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It's Done.
The work project. The year. Anything else that I wanted to do in 2025, I guess.
Goodbye 2025. You weren't all bad, but you sure were stressful.
I forgot to mention in my round-up post that we did add a cat to the family this year, bringing us up to a perilously dangerous ratio of animals to humans. Nova is almost nine months old now and fitting in well. She's stopped eating toes, at least.
Hello 2026. I'm not placing all my hopes in you, nor am I really setting a lot of goals/resolutions. I just want to... maintain? I have a workout routine down, I regularly practice piano, I'm clearly writing and reading. Keep all that going into my 40s and I should be good.
I want to learn guitar, or at least get as good with it as I am piano and bread: that is, able to pull it out and play a song or two. I have an app and a list of video lessons that reddit recommended, so my goal is to do those somewhat regularly.
My only really big, lofty goal is: I want to write a song. Nothing fancy, but enough to show that I understand music. Playing instruments, putting together lyrics and a melody and a beat, all of that is a lot like bread was for me: indecipherable. I mentioned recently that writing feels as easy as breathing and it's difficult to wrap my head around the fact that some folks just can't write. Well, music has always seemed completely magical, and something I could never do.
Now, I don't want to become a musician. Far from it. But I want to better understand the craft and care. I want to listen to a song and maybe get what they're doing, what they're crafting, instead of just going "this sounds nice and I don't know why." I want to appreciate the skill, I guess, and to that end I have to at least dip my toe in a little.
Going to that concert last spring really re-awoken something in me. I like live music. I know this town has some really good bands, and even hosts an internationally-known music festival. I want to take advantage of that. Lady isn't really a big music person, and I've let that steer me away from it as well. But I like it and the kids are old enough that I shouldn't feel bad about leaving her on her own with them. Heck, maybe I could bring CG with me.
Maybe I could commit to one show every other month or every season. That would be easy enough. Either way, I want to do it and I almost feel like I need to.
So yeah: write a song, for which I just need to finally understand the basics of music. No biggie.
The work project. The year. Anything else that I wanted to do in 2025, I guess.
Goodbye 2025. You weren't all bad, but you sure were stressful.
I forgot to mention in my round-up post that we did add a cat to the family this year, bringing us up to a perilously dangerous ratio of animals to humans. Nova is almost nine months old now and fitting in well. She's stopped eating toes, at least.
Hello 2026. I'm not placing all my hopes in you, nor am I really setting a lot of goals/resolutions. I just want to... maintain? I have a workout routine down, I regularly practice piano, I'm clearly writing and reading. Keep all that going into my 40s and I should be good.
I want to learn guitar, or at least get as good with it as I am piano and bread: that is, able to pull it out and play a song or two. I have an app and a list of video lessons that reddit recommended, so my goal is to do those somewhat regularly.
My only really big, lofty goal is: I want to write a song. Nothing fancy, but enough to show that I understand music. Playing instruments, putting together lyrics and a melody and a beat, all of that is a lot like bread was for me: indecipherable. I mentioned recently that writing feels as easy as breathing and it's difficult to wrap my head around the fact that some folks just can't write. Well, music has always seemed completely magical, and something I could never do.
Now, I don't want to become a musician. Far from it. But I want to better understand the craft and care. I want to listen to a song and maybe get what they're doing, what they're crafting, instead of just going "this sounds nice and I don't know why." I want to appreciate the skill, I guess, and to that end I have to at least dip my toe in a little.
Going to that concert last spring really re-awoken something in me. I like live music. I know this town has some really good bands, and even hosts an internationally-known music festival. I want to take advantage of that. Lady isn't really a big music person, and I've let that steer me away from it as well. But I like it and the kids are old enough that I shouldn't feel bad about leaving her on her own with them. Heck, maybe I could bring CG with me.
Maybe I could commit to one show every other month or every season. That would be easy enough. Either way, I want to do it and I almost feel like I need to.
So yeah: write a song, for which I just need to finally understand the basics of music. No biggie.
