My Wkend in Vista

Hubby & I drove down to Vista, CA (above San Diego & about 2 hrs. from home) over the wkend to attend & help out at a memorial service for a friend's cousin, whom we also knew.  I  had stressed out over reviving some Celtic music for the occasion, as I hadn't done it lately - but I found the material and in the end it all turned out to be OK.  It didn't take too much work to polish up the songs for the service and then I noodled on the autoharp for atmosphere during the gathering that followed....And I also brought my recorder and my buddy & I played some  recorder/keyboard classical tunes from our old tried & true repertoire, which sounded remarkably good, considering we hadn't played together in a long time....

So after stressing out about wardrobe (found sort of black skirt + vest + long-sleeved girly blk t-shirt) and the music, it all was FINE.  I do not know why I stress like that about oldies but goodies...but I was tired this week and just couldn't go over it as much as I would like to do under normal circumstances. (Oh, and I received in the mail just before I left a lovely GRATIS Celtic pendant from my freebie hunting - with black stones - perfect for the ensemble!)

The chopping of the hair even turned out fine after I had washed it!  And now I have pieces framing my face, which makes my long hair less severe and Alice-in-Wonderland like.(& will probably postpone my next haircut for even longer....)

Wore my fake fun fur pieces - a muffler sort of thing & later my green "pelt" which I had just finished & they kept me nice and warm, even though they are acrylic....And the pink of the muffler went with the pink trim on my black skirt - so it all gelled...

My friend has rehabbed this house, helping to sell off a lot of the collection of one of the late residents and the end result is stunning.  A real English country house feel.  With all the art they have sold off, there is still quite enough to cover the walls! And the garden was lush & the air fresh.

He even saved some perfume(s) for me and a small box and a few pieces of jewelry from his late cousin's estate - and was kind enough to give me a pair of real cameo earrings - They are probably form the 50's?? and have screw backs, perfect for me! Now how can I tack them onto my earlobes so I won't lose them??? Usually I just wear cheap clip earrings for just that reason - if I lose them, it's no big deal.

Won't hear about the audition - thank you - until sometime in the next couple of weeks.  He sounded interested in having me on the webisode - but one never knows.

Yes, it's true, there really WASN'T a size "0" in the old days, was there?  It may have been taken up again  to accommodate Asians - who are very small -  I do think that the girls/women I have seen who are that size were just BORN that way!  Of course, they don't pig out - and probably diet (can you believe it?) they way models do...But it was interesting that one girl said she was always cold - and when I mentioned that to a fashion photographer friend of mine at the wake, he said that all the models are cold all the time too - No body fat, I guess! Can't be that good for you. (He always says that after starving for years, the models end up turning a sort of grey color....)

Knitted more Sun. night & watched a 1971 Russian Sci-fi flick SOLARIS on TCM - which was interesting & quite metaphysical in tone....It won awards at the time - I don't know how I had missed it - but I wasn't into sci-fi back them, I suppose...I even could pick up on some of the Russian, with the help of the subtitles from my long-ago collegiate Russian studies.  It hasn't all disappeared!

But I have to confess this current knitting project hasn't turned out exactly as I thought it would - but it's just a big square - so it doesn't much matter.  And I can even sew up and holes from dropped stitches, etc.!  I might add a bit more with another color yarn and sew on the pieces, as it would  be nice to have a a bit LONGER....But it will go with the pink peasant skirt I got last week.  I don't have any pink stoles, really, and stoles & shawls are PERFECT for the changes in California weather - warm in the middle of the day - and cooling off in the evening...I have a whole collection...

Studied more Irish with the gratis trial from Rosetta Stone - Arg!  the spelling & all those extra consonants.  But I would like to be able to decipher some song lyrics, and maybe even sing them??

The Vista house was an inspiration, and I really have to TRY to work un-cluttering our little apt.  Going to try flyladies.com, I think.  They are supposed to be good - I will keep you POSTED.  Wish me LUCK...

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