I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

Nope E!  And just for general info, Toronto and all of Canada is beautiful!

Enjoyful

I know!  I'd love to move to Canada, but I don't think they'd take me and my medical problems!

bluedahlia

We can pretend you're a long lost cousin?

Medigal

Blue:  I remembered last night why La Cenerentola hasn't been done in the States since the 1950's. It takes a Mezzo Coloratura for the lead and our coloraturas are usually lyric or dramatic.  I will be excited to hear how this artist Elizabeth DeShong does in the lead.  She must be quite good to take on this role.  I see they have Aida listed.  It was one I got to hear a lot and a favorite of mine.  When I was about 14 years old, a girl friend of mine who was studying voice with me (opera) went to see the movie "Aida".  We brought a sack of hotdogs, hamburgers and a PIE into the theatre and stayed all day watching the movie until her dad came at 8pm that night and dragged us home!  We were singing the arias in the car all the way home and driving her beloved dad nuts!  Thanks for the memories Blue!

I see we have a "cultured" group of ladies here.  Now if we can only get Enjoyful to forget about hockey or find a hockey opera singer for her!

Enjoyful

Toronto's one of my favoUrite cities ("U" added for my Canadian friends!).  It's so clean, low-crime, and there's always something fun to do.  Can someone near Toronto adopt me, please?

Medigal

E:  I love Toronto too!  How's about I move there and I can adopt you!  I just don't think the Canadians can handle the "both" of us at the same time! 

Enjoyful

Oh Medipal, I started out as a music major at university (piano performance) but I never could stomach opera.  *headache*  My ex-husband tells me I'd have a different opinion if I actually went to the opera, but I can't even listen to the soloists in Handel's Messiah without getting a headache.  I think it's the vibrato.

Enjoyful

You and me, Medipal.  Let's go!  :-)  We'll be the crazy pig-feet buying ladies who live at the edge of town. 

bluedahlia

Hey, I only live 35 minutes away.  When I'm tuned up as far as I can go, we'll make it a Girl's Night Out!  Ray would be more than happy to chauffeur three lovely ladies!

Enjoyful

It's a date!

Medigal

E:  Ok, E, but you will need to put away your hockey stick (no fair hitting "old" people with it) and learn a couple of opera duets we can sing while we stand on the corner asking for whatever they call the Canadian dollars.  We "don't" share our magnificent voices for "free"!  So start vocalizing and put down that blasted hockey stick and we will turn Toronto upside down!  Sorry Blue but you started this so you have to loan us your beautiful city for a while.

Hey Blue, speak for yourself.  I am no "lady" after I have had two cokes in me (The Cola type please!)   

Enjoyful

Medipal, I only sing in self-defense.  My voice has been known to turn people to stone.  I'm the Medusa of the music world!

pickle

E and Medigal...Canada will roll out the welcome mat for you. We love a chance to show our stuff. One tip for you though, if you ask a bus driver if he takes loonies, he may reply " sure hop on...we'll take anybody"

Just a little Canadian money humoUr for you.



Beth

Enjoyful

Hahahaha!  I may have some loonies floating around my house.  Other than me and my sister, that is.

bluedahlia

Speaking of bus drivers, I have to give them kudos.  Last year, before my surgery,  I was as dyskinetic as I could be.  Took public transit to an appointment (I still wouldn't give up my independance totally - hard Italian head).  Well the bus driver saw the condition I was in and asked the other passengers on the bus if they wouldn't mind the detour but he had to get a special lady home and dropped me off in front of my door.  I felt like crying I was so touched!

molly52

((((Blue))))

pickle

Blue that is so sweet. Such a decent person to do that for you.

Wabbit

Awww blue ... what a nice bus driver.  I love being reminded that there really are a lot of good people out there in our world ... its always the other kind that get all the attention.  Thanks for sharing.   Just can't imagine you being hardheaded though ... bwahahaha

crazy4carrots

I bet Blue's beautiful smile just melted his heart!

BTW, if E and Medi want to sing for their supper in Toronto, the subway's a great place to do it.  That's how gorgeous Jill Hennessey (Law & Order, Crossing Jordan) got her first "gig" in show business!

Ellie1959

Oh Blue - that made my day- what a nice driver that was!

duckyb1

bluedahlia.........beautiful story..............must have been that Italian charm that got to your bus driver.................What a nice thing to do for you................and me, I probably would have been bawling all over the driver...........what a sweet thing to do.......Kudo's to him, and to you brave lady......

I have 2 of my 6 children who take me to Rads everyday.....I tell them i can do this, but they refuse to listen..........I have another daughter who comes over cleans my house every other week..........I am very fortunate..............my husband passed away of cancer 19 years ago when he was 57.............but I was left with a wonderful family.............My older son who insistes he is driving me 3 days a week believes he's the "Don" of the family (Italian father), and the "baby" who is 42, is the one who does the other 2 days............I am so fortunate...........My kids were the talk of the hospital in every dept. because of always being there.  They referred to them as "her Entourage"............I am a blessed woman...............

Again, loved your story......................hope all is well with you.

Medigal

Blue:  Oh, now I really want to come to Canada.  That bus driver must have been the same one who used to drop me off in front of my door in the US.  (He was scared of that mom of mine who used to tell him "I betta get home safe!").  Maybe he moved to Canada to get away from us and "you" found him!  He never called me a "special lady" tho.  I can't repeat in public what he used to call me but not "special".

Medigal

Lindasa:  I have never sung in a subway but I did climb a tree in Central Park in New York and gave the city my finest.  They sent me theirs and he was not too happy with me and instead of a contract to the Metropolitan Opera, he offered me a seat in the city jail if I didn't shut up and get out of that tree!  Oh, those were the good old days.  When I could actually climb something!

bluedahlia

Thank you ladies.  I'm regaining my independance slowly.  I actually drove a couple times since my surgery.  Plucked my eyebrows, take unassisted showers, do my own nails, etc.

Don't ever take anything for granted!

crazy4carrots

Blue -- I'd say the surgery was a huge success if you're plucking your own eyebrows!

Medi -- Your story about being the Central Park songbird is a treasure!

pickle

Medigal, I'll be in Central Park on Memorial Day weekend if you care to do an encore. If you can't climb the tree you can serenade everyone in Strawberry Fields.

Medigal

pickle:  Thanks for the invite but I'm really a "tree" person.  I'll leave Strawberry Fields to the memory of the Lennons.  I used  to play an accordian too but it was too heavy to drag up a tree!  I really have a "colorful" past.  Nice to remember how much fun life could be when we are healthy and able to climb trees and act like "loons" even in Central Park! 

annabanana28

snore   zzzzz

wake me up when this discussion gets back to something people actually care about.

bluedahlia

Hey there annabanana.  Thought you were done with this site?  Weren't you going elsewhere?

annabanana28

I deleted my above comment. I am having a bad day and I posted something mean and uncalled for.  I apologize to anyone who may have seen it.  I'm very sorry.