Skating and chocolate
Dec. 21st, 2005 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The ice skating was fun. Good music for high-speed ice skating includes the second allegro from Bach’s Concerto No. 2 in Am, BWV 593, which is a Vivaldi concerto for two violins that Bach stole borrowed and reworked for organ, and geBORGt’s “Stausong” and “Alea Iacta Est,” since anything sung reasonably rapidly in German is good go-fast music.
I also now have 1.6 kg of chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered hazelnuts, and just plain chocolate. I got the volume discount for buying lots at once!
I also now have 1.6 kg of chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered hazelnuts, and just plain chocolate. I got the volume discount for buying lots at once!
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Date: 2005-12-22 12:04 pm (UTC)Then better hope that you'll get lots of new clothes (one size more than you wear now) for christmas - I fear you'll need them... *ggg*
Oh, and the song... I LOVE "In spite of all", it fits so well with one of my role playing characters (even though he was invented much after that song was written)
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Date: 2005-12-22 12:41 pm (UTC)"In Spite of All" Hmm *twiddles iPod* Oh, that one! I love that one. Maybe I'm biased by the man's part in the recording matching my singing range so nicely, but I really like it.
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Date: 2005-12-22 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-22 01:46 pm (UTC)I always wonder how these elf and human in love songs will seem to me in a decade or two...
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Date: 2005-12-22 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-23 03:35 am (UTC)They have - it's a printing error on the cover of the CD, I think.
I love them both, but I thought of the song with the elves (the "real" In Spite Of All). My role playing character Fynn (a little human thief) comes into this elven settlement together with his lifebonded, the elf Mhiriyel (a character of