Why Do We Do This To Ourselves???

Let me be clear that this is Stacy posting this and not the other three; as I am only speaking from my own point of view here. Good. Now that that's out of the way...

If you had asked me back in November if I would be quartetting in June of the following year, I would have laughed out loud and said, "No WAY!" I was really ready for a break - so much so that I didn't even renew my SAI CAL membership this past May...oooopsie. Then Susan and Robin have to go 'dreaming' about what could be...blah, blah, blah. Nice. That didn't fit with my square little box of a brain, but because I trust Susan, my best friend of 10 years, what the heck. If my girl, who is programmed such that only family is first - ever, is willing to break out of that mindset twice a month to go out of STATE to rehearse...I couldn't say no for fear of the repercussions (kidding)!

Now. Present day/time. It's been just two days since we made the announcement on Facebook (other very important people in our immediate lives - you know who you are - had to be told first...) to the rest of our very important people in our immediate and not-so-immediate lives - you know who you are - and the response from all of you very important people in our lives has been overwhelming to say the least. This would be why we do what we do to ourselves to prepare to perform. Not just for you, but if it weren't for you, then that would be just for us and that's pretty selfish, eh?

We do have the best friends, families, choruses, region and ALL of its quartets (with many of whom we are VERY good friends) are the luckiest women around. Hands down. Thanks so much for all your cheers and well-wishes! YOU rock!

First Photo - Dream Goes to the Dogs???

Clearly a working photo - and what's with the dogs in the background? - and where is Robin's box? - and Jen is in need of an outing on the boats (The Lazy Susan and Changes In LlamaTude) although she won't be all wrinkly like the rest of us! - and clearly it is past time for Stacy's hair to be touched up! - and what's up with nothing to rag on Susan about - not fair!!!

First Rehearsal...if we can GET there!!!

Well...alrighty then! The adventure has begun. When I say 'adventure', I mean it - especially when Susan is driving. It was raining. There was traffic. Friday afternoon heading north on I-75, are you serious??? No problem. It's smooth sailing right across the state line.

As we approach Chattanooga, traffic comes to a dead stop. Not kidding! We are SO glad we gave ourselves an extra hour before rehearsal begins. 10, 15, 20 minutes crawls by...still not moving - much. Not good. Plan B - see if NavGirl can re-route us. SURE! Get off at the next exit and turn left. OK! I look out the car window and, of course, we're on the OVERPASS for 'the next exit'. Geeez. Hmmm....what do we see? Everyone else (or at least that's our story) getting off the highway via the ON ramp! Risk our lives for a quartet rehearsal??? You BETCHA!!

Takes us 45 minutes to get off the top of the hill to downtown's rehearsal spot - still haven't had dinner...NavGirl LIED and said there were two sandwich shops 400 & 500 ft ahead - what was SHE smokin'?? We happened upon a Quiznos (on the other side of the block, mind you) - ate the California sumpin' sumpin' while running back to the car...race to find Robin lazing around in the parking lot waiting for us! At least we knew we were in the right place! Thanks a million to Mona - Hostess with the Mostess!

Three completely fun-filled hours later and we're back in the car, shaking our heads the entire ride home. Can't think of a more fun way to spend a Friday night!!

A Mid-Summer-Nights' Dream....

We've all been in some pretty fantastic and fun configurations up to this point in our barbershop careers. We've learned so much from them all. This particular configuration is a surprise in many ways. The first being that two of us are from the Nashville area and the other two from the Atlanta area. Long distance, eh? This ought to prove interesting!

It all started with Robin and Susan discussing their summer plans (over Facebook) when the conversation turned to future quartetting plans for Robin. Robin lamented that she really wanted to sing bass in her next quartet. Susan joked that she doesn't sing anything but bass, so that would prove to be a difficult set up. Robin mentioned that she would be more than willing to sing baritone to Susan's bass. That's all Susan needed to hear!

That lead to a series of Facebook messages entitled "Dream Quartet of Mine" instigating thoughts and inspirations of a new quartet. So many questions! After one meeting, graciously hosted (in absentia) by Mona Allday (thank you so much!), it was a no-brainer! It was a great time in every aspect.

The all-time ultimate quartet question - what do we call ourselves? Dream? Why not? Jen and Stacy have always said over the years what a dream it would be to get to sing together. Robin's very initial facebook message title solidified it!

We're all very excited about this new adventure! Here we go, girls!!!