Heh

So maybe instead of posting every day this month, I have *A* post for every day this month, even if it's not on the actual day. In the past couple days I've gone in and back dated a few mini posts from when I was traveling. I think it's fine. The main point for me really is just to be writing more, and to show myself I can do something again. We'll see how it works when I'm in Peru.

My singing teacher commented today that since our break from lessons a few months ago, I've come back stronger, with more confidence and range. Even though I haven't really done much actual vocal work aside from about 10 or 15 minutes with a master voice coach at song camp this summer, I HAVE been doing other music/self type of work. The method my teacher uses is all about the whole body, and it's true, all the parts, mental and emotional included are related and affect the voice. I played her a couple of my newer-ish songs that she liked as well, but I hadn't brought the print outs so she could really look at them. Next time. I feel pretty good about them already, but sometimes a little tweak or two can bump them up to the next level.

We did some good cleaning tonight downstairs. We invited some friends over Saturday for a Bourne movie marathon where we plan to watch all three of them in a row. Between having them over and a potential houseguest during part of the time we are gone I'm taking that motivation to try and do some deeper cleaning and organizing. So much to do, but I know that once we get back that cleaning motivation will probably be gone until or unless we have some other party... We'll see how far we get.

My mom ordered us a supplement that a friend of hers swears by for preventing altitude sickness. She did not mention, so perhaps she didn't know, that it contains both sheep and cow spleen?!?! Ugh. One other time in my life I took some supplement that I believe had some kind of cow part because my chiropractor said it really was the best thing for whatever I was working to heal at that time. It creeps me out, but I'd much rather take it now than end up in the hospital in Peru like my mom did on her last trip because of the altitude. Who's to say I'll be affected the same by the altitude, but it's not a risk I want to take.

My "novel" is creeping along. I'm doing my best not to judge and just write, which is the point of NaNoWriMo. The editor can come back later. I hear it pushing for more concrete details, begging me to sketch out a plot structure, but that's what they say you probably shouldn't do, just keep writing. Sigh. The whole trip thing is really going to get in the way of all my writing. We'll see what happens.