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Year Four, Day 246: Adding Music to My Hooping!

 Hello Friends:


Today has been a very good day!  I had a real, actual day off! My daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter went to the zoo and to his sister's for dinner. The students I had scheduled, canceled.  

I had visions of extreme leisure dancing through my mind: 

  • Grabbing my current library book (Devotion, by Dean Koontz - fun read!) and heading to the mall.
  • Lunch whilst reading my book.
  • Starbucks
  • Massage chair with Starbucks and book
  • Walk in the park
  • Hooping
  • Nap
Just to name a few of my favorite solitary activities for an unexpected day off.

But my conscience got the best of me. I decided to work on my piano room in the basement. After all, it looks as though I will be teaching piano lessons online from my basement room for a very long time! 

However, I will be giving lessons to my students through my beloved music center.  So my future is pretty darn stable!

Coincidentally, my brother was in town having a socially distant visit with my parents on the yard. When I called, he invited me to join them and agreed to take me to Target to get some bookshelves.

Imagine that - a man agreeing to go with a woman to Target!  Well, he did tell me he planned to sit in the car. But his daughter came along, and she begged and pleaded until he reluctantly tagged along.

I am never this excited about organizing, but I must be changing.  I am not sure what I am changing into, but I had a very peaceful feeling, choosing my bookshelves and a little table.  He was kind enough to carry my stash inside, since it was very heavy.

Little brothers are a God send!  Hopefully this means he forgives me for all the times I tortured him as a child. 

After my Target expedition, it was quickly approaching 2:00 p.m., my cut off time for eating. So I decided to indulge myself with a lunch out. And then I remembered it was senior citizen day at the thrift store around the corner.  

I guess I'm seeing the positive side of growing older.  I got 50 % off a bag of really fun clothing; some of which I plan on taking to Vegas next week.

Then I came home, colored my gray and did a load of laundry. Now I am planning on descending into my basement cave and getting rid of much junk! And organizing my music books and work space.  

Most exciting am I!

I have not yet hooped today. Perhaps I will take a break from cleaning and organizing and take a trip across the street for a hoop session.  

However, I did hoop yesterday! Here is my video as proof. 

I was going to comment on how disappointed I have been the YouTube did not seem to have the option to add music to videos any longer. But I did some research, and found they do! They have changed their format and you can only use music from their audio library, but I am thrilled to have sound again! It motivates me to get hooping more regularly!

I am going back and adding music to all of my recent hooping videos. They are currently processing, so you might not hear it just yet.  But it is forthcoming! :) 





After I'm done cleaning, my reward will be talking to my man for a bit. I like to reward myself for small victories.  Cleaning and organizing is a victory for me. And not so small, when I am actually enjoying it!

This is no doubt one of my more boring blog posts. But to me, it is calm, peaceful and happy!

I hope you are having a calm, peaceful and happy day too!

Talk to you soon.

Love, Joy and Inner Peace to you!

Zita








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