The Adventures of Samantha in an Airport

Of course, something that was supposed to be a simple 6-hour endeavor would turn into 14 hours of ambiguity with ~6 additional hours than planned hanging out in the Philly airport...so I may have bought myself a sweater while trying to waste some time... hehe! (Let me tell you, that is a boring airport! Only thing really was to sit and read and resist the temptation of the wine bar located at my gate.) It wouldn't have been a day in my life if something absurd and ironic didn't happen...my flight was cancelled even when there wasn't any snow! Ha! Go figure. However, I made it home a few minutes before midnight on Wednesday. So much for paying extra to fly into the local airport...I was re-routed, and my grandparents had to drive 2 hours to come get me. Oh, well. C'est la vie. At least, I didn't have to sleep in an airport like many people that evening. ;)

I also noticed when I opened my At-A-Glance in the Boston airport waiting for my first flight that I somehow managed to book 16 days at home! How I pulled that one off, I don't know, but we'll go with it. (We'll also see if I'm not ready to pull my hair out by the end of that time...haha!) I am going to have to make sure I don't neglect the piano too much over the next two weeks, though...this soprano can't go back to Boston out of shape. Not allowed. And unfortunately, I was not booked for Christmas services this year. :-/

I promise pictures and holiday festivity reports to come early next week. :)

Merry Christmas Eve!

Thought.

Last night, I finished reading Eileen Farrell's autobiography...good and entertaining read! She certainly had one heck of a career and lived in the moment all the way. At the end of the book, she quotes the song "It Was Worth It," saying,

"'All in all, it was worth it -
Oh, that's what I'll say
To the ladies the very first day
They discover my first bit of gray.
All in all, it was worth it...'
Well - yes. It sure as hell was."

What a wonderful philosophy on living life to its fullest. :)

Off to the airport...see you on the dial-up side! ;)

Cheers! 

I AM alive! ;)

Why, hello! I have been absolutely terrible at keeping up with this blog this semester. I think my New Year's Resolution is going to be to be better at documenting my life! haha!

Well, I'm here now and much better than before! Ugh...being sick was an absolute nightmare and honestly couldn't have happened at a worse time in the semester. :( It took two weeks, two doctor appointments, and an antibiotics to get back to being myself. I think the sinus infection isn't entirely gone, though... :-/ All I have to say is that I still hold to my feelings that I HATE doctors and that I NEVER want to be sick EVER again. =P Not a fan. These past 3 weeks have been not my grandest.

My first semester of graduate school is complete (just submitted my final essay!) and [hopefully] with great success. Apparently, I don't actually receive my grades till the first week of January, which is totally lame, but whatever. I feel pretty good about all my exams and my work this semester. I have learned so much, and honestly, I feel like I struck gold coming here. I am so grateful for my wonderful voice teacher and professors, to be in such a wonderful city, and to be doing what I love. :) When I was so sick I was barely functioning, I saw just how caring and supporting my colleagues and professors are, and I am so blessed to have such people in my life. They were constantly checking on me to see how I was feeling and knew just how ill I was because I really wasn't myself and wasn't bouncing around. My diction professor wouldn't even let me climb the stairs to get a paper from his office...he made me sit downstairs, and he brought it to me! Being "miss independent," I told him I wasn't an invalid! haha! Then, because I wasn't feeling the holiday spirit because I was so out of it, he randomly started playing Christmas carols on the piano for me in diction class the next week. Oh, that crazy man! I have to thank him for that, though.

I'm certainly in the holiday spirit now, though! hehe! I am like Buddy the Elf...I walk around with a bag full of Christmas candy, which I have insisted on calling "Christmas cheer," and passing it out to people. Yes, I am totally ridiculous. But it makes people smile! And that makes me smile. :)

I have to say, though, that Christmas shopping seems to be giving me the Christmas grumps this year. :( Why is it so stressful?! It's supposed to be fun! I'm the type of person that wants to get just the right gift for each person, though, and that is actually so hard! I have been looking for Eiffel Tower stationary all over this city, and everyone looks at me like I asked them to put the moon in a jar for me. Seriously. I didn't think that Paris-themed notebooks were that bizarre of a request...they are always EVERYWHERE...except when I want them for a gift.

I fly home in TWO DAYS for the holidays!! EEEK! I really love Boston, but after these rough past few weeks, I am ready for a bit of country time, where I don't have to do everything myself for at least a few days. My stuff is almost packed...as soon as I get back to Beantown, I am moving into my new place! HALLELUJAH! (No more crazies in my life, please!) Coming back is going to be a little nomadic and probably a bit tense, but I think it will be worth it. ;) For now, though, I need to practice, copy music for my new pianist (oh, yeah...my wonderful pianist is leaving me! AH! Sad day! But, we are going to continue coaching language and such over the phone, which is really sweet of her. Plus, I also snatched up another wonderful pianist, so life is still good.), finish my Christmas shopping (fingers crossed!), and go to work tonight. Tomorrow is laundry, finishing up my packing, voice lesson, dinner with my friend Rachael, and then I am trying to persuade my friend Francesco into going to the new Muppet movie with me. Muahaha! ;)

Also, I have been dying to post this photo...

I love it! And I want those gnomes!!! hehe!