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My last week of freedom before I start working 🥲
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I've been practicing cello to prepare for my first live performance since.... uh........ undergrad? Like straight up 8 years ago????
I'm playing at my sister's friend's wedding because their organist bailed on them 2 weeks before the wedding. About 30 minutes of "whatever classical shit you want to play in the background as people come in IDGAF" and then 3 requests for walking down the aisle/a certain point in the ceremony.
The requests are fun because I'm more or less also arranging them for cello, as unsurprisingly the vast majority of songs only have piano arrangements. So I get to be a bit creative with it.
But the "30 minutes of whatever" is ALSO fun, because I've been whipping out all of my Suzuki (TM) books and playing pieces I haven't touched in over a decade. Like the first movement of that Haydn cello concerto was the hardest piece I ever learned back in high school, and it's..... IT'S REALLY NOT THAT BAD ANYMORE.
I've been spending so long "practicing" cello by playing my own music, making my own arrangements, dicking around, going nuts, experimenting, recording myself... and it feels really good to know that in doing all that I have been improving as both a musician and a cellist. Like since I did formal lessons through high scool I know *how* to practice when I need to, and I have a ton of repertoire to pull from, but ever since then I've been just growing as a musician in general. So going back to these old "hard" songs and finding them super playable just feels good.
Hashtag growth
(also I used to have THE WORST performance anxiety because I felt like if I made ANY mistakes then I had Failed TM. But now I'm like, well, if I practice it'll sound good. If I fuck up here or there oh well. It'll be fine. Basically I've chilled the fuck out lmao)
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FINALLY going to read the Howl's moving castle book!!!!
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Home! That means some DbD and replies. <3
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I think having a flash game to come home to makes my life so much better actually
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yaaaaay we're going to the flea market today!! (what they tell me when they're tricking me into taking my flea meds)
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