So much has been happening that I haven’t had the time to post. A lot of family dynamics good and bad. Busy and a reluctance to bore you lol!
Musically, I’ve been creating more content for my YouTube channel- Shorts have been fun to create as well. You’ll find a variety of content including my home life, cooking/ baking endeavors and my pet besties.
I have chosen to create content because, it’s fun! I love experimenting with special effects and music. Another artful and creative outlet that keeps my mind busy.
Please check out my channels! Leave me a message while you’re there! Hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday season ❤️.
Imagine- Written by John Lennon. This, is my cover.
I wrote the intro and put together the arrangement.
It was a good day to sit and play. Today and tomorrow are slated to be record breaking heat days here in Phoenix. So very hot, possibly 120 degrees here tomorrow. My car read 118 degrees today but I think it was actually more like 116. It’s difficult to feel cool anywhere when it’s this hot though. Trying to sleep is a test of patience! Unless your a cat who doesn’t seem at all bothered by the heat!
School starts here in a couple of weeks. So I am gearing up to get kids back into the groove. Waiting for the 2nd grade supply list so I can hunt and gather all of the things/tools that help kids be successful. I also have a fair amount to purchase for my 16 year old Junior. I have always loved putting together school supplies for my kids! New pencils, pens and paper. Fun!😀. When I was little, I loved to play office! I would hunt and peck on an old Smith Corona typewriter that we had. Now look at me, I’m blogging!
Really? I found “Edward”, in my electric skillet taking a nap. Silly cat! My literal “flash in the pan”, cat!
In my dust pan with the broom?! This guy is a character. Absolutely charming and so funny. What a great friend, one who keeps me laughing! I am so glad to have found him!
Window Watching.
Laundry basket dwelling probably because it’s cool…
I had them all with me as I sat in my chair surfing the net…
Tender Years is a great summertime song! I had a few minutes so I put this together. My SoundCloud audio cover with iMovie slideshow.
I uploaded a few other musical projects to my SoundCloud Channel as well.
I have been battling with slight depression probably like seasonal affective disorder. It’s hot! Too hot for even walking. This is our winter equivalent. Soooo hot! I swear every year that I hate summers here and want to pick up and move! The air quality is awful. When the dust storms hit, (everyday this week), so much worse. With dust storms present, all kinds of fungus and spores are in the particulate. The threat of fungal lung infections and valley fever are in the air. Not to mention allergens and pollution. This concrete jungle becomes a roulette wheel for health related issues. I hate living in Phoenix in the summer! I feel like I’m risking my health to run to the grocery store. Yesterday my daughter and I got caught in a dust storm coming out of the grocery store. We tried to hold our breath while wheeling the grocery cart to the car…
So where would I rather be? Back in California but, who can afford living there now? Not to mention the whacky politics and the idea of dividing the state into 3 separate states? I guess I get the funding part of that agenda. The segregation/ dividing of people inevitably will happen in conjunction if this passes. Almost a political divide in a sense. Oh boy…
I don’t know what it actually is like to live in California right now. When I visited back in March, I was amazed by the number of homeless that wander around San Luis Obispo county! Shocking but with housing and,
the cost of living being so expensive I guess maybe not so shocking? So, I’m clamoring to go back to California where I lived most of my life? Hmmm maybe I should set my sights elsewhere. “Out of the frying pan, and into the fire” pretty much sums up any California dreamin I have.
So as I try to beat the heat and resume a much needed walk, I’ll ponder the next phase of my life. It’s a sure bet that I haven’t accomplished leaving my mark in music! I’ll probably never give up trying!
If you wonder where I have been, I do as well! I took some time off to sort out some things in my head. I have been taking inventory of my newly acquired funk /slump. I am sure honestly that it stems from the heat lol. It is HOT and has been since May and it gets old day in day out. We have had next to no monsoon action at all this summer to break up the constant heat. I know, I have some nerve to complain considering what has been going on in Texas! It does however become depressing to try to motivate and navigate in the oppresive heat here. I find myself going into stores just to get a glimpse of fall decor. Taking in the beautiful colors and design reminds me that cooler temps are coming! We don’t really have fall here. It is in the triple digits until almost November. Then, it just gets cold and we are into winter for about a month or so. Usually by January, we have some nice days!
I have been busy with domestic chores. I have been doing projects and organizing around here. The picture of my cat watching me prepare my chicken was so funny to me. She watched me from across my little island, on a bar stool. She was highly interested in watching me dress this bird. I couldn’t resist snapping a pic it was so cute! I could tell she wanted my bird! Clarice is notorious for photo bombing my pics from around the house. I adore this charming creature! My little dog as well!
As sweet as she is cute!
I bought some LED puck lights that come with a remote. My kitchen cabinet lighting had gone out. These are the stick on white puck lights. I found them at Costco and decided to see if they would dress up my drab little cabinet. Actually, I have put my seasonal Temp-tation pretties in their so that alone, dressed up my cabinet. Kind of fun to be able to control the color of each shelf! Don’t mind the cooler that lives in my kitchen full of ice cold bottles of water… Ugly and rather redneck to have a cooler sitting in your kitchen. It has been nice to have icy cold drinks this summer!
After reorganizing and the many cleaning projects I have done lately, I finally got around to coloring this picture frame. My friend had given me this picture and frame from “Adoption Day” last year. In October it will be a year since I adopted my Granddaughter. Anyway, I enjoyed coloring this frame. Amelia helped by picking colors and encouraged me to finish this little project. I haven’t colored in years, I forgot how wonderful coloring is!
I actually purchased a couple of really pretty jigsaw puzzles a few months ago. I may get one of them out and going on my coffee table next. Sometimes, it’s the little things that remind us to find relaxation and joy. I think that I may be addicted to trying to accomplish. It doesn’t seem to matter so much what it is that I have set my sights on, accomplishment or the feeling there of, seems to be the end goal. If only monetary gain was in the equation somewhere. My whole life has been about giving of my time and energy for free in taking care of those around me. That is the caregiver role in which I have navigated from since I was a teenager…To step out of that would be foreign, but rather welcomed.
Rather than bore you with a link to my music I will leave you with this last thought and my hearts desire. Check out my channels if you like. If you don’t well, that’s okay too. This is however, the point to most of my being of late. It just means something to me to play music! It has done a world of good for me these past few years. I have grown so much in every way, so it’s personally changed me for the greater good as a person. Putting yourself out there and risking a little forces you to become more confident and stronger somehow. Kind of like, Toastmasters! Good comes from some risk taking like public speaking, Karaoke or this… It hasn’t been wasted time for me to put together my channels! I think it has empowered me to just in executing and realizing my dream. Fake it till you make it comes to mind! It has proven to be just a hobby that I take pride and joy from doing. It has not however impacted my life in terms of actually accomplishing anything. No monetary gain or promise for something more. I did however enjoy my small recent musical boon… Maybe you will glean some insight into my journey.
My husband is not a fan of my music. He comes right out and tells me that he doesn’t like my music. He doesn’t think it’s good, he doesn’t get it and wonders why I choose to play the covers that I play. He doesn’t get my music at all and says and does everything he can to discourage me in that endeavor. He will minimize me in this every time I ever speak of it to him. I never play when he is around. No joy comes from trying to share any of it with him…. so mostly I don’t try.
Anyway, this story is still amazing to me when I think about the irony and it surely must be of a higher power. It was such an amazing, baffling and wonderful experience…
I noticed in reviewing my YouTube and SoundCloud stats that my originals were getting some views/plays. When you are a musical creator, nothing is more satisfying than seeing something that you wrote, an original getting plays! It is so hard to get anyone to listen to unknown artist orginals! It occured to me, that I had never shared with my husband any of my original music. I thought since I was actually getting some plays, maybe I would try to share this with my husband.
I struck up a conversation with him about this and I asked him to listen to my SoundCloud track “Face to Face”. I handed him the headphones and my iPad. He listened to my track expressionless all the way through. When the song was finished he took the headphones off and began handing me the iPad. He said, ” yeah and ?…” Not surprised by his lack of support, I reached my hand out to retrieve my tablet. In that very moment, my iPad dinged with a email. I looked down as the device left his hand and I saw that the email was from Warner Bros. Records! It was an email from the VP of Warner Bros. Records telling me that someone from their team ran across my music. They invited me to submit my music for consideration to their label! The timing and the opportunity were surreal. I just stood there stunned and shaking my head in disbelief. OMG, that moment I won’t forget! I quickly knew that the gift in the opportunity was probably in the email invite itself. I can’t express the joy and the sense of accomplishment that boon was to my spirit!
I really should make the bed but disturb Princess Clarice ? I can wait. Apparently, she wants to soak in a little longer…
I’ve had my coffee and I’m getting ready for my day. I don’t know what the universe has in store for me but maybe I’ll find a new adventure in all of this…I’m filling out job applications online today. Running errands and the usual. My homemade baked ziti is on the menu for tonight, just an average day…Unless the universe wants to bless me with good fortune and a way out of my current miserable way of living. A bad marriage is like living in prison. Tortuous from time to time with moments of reprieve. I no longer wish it to work out. Until I make enough money to change my plight I’m sure we will have plenty of these…
Casual Conversations is written by Rick Davies of Supertramp
I grew up listening to and loving Supertramp! I cover quite a few Supertramp songs. Both Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies are incredible songwriter/ composers. Amazing!
Playing music and listening to music makes life better when things are tough!
I was playing with my iMovie app and I came up with this Cat Video. This is my first time using iMovie on my new iPad so bare with me… I so love my kitties and they know it!
The music is mine. I arranged, sang and played the music. My friend Kathleen Webb mixed the music for me and sent me the iCloud link.
Huey is back! I know Zoe is too old for this guy now but I still love the whimsy!
Zoe had her fill of tree trimming lol… Clarice was a big help lol. This cat wants to be a part of everything that I do, is it any wonder why I adore this creature?
We trimmed the trees. I put up my candy villiage, decorated the table, hutch and a bookcase. More to come. We have a train and large village to construct still…. Outdoor house and yard decorations are on the agenda for today. We are behind this year! We usually do all of this Thanksgiving weekend.
Zoe has had this week off for fall break. We are planning a fun filled last few days of this vacation. Yesterday we put together our Meow Mix jingle entry for the annual contest. It had to be a 30 sec. or less submission. It had to include the infamous well known jingle. This is what I came up with lol. I hear from Howard that I should have made it an upbeat jingle. I chose to stick within my genre, whatever that is lol. Oh well, too late, I submitted it to Meow Mix. I hate always second guessing my stuff! It is what it is… If they don’t like it, they won’t chose it! Oh well. For what it’ worth, here it is…
Meow Mix Meezer
Zoe was great with Clarice. We had fun working with the cats. Twink wanted
no part of this. She was camera shy.
Clarice was’t into it either. She did however decide to sit still. I like the annoyed look she has on her face! She was herself…a diva!
Kind of fun to be able to control the color of each shelf! Don’t mind the cooler that lives in my kitchen full of ice cold bottles of water… Ugly and rather redneck to have a cooler sitting in your kitchen. It has been nice to have icy cold drinks this summer!
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