Dad got back from Hawaii today! Hooray! Not that leaving Hawaii is anything to be celebrated....I want to go back so badly!

I went to Southern Music for the first time yesterday w/ siblings and Miss Penny. It would be great if I could just live there. I got three new piano books--a collection of great classical pieces, a really fantastic Bach (favorite composer) book, and *drum roll* the 4th Edition Greatest Broadway Songs Ever piano book. GOODNESS GRACIOUS it's so big and exciting! I'm very happy. But I know now that I've been there, I'll never have EVERYTHING I want from there. Next up will be Greatest Movie Music, Bubbly by Colbie Caillat and 1,2,3,4 by Feist. They have a whole section of popular music of today, plus an even bigger section of show tunes that I will never get enough of. Thank you thank you thank you Miss Penny for taking us!

Also, I can now play The Luckiest by Ben Folds! What a wonderful feeling. And done with only a chord sheet!

P.S. I Love You was adorable. And sad. But mostly adorable. Harry Connick, Jr., of course, OWNED in it. He is my idol, and always will be. I want his Songs I've Heard CD!

I don't know what color to paint my room! I thought about purple, but my curtains are purple. I thought about red, by my bed is mainly red, and I don't want it to clash with the purple. I'm thinking maybe a goldish brown? I don't know....

a new favorite musical, Notre Dame de Paris. This is the opening number, Temps de Catedrali (The Time of the Cathedrals)