pot pourri of car, choir, boys, adr, sleep

• Took my car in. It has new brakes and a new battery, and I'm $500 poorer. Ah, the joy of car ownership. And we still don't have a radio/tape player. I may have to take up part-time prostitution to pay for that.
  
  
• Went to choir. Mark Sirrett is indeed a god. He almost (I said almost) makes up for the general crappiness of other Canadian choral composers. Which is quite a feat, as I truly do believe that the quality of Canadian composers of choral music is a way for God to balance out the scales - you know, Canada gets gorgeous vistas, relatively wealthy lifestyle, good hockey players, etc... but we have to put up with unsingable s***.
  
  Anyway, we sang through one of his songs for the first time, sang all the way through it sightreading, and as soon as we finished there was a general burble of almost every choir member turning to say to their neighbours, "Oh my god, that's beautiful!!" I'll have to see if I can find a sound file. *
  
  The rest... meh. It's Songs of Luuve, for a Valentine's Day concert.
  
  ::gag::
  
  Some are pretty good, like the Sirrett one and a Billy Joel piece (And So It Goes), but as for the rest... overall, meh.
  
  
• Boys come back tomorrow. I miss them. I want hugs and cuddles, and I want to watch them sleeping again. It's been wonderful having this break from motherhood, but it's been long enough.
  
  
• Finished my work with my ADR git-partner. Went OK. Not worth writing about.
  
  
• Going to bed now.
  

* Later Edit: which may prove harder than I thought, since the song (at least, the words) have been around since at least the 1880's, but made into at least 400 different versions. Somehow I doubt Mark Sirrett's version will be among the online recordings.