Anyone who grows zucchini knows that it can very quickly sneak up on you and grow to elephant size proportions! Yes, I have grown a zuc that could feed an elephant. I try to check my plants every few days to avoid an infestation, but obviously I am losing the battle. I now have a 'baseball bat' factory in my back yard. (I saw a recipe that called for zucchini and encouraged us to NOT let them get to be the size of a baseball bat.) Too late for me. I sense yet another batch of zucchini somethings-or-other coming up. Zucchini milkshakes???
I have very little time left to focus on my vocals for my Christmas CD. Next week I head to TN to finish them and I don't feel ready. Somehow it has snuck up on me. Not that I haven't been watchful and trying to fit in rehearsals, but after 15 gigs in July, Dr. appointments with my mother, a recent death in my husband's family and yes - raising and consuming giant zucchini, I think it has snuck up on me.
Today I am focusing on the final song we need to record called "you with me" (my favorite on this album).
I have marked on my lyrics sheet where we need to put background vocals. After texting my vocal producer, Phil, I found out that he would like me to have a sense of what I will be adding to all the other songs when I come. He will then give ideas as we work. So, I need to go back to the other songs and decide where I want background voices.
Tomorrow we head to North Carolina to mourn with my husband's brother who lost his wife last week to cancer. I will be singing "You Raise Me Up" at the funeral. I hope I can make it through the song, otherwise, it will be a piano solo. I have never handled funerals real well and have considered telling people that I just don't sing at funerals. It's so hard to sing with big lumps in your throat and pain in your heart. But I will try to focus on the words and the strength that it will hopefully provide to the family.
For now, I must get back to finishing these Christmas tunes.
This has crept up on me.
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