Brief Blog

Just a quick one today...

Tonight I accompanied two girls from our ward (well, YW) - Jen and Alysia Wilson - for a song they're performing on Sunday at New Beginnings. And can I just say...I never knew they had such good voices! If my daughter has a voice that good (and I will pray she does) I would get that girl in voice lessons TODAY! I'm going to suggest it. The thing is, they have such a lovely vocal quality, and that's something that I think you have to be born with. Yeah, everyone can IMPROVE theirs, but if you sound like a horse you'll never sound like an angel. The song they sang was really beautiful too, with a creative accompaniment - none of that Janice Kapp Perry three-chord business.

ANYWAY! Dan and I had kind of a nutty Valentine's Day. Good thing we celebrated it Friday, or I would have been seriously disappointed. Both of us were busy - he at work, me at home, and the nursing home, and with an exam. But the RELIEF at having completed that class is wonderful. I think I'll try myself to a nice, warm, BYU sweatshirt by way of congratulations.

In Helena news, she is now able to sing "Twinkle" without words, and slightly out of tune - but she's got the rhythm down! I wonder if she'll be musical? Could she even HELP it around here? My parents didn't force music too much but I always loved it. As a kid - maybe 7,8 years old - I thought I could sing just like Judy Garland. Yep. And, I hummed along with the vacuum cleaner. Try it sometime - try to match the pitch of the vacuum exactly. Just wait till the vibration in your throat is the same as the vibration of the vacuum. I wonder if I wasn't just slightly mental, huh?

"Put all of the blame on VCRs."