Progression Scales

Here is the latest on the piano front. I know you were itching to know. I finally have it all sanded, but the bench. I am hoping to get it all stained this weekend. I need to get this finished. I desperately miss playing and I am not very good at having uncompleted projects laying around the house unless you count scrap booking, but who is ever really caught up on scrap booking?

THEN

NOW!

Are you wondering if it will every play again?.... So am I.

Metalmas

Ok, I totally forgot that the only reason I posted the Christmas spot yesterday was because I made the most glorious discovery. A heavy metal Christmas CD. Now before you all start booing.... listen. It is a little irreverant. This I know, but in listening to it I found myself in tears. Not because I was especially moved, but because I couldn't keep from laughing. It was after 12 O'clock, which may have had something to do with it. However, I just listened to it again and it still strikes my funny bone with such force I can't stop smiling. I found it on iTunes. It's called We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year. I hope it brings you love and laughter all through the year. I just found it on Amazon too.

Christmas in the Air

I know. I know. It's not even Halloween yet, but I love Christmas music and I am already on the hunt for my new CD. I purchase a new Christmas CD every year and in my searching I have come across two that I love. Mostly because they have a different sound with mixes of classic songs and their own creations. I thought to myself, "I simply must share."

http://www.castingcrowns.com/music.htm, "Peace On Earth"

and

http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=4023, "Come Darkness, Come Light 12 Songs for Christmas.Some of my past favorite finds include:

Lifescapes Celtic Christmas


Jewel - Joy: A Holiday Collection


Now the dilemma, which one to buy.... maybe I will just have to get both of them.

"The best and worst humanity offers"

Due to recent events in my life I have developed an overwhelming desire to achieve self discovery. I know. . . you may be thinking, "What on earth is she talking about?" All my life I have had this innate desire to be known and understood. Not just surface feel good stuff, but really known. "How I like my potatoes and what kind of toothpaste I use." (A Mirror Has Two Faces) I have had a personal epiphany that if I want others to understand me, it may be beneficial to understand myself.

In my quest I have been reading every book I can get my hands on to understand how I communicate or how to communicate better, how to connect in relationships, what drives me, how do I make decisions, why to I make the choices I make? Has my past shaped my future? Oooo! Deep questions. I don't know if I have simply frustrated myself more or if I am really making progress in my new path to self discovery.

This is what I have discovered from my most recent read:

"I am a highly complex individual with many extremes. The best and worst humanity has to offer. I have such influential strengths and debilitating limitations." (Dr. Hartman's, The People Code) How do you like them apples? Basically, The People Code is the color code book, aka the Red, Blue, Yellow and White personality test. My core personality is blue, but I have two strong secondary personalities. How do you have more than one personality? Now you know why I am "complex with many extremes".

What personality type are you? Check and see at http://www.thecolorcode.com/

"Sing us a song, you're the pianoman"

I've done it! I have joined the mad, mad world of bloggers. My sister started one in order for family and friends to keep up with the goings on for her and her family. I thought to myself, "that is a good idea". It is fun to read about her cute kids. I don't have any cute kids to blog about, but I'm practically a kid, so I will do my best to be entertaining.

These last few weeks I have been attempting to refinish my piano. "What?" You might be thinking. Well.... I am thinking the same thing now that I have pieces of it strewn from one corner of the garage to the other. Most people start out with small projects when they decide to refinish something, but since when have I ever been known to think small. As my mother would say, "You've got to think big!" So, I have completely stripped down my piano to the bare bones. The keys are sitting in a bucket waiting a new face and the rest is in pieces waiting for some abrasive treatment from your handy sandpaper man. My only hope is that I will remember how to put it back together. Oy! There sure are a lot of pieces inside a piano. I am not so worried about remembering where the pieces go, but I have an awful lot of screws. All different sizes. That will be the test of my genius. I discovered there are not little men running around inside the piano striking strings with mallets whenever you press a key as my childhood mind supposed. Just lots of metal pegs, padded wood and wire.
It is fascinating invention. All the stringed instruments are the genius of a beautiful mind. The piano we are most familiar with, was originally invented by Bartolomeo Christifori, http://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Piano#Early_history. One of my favorite piano pieces, Christofori's Dream, was composed by David Lantz with this invention in mind. The string family are my favorite instruments. They create harmony and sound that strike the inner workings of my very soul.

Okay enough of that mush and syrup. I just wanted to show how grotesque the inside of my piano looks. I found 63 cents, 10 bobby pins, 5 straight pins, an orange ball and more dust and griminess than I care to expose. I think some kids poored juice and mac & cheese in there just to see what it would do.

I'll keep you "posted" (ah ha ha) on the happenings on the piano front. Until then... TTFN.