So with the kids back in school, and a little more time to think, I thought it would be good to do another goal check for the year.
My first goal was to finish my musical…. Yay, that one is done, not orchestrated the way I’d like, but completed, and my second version was so much better than the first.
It’s good to remember goals you HAVE accomplished. It helps me feel better when other goals might not be going as well… After listening to the General Women’s Conference this weekend, I’ve decided I need to put one of the songs from my musical on my website. It went right along with the message about being like Jesus with our stewardship in Visiting Teaching. (more details to come…)
Another goal I have (still) is to complete our Christmas Cantata. The songs have mostly been written, though several of them still have yet to be arranged for choir and piano. I’m excited to be working on a closing song, “Joy to the World”. It will be an arrangement for choir and congregation with organ and piano. I still dream of it being a full orchestrated version, but just adding a second instrument to it gives me chills just thinking about it. I hope it turns out as good as I envision it in my mind! I’ve already submitted the lyrics to our bishopric for approval, and hoping that everything gets done soon! We’ll start rehearsals in a few weeks! It’s good to have deadlines…. I know it WILL get done!
I have almost finished my unplanned goal for the year… our vacation. It took up so much of my time, but I imagine it will be something we’ll remember forever, and SO worth the time, effort, and money that it took to go. The last thing I want to do for that goal, is just to consolidate my blogs about the trip, and make a nice Blog book, with extra pictures in it, to help us remember it forever. I’ve set a deadline to get it done for Christmas. Hopefully that will help me get it done…
My last music goal was to make a second piano CD. Many of the songs that I want to put on this CD have been on my website for forever (2000)! I purposefully saved some of my favorite songs so that for my second CD, I could have it be orchestrated. I’m left trying to decide if I should go ahead and just do the CD as a piano CD, without orchestration, or take a little longer and make it orchestrated. It’s a hard choice. For now, I think I’m going to finish up the piano sheet music for the book that would go along with it, and then see how I feel. “Reflections of Eternity” will be the title of the CD, and I already have a great idea for the cover art. I’m not sure this one will happen this year, but either way, it feels good to be making some progress towards that goal.
I’m excited about General Conference this next weekend. There’s always such good inspirational nuggets that I look forward to hearing from the leaders of my church. I always come away feeling uplifted and spiritually nourished. I’m bound to get some good inspiration for some new songs as well. I’ve started writing some new ones again… all of them just waiting for when I can orchestrate them the way that I want. I’m sure you’ve noticed a common thread… Next year’s goal will have to be… LEARN HOW TO ORCHESTRATE!