Vindictive much?

It's times like these where I hate being dependant on others...I had planned to go to the bank today to talk credit with someone, so I arranged for a ride with Grandma, which she was ok with, since Grandma took her car back after dropping Mom at work.

It's snowing, the roads are fine, but Grandma refuses to drive, which means I won't get to go to the bank for another week now, and she refuses to pick Mom up from work. So unless something is done, Mom's stranded at work with no ride. If I knew how to drive, I'd do it myself.

"That car is my only escape," she says. "If it gets ruined, I'm trapped here."

Then, if you feel trapped, leave.

If you want something done, you've got to do it yourself, they say. Looks like I'll be taking my bike out a little earlier this year--I'm getting sick and tired of depending on people for rides, and going every night from work not knowing whether I have a ride until just before 9.

Ok, enough ranting. Xenosaga now.

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Happy birthday, Jill!

Eau de toilette? Toilet water? Eeeeeeeew...

You know, I really should just make a web page with all the Phantom icons I've created--I've got at least 10, and part of me wants to purchase LJ time just so I can have room to have all these icons at my disposal. However, the rational mind likes the proponent of a free service, so I'll just shuffle them around from time to time. Like this one, for example, new to the rotation. Quite fun to make, actually.

In continuing my Phantom obsession, Wal-Mart had a CD I'd never expected it to have--the Highlights from the original London cast of PotO, and so I snatched up the one and only copy. The only one that I really want now in my possession that I haven't bought or ordered is the 2-CD set from the movie. After listening to the voices of Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, I've come to the conclusion that casting the baritone voice of Butler was a very wise move, and the deeper male baritone sounds much better for the part in terms of dynamics and emotion. The baritone voice can convey raw, gutsy emotion in the voice that the lighter, flightier tenor voices can not, and it's high enough in the vocal range where it's ideal. A deeper bass voice, and the gutsy emotion, the raw punch in the baritone voice gets lost with low pitches, replaced by something like a double bass. Call it personal experience--I'm hoping my voice has finished dropping, because I have the baritone voice.

Everyone has a wonderful singing voice, but I just think the higher tenor of Michael Crawford and the massive vibrato and flighty, shrill operatic voice of Sarah Brightman just don't fit. I listened to the entire highlights album, and while I felt sad by album's end, I wasn't reduced to tears.

EDIT: Yes, I was.

The voices are lacking in the emotion that Butler's voice provides, as well as the lower soprano of Rossum. The two of them leave me in tears EVERY time I hear the final number of PotO, including the two times I have seen the movie.

They say that baritones never get the leads. I hope to be the exception.

Now that our voice lesson has concluded, the rest of the day was good, and work-like, and the paycheck wasn't bad either. 2 phones were sold, bringing up the tally to 18. Came home, and talked to April until near 12, and I have been here since.

Work schedule for the upcoming week:

Sat: 12-9
Sun: off
Mon-Thurs: 12-9
Fri: off

Tomorrow, I'm hoping to get to Bank of America to have a discussion about credit, and possibly applying for a credit card. Also, hopefully some Xenosaga fun. I still have yet to do my MA tax return...I should get on that.

Tomorrow night, I'm hoping to get my first guitar lesson. (grins!)

With what I hope to learn on the guitar, I can make my own music of the night. I can caress my April with music.

Nighty night, all.