Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday Musings for September 20, 2023

 Well, things sort of got out of control this week. No nice and orderly blogging schedule! I can't remember what I was doing on Monday, but it wasn't this. And then yesterday, my son and I were both sick with some kind of upper respiratory thing so we just took the day to eat soup and chill. (He's feeling better and back at school, my voice is still a little hoarse and my throat feels kinda dry.)

BUT... Just figured I'd amuse you all with some musings. 

YES I am working on making a couple of short little videos of what I'm working on for What I'm Working On Wednesday, even though today is Wednesday. See, over the weekend, I gave in to temptation and started making loads of beautiful little pendants using UV resin and dried flowers. SO pretty! SO much fun! But it required me to spread out on the other half of the dining room/work table and the other half of the table is currently covered in dozens of little gemstone cabochons that I'm going to wire wrap into pendant and earring sets for the holidays. (I swear, I will.) 

Astrologically speaking, we just came out of Mercury retrograde a week ago (hallefreakinglujah), but we're still in that "shadow period" where things we went through and/or happened during Merc rx may be coming up again if we haven't resolved them (like a blogging schedule), so things are still feeling kinda wonky. 

That said, I also went ahead and re-activated my website, so I'm going to be working on getting that up and running, but I'm going to keep this blog here. Why, you ask? Because the website on Shopify costs me $39 a month and this platform is still (thankfully) free. I mean, maybe I could make this into some kind of website where I can sell products and book Tarot and uke appointments? But I don't know. And I know that I don't want to lose everything that I've written as a blog because I can't afford it. 

Ah, capitalism.

Are you feeling it like me right now? Are you really feeling the pushback against monetizing EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING ABOUT YOUR LIFE? Do you feel like it costs $300 just to walk outside your door every day?


Me, too. 

There might be a song in that. 


That said, I'm also hosting a FREE online song share on October 2, 2023 at 8 p.m. EST and if you'd like to join a group of very supportive creative wonderful songwriters and musicians, PLEASE let me know and I'll send you the Zoom link so we can hang out and share. 

So anyway. That's about it for this Wednesday afternoon. It feels like a good afternoon to pop a quick chocolate cake in the oven and have that for dessert tonight. Maybe top it with some cream cheese frosting or some buttercream frosting or something easy like that. Might even be a good night to eat that cake outside around a bonfire with a uke. 




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ukulele Major Scale Patterns

Image
So we had a lazy weekend last weekend. My husband wasn't feeling great, and we have all just been feeling kind of stretched thin and exhausted all the time. So on Sunday morning, my husband put on a relaxing movie (War Of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, ugh) and then about twenty minutes in, he got up and left the room to take a phone call and left me there with my steel string baritone guitarlele (fun little instrument) to practice scales over the sounds of explosions and screaming.  **(If that's not an apt metaphor for what's happening in the world right now, I don't know what is.)** Anyway.  After mastering the first major scale in the set of exercises (they're actually for guitar, but you can obviously play them on the 6-string guitarlele, I just transpose them in my head so I know what scale/key I'm playing in), I went on to the next...and realized that the fingering pattern was exactly the same as the first - it just started on a different fret.  I went on to
Read more

Monday Musings for October 2, 2023

 Oh, wait, did I say October? I meant ROCKtober. Ha! Last year, I started making some videos for Rocktober, but that got cut short when we all came down with Covid and I spent the next 10 weeks in bed trying to recover, in between ER visits and cardiac monitors and acupucture and everything else.  SO NO BAD VIBES THIS TIME, YOU HEAR? I'm done. Sick of all this shit. We are out of the shadow of Merc Rx and I am just done and ready to take some meaningful steps forward. There! Anyway...now that I got that out of my system... Yes, this is the month I affectionately call Rocktober, so I may or may not try to do some covers of some of my favorite rock songs, and now that I have an actual practice amp for my electric instruments, that might be fun.  Tonight is the first online monthly songshare with a group of my songwriting friends, and I have to make sure I have most of my latest song finished and ready. It's gonna be a little tricky because I'm writing it on my six string (gas
Read more

Monday Musings on Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Image
 Well, shit. Another week goes by, and I only wrote one blog last week. C'est la vie. To be fair, I was busy doing stuff. And we had a great weekend: we took my father in law to get a Christmas tree, and then we decorated the tree and had yummy comfort food for dinner, so it was a nice time.  Yesterday was a bit of a shitshow, with a bad winter storm that didn't hit us as hard as it hit points west and north, but still enough to fuck up the roads in the early morning. And due to general transportation fuckups (thank you, shadow of Mercury Rx), it turned into a mental health stay-home day for my son. So we made the best of things and took care of our chickens and had truffle mac and cheese for lunch and baked 5 dozen mocha Russian tea cakes for his school fund raiser next week.  BUT one of the best things that happened was my giveaway prize arrived from Sheri Kurdakul , aka The Glitter Witch, arrived in the mail!  I signed up for her email newsletter and won this fabulous copy o
Read more