It has been a busy week
Dec. 15th, 2012 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaLast Sunday morning we went in costume to the movie theater with others from Frostheim, where people were waiting in line to buy their tickets to the Hobbit premire, and entertained them a bit. Then, in the afternoon we had the choir "Julton" performance in town, at the big brick church. It was rather different from last year, when we were performing in the smaller blue church. Last year it was just two choirs joining together, and it took an hour or two out of the day. This year there were rather more choirs performing, and we had to performances at both 16:00 and 19:00, but we needed to arrive at 13:30 for the rehearsal, which meant spending over five hours there, to sing three songs on our and four with the other choirs. This was a rather large chunk of time. We had fun anyway, of course, but there are other things we would have liked to have done with part of Sunday, too.
Monday was my birthday and nyckleharpa class in the evening. Since it is the last class before we break for the holidays it was more of a music session than a lesson, and we brought a cake to share. Normally I like to bake a new birthday cake for my birthday, since I love to eat cake batter, but there was simply no time this year. Luckily, we had backed cake one day last month, and decided at the time that we didn't need to eat both layers by ourselves, so we popped one into the freezer. We took it out of the freezer in the morning and went off to work for the day (I love my walk to work!) This meant that we had just enough time after work to split the cake, blend some mango with raspberries and cream to fill the middle, then frost the cake with freshly whipped cream, and decorate it with sliced kiwi fruit, blueberries, strawberry, and raspberries before we had to head to class. My but they were surprised when we showed up with it, in the nice fancy glass cake plate. They had made lussebullar and pepperkaker, so the mid-class break had rather more food to share than normal. Sort of made me wish I was hungry/interested in food in the evenings. However, since there was so much to choose from it meant that there was some cake left over for me to have at lunch the next day.
Tuesday evening was choir, which was our last rehearsal for Wednesday morning's Lucia choir performance.
Wednesday evening we went to see the Hobbit, in costume, because we had free tickets from being entertainment on Sunday morning.
Thursday we got up at at 05:00, so we could be at uni by 06:30 so that we would be in costume and ready for the 07:30 performance. After the performance, followed by more lussebullar and pepperkaker, I went and did some microscope work, followed by picking up my holiday gift from the Uni. This year the uni presented us all new carry on suitcases, and mine came with a bonus package--a hand-held battery operated luggage scale (good up to 50 kg). Today they sent an email explaining that the orders had been placed at different times, and that as a result some suitcases came with an extra something, and if we happened to have gotten one think of it as a lottery win.
Thursday evening we hosted the party for the choir at our place. This was much fun. Eight of the kids made it out, and we played twister (I did really well there--daily yoga helps), another fun game that involves singing an entire verse of a song that starts with the letter provided before someone on the other team started singing one starting with that letter. As we played I felt like our team was well behind, but, at the end of the alphabet (which we went through in random order) our team was only one point behind. We also did a little medieval dancing to show them what it was like.
Today I worked from home, and was glad I did--there had been a fair bit of snow + wind during the night, so it would have been a harder than usual walk. Indeed, all of the paths we had shoved in the yard here had disappeared in the night between the fresh snow and the wind redistributing the older snow. I opted not to bother doing any shoveling during the day, because I wanted to wait till closer to when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar got home from work. That turned out to give me an unexpected advantage, as I mentioned earlier, as we have the best neighbour.
lord_kjar got home after 19:00 tonight, and I rather expected him to be too tired to do anything besides sleep this evening. Much to my delight, he came home motivated, so we finally attached the back to the paperback bookshelf in the bedroom, and added hooks to the back to hang clothes from, and put up a lamp in my new walk-in closet. Only one very full week after the shelves were built...
And you know what is really great? We have almost nothing on the calender this weekend--we just need to clean the apartment on Saturday and go to folk music on Sunday...
Monday was my birthday and nyckleharpa class in the evening. Since it is the last class before we break for the holidays it was more of a music session than a lesson, and we brought a cake to share. Normally I like to bake a new birthday cake for my birthday, since I love to eat cake batter, but there was simply no time this year. Luckily, we had backed cake one day last month, and decided at the time that we didn't need to eat both layers by ourselves, so we popped one into the freezer. We took it out of the freezer in the morning and went off to work for the day (I love my walk to work!) This meant that we had just enough time after work to split the cake, blend some mango with raspberries and cream to fill the middle, then frost the cake with freshly whipped cream, and decorate it with sliced kiwi fruit, blueberries, strawberry, and raspberries before we had to head to class. My but they were surprised when we showed up with it, in the nice fancy glass cake plate. They had made lussebullar and pepperkaker, so the mid-class break had rather more food to share than normal. Sort of made me wish I was hungry/interested in food in the evenings. However, since there was so much to choose from it meant that there was some cake left over for me to have at lunch the next day.
Tuesday evening was choir, which was our last rehearsal for Wednesday morning's Lucia choir performance.
Wednesday evening we went to see the Hobbit, in costume, because we had free tickets from being entertainment on Sunday morning.
Thursday we got up at at 05:00, so we could be at uni by 06:30 so that we would be in costume and ready for the 07:30 performance. After the performance, followed by more lussebullar and pepperkaker, I went and did some microscope work, followed by picking up my holiday gift from the Uni. This year the uni presented us all new carry on suitcases, and mine came with a bonus package--a hand-held battery operated luggage scale (good up to 50 kg). Today they sent an email explaining that the orders had been placed at different times, and that as a result some suitcases came with an extra something, and if we happened to have gotten one think of it as a lottery win.
Thursday evening we hosted the party for the choir at our place. This was much fun. Eight of the kids made it out, and we played twister (I did really well there--daily yoga helps), another fun game that involves singing an entire verse of a song that starts with the letter provided before someone on the other team started singing one starting with that letter. As we played I felt like our team was well behind, but, at the end of the alphabet (which we went through in random order) our team was only one point behind. We also did a little medieval dancing to show them what it was like.
Today I worked from home, and was glad I did--there had been a fair bit of snow + wind during the night, so it would have been a harder than usual walk. Indeed, all of the paths we had shoved in the yard here had disappeared in the night between the fresh snow and the wind redistributing the older snow. I opted not to bother doing any shoveling during the day, because I wanted to wait till closer to when
lord_kjar got home from work. That turned out to give me an unexpected advantage, as I mentioned earlier, as we have the best neighbour.lord_kjar got home after 19:00 tonight, and I rather expected him to be too tired to do anything besides sleep this evening. Much to my delight, he came home motivated, so we finally attached the back to the paperback bookshelf in the bedroom, and added hooks to the back to hang clothes from, and put up a lamp in my new walk-in closet. Only one very full week after the shelves were built...And you know what is really great? We have almost nothing on the calender this weekend--we just need to clean the apartment on Saturday and go to folk music on Sunday...