Well.. it certainly has been a while... getting adjusted was.. not easy.. Ia m still not altogether there.. I don't think I ever will be. Truth is.... I really am not meant to be in a cold climate.. I am terrible at it. I go into a funk. Truth is.. so does everyone else here except the ones who own plows... yeah..

So.. singing.. well, lately I am having a little fun exploring new avenues. Karaoke. Right... silly huh? Well.. I have won money twice at it in the last month.. the only two times I decided to compete.. it was really actually quite fun. I just sang a handful of the jazz standards.. maybe a little Bonnie Raitt and a Grease duet.. It was hillarious.. I didn't expect to win.. but hey!

I have dicovered something that ebarasses me as a singing.. so naturally I am going to add it in my blog. I have been singing since I was little... I never really learned to read music.. at all. I even played an instrument for two years.. nope.. nothing stuck. I have to go back to square one! My granfather is helping me with a list of about 12 songs to come up with the keys that fit me most appropriately... but it is really interesting, to say the least, that I never learned this. I have always been accompanied by a trained accompanist that knew what keys would be best for me instinctually. I am not sure that I ever even thougth about it once. If it was too high or low I simply said so and it was changed on the spot. Simple. Well... now, when I want to go and sing with a band or a vocalist invites me to sing with her and asks me my key(s).. I am in deep trouble. It is mortiying. I can sing anything I hear once all the way through.. but if you put a chart in front of me... it looks farmiliar.. but I have no real idea how to read it. This would be a MAJOR part of my career...

So.. I am off to figure this out and keep moving.. the karaoke is fun.. but I want more... much much more than that.. I have to admit the weather is certainly slowing everything down around here... but I think it will lift soon. I need the sun... I miss Cali.. more than I can say...