Welcome to my Crazy Life

"If you want to know who we are.... we are the citizens of Japan..."
Ah... the sound Gilbert and Sullivans Mikado.

I'm not exactly sure from whence that came, but it dwells in my head like those wonderful Christmas songs that have already been too long playing in the various shopping facilities.

I hope that this blog will reflect the craziness of my life--or lack thereof. I guess it's only as crazy as I make it. It strange to think that my undergraduate degree is in Music Education... and although I teach lessons, and my daughter is already banging on the piano and singing at the top of her lungs, I don't know if music is my passion--my thing. Although, playing oboe is fantastic--and I love making reeds. So there's something in there somewhere...

For now, I'm embarking on a quest to obtain a master's degree in Library Science. One might consider it crazy that I'm going to be doing this whilst working full time, teaching 6 lessons a week, and trying to raise a daughter just entering the realm of terrible twos. However, maybe I need a shot more of the crazy in my life.

You'd think moving a whole library, and having a new supervisor, and a very new job description might cause me to hesitate in the area of adding more things to my plate... however (and maybe foolishly) I have applied and been accepted to start this...(oh did I mention?) online program. Hopefully I will be able to live up to it!

So.. after a particularly (seemingly to me) unproductive day I decided to come home and make chicken stock. In the pot goes the onions and carrots and celery and spices and garlic and oh.. the chicken! Then I made turkey salad for sandwhiches, and then finally then, I made something else entirely for dinner... all because I didn't have time enough to make bread. (For some reason, the yeast expects you to wait several hours (depending on the recipe) for it to rise. I then proceeded to do some christmas shopping (I'm trying to avoid stores this year) and give my silly singing daughter a bath.

Speaking of my silly daughter who so lovingly dumps cups of water onto the dry bathroom floor, I've never heard her do this before...

While i'm in the midst of my cooking extravaganza Scianna decides to plunk herself down on her Noah's Ark stool and start picking out some rather discordant notes on the keyboard. This is normal. She usually likes to play around on the keyboard. However, today she accompanied the playing with some loud bellowing that almost resembled one of the songs she hears so frequently on the muppet show (and now in talking about it has overtaken the mikado in my head). She is very cute. I can't get over her ability to (except when she's bellowing) keep pitch and some resemblance of time.

Scianna also has this funny habit of saying, "NOTHING" when asked, "what are you doing". It is often followed by "just playing". I'm wondering if this is something that she picked up from the other kidlings at her daycare provider's house. She did pick up the ABC's there afterall... well trying to say them. Usually it ends up... "Now I know my EFG's... " So Cute!

Coincidentally, I could go on for hours about how many interesting things my child does, but really... I should be going to bed. Sleeping... And getting on with the excitement of tomorrow...

Hopefully there will be more ramblings to come...