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Jan. 14th, 2013 04:49 pmShockingly enough, Saturday was a B-flat day, although the break between my chest voice and my head voice was very broken. I sounded like a teenage boy whose voice is changing. However, once I got past those two notes, it was all good. Given that, and the fact that we've figured out that I don't run out of air when I don't use vibrato, it was a really good lesson.
Today my sinuses finally decided to drain. Thank goodness. Breathing in is good, but breathing in AND out is better. And not having to be within six feet of a box of tissues at all times is a revelation. Now if I could just convert some oxygen into energy, and stop feeling flattened at the end of the day, I'd be in a much better frame of mind. Last week isn't really a fair comparison, though, because we had P&R. That always flattens me, Mongolian Death Cold or not. This week should be better in all sorts of directions. I'll be rather disappointed if it isn't.
I finished the geisha over the weekend, but I'm going to wait on getting her framed until after I do my taxes. Framing embroidery falls under "mad money", which is what I'm allowed to do with part of any tax refund I get. A couple of things have changed since last year, though, and I'm not sure I'm going to get any refund at all this year. I probably make too much money now that my student loan is paid off and I can't claim the interest deduction. (But I did sign up to have the loan-payment amount put in my retirement account before taxes, whereas I used to pay the loan from what I took home after taxes, so we'll see what happens.) However, all that tax stuff has to wait until I get the W2 and the "yes, I have health insurance" form. For some reason, the insurance form annoys me more than anything else that has to do with taxes. Why can't they just have a checkbox for "same insurance info as last year"?
In cheerier news, the days are getting longer. It's only sort of medium-dark blue out at 5:00 these days, instead of pitch black. Only another couple of months until the clocks change again and I can get indoors and upstairs at home without turning the light on.
Today my sinuses finally decided to drain. Thank goodness. Breathing in is good, but breathing in AND out is better. And not having to be within six feet of a box of tissues at all times is a revelation. Now if I could just convert some oxygen into energy, and stop feeling flattened at the end of the day, I'd be in a much better frame of mind. Last week isn't really a fair comparison, though, because we had P&R. That always flattens me, Mongolian Death Cold or not. This week should be better in all sorts of directions. I'll be rather disappointed if it isn't.
I finished the geisha over the weekend, but I'm going to wait on getting her framed until after I do my taxes. Framing embroidery falls under "mad money", which is what I'm allowed to do with part of any tax refund I get. A couple of things have changed since last year, though, and I'm not sure I'm going to get any refund at all this year. I probably make too much money now that my student loan is paid off and I can't claim the interest deduction. (But I did sign up to have the loan-payment amount put in my retirement account before taxes, whereas I used to pay the loan from what I took home after taxes, so we'll see what happens.) However, all that tax stuff has to wait until I get the W2 and the "yes, I have health insurance" form. For some reason, the insurance form annoys me more than anything else that has to do with taxes. Why can't they just have a checkbox for "same insurance info as last year"?
In cheerier news, the days are getting longer. It's only sort of medium-dark blue out at 5:00 these days, instead of pitch black. Only another couple of months until the clocks change again and I can get indoors and upstairs at home without turning the light on.
