Have been so busy lately that I haven’t had a minute to blog. A shame as I
enjoy it but it’s not always possible.
Well after having a good moan on my blog last week about not being asked to
sing, there is a possibility of something coming up but it’s not definite
yet so I can’t give details. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping
for the best. I really hope that the people who are considering me for this
forthcoming concert next year will be convinced that I can do what I say I
can do. I sometimes feel in a No Win situation. People are either afraid
to ask because they think something might be ‘too difficult for me as a
blind person, to learn’, (little do they know that I love a challenge and if
it’s too difficult my rule is that I just don’t do it), or they just think
I’m not capable of doing something or if I give an opinion, and I usually
do, I am then labelled a ‘Stroppy little Madam throwing a tantrum’. When
does the balance even out? There are, thankfully a few people though who
are fully aware of my capabilities. They are absolute gems and their
friendship is like gold! They will always be there for me and I for them no
matter what and that means so much. As time goes on I feel like this about
my family, too and realise how lucky I am to have them and also how special
they all are in different ways.
This is turning into a very in-depth blog – must be the time of night! Or
perhaps it is the fact that I have gone without tea for such a long time
today. No, not the meal, the drink. Tea is what keeps me going, I am one
of those people who cannot survive without my regular mug of tea at various
intervals during the day and what did I run out of today? Tea bags! They
have now been replenished thankfully.
Still no exam date but every day gives me more time to practice, I enjoy
sitting at the Piano and playing away taking the difficult parts of the
music out of context and working away at them and when I am playing the
parts which are not so difficult, I am the undiscovered concert pianist I
wish I could be and just get lost in what I am playing. Oh well, we can all
dream! Hopefully I will know something about the exam next week.
Anne.