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Thirteen Things about Canada



1. Suddenly realized that I am too old to drink caffeine at night. It never used to be a problem, but lying awake at 4 am, I know that it does affect me now.
2. I am so insanely enjoying my flannel sheets that I went back to bed on Monday after the kids went to school, and pretty much stayed there for the day, napping and reading and writing session plans. Bliss.
3. We don't have a cordless phone. All landlines.
4. I totally suck at the piano. I can't read bass lines to save my life.
5. When I was pregnant, I didn't have any morning sickness. But I had a major aversion to pasta of any kind - white sauce, oil and garlic, tomato sauce - seeing it made me want to throw up. However, Oriental noodles (Pad Thai, pho, etc) were fine, the spicier the better. In the delivery room, when they were doing my sutures (c-section), my doctor said she had to go get lunch because she had another scheduled c-section. My thoughts immediately turned to food and I said "mmm, lasagne would be good!" The anesthesiologist couldn't understand why Hubby laughed so much.
6. I love ballet and ballet music. Actually, when I went into performance, my goal was not a solo career, but to be the first flautist of the National Ballet Orchestra.
7. I'm a bit of a diva, but not confident enough (yet) to really let that side of me out. Beck told me that I was certainly a diva when she heard I was singing a piece from Evita (Another Suitcase, Another Hall), but the true diva shines through with the other music book I bought - Arias for Coloratura Sopranos - it has Der Halle Roche, the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute. I am obsessed - it is my goal (and no, I don't think I'm coloratura, but I am a soprano).
9. When I was pregnant, I was worried that I wouldn't love the kids as much as Jazz Dog. Well, I don't love Jasmine more, but I don't love the kids more, either - they are all my babies. (and one of them doesn't talk back as much as the other two!)
10. I used to be so particular about getting my hair cut at a new hairdresser, that I once took a video of a show to the new salon a week before my appointment to say I wanted the style of a certain character. My hairdresser of twelve years still chuckles about that one - obviously, she passed the test!
11. I have never smoked anything.
12. I HAVE to sleep on a particular side of the bed. (when standing and facing the head, the left).
13. I have a ridiculously good memory for all kinds of useless information. I can remember things from when I was 2, what song was playing when I danced with certain people and what I was wearing at the time, and other assorted minutiae of life. However, it really hasn't come in handy for practical purposes such as exams.





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