Check-in:

Morning Pages: 3/7. Slow but steady wins the race

Artist's Date: took the laptop to the whirlpoo and soaked with a DVD (Meet the Robinsons)

Walking: Nothing serious. Have been focusing on stretches and knee exercises - also left hip flexor is driving me crazy.

Synchronicity: Finding a couple of good stretching books at the library - so a few new ideas.

Nice Thing for Me Each Day: a brainwave CD

Issues: Breath work - add in Weill's breathing exercises. Also thinking about the notes - get so inside the music (a la Yo Yo Ma) that it comes from your brain, not your throat. (I know - the last statement was there before, but well worth leaving on.)

Technique, technique, technique. Breath. Exercise/PT

Goals:

Gigs: Syracuse Opera outreach: Pigs; Ready... Set... Opera!; Telephone
St. Paul's Lessons and Carols
Christmas Eve: Fairmount, B'ville, St. Pauls (duet with Nora)
B'ville Methodist: cantata

Day Job: call temp agencies. Set up interview with a new one.

Listening/Opera Videos: Telephone and Pigs

Diction/Dialect/Accent Tape: speech therapy exercises

Pedagogy Work: a good solid foundation of breath and relaxation

Creativity Book: The Creativity Book

Performing Business: read through ILL scores. go through YAP Tracker

Sight Singing: focus on basic technique - use simple art songs

Acting: monologue memorization; basic warmup

Piano: scales; play through vocal rep

Cello: on hold for a couple of weeks

Guitar: on hold for a couple of weeks

Flute: on hold for a couple of weeks

Physical Program: E2L and food combining principles; yoga/other stretching, Pilates, PT exercises, strength training 3x/week. Read Beck diet. TLT exercises.

Family: Christmas present work

Spiritual: DQT - focus on the Gospels; read 1 chapter of Proverbs (corresponding to the day). TLT exercises.

FlyLady: keep decluttering

Car: clean out; oil change


Formal checking:

DO OR DIE:
1. loose weight
2. declutter
3. practice
4. language work
5. faith - DQT
6. mail
7. TLT
8. TOOLS

Important Tasks:
1. HTML
2. laundry
3. piano
4. outreach brushups
5. vocal technique rehab

Wish List
1. creative writing
2. scrapbooking
3. genealogy
4. crochet
5. flute
6. cello
7. guitar
8. massage therapy license