Sunday, April 25, 2010

home again

Hello everyone!

Just got back from a week's vacation! It began with my show at Rock City, which was well-organized, well-attended, and great fun. I got to eat sushi with my parents and Betsy and Andrew afterwards, and then we drove to Portland to stay with Joe of the Toughcats. The next day we drove to Berwyn, PA to stay with Bill's sort of aunt and uncle in their lovely large house. Sunday we made it to Ocracoke, NC! It's so beautiful. Soft sandy beaches, dunes, a cute town, scrub pine and live oak. We ate grits and eggs and pasta and pizza and I went swimming. We came back (via Berwyn again) Thursday, and Friday went to my parents' house for my birthday! I got a complete Star Trek TOS Pez dispenser collection! Ha! Best present. I also got a new iPod nano from Bill's mom :?) apparently I have another present coming, as well as a beach BBQ tonight! I love my birthday!

Love,

Courtney & Her Ukulele

Monday, April 12, 2010

whoops

Hey there

I didn't mean to stop writing for so long!  Whoops!  April is zooming right on by.  Exciting things: did a marathon recording session with Andrew last week, knocked out basics for everything I have written so far!  Better write some more! I planted onions and shallots yesterday, and started hoeing up some of the other beds and pulling raspberry canes.  STUPID RASPBERRY CANES.  They don't even have the decency to bear fruit, they just stand there and prickle.  I got an iPad for an early birthday present!  Thanks Bill!  It is the cutest, sweetest, most useful thing ever.  Yes, it lacks a camera, a phone, flash, and multitasking, but hey.  It does plenty.  Friday is the show at Rock City!  Yeah!  Very excited.  They have some posters up of me which is kind of neat and weird - I honestly think I haven't been on a poster since college.  Rock show posters are more about the art and less about the poor slob playing the songs.  And then after I play that show....we leave for Ocracoke Island!  Yes!  With a stop at Bill's cousin's house along the way.  So very very excited!

Love,

Courtney & Her Ukulele

Thursday, April 1, 2010

chag sameach!

means joyous festival!  it's passover!  i've been acknowledging it by continuing to eat grains and leavened foods.  whoops.  i had an idea that i might actually give that stuff up for a week but then there was cake.  

i absolutely love seder though and this year a bunch of friends are coming over to celebrate with me.  i will be the only jew.  as usual.  but that's fine because then nobody will know how bad my hebrew really is.  i put together a haggadah (mostly from the open source haggadah web site - so great!) and it's four pages long, which is fine.  i saw a card on someecards.com that said something like "let's commemorate the slavery of our people by rushing through a 30 minute seder!" and yeah...that's about right.  

sun came back today!  yay!  i hope it sticks around.  we're going to boothbay on saturday to play some ukuleles with our friends adam and ruthie and their kid (my birthday twin!) and their dog, and claude is coming too!

Love,
Courtney & Her Ukulele