Post by alleinesein on Dec 31, 2015 20:21:47 GMT -5
All I want is for someone to hire me. I'll be 40 in March and I don't think I can mentally handle turning 40 and being unemployed for 3 YEARS in the same month.
Sixteen sewing/quilting/needlepoint projects this year Eat less crap and two meatless meals a week Go to the doctor to take care of all the aches, pains, and everything else Read 30 books Find my activity for getting in shape
On the cover of the program Shanbrite's celebration, it read "Be kind, Don't delay joy." Those two things are at the top of my list. I also want to be brave and take action instead of waiting and analyzing every.damn.detail. As rough as things have been, I have way more to be grateful for than not so focusing on gratitude is a top priority. And I want to do more yoga.
1) Get our wills updated and in order 2) Get our budget back under control 3) Drink more water 4) Learn something new, I haven't quite figured out what that will be yet, but I try to learn something new every year.
Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Jan 1, 2016 13:35:53 GMT -5
Be proactive, not reactive, at work. Lose the weight I gained these last 2 months and get back on my workout schedule. Use spending money on house things. Be more affectionate and less nagging with DH. Visit my BFF wherever her H's assignment takes them. Say "yes" to social engagements. Get H to do the same. Try to make peace with my extended family.
Learn to sing and play piano. Music theory class in January and voice and piano lessons starting in February. I may also take a tailoring class this year.
Learn to sing and play piano. Music theory class in January and voice and piano lessons starting in February. I may also take a tailoring class this year.
Don't start with music theory if you want to like participating in music. It'll make you hate music. And life.
Unless you're a math type. Then maybe.
ETA: I've thought about this more. Please dont start with theory. Please. I beg you.
Learn to sing and play piano. Music theory class in January and voice and piano lessons starting in February. I may also take a tailoring class this year.
Don't start with music theory if you want to like participating in music. It'll make you hate music. And life.
Unless you're a math type. Then maybe.
I was also thinking that music theory is a really awful place to start. I mean, if you HAVE to, ok. But that wouldn't be my recommendation. I started piano when I was 4 and didn't have a formal theory lesson until I was 8 or so. All of my instruction thru to college were performance focused.
My goals are to get stronger and get faster. I have some numbers attached to faster, but nothing else specific.
But right now I'd take "get healthy". Fucking cough.
I plan to lose 20 pounds. I'm the heaviest I've ever been outside of pregnancy, and post-holiday I am rapidly approaching my max weight when I WAS pregnant.
I've done almost two years of exercising but not focusing on the scale, and while I am stronger and healthier and more consistent, I am not okay with the weight I'm at and that fact that I haven't seen any changes in my size except to get bigger. So this year is for tackling nutrition and thinking about numbers to see if I can get that part in place. I started last year by cutting out soda. Now I'm going to add only drinking on weekends and being more mindful of my calories, and adding more cardio to my exercise routine.
I need to figure out a way to be less stressed with my work. Plan better, be more efficient and less distracted with my time, and more strategic.
I want to run a 5K.
I want to do a major purge of every room in the house, one room per month.
Learn to sing and play piano. Music theory class in January and voice and piano lessons starting in February. I may also take a tailoring class this year.
Don't start with music theory if you want to like participating in music. It'll make you hate music. And life.
Unless you're a math type. Then maybe.
ETA: I've thought about this more. Please dont start with theory. Please. I beg you.
I played clarinet for years so music isn't new for me. And I'm an engineer. The music theory class is more to learn about music in a different way. Satisfy a curiosity of why music is music. Still not recommended?
Don't start with music theory if you want to like participating in music. It'll make you hate music. And life.
Unless you're a math type. Then maybe.
ETA: I've thought about this more. Please dont start with theory. Please. I beg you.
I played clarinet for years so music isn't new for me. And I'm an engineer. The music theory class is more to learn about music in a different way. Satisfy a curiosity of why music is music. Still not recommended?
Let's put it this way. I play 6 instruments (played?) and I have a vocal performance degree.
I have yet to meet a single person that doesn't hate theory. Not even my friend who was a concert pianist and now teaches.
I mean, I'd you want to compose, sure. But if you just want to learn to sing and play, it's totally not necessary and has a significant potential to make you hate music forever.
I played clarinet for years so music isn't new for me. And I'm an engineer. The music theory class is more to learn about music in a different way. Satisfy a curiosity of why music is music. Still not recommended?
Let's put it this way. I play 6 instruments (played?) and I have a vocal performance degree.
I have yet to meet a single person that doesn't hate theory. Not even my friend who was a concert pianist and now teaches.
I mean, I'd you want to compose, sure. But if you just want to learn to sing and play, it's totally not necessary and has a significant potential to make you hate music forever.
It really isn't related to helping me learn to play piano or sing. I might just spend time learning about the physics of sound. Acoustics may satisfy my need to know why as it relates to music. I appreciate the view on music theory though. It helps so that I don't waste my time.
Let's put it this way. I play 6 instruments (played?) and I have a vocal performance degree.
I have yet to meet a single person that doesn't hate theory. Not even my friend who was a concert pianist and now teaches.
I mean, I'd you want to compose, sure. But if you just want to learn to sing and play, it's totally not necessary and has a significant potential to make you hate music forever.
It really isn't related to helping me learn to play piano or sing. I might just spend time learning about the physics of sound. Acoustics may satisfy my need to know why as it relates to music. I appreciate the view on music theory though. It helps so that I don't waste my time.
What about music is it that you actually want to learn?
I had to take both in college and acoustics is way more interesting. But if what you're ultimately interested in things like chord progressions and different types of scales, theory is better for you.
It really isn't related to helping me learn to play piano or sing. I might just spend time learning about the physics of sound. Acoustics may satisfy my need to know why as it relates to music. I appreciate the view on music theory though. It helps so that I don't waste my time.
What about music is it that you actually want to learn?
I had to take both in college and acoustics is way more interesting. But if what you're ultimately interested in things like chord progressions and different types of scales, theory is better for you.
That is a good question. I should probably flush that out a bit more. My initial answer is: everything about the fundamentals of music and why. The history of how it has evolved and how it gets written down. What descriptions of music mean, i.e. polyphonic. What goes into composing music. How music is classified. What makes music sound good or bad in a mathematical sense.
I learn very well by reading about the basics of any subject as background information. Artistic endeavors are sometimes challenging because the facts don't always matter when it comes to the artistic expression. I've done it with photography, and drawing and more recently with ballet. It didn't help me learn to dance or to enjoy dancing. It just gave me interesting facts about ballet that my brain enjoys learning along side the art.
What about music is it that you actually want to learn?
I had to take both in college and acoustics is way more interesting. But if what you're ultimately interested in things like chord progressions and different types of scales, theory is better for you.
That is a good question. I should probably flush that out a bit more. My initial answer is: everything about the fundamentals of music and why. The history of how it has evolved and how it gets written down. What descriptions of music mean, i.e. polyphonic. What goes into composing music. How music is classified. What makes music sound good or bad in a mathematical sense.
I learn very well by reading about the basics of any subject as background information. Artistic endeavors are sometimes challenging because the facts don't always matter when it comes to the artistic expression. I've done it with photography, and drawing and more recently with ballet. It didn't help me learn to dance or to enjoy dancing. It just gave me interesting facts about ballet that my brain enjoys learning along side the art.
Here's my rec: See if there's a music history class available to take. Those were my favorite classes for my degree. You'll learn the hallmarks of music from the different periods, different composers, how and why they changed. One of the things we regularly had to do was either look at or listen to a short clip or a few measures and write down everything we noticed, and usually guess there composer and time period (I still do this - after 6 classes in college it's ingrained).
If you like the analyzing and want to learn deeper, THEN take theory. Theory isn't going to really tell you why something sounds good or bad; it'll just tell you what and how.
That is a good question. I should probably flush that out a bit more. My initial answer is: everything about the fundamentals of music and why. The history of how it has evolved and how it gets written down. What descriptions of music mean, i.e. polyphonic. What goes into composing music. How music is classified. What makes music sound good or bad in a mathematical sense.
I learn very well by reading about the basics of any subject as background information. Artistic endeavors are sometimes challenging because the facts don't always matter when it comes to the artistic expression. I've done it with photography, and drawing and more recently with ballet. It didn't help me learn to dance or to enjoy dancing. It just gave me interesting facts about ballet that my brain enjoys learning along side the art.
Here's my rec: See if there's a music history class available to take. Those were my favorite classes for my degree. You'll learn the hallmarks of music from the different periods, different composers, how and why they changed. One of the things we regularly had to do was either look at or listen to a short clip or a few measures and write down everything we noticed, and usually guess there composer and time period (I still do this - after 6 classes in college it's ingrained).
If you like the analyzing and want to learn deeper, THEN take theory. Theory isn't going to really tell you why something sounds good or bad; it'll just tell you what and how.