new year's thinkings
December 31, 2001 at 3:26 p.m.
New Years Resolution time!!!!!
I can't find what i resolved to do last year... although celebrationg it was quite a blast. This year I'm going to a church dance with my brother and we're dressing terribly cool.
Oh, the hothot life our Reva lives...
Today we got down the New Year ornament off the tree. It's a heart that we write put our resolutions in and then forget about until the next year when the whole family reads them out loud and laughs about how we didn't do them. It's a great tradition, really.
I did pretty well on mine this year - the list of the ones I did is bigger than in years past:
* getting better about practicing consistently
* pray and read scriptures daily (this is a gimme - I always do it)
* not get co-dependent with a boy (this is the biggest one!!! I didn't get in any damaging relationships this year!!!! for the first time in 3 years!!!!!!!!)
Didn't do's...
* exercize and get tight ( I joined a gym, but it hasn't been as often as I can really count)
* FLOSS (not as often as would make the dentist happy)
I think I did pretty well. I'm shooting for the same things only better next year, and I added trying to keep at least one area of my living space clean. We'll see....
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There was great discussion about my future tonight. Dad, Mom and an uncle all had things to say about my search for a master's program. I'm doing better, but it's hard to talk about what I want to do because I have NO IDEA of what I want to do for a living.
Jazz violin, studio musician, symphonic musician, violin pedagogy, Suzuki violin teaching, something else entirely, everything, what??
I was at that awesome fiddle camp this summer and got all these neat options and ideas. But what is my niche? Al these great violinists had their thing - Mark Wood, rock violin, Natalie MacMaster, Cape Breton/Celtic, Mark O'Connor, fiddle, but me? So I asked Matt Glaser, the incredible jazz/bluegrass violinist of Berklee, Boston and part-time hubby o' mine (great inside joke that keeps going..) how he found his niche and how I could find mine.
And you know what he said? He said he really thought I had the talent and the makings of being a great jazz violinist someday.
WOW. I mentioned this to my fam tonight during all the discussions. And then my concrete/sequential uncle asked quietly..."how did it make you feel when he said that?"
me: "good, but also that I don't want to be specifically a jazz violinist because it seems so regimented - I want to gain as much experience and skill as I can in jazz, as well as all different styles so I can create my own sound."
And that was my answer, kind of. Now dad's all crazy because he wants me where I can fly to Oakland, CA often for jazz and Zeta lessons and become SUPERREVA. I'd just settle for being self-sufficient Reva, but if dad's in the mood to help...
SUPERCRACK is going skiing again tomorrow!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!