CountryMouse's Refuge

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Today we'll probably be watching "The Tale of Despereaux", various TV programs, playing board and card games, and eating. :D

I'm very thankful for my family and friends (both online and off), that Cat'r is living back here in town, that he's got a good job and a nice apartment, and that I've discovered the wonderful community of folks at Ukulele Underground (and also on YouTube).

I hope everyone has a safe and happy day!

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Two things from yesterday's to-do list that I got finished today:

--Finished crocheting and putting together mouse ears headband
--Washed dishes :-D

Going to eat (late) lunch, then cook & process my little meals for the next few days.

After that we're going over to Cat'r's place to watch "The Amazing Race". He just got a new futon/couch, so that'll be nice.

I've been playing the ukulele for three months now! Woohoo! I love the ukulele, and I love all the wonderful people online I've met because of it! Ukulele Underground ROCKS!

Just did a video yesterday, but have to see if my song is too similar to another song that came to mind after-the-fact. It's for Christmas, so it's not up yet.

And my friend in Germany and I are moving along on our special Christmas collaboration music video! Well, he's doing almost all the work, as he's going to be playing several instruments and doing all the video and sound editing! He also rocks! Check out his YouTube channel!

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What I need to do today (let's see if it really happens!):

--Finish crocheting and putting together mouse ears headband
--Wash dishes
--Rip out beginnings of knitted Fun Fur scarf and crochet instead!
--Find a different melody for a song I wrote--I accidentally plagiarized a well-known Hawaiian Christmas song--eep!
--Print out lyrics for Cat'r's and my Christmas filk songs--Doctor Who!

I doubt I'm going to do all those things today--I get distracted sooo easily. But must do the first two or three.

[ETA: Did I do any of these things?! Nooooo. I did make a music video, but it's too soon to upload it (must be after Thanksgiving). Other than that, just hung out online mostly. Sheesh.]

[Further ETA: HoHO! I did get something done! I ripped out the knitted Fun Fur scarf and started crocheting a lightweight for-decorative-purposes-only scarf (a prop for music videos)]

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I didn't write an actual blog entry yesterday--all I have is the collection of my tweets from the day before.

I wonder if this disqualifies me from NaBloPoMo. Grrr.

I just had so much on my mind. A friend in Germany and I are starting to work out the details of doing a music video collaboration on a Christmas song. And I'm frantically trying to get a part of my costume for it done also!

AND I have a Thanksgiving song I want to do a video for before Thursday--maybe later today!

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and what we did: we did do the grocery list, which turned out to be a fairly short i.e. inexpensive list--less than $40!

This afternoon we all played a beautiful new board game Cat'r had bought called Tobago. As Cat'r was reading the rules, and at the beginning of the game, I was thinking, "This sounds soooo complicated--argh!". But as the game went on, it started making sense and being fun! In fact, I managed to win!

We followed that up with a couple rousing games of Cosmic Wimpout, the first one being probably the shortest game we have ever played! Cat'r rolled a Freight Train (5 fives--instant 500 points!) plus 30 points beyond that. And we were suddenly at Last Licks (last round of turns)! Of course he won! So we played a second time, and I won that one. :-)

We never went to Cat'r's--B. and he will be working on stuff over there tomorrow. And I never got any knitting or crocheting done today. I'll do some of that tomorrow while the guys are gone.

I did manage to give all three of my ukuleles some love and attention while the guys were at the grocery this evening. :-)

Stuff I need to do/probably will do today:

--Make grocery list
--Go to Cat'r's and help clean up
--Work on crochet and knitting projects

I still need to finish eating breakfast--got distracted by the Intarwebz.

Note to self: work up the song "Sing" (The Carpenters) for ukulele and voice.

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The song that AdelleTheGreat requested I do is Bob Dylan's "Percy's Song", but she wants me to cover Joan Baez's cover of this! I hope to get a complete version of this soon. I ordered on DVD the film/documentary "Don't Look Back" last night. It was shot during Dylan's 1965 British concert tour; and Joan Baez is featured in it, including her singing "Percy's Song". I'm hoping the DVD will have the entire song as a bonus audio track on it, since I read somewhere that there are no complete songs in the video portion whatsoever.

Of course it's a long song--it's Dylan. No way I'll be able to memorize that. I need to think of a way to make it interesting enough and not "flat"/too much the same throughout.

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Right now Cat'r and Bunnicula are out shopping for a futon for Cat'r's apartment. Cat'r doesn't have a couch at the moment, and he wants to get a nice futon to do that job.

When they get back, I guess I'll be going over to Cat'r's so that he and I can play Rock Band--specifically The Beatles: Rock Band! Cat'r just got himself the Gretsch Duo-Jet Guitar for The Beatles: Rock Band for the PS3! He wants us to play Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tonight! Ima play bass, I guess. He'll play guitar, for a change--usually he does vocals.

(*good* OMG's!)

adellethegreat has a request for me!! AdelleTheGreat! Like...the Goddess of Ukulele Underground is requesting I do a song for her! No idea what it is yet, but I'll learn it, whatever it is!!

Eeee!

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Mostly I didn't do anything else today! Just the two music videos (after working out a new melody for "Don't Hurry The Time Along" because the melody I had for it originally was toooo similar to other things I had done) and being online.

Cat'r came over this evening, and we all watched more of "The Sarah Jane Adventures".

I need to get useful things done tomorrow. I am such a procrastinator!