Back to Normal

Ahhhhhhh. It's wonderful to have my life back to normal. Last week was especially crazy!! My choir (Sarabande) was invited to sing with the Vancouver Bach Choir in their performance of J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor. Faaaabulous work. I want to sing the alto solo "Agnus Dei" Soooo pretty. Anyway, that meant rehearsing every Tuesday night (after Girl Guides) until 10pm and then rehearsals last week, and the morning of the concert. And we didn't get to slack off in Saturday's rehearsal either. In Bruce Pullan's words, "Choir, you're going to have to sing it full voice twice today. Sorry." Sigh. Doesn't help when 7 of the 14 second altos are sick and can't sing full voice anyway. Whoot.

All in all though the concert was good. I applaud all the orchestral soloists (especially the flautist!!). There were, of course, moments of cringing and of not quite perfection, but I don't think anyone expects to hear a perfect concert of this super hard work (Sanctus and Hosanna - need I say more?) But I did enjoy singing it, so much so I bought my own score. =) I'm such a choir geek.

"OFF THE ORDER"

Our elevator in our building has been acting funny lately. You get in, push the button where you want to go, then you wait. . . . and wait . . . . and wait . . . .and wait. You think you're not moving and your next thought is "OHMYGOD!! I'M STUCK IN THE ELEVATOR" So, you press the "STOP" button - the alarm sounds for a moment, then the doors open and, voila, you have made it to the floor you wanted to get to (or sometimes the floor just before it).

We called the landlady and told her voicemail about the problem. Josh saw her later in the day and she said "It working now. If happen again, you tell me."

I get home from work yesterday, and walk through the front door of our building, go up to the elevator to push the button, and see the following sign taped to the elevator door:

"OFFTHE ORDER"

Haha. Funny landlady. Does that mean it's more broken than if it were "OUT OF ORDER" or less broken?

SNOW AND MY BIRTHDAY!!!

I thought that never the two shall meet, but lucky me! I get snow on my birthday!!. Ok, so it's not the stuff that coats everything and you can't move or drive anywhere, but still, it is snow. It doesn't usually snow in March in Vancouver, but when it does, it usually snows before my birthday, and then is all melted away before the actual day. I like to think it's Mother Nature's birthday present to me. =)

What's in a name?

Who has tried looking up their name on the internet and seeing what they found? I just looked up Colette Colter, and I appear to be the only Colette Colter on the net as this blog came back as the first hit. All other hits either had Coletter or Colter, but not Colette Colter together.

I have to admit, Colette Maguire came back with better results. Apparently I am (or at least I was) a reporter for BBC Newsline working in Northern Ireland. That infor was 1st and 2nd hit. 3rd and 4th were to do with me and Douglas Collete. Very cool. http://www.douglas.bc.ca/programs/office-administration/ (I don't know how to hide the link behind a word - not that technical or have html knowledge).

I am also a a character in a book "Her Father's Shadow" (Dr. Colette Maguire - hey! I'm a doctor!!!) as well as a choreographer in Europe.

Pretty freaky. But fun.

So, I can feel pretty special being the only Colette Colter (that I know of - or that the internet is aware of).