Jackolantern day was super fun, and we didn't miss the candy, trickortreating, costumes or ghouls at all.

I always spend the extra daylight savings hour approximately 7 times before the day is over.

i hear y'all wanted details so i'll tell you my day included sleeping in until a friend brought over champagne and cake for breakfast and flowers (that were not for breakfast) and i made soup and bread and pulled together a reception for a concert of violin duos which was unofficially sold out, and then went to an entirely unrelated spontaneous cranium party that lasted until the second day of year 33.

How cute is being told "I want you to read The Value of Patience, NOW" in a really whiny voice?

Despite migrainatory tendencies, i am making myself a Refoškov and Chocolate birthday cake with which to stealth stock the reception after my Mozart-Martinu-H-H take two duo concert tomorrow night.

today i had to do makeup for a photoshoot with ma-new-bayand.

Went directly from one rehearsal to the other, where the first was in a rural unheated old stone pig stall and very cold and the second was in a modern concert hall, heated to the max, where the windows had a sign that said "Musizieren bei offenen Fenster ist verboten." <3contrasts

Excited that I get to go to Frankowitsch for the first time ever, don't know what it is, other than it is a "must see" in Graz and that I have to be ready to go at 9:30am.

I got news today that my quintet has been invited to visit Algeria on a diplomatic mission, and that we are accepting the invitation so now we need a name!

a white bag flying across the street american pie style elicited this comment and finger pointing from Henry: "Look at that white trash over there." #yeswhatyousaidistechnicallyfinebutpleasedontsaythatagain

i think it's cheating to just write that my fortune was "you know how to enthusiasm with your ideas" so i'll add that i got that fortune because i went to get drinks with nina because the concert we wanted to go to didn't have any tickets for us and while we were getting drinks i saw a guy with soup, but the soup at that restaurant was too spicy so we went to an asian fast food place where i got a veritable vat of ramen in a tratschy-evening which ended with a fortune cookie, the contents thereof have been aforementioned.

Waking up with a frosty quick run to the farmer's market with Brian is probably worth about 10 cups of coffee which brings my morning total today to 13. #artimathic

There's nothing quite as good as water, nuts, and raisins at over 5000 feet (Roßeck and Mugel peaks today with Anglo-Austrians)

fell asleep on the floor in front of the heater for the 3rd time in 3 days, and woke up, "as usual" stiff, cranky, and half hot half cold.

Splendiferous Friday with everything a heart could desire including wine (after 3 days of running, as per my rule) music (a duo concert with thomas, where we played mozart, martinu and handel-halvorsen) and being unpopular enough that my cell-phone, which i left on by accident, did NOT ring the whole time we played.

lowpoint of the day was cleaning a spilled pot of soup off the street, but at least it happened after the dinner and not before. #fakehashtag #alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife

it was a gig, it was awesome, it was fun, we ate, we drank, we laughed, we played, it felt like we have known each other forever, we were complimented, we complemented, it was fancy, and it was COLD on the schlossberg.

Got to make a giant crafty poster thing out of 10 pages of Martinu because there is NOWHERE to turn pages. #fakehashtag #recycledikeaboxesifoundinadumpster

this is love.

happiness is watching great chamber music with your son's sleepy head on your shoulder and then walking the long way back hand in hand listening to him tell you which pieces he liked best and why.

when searching for missing mail with the usps, "Top Hat", "Cheese Grater", and "Bonsai Tree" are their examples to describe missing contents, but "photographic film" is not an option.

today was a day that required soup, so we made two kinds and ate them all up.

I think I'm in love with a quintet.

when you have children, "sleeping in" on saturday means waking up at 07:30 with 3 kids on top of you.