This past week has been more than a little crazy, and this weekend I'm a bridesmaid for a friend's wedding. Consequently, not much time for blogging, particularly since my newly rekindled self-discipline requires me to spend my spare time on the novel first, before the blog. Yesterday, as I had a couple of free hours, this self-discipline led me to pack up my laptop and walk down to the park. This method has worked very well for me lately. I give myself a designated amount of time, I get to be outdoors in the sun, barefoot in the grass, and free from distractions. Sans laundry, sans sewing, sans bills, sans internet access.
Yesterday, however, I realized I had unwittingly picked the one day of the entire summer when KaraokeMan sets up on the park stage. I don't know his name, or why he does it, or anything else about him except that one day every summer he sets up a karaoke machine and belts out a motley collection of songs in the Chewelah city park.
I went around to the side of the park behind the stage, on the other side of the creek, where the music was not quite so loud, and settled down to write. Wrote through a selection of ABBA tunes with slowly ebbing enthusiasm, which slowed to a drip as he started in on Whistle While You Work. Then he started yodeling, and I gave up in despair, shut off my computer, and set out for home again just as he was settling in with Who Wears Short Shorts.
I just realized that I promised more costuming photos some time ago. Here is one with three of my solo costumes. Costumes for solos are the most fun, because you don't have to worry about being able to duplicate anything. I'm in the center, with Lexie and Megan on either side.
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