Ethan and Ehlana:
Our top news of the day is that Naomi and the Holiday Harmonies recorded three Christmas songs at the Galleria studio tonight. That was also the fun highlight of our day too, and while it felt a bit weird to be focusing on Christmas music heading into the Halloween weekend; we were feeling the holiday spirit and our music was awesome!
As for the rest of the day, all of the rain yesterday came with another major cool-down, and we were still getting some rain this morning; so Tai Chi was indoors. The walk to school was damp, but the rain ended by lunchtime; and it warmed back up into the mid-fifties – a big difference from the eighties on the weekend. Naomi and Aiden came home with us after a no-news school day; we practiced for the recording session; and then we had dinner with Mom and Dad before heading over to the Galleria.
This is a good time to mention that most of the stores in the Galleria are not open during the weekday evenings right now except for Friday, but that actually works for the studio; since it is much-quieter. Yes, the recording rooms are soundproofed, but that isn’t true for the control room or the rest of the studio; so they do a lot of evening or night recording sessions for bands or other groups while the daytime sessions are more about ‘fun’ recordings from customers that are basically recording karaoke songs or making videos in the green room studio. Our other point for the other stores being closed tonight is that Mom brought drinks and snacks along for all of us; and brought her computer along to do some work while we were busy with the music.
We’ve written about the cost of recording sessions back when we were doing the Halloween songs, so while we don’t need to do that again; we can report that we expect to pay for all of the sessions we’ll have for the Christmas songs with the money we’ve had come in from the sales of the Halloween songs and videos. No, we’re not getting rich from our music, but we’re still number one for local artist sales for Naomi and the Haunted Harmonies; and hope to do the same with the ‘holiday’ version of the band! Stay tuned for more news on that; and we’ll move on and wrap up this update.
When we finished at the studio, Ehlana and I took Silkie for a walk while seeing Naomi and Aiden to their homes for the night. We didn’t do any work in the office tonight, but Mom did a short Magi lesson with us; we did a bedtime snack and chat with Dad; and then came up to our rooms. It’s late now, and we need to get some sleep; so that’s all we have for tonight. We don’t have time for another studio session this week, but will do two of them next week; since we want to have the Christmas album and songs ready by Thanksgiving. We’ll be focusing on Halloween music for the rest of the month – especially for the school dance and Haunted Halloween Walk fun, and we need to get some sleep to be ready for those ongoing adventures; so we’re out of here and back to the real world and some quality nap time.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
