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A musical distraction?

September 30, 2012 by Tricia

It seems every weekend I have my head in the books. At least that’s the way it’s been the past month. I suppose until the end of December it will continue that way. As it turns out the two courses I’m taking are quite heavy duty but I will be that much better a nurse when I’ve completed the courses.

It doesn’t help that my abdomen has been acting up since mid-summer though. It’s been worse and worse as each day goes by. My Internist increased my meds last week so I’m now taking the maximum dosage of my Crohn’s meds. I have no where to go from here if it doesn’t start to settle down .. other than much more radical treatments that I probably can’t do or maybe surgery.

As a distraction, tomorrow Chris and I are going to see a friend that has this new musical … well, it’s not an instrument but I guess it’s something that you can use “with” your instruments? It’s called a alesis io dock musicians friend or something like that. Anyone with an iPad can produce, perform and create music with the io Dock using any pro audio gear or any instruments.

As I said I’m not sure how it works, but Chris will figure it out since he’s the musician. It will be interesting to see what new music he creates using this new technology. We don’t have an iPad .. but I know after playing with the io Dock he’ll want to get an iPad and an io dock. I won’t even bet on it because it’s a sure thing.

Ok, time for maybe a tiny rest and then back to putting my head in the books for most of the night. The only time I’ll stop studying is to watch Dexter later. I won’t miss that! Oh and maybe Homeland. Gosh … there’s other good shows on tonight too. Ok, I’m taping them.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Music Tagged With: books, courses, create, crohns, Distraction, instruments, io dock, ipad, medication, musician, online, pain, perform, pro audio gear, produce, rest, shows, studying, tape, Technology

Trying to concentrate

September 18, 2012 by Tricia

I’m having yet another busy week. I guess that’s the way it’s going to be now that I’m back in school. I’m busy trying to return to work, going to school and maintaining all my sites at the same time .. oh and we’re renovating our house too! Yes that’s a lot isn’t it?

I’d be back at work already if my hand injury hadn’t happened – then I’d be even busier!

I’m having trouble concentrating studying when my husband is home. He’s always busy doing odd jobs around the house or picking up one of his guitars and playing music. I usually don’t mind, but now that I’m studying it’s a little distracting.

Oh and speaking of guitars, the other day he saw one called a jazzmaster musicians friend and that’s now his latest obsession. He loves jazz music, in fact when he first started playing guitar he played classical and jazz so he wouldn’t mind one of these guitars. Perhaps if he gets one of these guitars I can make a deal with him to only play it in the basement or upstairs when I’m studying? Yeah … that’ll work.

Ok … back to my studying!

Filed Under: Education, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Music Tagged With: basement, concentrate, distracting, guitar, hand, healing, husband, injury, Music, study, upstairs, work

The Beaches Jazz Festival was great

August 3, 2012 by Tricia

The Toronto Jazz Festival was on this past week. Last Saturday my husband and I went to see a couple of bands perform in Kew Gardens in the Beaches. We made some sandwiches, packed some drinks and brought some folding chairs – oh and we brought our dog Midnight along with us as well and we spent the afternoon enjoying some fantastic music. We saw a band called the Heavyweights Brass Band and then we listened to Leona Boyd perform.


After the performances in the park were over we walked down to the boardwalk with our dog and let our dog loose in the off leash area. Naturally, being a Labrador Retriever she went straight to the water and had a swim in Lake Ontario. As usual we had a terrible time getting her out of the water. She just like a little kid that doesn’t want to get out of the pool!

When we were finished spending some time at the beach we walked back up to Queen street. We were headed back towards our car, but of course we had every intention of walking on Queen for the Jazz street fest. Oh and we did .. we enjoyed several bands playing as we walked. The music was amazing and everyone there seemed to be having a great time!

I love this city. There’s so many great festivals and free events like this to attend. I love it.





Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Music, Recreation, the beach, Toronto Tagged With: beach, Beaches jazz festival, dog, festival, fun, funk, heavyweights brass band, Jazz, kew gardens, leona boyd, Music, park, Saturday, street fest, street festival, swim, Toronto, Walking

The sound of music

June 2, 2012 by Tricia

My husbands been practicing a particular song on his guitar almost daily in the last few weeks. He’s even bee bringing his guitar to work with him to play on his breaks and to practice with a few other people.

Why you ask? Well … Next Monday he’s playing at a special retirement dinner for the chief of surgery at our hospital. The doctor herself is going to be playing an instrument and singing and there are a few other people playing instruments and singing as well. I guess they’ve formed a “medical” band.

Chris always talks about going and playing in bars or at free Mike nights but he never seems to do that, however, he does end up playing at hospital related events every couple of months. It could be a talent show or the annual Christmas party or some special event – everyone seems to know and like Chris’ music so they ask him to play.

Since he’s been practicing so much at home I was thinking of getting him some nice headphones so that he can listen to the music as he plays even better. Headphones that will tune out outside noise. So I went searching and I found some Sennheiser studio headphones for sale so I might get him a pair of those. I’m sure he’ll like that.

I wonder what the next music project will be once this one is done?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Music, Toronto Tagged With: band, concert, doctor, headphones, instruments, medical band, Music, play guitar, playing guitar, practice, practicing, retirement party

My husband and his guitars

March 21, 2012 by Tricia

My husband has been playing his guitars a little bit more often in the last few months. He’s quite a talented musician and he’s played guitar since he was 9 years old, but over the last few years he really hasn’t played all that much.

I’ve always tried to encourage my husband to play his guitars. I think he feels like he’s bothering me when he plays his guitar, but we have a house with many rooms so there’s no reason why he couldn’t play almost every day if he played on one of the spare rooms or in the basement or even outside in the backyard in the summer.

Every once in a while he pulls out one of his guitars – he has five – and he talks about going to one of the bars near us that has an open mike night. An open Mike night is a night when amateur musicians take turns going up on stage and playing a song or two to entertain the audience. So far he hasn’t gone to an open Mike night. I don’t know why since he’s practiced for one several times – maybe he’s more nervous than he says?

Chris' Fender Duosonic
Chris' Fender Duosonic

I’m trying to remember exactly what kind of guitars he has. I can’t remember what kind of guitar his first acoustic guitar is, but he used to play it when he lived in student housing and he had everyone he knew sign it. It no longer holds a tune longer than a minute or so! His other acoustic is a very nice Larrivee that I bought for him five years ago.

His other three guitars are electric guitars and they are older, vintage models. One of his electric guitars is a Gibson from the early 70’s and the other two are Fender guitars. I’m not sure how old his Fenders are, but I know he loves them. Of course what he’d really like would be a 1959 Fender, but I believe those are very hard to come by and very expensive so it isn’t likely that he’ll be getting one of those anytime soon!

Lately he’s been playing his guitar to practice for a little musical concert that will take place for a doctors retirement this coming June. It’s a doctor that he works with in the hospital and he’s been asked to play at her retirement party so he’s been busy working on some songs. Everything sounds good from what I’ve heard so far. I’m sure as we get closer to the date I’ll be hearing a lot more guitar practice!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Music, Toronto Tagged With: acoustic guitar, Chris, fender, fender duosonic, gibson, guitars, husband, Larrivee, Music, musician, playing, practicing

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