Find Your Maracas!

Everybody's got their somethin'!

Hiya, Friends!  Boy!  Had a busy end of the week last week!  How on earth are ya?  Today, I want to talk about a passion of mine: music!

You see, music makes you dance, and dancing's good for your soul.  I've just recently learned that besides taking music in, I enjoy making music!  How about that?

Aunt Colleen and Uncle Lorentz got me a set of musical instruments for my birthday.  There's a xylophone, a tambourine, a clacker, harmonica, kazoo, a guiro, a pair of castanets, a paddle with tambourine-like jingles in it, a dinner-bell.... I mean triangle, and maracas.  At the time, I wasn't sure what to do with those musical instruments.

Well.  I'm older now.  I'm much more sophisticated.  I am one and one-thirds years old.  Sixteen months going on seventeen months.  That's me.  I was still practically a baby when I turned one, but now, I'm all grown up, and I've learned to play some of those fabulous musical instruments.  I like the tambourine and the clacker.  I get instant results from those instruments.  I like the xylophone because it's made from pretty wooden blocks.  I have some work to do with the harmonica and kazoo.  Those instruments are really difficult to play.  And I've yet to master the dinner-bell.  Sorry.  I mean the triangle.  I keep doing that. 

I think I keep calling the triangle the "dinner-bell," because I watched a Western one day, and they had a great big dinner bell hanging on the front porch of the ranch house, and at dinner-time, they'd go out and ring that dinner bell, and yell out "Come to the table!" or something like that.  I think a dinner bell would enhance everything about my house, not the least, Mommy's cooking.  I think if I imagined I were a cowgirl on a ranch in the Old West, the food around here would make more sense to me.  And I could imagine that a lot more effectively with a dinner bell.  And before you ask, yes, a dinner bell WOULD accessorize quite harmoniously with a disco ball.  You bet it would!

Mine's maracas!  I just love 'em!

I'll hafta check the 'Zon for a dinner bell.  Maybe I can get a deal on a dinner bell-disco ball combo.  What do you think, Friends?

Boy, oh boy, was that ever a digression!  Wowza!  But it was sort of on-topic!  You've got to admit, it was kind of on-topic, while it was off-topic! 

Musical instruments.  We were talking about my musical instruments set.  I love the maracas.  The maracas are my favorite.  I think it's because the motion used to play them is much like that I use with a rattle.  I've been playing the rattle ever since I was very little!  The maracas make me feel good.  They make me feel like I know how to do something.  It's important to learn new things, but you hafta have some things you're good at naturally.

For me, that's the maracas.

Everybody has a maracas in their lives, that one thing they're just really darned good at.  It can turn a bad day around.  Big people, what you need to do is find your maracas and shimmy and shake and be happy!  That's what!  And remember.  Zoe loves you!  Muah!