Being Brave, #1- White Christmas

  Well, here's that secret project I've been mentioning from time to time. I'm practicing accordion every day. Bell choir is officially cancelled until at least after Christmas, and I need music. I. NEED. MUSIC. Some of you have wanted to hear me play. You may regret that choice. However, this is a very simple arrangement of White Christmas. Even so, it took me seven tries to get a clean playing. That does not bode well for the more difficult pieces I'm practicing. So, here you go, for those of you who are up to it.



I'll try to get the background better next time. I didn't want to obliterate the Christmas tree, so instead I managed to display the messy corner. Bah Humbug!

And, in other disclaimers, the accordion has an issue. There is an air leak in the bellows that is making it difficult to play. That's not getting better. I've found someone who can fix it, but that will involve a trip to Chicago. Probably not until after Christmas. An accordion is like a big extension of all your personal hesitancies and emotions- you can hear every little uncertainty and jerk (at least I can). Maybe you'll help me become less self-conscious about it all. I tried to smile. Bell choir has been really good for me in this regard. OK, I'll shut up now.

The rest of my day was Project Tetris. I wrote a chapter and did my quota of editing. But then the rest of it was a big puzzle. I needed to take a shower and cut and wash my hair. But I didn't want to do that until I had clean pajama bottoms to put on. But the clean ones needed to be mended. And the back pad (that protects the bellows) on the accordion needed to be mended, and my bathrobe needed to be mended. I couldn't do the laundry until after I took my shower because I wanted to put the dirty pajamas in the laundry. And I couldn't try to do this recording until my hair was cut and washed, and I didn't want to do the recording without the mended backpad in place. But it all came together... and here you go.

See The Sound of Music (with no sound)