Some from the last Convention.
Sep. 9th, 2018 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyI missed most of the last Con we were going to, because I threw out my back. I would have really liked a chance to participate in at least one evening filk. The Music Guests of Honor seemed like fun folks and we had half of Echo's Children there, as well.
I had to drive up late Friday (M went earlier with H and C), so S could go to a Birthday party. We just missed that night's filking by a few minutes; they went from filking to pumpkining in the time it took us to unload the car.
The next morning I had to take my max dose of acetaminophen to get through my concert. Despite the pain, the concert was lots of fun and I am really pleased with how it went. I got blanket permission from that one half of Echo's Children to sing any of her songs at any time (I had purposely avoided putting her songs into my concert, since I knew she would be at the Con; an unnecessary precaution as it turned out).
I went home after the concert to take care of the animals. I decided to stay at home afterwards, to rest my back, since I knew my back couldn't take another night on a hotel bed. At that point, I was still hoping I could make it out the next day.
Yeah, no, my body had other plans. I'd pushed it too hard and my back shut me down. I spent the next two days basically bed bound.
Fortunately, M and the kids could still stay at the hotel and enjoy the Con.
During a panel called "instrument petting zoo", S got to play with an electric violin and H discovered she's not half bad with a penny whistle. The two of them played together to entertain the baby in the room. H said she would make up a tune, and S could follow along on violin.
The girls filked every night, but C was too busy doing other things to join in. By the last day of the Con, he was worried he'd missed all chances to filk, so he was very happy to discover that there was filking going on at the Dead Dog. He even got a compliment from the one half of Echo's Children on his rendition of "The Seventh Horse". S said it was adorable. The cutest part to me, is C didn't realise who the "nice lady who complimented him" was, and that it was one of her songs. He was just pleased to have gotten the positive feedback.
I had to drive up late Friday (M went earlier with H and C), so S could go to a Birthday party. We just missed that night's filking by a few minutes; they went from filking to pumpkining in the time it took us to unload the car.
The next morning I had to take my max dose of acetaminophen to get through my concert. Despite the pain, the concert was lots of fun and I am really pleased with how it went. I got blanket permission from that one half of Echo's Children to sing any of her songs at any time (I had purposely avoided putting her songs into my concert, since I knew she would be at the Con; an unnecessary precaution as it turned out).
I went home after the concert to take care of the animals. I decided to stay at home afterwards, to rest my back, since I knew my back couldn't take another night on a hotel bed. At that point, I was still hoping I could make it out the next day.
Yeah, no, my body had other plans. I'd pushed it too hard and my back shut me down. I spent the next two days basically bed bound.
Fortunately, M and the kids could still stay at the hotel and enjoy the Con.
During a panel called "instrument petting zoo", S got to play with an electric violin and H discovered she's not half bad with a penny whistle. The two of them played together to entertain the baby in the room. H said she would make up a tune, and S could follow along on violin.
The girls filked every night, but C was too busy doing other things to join in. By the last day of the Con, he was worried he'd missed all chances to filk, so he was very happy to discover that there was filking going on at the Dead Dog. He even got a compliment from the one half of Echo's Children on his rendition of "The Seventh Horse". S said it was adorable. The cutest part to me, is C didn't realise who the "nice lady who complimented him" was, and that it was one of her songs. He was just pleased to have gotten the positive feedback.
