they're not ivories but I'm still tickled

Lots of good stuff happening for me this week.

I got a new keyboard. This is because I was embarrassed to have to play my old Korg at gigs and can only borrow my friend's keyboard for so long... plus hers didn't have a sustain pedal, so what's the point? It's beautiful. It's a Yamaha with 88 weighted keys, and we're ordering an X stand to go under it and a three-pedal set JUST LIKE a piano!! I didn't even know those existed. Technology has definitely improved since the last time I went keyboard shopping (for a keyboard for Woodland Christian when I was their organist). And it has a built-in music stand and it sounds so much like a piano that my mom wasn't sure which one I was playing after we bought it and set it up. I spent the entire first night of owning it playing it. It's only new for awhile, right?? I'm probably only really going to use the piano sound, but I was quite entertained by the harpsichord and the xylaphone sounds and of course, playing Phantom on the organ setting.

Anyway, this beauty is going to make playing for gigs like fundraisers and dinner parties soooo much simpler. It is heavier than some of the other keyboards out there, but those keyboards aren't professional; one of them I tried felt and sounded more like a kid's Tinker Toy than anything real that I could perform on. And besides which, isn't that what all you men are for? Carrying keyboards, opening doors and whatnot?

Suffice it to say that I am delighted with the acquisition and am looking forward greatly to the next time I get to play for a function. Me, my keyboard and a fake book... what else do I need for true happiness??? :)