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About This Author
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La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  , worship leader , small business owner , songwriter , aspiring author and freelance nonfiction writer with a chemical engineering degree .
But that's just my resume.
My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.
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Did you all hear about the fuel tank explosion at the Miami airport a week or two ago? So now, instead of taking the planes over to the fuel tanks to refuel, they're trucking it to the gates. You can never get a straight story, but apparently, our truck broke down, so we sat on the plane in Miami for two hours waiting for fuel. Naturally, we missed our connection, so here we are, a day later, at the Airport Days Inn in Sunny Atlanta, waiting for our replacement flight. Delta may have redeemed themselves when they bought me a margarita last night. And, luckily, it was on the way home from vacation, and not on the way to vacation... and I just checked Weather.com and discovered that we're currently missing a rain/snow mix on a balmy 49-degree day in Ohio. Damn you, Delta.
The good news is, the vacation was great! We got motion sickness on the boat and got ripped off by at least one Mexican. 
(The motion sickness just one morning when the ride was really choppy - on the way past Cuba, not sure if that's related to the bad sea conditions, with that Castro clan anti-American voodoo stuff.)
(Oops, I forgot, we're supposed to be working toward a "New Beginning" with Cuba. Sorry, Mr. President.)
I wore dresses three days. Out of four. Did I mention I wore dresses on vacation? I also got a pedicure and an eyebrow wax.  Keith is digging the girlie stuff. He got so into it that even helped me haggle over some red jasper set in silver and a pair of sapphires. Yay dresses, pedi's, and eyebrow waxes!
We snorkeled in Cozumel. I thought we would just see fishies and coral, but I was surprised! There are ancient Mayan ruins under the water!!!! Not, like, whole temples and stuff, but a couple statues. Wayyyyy cool.
We also talked to one of the cruise musicians pretty extensively. He let me play a couple songs during his break, then we chatted about the school. He is very interested in some mentoring about getting into the music ed business. Apparently, he's 3.5 months into his 6-month contract on the Imagination and tired of being there.
Wait, do I have some, like, goals or something? I'm still on vacation. I may stay on vacation for another month or two.
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Thanks for sharing!
Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something. 
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, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.![Merit Badge in Music
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