From House Wife To Film Maker

You Tube Update… Youtube music surfing is now, for now at least, my new “thing” to do when I blog…So yes it’s currently going in the background, but more about that in a minute…

I really am quite mulit-faceted in many ways.  I’m not one to just settle on one thing.  Some take comfort in a mundane routine in their life.  That would make me crazy.  Take food for instance.  For 23 years of marriage I cooked.  I mastered cooking before internet and cooking channels.  I dug in with a few books and learned on my own.  I was never content to have a menu resemble…Monday, meatloaf, Tuesday, Spaghetti, Wednesday, Tuna Casserole and so forth  or a rotating two week, three week, or monthly schedule.  The thought of using those methods for turning out meals would have driven me to refusing to eat.  Nay, instead I functioned from a list of recipes and choose, or create on the fly with whats on the shelves and cooling in the fridge.  Then there’s my reading and movie genres.  I’ve mentioned in the past that I love Stephen King/horror, most recent: Nightmare on Elm Street, and then I adored the Shopaholic book series, which were better then the movie, Harry Potter, Knights and Castle time periods: the newest “Robin Hood”-loved it, and certainly J.R. Tolkien, “Lord of the Rings”, a splash of romance, like “Dear John” I watched with Grace today, at her request, and a heavy emphasis of comedy, most recent view: “Birdcage” laughed till my stomach ached, drama,viewed last night with Cal and Grace: “Extraordinary Measures”, and more…  Those type of genres I find appealing in both the world of books and film.  And my work?  Well the nature of it keeps me going from one family to another.  Some I see twice in a week others once a month.  But regardless I am on the move.  Full of a variety of kids.  And my hair.  I go through periods of vast change mixed with the same thing for a couple of years.  The last six months the cuts have been about change.

I LOVE new.  I LOVE different.  I LOVE cutting edge.  Thank god I was too young to really submerge into the rebellion of the 60′s! I did enough on the outer burning off fringe of that era.

My friend once told me I was great at sensing what was going to be a new rage in room design.   She surprised me the day she said that, but then when I allowed myself the moment of stepping outside my insecurities I saw…yeah, that is or was true.  I say was because since the divorce money for such privileges sort of evaporated, so logically along with it went my “being in touch” with decorating shall we say.

To give you more of a glimpse into my tastes and variety in music I’m going to share…
When I was young, which honestly feels like yesterday, I played the violin for nearly four full years.  I was very good at the time.  Took first chair violinist from the minute I walked into the schools orchestra.  Which caused a great problem from the older girl who had to shift to the second chair.  At the time I had no idea what it meant to be 1st chair violinist, my teacher didn’t tell me.  She was a coach of the truest form.  Criticize constantly.  Praise.  Well, none.

I wanted to learn viola and cello and go on possibly to Julliard one day and would have except I had to stop learning when we moved to a school district that didn’t offer string instruments as a part of their curricula.  Since the years spun by and the separation from the instrument became a fact of life.  But I won’t say that I haven’t yearned to return to the stings and bow.  That I haven’t grown to longingly regret the day I turned my violin into my teacher.  But life took over.  Husband, children and with it time and money evaporated like smoke in the wind and that has left violin long behind.  And with it I have changed and wonder if I really have the drive to start again.  Or was that simply a part of my life.  Then.

So why the violin background info and how does it tie into my tastes in music?  Well here is where I share a couple bits that have been playing on my Youtube tonight…

Now I love most of the classical musics for stringed instruments however what these guys do is incredible.  See???  Multi-faceted.  That’s just me.  And that can make me a hard person to peg.  Figure out.  Follow.  And.  Well.  I like that about me.

Love ya, night,
Theresa Jane
-last post “Invisible Mikey” commented that that post allowed him to see me clearly.  I was startled.  But glad he told me.  Then I polled my friend Cathy and she agreed with more humph.  “Well,” I muttered to myself then let’s keep at this.  Keep trying to clear away the haze that blocks me from you.  And frankly me from… me.  And today was about that…

Tags: Apocalyptica, finding me, violin

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