darkpurplemusic

I am an elementary music teacher and as such I take my instruments up to school and use them to teach the children.  I actually had to count up the number of instruments I own for one class today...

1. Six clarinets ( C, A, Bass and three Bb.. only two of which work and only one is really a top quality horn.  Of the other two I'm going to make a lamp out of one and the other one is going to be sold at the beginning of school next year.  It will be a great beginner/inter horn.)
2. Two flutes (normal and a wooden Renaissance flute)
3. One Oboe
4. Three recorders (soprano, alto and tenor)
5. One Cello

I don't think that 13 instruments are too much... I think that 14 is a better number though...lol.

What is worse the little darlings asked me how long I have been playing my bass clarinet... 31 years.  They can't get their heads around an age that is that large.  lol.

All I seem to do here is complain or ask for voting on photos... well I'm going to try to refrain from the complaining this year so here is the request for the vote.

http://jpgmag.com/photos/45636

Thanks!

1. MAKE TIME FOR ME!  I have a goal of taking and posting a picture a day for the next year. The first one is done...why be ordinary and start on 1/1/07...no I started my year on 12/31/06...lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedarkpurplemusicgroup/sets/72157594450542022/

Happy Solstice. I was lucky enough to be able to have dinner last night with dear friends at one of my favorite restaurants. Then join other friends while they played jazz. What a way to start Winter!

Hope that all have a wonderful and well winter.

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It's a great day to have a birthday. Hope that it's a good day for you today!

Happy Birthdaytheoldone !

This is the part of the process that everyone dreads. The waiting. The submission process and voting Issue 8 has closed for the JPG Magazine and we won't find out which of the over 2600 photos will be published until January.

I have always found this time as one of hope. I'm not out yet and my photos were as good as any others on the site... well some were really awesome so maybe I should say as good as most...smile. There is hope and Issue 9, wink.

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The last two post did not go though as I expected... they are links for JPG Magazine. I'm trying to get some of my photos published.

smile

Have posted some of the most current photos from a session with a jazz band this week.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedarkpurplemusicgroup/

They are a cool group of guys that play at the Deco Lounge in Houston (corner of Gray and Brazos) on Wednesday nights. They needed some shots for publicity but didn't want the standard "here's the band type thing".

Some of the photos are really good, if I do say so myself.

What type of Fae are you?

Yup that's me all over. It's hard to get to the grudge stage but "Once my good opinion is lost; it is lost for good."

Well she is good enough to get out of ICU and be in a regular room but they still can't stabilize her blood pressure so she will be there for a while longer. I know where I'm spending Thanksgiving...smile.

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Yesterday, was the second time that Daniel and I got KFC on a Friday because there was nothing in the house and we really didn't want to brave the crowd at the other restaurants. The first time his mother fell and broke her other hip and was in the ER when we got home and the second time (yesterday) we get a 3am phone call and she's back in the ER because she can't breath. It was congestive heart problems caused by fluid in her lungs and around her heart. So up to the hospital we go.

By the time we got down to Clear Lake she was stable and the resting. She was admitted to the ICU about 5:30am and we went home to start our day. Which consisted of going back up to the hospital twice more because she wouldn't do what the staff asked her to do and was calling the nurses "bitches." The word of a 92 year old woman; not mine. The only good thing about her complaining is that she is feeling a lot better!

I'm dead tired and trying to see what medication to take for the headache... can't tell what type it is right now. Goddess I'm tied.

So, the moral to the story is NO KFC ON FRIDAYS.

To the shock and surprise of my friends I actually did vote. Even though I don't think that my vote will make a difference in the long run. At least I will now have the right to bitch with everyone else.

Not feeling very patriotic even though it's 4 days away from Veterans Day.

sigh

Well, I got the corset finished and was able to wear it. Turned out to be tits on a shelve but hey. Found out something else... I don't trust people when they are complimenting me. It's ok when it's my work but I got quite a few compliments about the girls. I was a little uncomfortable about it and realized that I wasn't sure if they were just being nice or what. I will say that they were really out there...lol.