Welcome to the official opening day of Notes of an Anesthesioboist's Blogiversary Festival, a week-long celebration of two years of blog fun.
I have much to celebrate in the month of May:
- Mother's Day (which was lovely)
- My birthday (which was great!)
- This year, my daughter's debut in a musical (which was STUPENDOUS!)
- The anniversary of my graduation from medical school
- The anniversary of my first oboe lesson
- My blogiversary
In accordance with these many reasons to celebrate and be thankful, I'm hoping to dedicate each day of the Festival to a different topic often covered on this blog (each of which happens to be in-line with at least one of the anniversaries listed above). These different subjects -medical life, oboe life, writing, food, faith, and family - keep me energized and enriched both in the blog world and in the real world.
I started off by honoring family yesterday with a festival preview - a mini-retrospective of posts related to motherhood.
Anali suggested that I upload some audio of me playing. Though it goes against all my instincts, I have done so, and let me warn you, it is NOT great. I tried and tried and tried to sound ok, but I couldn't get over being nervous, and I think it was making my reed crow. As I've emphasized many times on this blog, when it comes to oboe I have only desire, not talent! But don't worry - it's less than ten seconds long. :) No pity comments from real oboists - it's okay, really!
Stay tuned (so to speak) for tomorrow's Blogiversary special: "Best of Notes of an Anesthesioboist," a compendium of favorite posts from the past year.
That was great! A wonderful musical opening for the week's festivities!
ReplyDeleteYou are a brave oboist. Really. And you do have lovely sound. I'm proud of you. Bravo!
ReplyDeleteThat sounded great. I think it's awesome you're even taking music lessons. You have a couple other things that could be keeping you too busy to do it. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Congratulations on the blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteNow now, don't apologize! I think you're doing very well. If I lived nearby I'd come on over and play a duet with you. :-)
ReplyDeleteA little Menotti? :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Patty. You're kind.
Hey - that sounds really good :-) Scherezade?
ReplyDeleteYou've got a great tone (which, particularly in amateur recordings, doesn't always come across - the first one I ever did with my oboe distorted the sound really badly!), and the confidence to push through the reed bubbles will definitely come.
Keep at it - I can already hear you playing the rest of the piece! :-)
Wow! I've missed out on reading all your great blogiversary articles. Very nice to hear you play!
ReplyDeleteHeading over to the cadaver post now :)