I was thinking the opposite of "loose ends", but "tight ends" just makes me think of T. in my high school homeroom, who had to write "I will not hit up the tight end" 100 times for the football coach...why do I remember these things?
Tightened End #1: Maurice Cavalier is back on the road, with an inspection sticker and with an amazing body job by my dad. I am sooooo spoiled. He even painted. I tellya.
Tightened End #2: 3 blue zippers and a red zipper bought for 4 different garments that I will make during Christmas break. I was not supposed to buy any fabric, but I did. One cut. :-) I also walked out with a few yards of this half-paper, half-fabric stuff. I had mentioned to the lady who was cutting my fabric that I was going to have to make a pattern since I couldn't find any I liked, and she suggested using this instead of my usual muslin-plus-craft paper.
Tightened End #3: Marden's. (Official motto: "I should have bought it when I saw it at Marden's"). You just never know what you're going to find in there, but today I found 2 pairs of pants, 2 skirts, and a sweater. Total: $35. It would have been $43 but somehow I forgot to buy the jeans. Oh well. Now I have some great pants and a new tango skirt!
Tightened End #4: Moravian Star is lit and hanging outside. I had to take the handle off of the deck door and feed the extension cord in through the hole, and then stuff foam around it. Now that I've done this, I'm sure I'll need to use the deck door multiple times.
Tightened End #5, which was already tightened once last weekend: re-mailed Xmas package to D., after our delightful Department of Homeland Security decided not to let it leave the country because I had mailed it last weekend from a UPS store and not from the Post Office? Eh? Neither I nor the postal clerk could figure out what the problem was, but she just put another sticker on it and sent it off. If it arrives back on my porch next Saturday, I will be really annoyed.
During the tightening of End #6, a student called to see if she was playing the right notes for "Walking in a Winter Wonderland." Speakerphones are cool.
End #6: Christmas Concerto sixteenth notes learned for Christmas Eve. Figured out a new finger technique.
End #7 is still loose. I can't figure out whether I would rather learn the Korngold or the Glazunov for my next concerto. To be continued. No doubt G. will have some ideas, such as "are you nuts? You haven't played the Tchaikovsky and you want to play the Korngold?" Yes. I am nuts.
End #8 is still loose. I need to siphon the old gas out of my snowblower to see if fresh gas will make the motor stop racing and blowing puffs of smoke. Yikes.