I LOVE opera!!

I just got home from the third night in a row of rehearsal for Macbeth. I also found out that the women's chorus are the witches in the first scene, so I get to be a witch! Someone was describing the video of the Met's production of Macbeth from a few years ago, and it sounded really gory. I hope we do something like that here. Remember, we perform October 17-25, so it's right before Halloween. Scary witches and goriness is appropriate, don't you think? We don't rehearse again for a week, so I can have some of the pieces memorized by then, but I have to get working on that. I come home from working all day, then going to rehearsal and I am hardly tired. I love opera!!!

KC's first birthday party.

Here are some pictures of KC's party. Mike, Dane, Matt, Tori, and Dave (of course) were there and are in some of the pictures. It was fun and KC really liked opening presents and eating his cake.

update

Wow, it has been an unusual two weeks. For one week, I was being tested with radioactive iodine for thyroid tissue remaining in my body, then the next week I was being treated for thyroid cancer. That's almost continually being in isolation, 10 days on a no iodine diet and multiple full body scans. The whole process was not great. I survived though. Now they will follow my progress with biannual blood tests. I am not that worried about it, mostly I see it as a bump in the road. Maybe I am really in denial. I don't know.

This past Tuesday, Cloud went to Vista Farms, where she will hopefully be sold by Wendy the trainer to someone who wants a really good horse. Wendy and I both have the same goal to get her to a family who will love and keep her for the rest of her life. She is being ridden daily and gets to run around in a big field with the other horses. I am sure this is what she needed all along and if I had been able to do that, we wouldn't have had the problems we did with her. I will miss her when she is sold, but I am so happy that she is where she is now and I really hope someone will want to buy her. Wendy tells me that she is being perfect and sweet to the riders and the other horses. I am proud of what a good horse she is.

I am working on painting my kitchen, with help from Dave. He has been indispensable and I wouldn't be where I am in the process without his help. I will post pictures when it is finished.