Well, I don’t exactly know what to do with it just yet, but I WILL!! I will program those little pads until they’re full of effects and crazy combos. Look for it at a VJ show near you soon!! I’m also hoping to make a little music! Heck, the sky is the limit (as soon as I figure out how to use it!) 🙂

I have been wanting to listen to my record collection for some time now, and yesterday Rick and I went to Moog Audio to purchase a pre-amp for my turntable (our 10 yr old tuner didn’t have the proper fixins, imagine!), so for the past day I’ve been wandering down Penny Lane, past Strawberry Fields towards Shakedown Street, which is near where Sonny and Cher and KISS live. Through the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s – 4 decades of vinyl have waited to be played once again. A few of the albums I’ve missed listening to over the years include:

• George Harrison’s special release Goddess of Fortune, full of devotional songs to Govinda and Gopala, recorded with the help from the devotees at the Radha Krsna Temple in London, UK
• NUNSEXMONKROCK by Nina Hagen (a divine goddess in her own right!)
• Soul Mining by The The (awesome album!)
• Count Basie and Sammy Davis: Our Shining Hour, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones (!)
• Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier (hot!)
• Vivaldi! Mozart! Tchaikovsky!
• Original recording of Around the World in 80 days (c) 1957!
• Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield (*sigh* Terry Hall)
• POPPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG! (takes me back to the The New Music with Jeanne Becker and JD Roberts – I’m old)
• Visage: the Anvil (sweet gothic music)
• The Cure: The Head On The Door (Classic!)
• Psychic TV: Dreams Less Sweet (with Always is Always, a song written by Charles Manson)

I’m sure there are a few more, I have some interesting albums for sure 🙂 YAY for MUSIC!! *happydance*

addendum: wow, I’m surprised at myself for remembering lyrics of songs I haven’t heard in 20 or more years!

…and mares eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy, a kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?

This pictures just makes me smile 🙂

Life has been really crazy lately, and it all seems to be passing in the blink of an eye. I’ve been holding on with both hands with feet ready to land wherever, but I’m heavy and not sure how long I can hang on! When my life is chaotic, I find it hard to think straight. I’m not really sure why this is – usually I’m able to deal with lots of changes, and even welcome them – but lately, it’s been really hard for me to keep up to what’s going on. I think I’m just tired (and feeling a tad defeated), even though I’ve been making lots of progress lately. Perhaps, I’m just an overachiever trapped in a procrastinator’s body. I usually don’t feel fulfilled unless I’ve accomplished at LEAST 20 different things throughout the day, and I will often stay up late to get them done, losing sleep because my mind is racing to accomplish things but my body says rest.

Things I’ve accomplished these past couple of weeks:

• Cleaned out 3 closets worth of stuff (only to be replaced by 3 closets full of other stuff)
• Sorted through 3 large boxes of magazines (if anyone wants them, feel free to drop over to browse!) – mostly Country Living, Skywatcher, Sky and Telescope, Runner’s, Health, Mother Earth News, and various gardening and computer mags too
• Cleaned up the camping gear and organized it all on the shelves
• Sorted out our alcohol stash (only 7 boxes!), so if any of you out there get stuck wanting to party and you’ve missed the liquor store, come by and browse our selection
• Dug the hole for the small pond in the front yard, and got it working, but now I have to empty it, clean it and refill it because some critter knocked over the plants that were in the pond, and making a muddy mess
• Dug out many many raspberry plants to be transplanted into their own bed once the guys are done building the back deck
• Cleaned out the sewing/storage room (now with 2 walls and ceiling gutted, ready for wiring, insulation and drywall), and it’s contents stuffed into the dining room temporarily
• Cleaned out the laundry/storage room (this room is next to be gutted and insulated and drywalled)
• Cleaned out my stained glass/art room
• Added several bags and boxes of stuff to the lawn sale pile (YAY!)
• Got my passport renewed
• Finally found a vanity and mirror for the upstairs bathroom
• Organized Rick’s closet and mine too

To do in the next couple of weeks:

• Clean pond
• Finish priming, find paint colours, and paint the upstairs bathroom
• Finish priming and painting the downstairs bathroom door
• Scrub both of Angus’ cages
• Take the painting that we bought in Cuba 7 years ago to be stretched and framed 😛
• Sort through all of the lawn sale stuff to see what I can donate instead
• Set a date for the lawn sale (you’d better all come!!)
• Sort though all the paper in my large filing cabinet full of witchy secrets and arcane knowledge =D
• Get more done in the front garden, including a garden path and some landscaping
• Finish cutting the lawn in the backyard
• Paint the Muskoka chairs on the front porch
• Weatherproof the sides of the front porch
• Put the other 2 Muskoka chairs together and paint them
• Find some time to work on the few web projects that I am doing
• Get thee to the gym!

I think that should keep me busy. Perhaps if I list them and go week by week, it might become apparent at just what kind of progress I am actually making, and then I’ll feel good about what I’ve accomplished instead of only seeing what I haven’t! Isn’t psychoanalysis wonderful? 😛 *LOVE*