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This week has been a great! I feel a hundred times better and I'm back!!!! I've actually been able to really sing my music and focus on my technique.  I started my practices this week by working on my open vowels.  My difficult spot is keeping my jaw dropped and my mouth wide open.  So that was the focus of this weeks work.  As I went up my scales I tried to keep an eye on my mirror and make sure I was opening my mouth as wide as I could.  The vowels I worked on were AH and OH because they are particularly difficult for me in my higher register.  I try so hard to control the sound because its almost loose and crazy feeling.  I tried really hard not to control and to just let it go and see what happened.  Sometimes very successful...sometimes not.  I feel like if I were to keep practicing like this I could really make a break through.  I like to think about the movie "The Coneheads".  There is a part in the movie where Connie Conehead eats a huge foot long sub sandwich in one bite...I like to pretend I'm trying to eat a huge foot long sandwich in one bite...it usually makes me open up quite a bit more.  As far as the songs I've been working on, they're coming along quite nicely.  I've got Widmung memorized.  I want to save O Del Mio Dolce Ardor for the Studio Recital because I just have something special with this song.  I feel a connection to it and I want to save it for that special night.  This week I've also been listening to and working on Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen.  It very easily could be the second song memorized before spring break.  I'm not going to stop just there though.  I plan to at least have three songs memorized before then.  They should consist of all those I've mentioned working on recently.  If my plans go accordingly or better than anticipated, then my next plan of action is to work like heck on Non So Piu Cosa Son.  All in all, it's been a fantastic week and I plan to have more of them.