The Summer of Love

Okay, I am declaring this the Summer of Love. My friend Amy has declared it that for her and her husband, and I am just copying them. I don't know how it will show up, and perhaps it will show up the way I want as me being madly in love at the end of the summer.

Lists

I love lists. I have found 3 lists of music that I want to save and share. Imagine, I clipped these from a magazine before there was Itunes. So much that we take for granted wasn't around 5 -10 years ago. hmmm...

CDs to Quicken the Heartbeat
Starring Fred Astaire (2 cd set)
When I Look In Your Eyes - Diana Krall
Tu, Tu, Amore - the 3 Tenors sing some of opera's most passionate arias
Il Postino
The Brasil Project - Bossa nova with the world's sexiest harmonica
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Beyond the Missouri Sky - Jazz rhapsodies
Paris After Dark - Cabaret songs
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - Sax & voice

Virtuosos on CD
Vivaldi: the 4 Seasons
Bach: Double Concerto for 2 Violins
Itzhak Perlman's Greatest Hits
Barber, Meyer: Violin Concertos
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas
The Kreisler Album
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5
Great romantic Concertos (Itzhad Perlmans' essential 3-CD set)
Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos

Piano Music
Emil Gilels - Beethoven Sonatas: Pathetique & Moonlight
Wilhelm Kempff - Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4&5
Arthur Rubinstein - the Rubinstein Collection, Vol. 26: Chopin Nocturnes and Scherzos
Krystian Zimerman - Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
Vladimir Horowitz - Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Vol 47
Murray Perahia - Schumann, Grieg Piano Concertos
Van Cliburn - Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 & Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff
Arcadi Volodos - Live at Caregie Hall

Beer Review

I found my notes from beers from a place called BJ's - which may be in Portland, but I don't remember.

I believe it is from my dad & my beer and bookstore tour of the northwest.

• Blonde - kinda tastes like a light beer. Dad - "I sorta like this one."
• Heifeweizen - funky; "another one of those clovy ones."
• Pale Ale - has bite at end, "Shirley would love it."
• *Red - good - kinda like a porter; "has a sweet taste"
• *Porter - same as Red but smoother; "the flavor isn't overpowering"
• Stout - like the porter but stronger (I like porter better)
• *Nutty Brewnette - flavorful yet mellow; "not bad"

(note Dad's comments are in quotes)

slighly perverse

Okay, there is part of me that on eharmony, when asked the 3 best traits I have to offer a partner, I really want to just say, I own a pole, I just finished studying massage, and I make a mean 3 berry pie.

Random Thoughts From a Walk On the Beach

• I am amazed at home many colors of blue there are between the sky and the ocean.
• How is it that Enya with music that is reminiscent of fog and Mel Torme with a big band are both perfect for a walk on the beach?
• Mel's song about San Diego makes me laugh.
• Everything seems okay - oddly enough.
• I love it when people say hello to strangers when they are walking (so very un-LA and so very fabulous)
• I love that sometimes when songs come on they fill you with joy before your head has even figured out what it is.

Songs I walked to this morning (and yes it was on shuffle): Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss -the Bloodhound Gang; The Kill (Bury Me)-30 Seconds to Mars; Na Laetha Geal Moige - Enya; Lust for Life - Iggy Pop; You Got Me All Wrong - Dios Malos; They Go To San Diego - Mel Torme; Doll Parts - Hole

25 Random Ass Things

Okay, so I did this for facebook, but I promised myself I would post it here too.

This is just 25 random things about me.

1. My dad and Shirley left for Costa Rica last week.
2. I love chocolate milkshakes that come with the extra in the silver cup.
3. When I say I have eclectic taste in music, I really mean it.
4. I love to travel - but I love coming home too.
5. I love teaching S Factor (I loved teaching ballet too - it is just different).
6. I love helping peoples bodies and figuring out their puzzles.
7. I love the fact my best friends are very opinionated.
8. My nieces fill my heart to over flowing much of the time.
9. I am proud of my dad and love the fact he still plays bball.
10. I am secretly a snob about some things.
11. I am good at keeping secrets IF I know it is a secret.
12. I am a study geek (and my friends at school point this out a lot)
13. I often give my heart too freely and too quickly - I am working on slowing myself down.
14. My sister accuses me of forgiving too easily, which is true, but I do sometimes hold grudges.
15. I miss my Mommy.
16. I love the sound of rain on the roof.
17. I love playing in puddles when I know I can go home and take a hot shower.
18. I love the fact that some of my fb friends have been my friends for years and years (and years).
19. I am starting to expand the things I can cook (and I am actually pretty good).
20. I have gotten hooked on Friday Night Lights - which I started watching due to reading an old friends review of it.
21. My ass is not random, it is fairly fabulous.
22. I prefer my martinis with gin and very dirty.
23. I believe in both peace and maid service - neither of which I have with any consistency.
24. I believe most people are more beautiful than they realize.
25. I am off to the farmer's market - ever hopeful that I will use the fruits and veggies I buy before they go bad.

Spoke Too Soon

Once again, I spoke too soon.
Got out of yoga today and had a message from the man I like - seemed like a good thing. I was excited. He wanted to let me know (rather than just not calling) that he didn't see our relationship going anywhere. He was taking this eharmony thing very seriously and was looking for a serious relationship and he didn't see us having that.
You can't argue with his feelings, so I didn't. My little heart felt a bit bruised and battered. I wonder what it is I lack or have too much of that he wouldn't want a "serious" relationship with me. But... as a friend of mine pointed out, perhaps I just dodged a bullet.
Thank goodness I was going slowly.
The good thing is I seem to be attracting people that are closer and closer to what it is I want. As Mama Gena would say - he's driftwood. It means I am getting closer to shore. I just wish I could see the damn shoreline.