Chinese Food for Breakfast

[rolanni]

Christmas the day was quiet. I read, but did not finish, a book. It was nice. I must do it again, sometime. At two o'clock Steve and I kept our reservation at The Lucky Panda, had a leisurely dinner and wended our way home again, with leftovers, naturally. The evening was spent talking to family via the phone, watching the last two chapters of the Book of Water for Avatar and playing a few friendly hands of rummy.

Yesterday was a little more frenzied. I went out early, mailed a couple of necessary packages, did some grocery shopping. I devoted the rest of the day to Fledgling while Steve perused the page proofs for Longeye. It takes me days and days to do page proofs (yes, I read slow, not a good thing in a professional writer), but Steve finished up in one day. Color me impressed.

Last night over dinner and a glass, we listened to the new sea shanty CD, and so to bed, where the dreamwork was supervised by coon cats.

This morning, amidst the rain and/or ice pellets, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis ("Two Men with the Blues") provided music to eat leftover Chinese food by, and now it's time to get to work.

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

So what is the new sea shanty CD and how do you like it? I always like to hear about such things, so that I can be tempted into buying more CDs that I can't afford.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The name of the CD is Sailors' Songs and Sea Shanties (http://www.amazon.com/Sailors-Songs-Shanties-Various-Artists/dp/B00026W85M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1230819431&sr=1-1). I like it. The instrumentation is...spare to non-existent, which is one of the things I like about the album, because I think it gives a more authentic feel. Folks who like lots of guitars, hornpipes and such will probably find it stark.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

That does look good. I think that's one that I was thinking about buying a couple months ago before I came to my senses and decided that my travelling fund was more important than yet another CD of sea songs.