More music. Some planning.

Listened to Thelonius Monk's Brilliant Corners which was thoroughly enjoyable. That was last night - I believe I am an evening jazz person. :)

Currently listening to Sabu's Palo Congo. Erm... I am not big on the world music stuff, and this is a littel too 'fusion' for my tastes. So not wildly impressed.

A. found an advert for salsa classes just around the corner from us, so I will phone them tomorrow and get us all signed up. YAY! Think it'll be great fun, and good for both of us. Neither of us really get enough exercise.

If I don't hear back from the library tomorrow, I'll phone them too to find about about the reading to kids stuff.

Think I have convinced A to make a list of his own which will probably overlap with mine a tad. :) Yayness.

Lots of music and a movie.

It's been a chilled weekend, but I have been making my way through the 50s.

Have listened to a whole bunch of the albums in the 1001 albums list.
Louis Prima's Wildest while making dinner last night - great stuff. I do rather like this kind of 50s jazz/swing stuff. This was followed by Domino Fats' This is Fats, which was also grand.

Then this morning, Duke Ellington's At Newport (1956), which I wasn't quite so enamoured with, but that may have been cos I stayed up late last night and was very tired this morning. This was, however, followed by Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers! which is delightful, but then I think we have established my ongoing love of Frank.

Then the Crickets' Chirping..., which... meh. It's ok, I guess. I guess I wasn't really in the mood for it. Am currently listening to Count Basie's Atomic Mr Basie, and really enjoying it, which maybe means that for me jazz is an evening thing. Heh.

In any case, it's been pretty nifty working through these albums chronologically. :)

In relation to another one of my lists, we had a movie marathon last night which included The Princess Bride which is on IMDB's top 250 list. So that's one ticked off that list. It's an old favourite, so I enjoyed it, quoted bits, laughed in advance, that sort of thing. *grin*

Still looking at potential dance stuff in Dunedin. There's a lot of possibility, though not much of the kind of dance I like best. Still, I may just drag A to salsa classes with me. That'd be fun. :)

The first 24 hours.

Well, I have looked through the 100 books list, and I have already read 39 of them. So that leaves me 61 to go.

I have listened to Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours, which was lovely, (But then I am a Frank fan), Elvis Presley's self-named album, which was entertaining as early Elvis normally is, and the Louvin Brothers' Tragic Songs of Life, which was a little too Country for my taste. Those are the first 3 albums on the 1001 albums list.

In terms of the more important stuff, I have emailed the public library about getting involved in their Storytime program. I've also done some research into dance classes in Dunedin, and think I can probably find something to which I could drag my loving husband. ;) That's something I would really like to do with him, and I think he might be up for it.

That's progress, right?