Tuesday at the End of December Brain Dump

It's super cold today.  I never did get the storm windows into the house and so I really can't get the heat up over 62 today.  I'm pretty sure if I was a landlord I'd be getting yelled at about it, but the kids are visiting with their dad this week and I just put an extra sweater on until my dad gets here and we try to get the screens out and the windows in with our frozen fingers. 

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I loved 2017.

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I think I only saw one movie this year at the theater.  Wonder woman.  I loved it.

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I missed a whole movement of new music during the last decade, that I really like and as a result I'm consuming it as fast as I can with ferocity.  It's been loud at my house for the last few months.  I don't know why I wasn't listening to anything.  I'm surmising the part of my brain that liked music was numb, I thought it was all over, everything good had been sung and listened to ad nauseum. Most of the things I liked had been abandoned after my divorce, literally and figuratively.  This year I discovered new things I love.  It's so good and unexpected and powerful.  Sometimes I have to turn a song off because it makes my chest hurt, other times impromptu dance breaks.  Welcome back to the music lobe in my brain!

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Thomas bought me a turn of the century upright grand piano. I like to sit at it and pound out melodies on the keys in a super monotonous way.  I'm sure the neighbors are horrified. 

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I'm going to make some paintings on black velvet in January.  I hope the technique isn't that different from starting with a black canvas.  I'm super excited - I'd like to start today but need to get wood and velvet and it's -17° today and I haven't started my car in three days.  Soooo, maybe I'll get out after we get the windows in and get supplies.  It's actually an idea time to stretch canvases - when the kids aren't here. 

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