5/6 Something to think about...

[Billie]

"It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we
play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes
your heart sing."

*Marcia Wiede

Hey it's the weekend! Time to do some things to make your heart sing! Take sometime for some joy! :thumbsup:

We are headed to coffee with friends and then taking the dog and participating in an "arf-ritis walk. A dear friend's daughter has juvenile arthritis, so what a fun thing to do on a beautiful morning, albeit a bit chilly. My pelvic bone has slipped a bit as it does evry couple years, but you know I am going to take some advil and get walking, what a good reminder the people with severe arthritis face everyday.

What's on your schedule to make your heart sing today? Someoutside time? Planting flowers? Soccer, lacrose baseball games with the kids? Whatever it is, take the time to find the joy today in your heart, what a gift!

Have a great day!
B

[Bellgirl]

It's a gorgeous, sunny but cool day here too. I WILL get out for a walk, later. Right now I'm winding down after a baccalaureate mass that my students played for. It's always a culminating point for our school year and such an uplifting event. Three seniors sang the most beautiful trio during communion (The Servant Song) and it brought me to tears as I thought about how much I will miss the graduating students! We have a lot of 5th and 6th year seniors, and we get pretty attached to them over that time!

My youngest son worked all night at a brand new job and he's here sleeping on the couch now, so we may have a little together time later. DH is at a men's retreat so I'm happy for the company. My own nap is definitely on the horizon... soon!

[gitfiddle]

Hey it's the weekend! Time to do some things to make your heart sing! Take sometime for some joy! :thumbsup:
Hey, I started my weekend last night with a string-band jam, singing and playing music with friends. I get geeked about music. DH and DS and I were all in the kitchen today, sharing our latest accomplishments. We all had the same giddy feeling, but about TOTALLY different projects. It was a bonding moment, for sure.

Today has been more about housekeeping.:rolleyes: The dish guy came and told us we can't get the local tv channel satellite because of tree branches in the way of the signal. We had the channels, but they switched them to a different satellite.:peeved: Think I'll go sit in my recliner and read the paper.

[Mitra]

I'm finding this a hard one to take on board, because I'm feeling so tired at the moment - the tail end of the bug I had last week, I think. But my parents are calling in tomorrow (staying overnight on their way home from a week in Rome), and yesterday was my father's birthday, so we'll have a small celebration, and a nice dinner (which is all planned) so I should manage a bit more of a lift tomorrow :).

[LisaS]

so far today the dogs have each had a good long brushing, a bath, and a damp comb out - tonight we'll trim feet & do nails. Whew.

did my heart sing? not exactly - but it was pleasant this morning to just sit and brush the dogs, in a zen kinda way.

[SherryJ]

Hey, I started my weekend last night with a string-band jam

You know? When you read that fast, Carol, makes one wonder "what's string bean jam"?!??!?!?! :lol:

Ohhhhh, I'm so tired, everything's funny! Which is good, 'cause we're about to go to friends for the evening...

Billie, my time today was spent singing in three different nursing homes... How special to see some of those people perk up, and sing along with us... and, how sad to see them go back to their "usual faces" when we were done... Amazing...

Sherry

[Billie]

Stevie, sounds like a wonderful bacaulerate Mass and celebration!

Carol sounds like a great day!

Janet, hope you feel like yourself when you awake dear one! Celebrate those milestones--that darn tooth of yours!

Sherri baby but you brought happiness while you were there, sometimes we can't ask for more than that, great for you and marvelous for all of them! How cool!:nod:

[SherryJ]

Thanks, Billie...

[Bellgirl]

I'm always amazed at all the singers around here! And Sherry, isn't it amazing when everything else is gone, how the old hymns and songs remain in peoples' minds?

Carol, I sure would love to hear you sing and play! I always wanted to learn mandolin. At today's mass there was a mandolin player; he wasn't close enough to a mic, so I never heard him. Does your group do public concerts or just house concerts for fun?

Tomorrow is my other college group's last service of the year; they have had a busy spring and we're all ready for the end! My schedule will be two rehearsals lighter starting Monday. Yay!!!

[SherryJ]

Indeed it is, Stevie...

[hawk]

I had two grandsons here for a sleep over last night. We took them to soccor games and after we came home I went out a bought them new bathing suits and then took them to the Y to swim. I challenged the 8 year old to swim with me for 1/4 mile(18 laps) one way. He accepted and we swam side by side.:D . Each time you lap you move a bead on a string at the end of the lap lane. 9 beads is a quarter of a mile. He had only swam one length before this. Then we went to a cook out to commemorate my brother graduating from college. A great day.

[Mitra]

Janet, hope you feel like yourself when you awake dear one! Celebrate those milestones--that darn tooth of yours!

Thank you, Billie. I'm feeling OK in the mornings - but running out of steam before the end of the day. I'm not sure if I'm still recovering from the dentistry or from the bug I had before that - anyway, it's getting better gradually, and now the tooth's fixed, I hope my longer term energy will be a bit better. Watch out :D .

[gitfiddle]

Does your group do public concerts or just house concerts for fun?
Stevie, we do quite a bit of volunteer work. I'd just love to do nursing homes, which Sherry mentioned, but so far those events fall during the day when I'm working. Whe we do get paid, which happens occasionally, it might cover the gas and we're likely to blow the rest if we stop to eat on the way home! :rolleyes: We're popular, but the fiddler says it's because we're cheap.:D

You CAN learn the mandolin. Trust me. If you can hum a tune you can pick it out. It's logical (unlike picking a tune on a guitar).

Sherry, I can cheerfully say I will NEVER be in a "string bean" band. I wouldn't qualify!:razz:

Hope you all had a pleasant weekend and that Janet's feeling more like herself today.

[SherryJ]

Sherry, I can cheerfully say I will NEVER be in a "string bean" band. I wouldn't qualify!

Which is probably a good thing! All the "string beans" I remember from childhood, when that phrase was popular, were TOO skinny!!!

:)

Sherry