Sometimes we forget....

....what we used to like.

For those who know me, know I am a huge Bach fan. I make a concerted effort to listen to Bach on Sunday mornings. Anyone who has heard any Bach knows he is not background music, so I actually listen to it, not play it as I do laundry. I hadnt realized just how much Bach is on my little iPod, and I began playing it last night at home. Oscar likes him too as it turns out, and we enjoyed an evening of Bach and marking (if that is possible!)

Again this morning I started listening where I had left off. The Brandenburg Concerto Number 3 came on, and as I was approaching the 6000 steps up to the school, the third movement started with the fast violins. I got so into it, not having heard it since Korea, that I didnt even notice how I went up those steps! Next thingI knew I was right at the end of the piece and at the front door greeting the doormen.

The doormen are two older Bulgarian men who have perma-smiles, something unknown to Koreans; they had, from what I could remember perma-scowls! But these two are sweet as pie really. So I have made it a habbit to buy them each an espresso every Friday (forgot last Friday becasue I was in a haze). I will have to make it up to them this week with an added sweet of some sort. Each time, one of them kisses my hand, a sweet gesture that somewhat embarasses me, but Idont know enough Bulgarian to say anything to him.

I digress...

I remember a friend telling me her mom used to put her toys away for afew months when she was a kid, and she would forget about them. Then, when she would take them out again, it would be like having new toys again. It was kind of like that with the music yesterday. Suddenly I had new music again which of course I had had all along, but it was new again and totally refreshing to hear. I miss Tchaikivsky's Romeo and Juliet, and Bach's Saint Matthews Passion. I think those CDs are still in Korea. Good thing they werent in the suitcase dingbat lost! (Dingbat- what an 80s word!)

OK, off to buy groceries for teriyaki chicken. I am feeding Brent tonight as well. International expat feeder! YUP that's me :)