My Space

I have been working hard on my computer skills these days, figured out how to make my own little website, I record some music and transcribe some tunes. There is one thing that I find difficult. My Space. I'm not sre why I find it so complicated, everyone seems to use it. Everytime I try to change or add something, it takes me an hour to figure out how. I still have not even come close to figuring out how to move things around or change colors on the page. I added a few friends, but I don't even think any friends have added me :-| I don't even know how to figure that out. Am I the only one who finds this a bit of a challenge? If anyone wants to see where my page is at so far, this is the link: http://www.myspace.com/68770662
I hope that works because when I search my name, I get zero results! Anyone else have these kids of problems, or better yet, have easy solutions?

So, for a picture, how about some of my family members. This picture is of my youngest sister, Lisa and my nephew, Sam. My sister Joanna has 3 kids, Patrick, Sam and Grace. I try to hang out with them as much as I can. Grace, who is 3 is pretty funny. She tries to do everything her big brothers do. Anyhow, ciao for now, Anastasia

So Yeah....

I was updating my website and somehow, I managed to delete all the tunes after the key of D. Not fun, not good. I had to go back and re-enter all the info and create new links for all the tunes. Still don't know how I did it. Of course I had saved all my canges before I realized what had happened. If anyone noices any missing tunes, please let me know.

I had a really fun trip to Québec for Thanksgiving. It was a beautiful weekend for traveling, on Sunday we went in the woods to Raymond and Phil's camp. They mostly use it in the winter for snowmobiling. It is pretty neat. The first picture is a picture of the cabin.The second picture in this post is of Yoko, the huge "Bouvier Bernois" (I have no idea what that is in English, maybe a Bernese mountain dog?) and Kiwi, the tiny Chihuahua. They are so funny together. They belong to Friends in Saguenay. Yoko is scared of Kiwi and when they are together, it's a pretty good show. Lots of good food and good company.

So for today's link. This one is only useful to the tune players. On a concertina website (concertina.net) they have this thing called a Tune-o-tron converter. The name makes me laugh, but it is a useful tool. You can copy/paste a tune in the box in abc format and it will convert it to standard notation. You can also use this page to hear a midi file of tunes. Kind of neat. Here is the link: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html

Enough blogging for tonight... Anastasia

Title? Why do I need a title?

Wednesday, getting closer to the weekend... I am going on a little trip to Saguenay, Québec this weekend for Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to that. I know what to expect on these trips, good food, good company and lots of fun, not necessarily in that order though the food is always particularly good. :-) I'm looking forward to the scenery on the trip up, always beautiful this time of year.

Todays picture is from our "Run for the Cure" show on Sunday. Christine who sings in the band, Tanya our new manager and Caroline who sings and plays piano...and guitar...and accordion.

And now for the link, I warn you, if you have an addictive personality like I do, DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!! You won't be able to stop playing this game. Silly little game really, but lots of fun. My nephews got me hooked on this game site. Here is the link for Curveball . If you like this sort of thing, I also get a kick out of "bash your bank" and "boneless girl". Not super intellectual stuff, but definately good stress-busters. Now remember that you've been warned, the site is called addicting games, beware!

Run for the cure

Today, some of us girls from Chiquésa are playing and singing at the run for the cure event in Charlottetown. Cancer is a disease that has deeply touched my family and this is a cause in which I truly believe. We are playing a few songs and tunes for the runners as they start to cross this finish line. Then, off to practice, we have a band practice and we are actually (believe it or not) starting to practice Christmas stuff.




Lots of fun last night, musiciand friends of mine, Monique and Andy got married in a beautiful ceremony in Palmer Road, PEI. Everything was perfect!! Todays picture is one of them leaving the church in a horse and carriage. The bride and all her attendants arrived in the same carriage. A great time was had by all.


Now a funny little story before I post my link for today. For those who aren't familiar with the band that I play with, (www.chiquesa.com) we are pretty silly sometimes. One of our running gags (and we have many, we love to laugh) is that whatever gig we do, we have to do publicity for the cottages owned by Caroline (singer/piano player)'s parents. They are called Les Chalets de la Grande Basse. Even though we make jokes, they are really nice cottages, so if you need a place to stay on PEI, close to the beach, relaxing, I could go on, but just go visit the website. http://chaletsgrandebasse.com/ Hahaha, So Jeannita, Marcel, you owe me now..... Or I guess you helped us out enough this summer that maybe we owe you still, plus you let us practice at "les chalets de la grande basse", and it's so relaxing at "les chalets de la grande basse" Oh, and inspiring, "les chalets de la grande basse"........