die wundervollste Zeit des Jahres

White Christmas is over. Thank the Lord and all that is Holy because I was about to develop severe homicidal tendencies.

All that aside, it went very well. We performed it five nights. Yes. FIVE NIGHTS. Which exhausted all of us. Props to the accompanist, Jennifer, for her superb piano playing. She pretty much carried the "pit crew". I stood up there in a ridiculous looking leotard/tux costume and waved my arms around pretending to be in control. They were nice about it and let me pretend to be in charge.

I am never again offering up my choir to do a production unless I am allowed to grade them on it. Getting them to practices and staying until the end was nearly impossible. I about had it with a few of them until I adopted a defeatist attitude and said "c'est la vie" to the whole thing. "Que sera, sera" for you spanish minded folks.

Our Christmas Choir concert is tomorrow. I left the school on Friday last week feeling very positive about it and left school today feeling nauseous. I'm trying to convince myself that it's just Monday and the dress rehearsal day is always bad. *clap clap clap* I do believe in fairies!!

My JazzCats sounded pretty good. I will say this for them. What they lack in discipline they make up for in confidence, and sometimes that's all you need to pull of a good concert. My concert choir did as they usually do. They're awesome in the classroom, where they're most comfortable, and timid in a new environment. Well, the girls at least. My guys are just loud this year. Makes me happy.

Women's choir needs vowel reconstruction. How many different ways can I say OPEN YOUR MOUTH and TALL VOWELS?

"ouvrez votre bouche" and "voyelles grandes" - french
あなたの口を開けなさい and 高い母音 - japanese
"abra su boca" and "vocales altas" - spanish
"apra la vostra bocca" and "vocali alte" - italian
"öffnen Sie Ihren Mund" and "hohe Vokal" - german

...well, you get the picture. (thank you Babelfish)

And here I am, snuggled up to my Delonghi heater with my cuddly bear, getting ready to re-read Jim Butcher's Alera Codex. (Great books by the way, love love LOVE!)

Ta Ta for now.