worked so hard to see to it that the "church" bought me an organ, then he made all the arrangements for getting it here and installed it with a little help from my mentor. Plus all of a sudden Pastor is excited about it and wants to help me plan it if I need him etc., etc. What got into him, I have no idea! I thought maybe fall was an option, or better yet, late summer - it would give me time to regroup, plan and plenty of time to get my music in shape, still the thought of working up and performing an hour of music by myself was overwhelming! I emailed a couple of ladies from our organist group and while my mentor and I hear the word "recital" and run as fast as possible in the opposite direction, they jump up and down and clap their hands! So...they've already called a meeting for Monday evening! If I know these two, we'll have it up and prepared for May 1st after all! I think that's all I needed was some real support and I wasn't getting any before. I can't say as I'm looking forward to it yet, but I do feel as though some of the load is off my mind.

Oh, one more tid-bit to share before I get to work. Years ago when I started as organist at our church there was no light on the organ so I went out and bought one. It was just a standard desk type with an adjustable arm. With the new organ in place, the light that I had was shining right in one of our violinist's eyes and giving her migraines. I tried adjusting it every which way, but just couldn't come up with anything that helped and I couldn't see well enough without light. Hubby and I did research and searched on ebay for something that would work, but nothing was tall enough to get over the top of the music on the rack. We found the perfect one, designed for organs, but at nearly $400.00! We sent the link to Pastor at his request and he said we could use the organ fund, but that still hasn't been paid off and has probably another 2 years to go before it is. Hubby wanted me to have one right away and wanted something that would last and serve not only me, but keep me from having to listen to complaints and sighs. He took some of his referee checks and ordered it. He didn't tell me, he just set it on the organ for me to find when I went to practice this week. I cried buckets of tears! It's so bright, yet shines only on my music and the keys and doesn't disrupt the rest of the room. It covers the entire music rack, so no more dark spots in the music!

Hubby loves me!