Yesterday was a strange, horrible, yet a indelible and lucky day for me. It all started from the drive to concert in PA. Traffic was of course not good, but bearable for a Monday early afternoon with rain. As I was concentrating on drive since I-95 North was pack with cars, a motorcyclist, or a death chaser, suddenly appeared from nowhere in unbelievably high speed (probably about 100mph) going in and out and between all cars. Now, we are talking about a packed highway, with slow moving traffic. That was dangerous, an accident I was happy to miss! We (with my trio members) got to the performance site. We started getting ready, warming up as usual before concert. First sign of possible distress for concert.... thick carpeting... wall to wall. That makes the acoustic dry and dull, not very good for any program, especially with Brahms Piano Trio in C minor, and Smetna Piano Trio in G minor... Well, I said to myself, just deal with it, and it will be fine. Then, I discovered that, the piano cover (for the keyboard area) was extremely loose... In fact, it was so loose that during the performance, it was threatening to slam on my hands a few times. Well, again, I informed the trio members my problems, and told myself that just deal with it. While worrying about being hit by a piano cover, and trying to deliver the music at the same time, of course, the audience members were having a wonderful chat time. One often wonders why they pick the silence as the perfect opportunity for them to speak... Don't they get embarrassed? The clapping between the movements usually don't bother me as much, however, it really did bother me this time, because it was like auto-pilot. No meaning what so ever... Of course they were some audience members whom were deeply involved with music, and appeared to be tearing, yet, the noisy ones totally ruined other people's right to experience the music. Well, that is just normal ordeal that we encounter as performers, so, yes, just deal with it. However, the nightmare was not finished yet. After the concert, we started driving home. The weather was getting ugly, but not too bad. So, we were having our regular after concert chat in the car. I was driving with caution... Especially since the traffic has been bad the whole day. At an intersection, after the light for my direction turned green, as usually, I made sure the other traffic had totally stopped, then started driving.Then in a split second, a car from the right flew out at top speed turning into my lane...Now, I don't know how to describe this, but this young man with his girl friend must be either drunk or trying to commit suicide, if I did not swing to the left side a bit and stop instantly, and if the car next to me did not slam the break, this stupid kid would hit my car head on, and the car next to me would hit him head on, and we would all be dead. Due to the shock and the reaction I took, my muscle contracted viciously at the moment, and of course it cramped like never before for full hour, maybe even more. I have never felt such pain where my tears were coming down because of it. Pain reliever really did not help for at least half an hour. I don't wish people ill luck, but really, this stupid young man has made me wish him a horrible night. I hope he had learned his lesson, if not... He is going to one day make a big mess that will cost pain for not just his family, but others also. As if that is not enough, we finally got home with me looking like a ghost, and feeling like a stone, my husband informed me right before going to bed that he spotted a little mouse in our house.... AHHHHHHHHHHH That totally did it. There is no way a mouse can be in this house. It is clean, and not old, and we have a CAT!!! I can only think that it must of sneaked either this morning when we left the door open for a short while to get the carpet out to the trash car, or while my brother went out for a smoke, and left the door open a bit too long. Well, that was my yesterday....
At least now, I am happy to inform you all that my cat has done its duty gloriously probably during the night. He has killed the mouse... From the look of the site, he might have tortured the poor little thing before killing it. He has the look of triumph this morning as he watched me cleaning up the site. As far as the concert went, we (my husband and I) listened to the recording from it, and declared that the noisy audience and the finger slamming piano cover did not effect the concert much after all. I had just purchased a set of accent pillows for my husband's teaching room at home which we re-furnished this passed weekend (he has not yet see them yet, and now sitting in my studio in school waiting for him to join me for lunch as soon as he finish his first teaching part of the day. My upper body is still like a stone, and it aches horribly, but hey, I am still alive and well. Let the horrible day be a reminder for myself to continue to drive safely, and to watch out for stupid drivers MORE, and to enjoy my life FULLY!
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This is the result I got from the personality test:
You are happy, driven, and status conscious.
You want everyone to know how successful you are.
Very logical, you see life as a game of strategy.
A bit of a loner, you prefer to depend on yourself.
You always keep your cool and your composure.
You are a born leader and business person. |
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