Fridays make me happy and other things do too.

I'm sort of thinking that I might need to rename this blog "Random thoughts from the red velvet sofa" because I'm nowhere near the piano bench when I write these.  And so far (ok, this is only my second posting) nothing's really been about music either.  Who knows, maybe that will change in a few moments.  And while I am here purely for my own entertainment, I now feel some pressure to produce.  Ahem, thanks Casey.  ;)  I only hope I can entertain you as much as I entertain myself.   

Things to be happy about today:

1.  A finished invertible counterpoint project! Yay!  

2.  There is snow, so it's lookin' like Christmas.

3.  Last week I was importing some pictures from my kick-ass Nikon S-10 digital camera (perhaps you've seen me with it, playing with the rotating lens, since that is, after the macro and amazing zoom, my single-most favorite feature of the camera) and iPhoto freaked out on me and beach-balled for like 45 minutes.  Long story short, I thought I lost some photos, including Misty Plum rolling over 100,000 miles, and a very cute video of my 3-year old nephew saying, "California, here we come!" (Cars is his favorite movie.)  That was pretty sad, actually.  Just now, as I am trying to upload my Happy Gnome photo, I found the very photos and movie that I thought were lost forever.  Yay! 

4.  It is the beginning of the weekend, Hallelujah.  Friday is my favorite day of the week.  

Things to be less happy about today:

1.  An invertible counterpoint project that could be more convincing musically.  Ah well.  

2.  There's snow, on top of the ice, and people around here frankly are not the greatest of drivers.  

3.  I am dreadfully behind in my German homework.  Dreadfully.  Dread. Full. Ly.  

4.  The cold that arrived on Sunday and which I thought I'd successfully curtailed by eating chicken soup, drinking lots of herbal tea, taking vitamin C by the pound, and sleeping all day Monday, has returned.  Drats!  I think it's all the recycled air in the Voxman Music Building.  It's like being in an airplane.  Really what I should be doing right now is taking a nap.   Instead, here I am.  

So in a continuation of things that make me happy, I'm going to list some favorite pieces of music.  This will most certainly have future addenda.  I hope you comment (if there really are people other than me who read this) and add some of your favorite pieces too.

Favorite pieces of All Time and Space:

(in no particular order)

Oh, look!  Blogger has a function where a person can list her favorite things.  See list on right.