My name isn't thenewgreen. I play guitar and write/record and sing songs. I have been married for 9 years. -That's effing crazy to write. I have an almost 3 year old daughter and a son that will be born late February. I work in business development for a large company by day and by night I help run this place. I enjoy creating things: podcasts, songs, short stories, photographs, paintings, children. etc. I was never successful at pretending to care about high school. I live in NC but grew up in Michigan. I went to the University of Montana and dropped out just shy of my senior year. I returned to school many years later and got a degree in Business Management. I enjoy the occasional drink and love to play tennis.
It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy, but I wouldn't change it. Wait till you have a partner to help, the finances to help and the genuine desire to raise a little human. But yeah, I have less freedom between 7am and 9am and from 4:30pm to 8:30pm Mon-Friday. The weekends I have even less. But nothing is more fun. Nothing. I played guitar for my daughters class the other day. -One of the best times I've had in a good long while.
I never seem to get quite over the hump with musical instruments. I am struggling to play one guitar, while restoring (and considerably improving) another. My instinct for(an delight in) materials tends to overwhelm my enthusiasm for practice. I'll have a beautiful guitar soon that I won't be able to play very well. The next instrument reinvention I'm considering is reworking a saz baglama with a set of even-tempered permanent frets (or maybe some sort of just tuning) and four strings. Not sure this will survive the dream stage.
I have no technical abilities when it comes to "restoring" anything, yet alone a guitar. My hats off to ya. You should post pics of the restoration process and final outcome. I'd be interested to see that.
Thanks, I can't imagine a life in which I didn't play. The last gig I had was the most important one of my musical career. I played for my almost 3 year olds pre-school classroom. It was a blast! Good luck with that uke, that is quite the gift.
|I have been married for 9 years. - amazing :) This might be a scary question, but how do you imagine your daughter (and soon, son!) by the time she's in high school? What do you want her to know? What mistakes do you want to keep her from making, or perhaps have her learn from? What are some nuances in raising them that you hold as principle, things you're looking forward to helping them through? (I'm just being familiar to the fact that you have a daughter currently, I'd love to hear regarding a son as well)
one day at a time. I'll worry about High School when it arrives. Right now potty training is enough to worry about.