we have got a piano!!!!

[ewein2412]

it arrived yesterday. I think this just about completes the list of demands polite requests that I moved in with over twelve years ago when I first came to live with Tim. Actually, it was not at my request that the piano finally arrived. It was only after Sara had taken over a year of piano lessons on the 5-octave electric keyboard that Tim finally said, "Sara's worked really hard at this and it would sound so much nicer on a piano..."

I bought the keyboard for myself, a couple of Christmases ago, because I was so homesick for the American tunes to "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear."

May I add here: The genius of Mozart, the REAL genius of Mozart, is not that he wrote amazing music. It's not even that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that any old dope with a little bit of musical ability can play. The REAL genius of Mozart is that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that is relatively simple to play AND--this is the genius part--he makes you feel like a virtuoso while you're playing it.

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[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Piano envy!!! Oh I want one. I miss my piano so very much.

As for Mozart, I entirely agree!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I bought the keyboard for myself, a couple of Christmases ago, because I was so homesick for the American tunes to "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear."

And oh man do I ever hear you on this one.

But this Christmas I will be back in the States for the first time in years!! YAY!!!!

[ewein2412]

you lucky duck. I have not been home for christmas since 1997. I do like having christmas in my new home, with my now family, but still... there is something missing.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yep, just so. I actually love Christmas with my in-laws, who are fabulous people and as wacky & silly as I am. But it'll be nice to go back for a year and do things the way I used to, also. (well, partly; seeing as my parents are divorced now the day itself will be quite different, merf...but the night before with the crazy huge gathering of extended family will be the same, whee!)

And if nothing else, going back to the States where everything now seems really really cheap thanks to the dollar-pound exchange ratio, just in time for holidays? Rah. =)

[ewein2412]

too true! Don't go berserk with the spending. When I was there in July I'd get $100 out of the ATM, thinking it was only £50, but it would be GONE, just vaporized, in three days. And I have nothing to show for it, either! It was all miniature golf and steak sandwiches and museum tickets and ice cream.