January 16, 2006

It's Monday morning. My student text messaged me that she wasn't coming to her lesson, which means I have a free day! I want to be productive..I have good intentions of being productive. We'll see what happens today.

My mega recital was on Thursday and ever since I've been down. I mean, not sad down..just off. It's been nice. Everything went well at my recital, although I was tired by the end. Lame. I listened to the recording last night and the Brahms Songs arr. Verne Reynolds came out excellent. Also, the Mozart sounds almost good enough for a marketable CD, but not quite. My next project is to make a CD I can sell here. There is so little available in Thailand because of importation taxes. Also, if I do masterclasses/recitals at other venues I can sell a CD there too. This is all part of my plan to rule the world with the French horn. HA!

The morning of my recital was hilarious..of course not at the time. I bought bottles of corona for my colleagues that played in my recital. They were sitting quietly in a plastic bag on our tv stand when Cheddar decided to sniff them out. As soon as Dave and I saw his head through the hand holder we approached him to take him off but instead, he jumped. He took all 4 bottles and himself down to the ground. The bottles broke and poured beer all over the floor and it took Cheddar a few seconds of freakin' out before he got free. The poor guy cut up his paw pads pretty bad so we had to take him in to get some antibiotics. He's fine now. His wounds are healing. I'm sure licking off the beer helped take the pain away. HAHA!

We're working on summer plans right now (Summer being March and April). Dave will be back at Eastman to finish up classes and I'll be around. I can't wait to be in the U.S. again. It's been since July and I'm dying for a taste of home.