I will be 60 on August 16… at exactly 9:10 in the morning.
I’m thrilled about the upcoming new decade. I even talked about it in EPISODE 11 of Radio FaceBoo; recorded on July 31 — a saturday night — I went on and on, saying how exciting it is for me to be turning 60… that I’m finally at ease with the thought of being the clown-without-a-costume that I’ve always known myself to be in my heart and soul.
On the eve of stepping into August, I was possessed with an urgent need to clear up space for change. And so it was that I started to demolish my bedroom.
You see, I’ve been sleeping in my living room — in my big comfortable recliner arm chair — since last September. This means I wasn’t using my bedroom anymore so might as well get rid of my queen-size bed (with its rock-hard mattress) and other pieces of furniture that took up space and blocked the good chi.
A longtime friend of mine offered to take the bed off my hands and was happy to inherit the vanity which belonged to my mom.
My huge trunk is destined to hold a special function in what will become the Giggle Theatre. For this to happen, I cleared my office of all ITS furniture as well — I’ll keep you posted on this work in progress.
As for the wicker table, the rococo lamp, and the guardian angel, they’ll probably end up in my kitchen — “to be continued.”
So that’s what happened on July 31.
I’ll be back very soon with my account
of the first days of August — woo hoo hoo!
I received a leafy hibiscus for Mother’s Day. It took forever to grow buds, and once the buds appeared — about two and a half weeks ago — they remained tightly shut.
Till this morning!
Here’s my friend Socky who wants you to know that…
“Happiness is a blooming hibiscus.”
I’ll tell you more about Socky very soon.
We’ve recently reunited and have decided to work
together on different projects, this summer.
Here, now, is the story of WHY this episode is on my blog and not on Facebook and audioBoo:
Two days ago, I inaugurated Radio FaceBoo, a radio show
born of the union between Facebook and audioBoo.
EPISODE 1 was a breeze! I downloaded it to audioBoo — all 4 minutes and 41 seconds of it — and was on my way to FaceBoo heaven.
Then came EPISODE 2 which, by the way, is in French because I’ve decided to cha-cha from one official Canadian language to the other. This time, though, things didn’t go quite as well. When I downloaded my 6:57 document to audioBoo, it was cut short after only 5 minutes. And since I didn’t notice this unfortunate fickle-finger-of-fate occurrence, I went ahead and shared my episode on Facebook and audioBoo and, yes, on my French blog.
What a sour surprise it was for me (and others) to listen to my show and realise the song I played after my chit-chat had been amputated.
How annoying!
Of course I automatically thought I had done something wrong — working with this new MacBook Pro in GarageBand, I’m still stumbling and tripping all over the place. BUT, once I recorded today’s episode, I paid better attention to the whole process and discovered the glitch: after downloading my podcast, I noticed audioBoo had only registered 5 of the 7 minutes and 16 seconds, cutting it short once again. It wasn’t my fault after all. Cool!
So here I was with an audio recording, but no vehicle to post it on Facebook and audioBoo. What to do… ? Would I be stuck skipping a few days till audioBoo fixed the tech problem… ?
And then it dawned on me: I would post it here, as a regular podcast, and finally get to learn how my podPress plug-in works. Perfect!
So all this to say that I’m happy to have persevered instead of calling it quits. And even though there are a few moments in today’s show that I could have done without — i.e., my abundant use of the words “like” and “thing” — I’m proud of myself for not re-recording the podcast and instead going for the natural, “spontaneous” effect.
In other words, What you hear is what you get!
Hope you’ll enjoy it… and leave me a comment.
Thanks!
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: A really big THANK YOU to my good friend Kcrystina for helping me figure out the last steps needed to download my podcast to Bluehost. I LOVE YOU!
This morning — at Tim’s — as I sipped my coffee and wrote in my Morning Pages about finding ways to have more fun, an idea popped into my head: Why not start a radio show on both Facebook and audioBoo?
Happiness is: being my own boss. I don’t even care if I have to work on a saturday night.
Getting things ready for the video I’ll be recording in days to come… for my “about me” page. The one I should have done in February in order to follow through on my 12-Notch Plan. The baby step I didn’t take which resulted in my being awarded a great big half trophy.
Dreamer.
Lazy old
bum!
In my defence, please note that I hadn’t yet found the concept. It’s only today, early evening, that I came up with the idea: Oza will interview Mudd.
Can’t wait to see the final product.
How about you…
Are you late for something? Come on… admit it!
