Happy New Year (and other random things)!
Happy New Year, Yankee Hobbit Fans!
Yes, I know it has been almost a month. But, I've been busy, I swear!
To those of you who braved the booze-fueled crazies for Ars Lyrica Houston's First Annual New Year's Eve concert and silent auction, thank you for coming and we hope you had a great time! The concert itself was, if I may say so myself, right nice. We brought in a Baroque flutist, Colin St. Martin, from Peabody. He was the shizznit! Just amazing! And a lovely guy to boot. I assayed one of Bach's less well-known Italian secular cantatas, BWV 209, "Non sa che sia dolore." What a lovely piece! And I enjoyed performing it with Colin and the rest of the band.
Afterwards we hosted a gala reception and silent auction. Rather well attended, successful, I'm told. Great things that got snapped up for (hopefully) lots of cashola.
Afterwards afterwards, a certain occasionally unwise soprano invited the performers and the board to her place for an afterparty. What was she thinking? But it was fun too. Even if I did have to kick the last person out at 5:45 a.m.
My first Amahl and the Night Visitors was also a phenomenal experience. Total shout out to my Amahl, 10-year old Adam Sadberry from Conroe. He rocked it!
Random things to begin your year:
- Cooked cauliflower and cottage cheese tastes like mashed potatoes. No lie!
- The Beefeaters are about to get the first female member in their 500+ year history.
- Where have I been on the George Foreman grill thing? Amazing.
- Sometimes things you buy from the television are good buys. Like the Ultimate Chopper.
- It is possible not to patronize Chick-Fil-A. Even when it's right down the street.
- The extra money it costs to shop at Whole Wallet is worth being able to get an actual butcher/fish person to "hep ya wit' yer meat."
- Arsenic used to be known as "inheritance powder" because impatient heirs would use it to bump off their elders. This would be before it was detectable in corpses.
- There was an indigenous Caucasian race in Japan called Ainu. They have been assimilated.
- Those last two are courtesy of one of my Christmas toys, the 2007 Fact or Crap calendar. They would be facts, not crap.
Yes, I know it has been almost a month. But, I've been busy, I swear!
To those of you who braved the booze-fueled crazies for Ars Lyrica Houston's First Annual New Year's Eve concert and silent auction, thank you for coming and we hope you had a great time! The concert itself was, if I may say so myself, right nice. We brought in a Baroque flutist, Colin St. Martin, from Peabody. He was the shizznit! Just amazing! And a lovely guy to boot. I assayed one of Bach's less well-known Italian secular cantatas, BWV 209, "Non sa che sia dolore." What a lovely piece! And I enjoyed performing it with Colin and the rest of the band.
Afterwards we hosted a gala reception and silent auction. Rather well attended, successful, I'm told. Great things that got snapped up for (hopefully) lots of cashola.
Afterwards afterwards, a certain occasionally unwise soprano invited the performers and the board to her place for an afterparty. What was she thinking? But it was fun too. Even if I did have to kick the last person out at 5:45 a.m.
My first Amahl and the Night Visitors was also a phenomenal experience. Total shout out to my Amahl, 10-year old Adam Sadberry from Conroe. He rocked it!
Random things to begin your year:
- Cooked cauliflower and cottage cheese tastes like mashed potatoes. No lie!
- The Beefeaters are about to get the first female member in their 500+ year history.
- Where have I been on the George Foreman grill thing? Amazing.
- Sometimes things you buy from the television are good buys. Like the Ultimate Chopper.
- It is possible not to patronize Chick-Fil-A. Even when it's right down the street.
- The extra money it costs to shop at Whole Wallet is worth being able to get an actual butcher/fish person to "hep ya wit' yer meat."
- Arsenic used to be known as "inheritance powder" because impatient heirs would use it to bump off their elders. This would be before it was detectable in corpses.
- There was an indigenous Caucasian race in Japan called Ainu. They have been assimilated.
- Those last two are courtesy of one of my Christmas toys, the 2007 Fact or Crap calendar. They would be facts, not crap.
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