Productive Day

Mom talks politics a lot. Last night, I said that I was keeping my head down, working and taking my music classes, and avoiding politics. Is that wrong? I read news from five different sources though (New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, BBC, and The Guardian).

Got up a little late, so I'm doing an abbreviated version of my morning routine. I'll get the rest of the stuff done after Italian and my singing class. Italian is an hour earlier because I asked for it a half-hour earlier because of the singing class, and another student said that she'd like it an hour earlier. The other student hasn't responded. I hope that she'll see the message.

The other person in my Italian class came a little late because she just got the message that we were starting earlier. Italian was hard today. We were working on directions in a city. I need to study more.

Had my voice class. We were working on stretches to open up the body (specifically the diaphragm and rib cage). I found some of them hard, but I've been trying vocal warm ups and I do sound more resonant. I feel wide awake now though, and I was going to have lunch and take a nap!

Zara likes to lie with part of her touching me when I lie in bed. Aww. But it's probably because she likes my body heat.

I just had a flashback to a shopping center in Kahului on Maui, Hawaii. Oh, I want to go back.

When I'm in the middle of a dream, sometimes I won't hear the alarm. I dreamed a business idea in which you'd deliver coffee or hot chocolate, a newspaper, or flowers to a person in the morning. But that would require getting up early so that's not for me. I'm looking into a vibrating alarm clock for those times that I absolutely have to wake up early.

I watched the people with the four cats on Facebook, who were playing Hot Wheels with their cats on a Facebook Live. Facebook is my time sink.

Got the garbage out, although they probably won't pick it up tomorrow because it's a holiday.

Got a lemon pound cake in the oven. I'm looking for a big plastic bowl that I used to use for salads, but I can't find it. I guess that I'll have to use the bowl that's in the dishwasher, so I guess that I'll chop up the strawberries and kiwi, and wait to tear up the spinach until tomorrow. No, I found the bowl. Made the salad. It looks yummy, and it's waiting in the fridge for lunch tomorrow. The pound cake is cooling.

Practiced piano and guitar. The guitar C chord is still driving me crazy. I practiced it until I was ready to throw the guitar across the room.

Watched My Octopus Teacher on NetFlix. It was amazing, though sad at the end. Well worth seeing.

More Productivity

The teacher of the voice class says that we need gauze for an exercise. I might have some in my first aid kit? We're wrapping our tongues in gauze. Weird.

Got up and threw laundry in. Now I've fed myself and the girls and threw laundry in the dryer. Now Mimi has settled on my lap.

Found a blog from some people who are hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Must read it.

Had a nice nap. The salad was good, although I put too much dressing on it. Threw myself together and watered the garden.

Had the voice class. We were working on relaxing the tongue and the gauze was to pull gently on the tongue. It told me the same thing that the other teacher said, there isn't a lot of tension in my tongue, except when I sing high notes. The teacher said to work my way up in relaxing the tongue for high notes.

Ran to the store to get lemons to make more salad dressing. Had a bite to eat. Zara apparently likes lemon pound cake. Strange cat :) Mimi is on my lap again.

Soaked a litter box in the tub. Soaked dishes in the sink and scrubbed the side of the sink where I keep my dish drainer. Cleaned off my kitchen table. Decluttered the area around my kitchen table. Swept near the kitchen table.

I've decided not to make dinner (chicken breasts, broccoli, and mashed cauliflower) tonight but to keep cleaning and have soup if I get hungry. Quicker and low cal.

I'm boiling hot, but it's too cool outside to turn the a/c on. I suppose that I could open a window, but I'm afraid that it will get too cold at night. It's only 60 F. I could step outside and literally chill.

I'm going to have some soup, practice, and go to sleep. I need to get up early for a webinar, but I'm taking the rest of the day off and can take a nap.