Sunday, August 8, 2010

sunday morning

it is sunday morning, and it's only 8:15 in the morning. but i have now woken up three times, and decided i want to be relatively productive. so here i am. writing. you may have noticed i am wearing the same shirt as a few days ago. this is a fact. sometimes when i wake up in the morning, i will reach for a near by shirt or shorts and so it is not uncommon to see me wearing similar outfits on following days. also, this morning my light grey v-neck shirt looked far too comfortable to not wear (my andy iron board shorts had a similar appeal). so that is my outfit. my location as you ma have guessed is out of doors. my front balcony actually. i feel like this is going to be a great thinking place for me for years to come. all of this to say that i feel today should be a great day.

i think shortly i will fix up a little breakfast, read a book, think about the future and the past, and feel pleasant about my life. i know it's a bit odd ending so abruptly, especially because i feel quite inspired today, but i feel this inspiration is within different realms and writing about it currently is not likely to go anywhere. so with that i hope everyone else's sunday morning is warm, pleasant, peaceful, and encouraging. i will write to you soon.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

blew it

as you may have noticed i missed my first day yesterday. between a crazy work schedule, and previously made plans i just couldn't find the time to write. turns out it's fairly difficult to dedicate an allotted amount of time for writing each day. guess that's just something i'll have to work on. on other notes, today i installed a ceiling fan in my room, which currently is amazing. i still have three more to go for the up stairs, and a bit more re-wiring. the lovely thing about these old houses is that electrically they are absolutely atrocious. i spent more time today re-wiring and coming up with a plan to not completely re-wire everything, but scab in bits and pieces which will allow me to continue to re-wire as i go. electronics are a simple yet complex thing all in the same stroke.

as i write all of this it has come to my attention that i am being pulled away to go over to a friends house in celebration of another dear friends returning to colorado. so with that i will have to save my thoughts for you until tomorrow. there are great things on the horizon.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

late, but still made it

so i bet you thought i forgot, since this is coming in so late. but the truth is i did not, i had other engagements which i committed to. specifically judging another fellow for a friend of mine. he was ok i suppose. i won't give any other suggestions, since he could probably beat me up, but none the less here it is.

i went out with my friend since middle school (tarah) tonight, to meet her friend john. he may or may not be an interest of hers (it's complicated). either way, i got home from work, helped john (next door neighbor) move an organ, came to my place, showed john (neighbor) some stuff him and his wife (kim) could potentially use for their dj'ing night at the squire lounge, then changed clothes and went to john's (tarah's friend) house to enjoy beer and conversation. thats how this ended up late at night.

so today i have very little to write about. work was hell today. tomorrow looks to be the same, but maybe i'll take a break to go to starbucks, and write something inspirational to all. other than that, i hope this thursday was lovely for the rest of you.

love,
andrew

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

day two of this experiment. today was a long day at work, where i forgot to bring my power chord for my computer, and consequentially didn't accomplish as much as i would have liked to, but i'm still alive so i suppose that is a good thing.

at lunch today i went to bennet's bbq again, and i've determined i don't really like bennet's. their bbq isn't very good, plain and simple. but while i was there i started to write up a list of things i would like to write about this month. so i was fairly productive. not only did i do that, but i began to sketch out some thoughts as to what i believe will help me in writing and playing music a bit more in the upcoming future. this is good since last night i busted out the rhodes and poland to begin brainstorming some new creations. that was fun.

so on to what i wanted to write about today. my recent clothing purchases. i don't have much time to write since i need to learn four new songs in the next hour for band practice tonight, thus clothing purchases is the only logical thing to write about.

last night i purchased some new clothes. really, other than the pair of converses i recently purchased via ebay and the new package of underwear from target, i haven't bought anything since before my accident. in fact, i purchased a sweater that was cut off of me the night of the accident just weeks prior to ending up in the hospital. so i was bummed about that, because it was a neat sweater. but yesterday a friend alerted me that the website from which i purchased said sweater was having a huge sale. she wasn't kidding. so i looked around on this primarily female targeted website, and found a few things. all very hipster looking. but all fairly nice. so i ended up getting two coats, a sweater and a cardigan. huge day for me. but with everything at $10 or less how could i say no? the problem that arises after purchasing new things is that i now have more things. and i'm not really all that good at getting rid of the old things. i figure most people wouldn't want my old things, and i don't want to throw them away, plus maybe i'll come to a place where i might need said old things and they will become useful again. i'm not really one to keep up with fashions and trends, so thats not a huge deal, but i suspect it is nice to wear something new instead of that same t-shirt i've been wearing since high school... (i say t-shirt singular as if there is only one instance of this... there may be more in the upwards of 25-40. not just t-shirts either, i wear shoes into the ground and still have some from high school (i still own and sometimes wear my beloved orange nikes), i've had some pants for 10+ years, collard shirts sure i still have em, lets not even talk about underwear (i'm changing them out, last real purchase on this before three weeks ago was over seven years)). all of this to say, yesterday was a big day. come this fall you might see me around and say to yourself, the individual next to you, or even to me, "hey, he's(you're) lookin quite hip there young fellow. i bet he(you) would like a high five." and the answer to that is absolutely.

but for now, until the mail shows up and the weather cools off, i'm gonna stick with what i've got. i mean, it hasn't failed me yet. well, not in a major way at least. there was a time once before a concert in ft. collins i had to make a last minute trip to the arc to buy a new pair of jeans after a mid day show ended with a blow out in the crotch of the jeans i was currently wearing. further on this incident, those were my favorite pair of levi's at the time. sad day. but while at the thrift store i found another pair of the exact same levi's, tried them on only to notice they too had a blown out crotch, so it was a defect in that styling. at least they almost lasted about a year. rest in piece black/grey levi's style 527.

well, enough talk of clothing articles. that is all for day two. off to practice.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

start the ball rolling

today while at work i determined a few nice things about my life right now. i'll share them with you now.

so lately a lot has been happening in my life as many of you know. one event in particular this weekend i had another house party. i have really enjoyed these, and really hope to continue to hold them. granted there are all sorts of tales from this party, as there always are, but one conversation post party brought me to thinking. a dear friend mentioned that he was really proud of me, and quite happy, with the fact that i bought a house with the intentions of using it as a gathering place for music, friends, and community in general. and i have accomplished this. not only have i succeeded in using my house to the exact purpose i desired, but i've also been hitting on all areas of my life doing exactly what i want to be doing. my band is playing the best music we've ever performed, i'm reading quite a bit, i just met the girl of my dreams, i'm working on my house transforming it into what i want, work is going well and i'm actually supposed to be getting a raise in the coming weeks, i'm listening to the music i want to and becoming more and more inspired, beginning to formulate my thoughts for writing and plan on starting this soon. so of course with my hopes for writing more i have decided to come back to this old stand-by and begin to share my thoughts on life and experiences i am currently having.

my hopes are to track this daily for 30 days and go from there. throughout this process i will take a daily picture of myself to keep record of where i have been physically, and to maybe give some sort of context to what is going on. maybe i will expand more on this in the upcoming posts, i don't know right now, but none the less this is my plan. if you catch me slacking, call me out on it. i have so many ideas to write upon, and i'm gonna post little stickies on my computer and try and tackle one a day. it's gonna be sweet. hope you're as excited as i am.