Anna Richard’s Musings

Memorial day means many things. Besides barbeques and the like it also means the end of finals and school for those of us that are going to school. I plan on send the kids to the sitters and getting together with my gal pals to have a wild girls night out. I was thinking [...]

Hey all happy mothers day. Hope you have all been good to your moms today. I called my mother today to make sure that she received a singing telegram I had sent her. It’s a great service from AudioCard.com. You go to the site, pick out some song and music you like and take [...]

I found a great lyrics site today. It is Music Lyrics Now and it is pretty cool. So I was had just put my kids into bed and I was really tired. I didn’t feel like studying so I put on some music from my Itunes player and started playing Akon’s beautiful. It was [...]

I got up at 11:00am today and that is really late for me. I normally get up at 7:00am but I intentionally overslept because I have finals tomorrow and need to pull an all nighter. It’s now 10:30 pm and my day has only just begun. I’m turning on my Itunes player and playing [...]

So I am a working mom trying to go to school at night and raise my kids at the same time. It’s so hard to do all of this during May because of finals. So today after changing Kara’s, the cutest little girl in the world, diaphers I stole some time away to memorize [...]

Sometimes I let Brian set the rules and tempo. It’s important to change the pace and schedule sometimes so that piano music is fun and not another routine or chore. I found that sitting down with Brian to set the schedule or rewards made his song recitals more enjoyable. It’s also important in that [...]

I’ve been trying to get my young son Brian to play piano and learn some new songs and music. Playing piano is a great and subtle skill and one that takes many children years to master. It is both hard work and a labor of love to broaden my Brian’s horizons. It took a [...]

I was watching a hilarious re-run of Ally McBeal and in it John Caig is talking to Ally McBeal about her theme song. Ally replies that she doesn’t have a theme song and John then procedes to explain to her why a personal theme song is important and that she needs to get one [...]

I was reading an article about Lady Gaga today and was impressed that she wrote her own songs. Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta and she started out her career writing songs for Fergie, Britney Spears and Pussy Cat dolls. If you listen to the lyrics of one of her hottest new [...]

So a couple of days ago I was watching a Lady Gaga video for “Pokerface” and the song got stuck in my head. It’s really annoying now Lady Gaga and her music are starting to annoy me.

“P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face (mum mum mum mah)” damn this keeps playing over and over in my head, [...]