A Blog about life and living through my life experience and perspective. I am a writer, singer/songwriter childhood savant musician...Trying to find my niche and stake my place in society...
Just like so many of you, I am decking my halls this weekend. Yesterday was full of yard work in preparation for our outdoor display. We brought our tree in last night. We decorated and decorated! It takes hours to decorate for Christmas here. Days really, it's a process. Today we will be venturing outside to try to get as much as we can accomplished.
Here are a few photos that I took this morning.
Kitchen
Family Room
Candy Village
Garlands...
Homemade wreaths that I made last year.
Angel wreath
(It's always 5:00 at my house lol)
And lastly but not leastly...
Lots of priceless treasures that I enjoy touching and looking at every year. We still have a lot of decorating left to do! The train village needs to go up inside. Also, both the back and front yard need to be done... It's a process every year. I really enjoy all of it! I like turning this little 1700 square foot house into a Christmas wonderland...
I cooked and baked for two days. I was proud of this display...
Homemade Pies! Apple, Pumpkin and Pecan!
It was only five of us this year. We invited Lexie and Alissa over. It was good to see Alissa doing so well adjusting with her Mom. I really got the feeling that they are both so happy just to be back together again. I feel that Alissa is happy. After dessert, Alissa was ready to go home with Mom. She seemed to be ready to get back to her new territory. We took them across town to their apt. It is small but Lex has fixed it up the best that she could with what she has. It's clean and cozy! I'm thrilled that things are stable there now. I am adjusting to the quiet. I have been so busy with holiday prep to really feel the impact of the quiet yet. One day I will feel it. What I have felt is a tremendous
relief from the responsibility of caring for my daughters child! For this I am thankful!
I appreciate that most people have had a filter...they have been kind! When I'm feelng down and unheard I shall read this post to remind me that someone was listening!
In this world, everyones a critic! With all of the talent and reality tv music competition shows it's hard to put yourself out there for scrutiny! The pressure to be good enough is sobering. What if you just love to play and sing. Is their room in this world for people like me?
Critic's Choice
How good do you have to be? What is considered good enough to be really good? Who determines what is good?
Trying to find my niche and stake my place in society...
Here are just a few comments I have recieved in the past year that I have been posting my music...
Steve James
Do you perform in public or send your material to publishers/record labels? Your voice has such sincerity and warmth. Do you want to collaborate on a song. I have a gorgeous narrative lyric from a female perspective...
terrykathforever
Hello Tyna, great cover and thank you for keeping Terry´s Music alive There´s not one day I miss him I was 15 when he died and he was my youth hero and it felt like I lost my brother. Please do more Kath Songs:-) Happy new year from germany
Faro Vitale
Thank you, Tyna Metzer for playing a song written by the late and great, Terry Kath of Chicago. May he rest in peace in God's arms.
Double Rainbow
Great job! I have always loved this song!
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Circus Of George
Very Nice Tyna !
Ben Weller
@BenWeller100 Great video! Check it out in the www.BEAT100.com video network & show your support! @Beat100 #BEAT100
AJFOne
Great job. Shame it's the only cover version on youtube but at least it's done very well :)
Solace Music Group
Awesome, do you have any originals?
H31180und1
I swear...you sound like Roger Hodgson!
coldan65
+Tyna Metzner hi, all the songs are so great, full of emotion. See you on the lover boy !
H31180und1
Good song!
feretro666
i really love your style , i dont know but you got something special that make me feel so good inside of my heart . i wish i was your friend
feretro666
OMG you got so much talent . i love the way you are , and the way you sing the songs .
feretro666
very nice
Katie P.
Wow...really wasn't expecting that. Great cover!
Glenn Sahlberg
Nice!
Everson De Souza
Good!Q
Live Forever mentioned you in a comment on your post.
+Tyna Metzner This is a really good cover I love this song and you have covered it really well keep it up lok forward to hearing more covers!:)
John Featherman
Outstanding job on a very emotional Chicago song. You are the first person I've heard who captures the soulful expression of Terry Kath's.
James LaBove
Just gorgeous! Beautiful original.
James LaBove
What a beautiful cover! And a great contrast to the original- you've cut through the whirlwind of sounds in the original and got through to the heart of the song. Thank you for sharing
Sgt. Einstein
More great work! I can't wait to see more stuff in the future!
Ron Callahan
You are awesome
Sgt. Einstein
You're welcome! Keep up the good work! I love Supertramp, and I was very sad to hear Rick came down with Cancer. But people like you are really going to help survive his legacy!
Ron Callahan
anyway of sharing your piano chords?
LibertyBooksAZ
Playlist of your tunes please!!
Steve James
Captivating vocal and great taste in selecting this overlooked gorgeous classic. Thanks.
Charles Longo
+Tyna J. Metzner . Nice job Tyna! You are correct, this song is obscure and I've always loved it as well. I would have loved to have seen them perform it. I'd settle for a video but can't find one.
ONTHEROAD7341
good
DAN C
very well done............i was wondering could u show piano tutorials ? and if so with a different camera angle? i love how u play i have my own keyboard and some of those supertramp songs are very
This went over with a thud at my house... I made this to celebrate Zoe's return from leadership camp
on Sunday. I will send whats left of it with daughter Britt and family. I'm hoping some hungry, growing
G-kids will enjoy it. If not, then their is no hope for it! It was rich, light and lemony. I guess maybe it's
odd to put pudding into a pie? With the dream whip it really is a lemon mousse.I thought it was good!
I will be starting my Thanksgiving feast prep today. Today I will be making my Gram's cranberry jello recipe. Tomorrow I will bake pies...
I babysat till noon yesterday and then I shopped for "the feast". Mopped floors, folded laundry and really cleaned the cat litter box. All glamorous things to do, I know. I'm still adjusting to my new found freedom. I don't think it will set in until I take a whole morning or afternoon at the keys...
Good morning from my new home office! I'm sitting here gathering my thoughts and having my one cup...It is Sunday and we have had a quiet weekend doing a whole lot of nothing. Something that I haven't done in a long time! I screen shopped online...didn't buy, just browsed. I wrapped a bunch of Christmas presents. Fine tuned my office...
The quiet has been awesome. Zoe will be returning this evening.
Like a lot of you, I'm mentally preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Getting out the recipes I want to use and making a shopping list. This year, I'm cooking for only six. I'm glad to have a small gathering this year. I will be doing all of the cooking, including baking homemade pies.
Gone are the days of the jello salads except for a few that I make in honor of my Grandmother Ruth. She two that I just loved and looked forward to for Thanksgiving and at Easter. Her Thanksgiving
Cranberry Salad is the perfect accompaniment for a turkey dinner!
Here it is in her handwriting... I love digging out her old recipies and replicating those fond flavors from my childhood! My family seems to look forward to this particular salad as well!
This is the recipe book that I pull out every time I want to incorporate and remember my childhood. Everyone should have a book like this filled with family recipes. I am passing the the torch with my grown daughters. They call me for recipes from time to time. I realize that with all of the technology people really don't have a need for cookbooks anymore! You can pull recipes up on your tablets and computers, even your freakin phone... Still, nothing beats having a recipe book to look at! I love cook books and collect them.
In my office...
In my kitchen...
I'm telling you this career housewife identity runs deep! I have been at this a long while...
Too bad it doesn't pay! It has been fulfilling but no 401K! Regardless, I will continue doing the best I can at it.
Saying goodbye wasn't easy. In fact, it blew my mind! It was incredibly hard to wrap my head around having to let go of Alissa. She cried and was terribly insecure at the thought. I bet it was extrermely hard for her to understand all of these grown ups making these decisions for her. She must have felt helpless knowing that she had no choices. She just has to comply.
I know that her Mom is thrilled to have her back and now, we wait and see if this will go well. I hope for the best for all of us. I also understand our situation so... If it doesn't work out, we will take Alissa back indefinately if need be.
Meanwhile, the heartache was too great walking by her room. I reclaimed the room. I worked all day making it into a home office! I could have put my keyboard in there but I decided it was more important to have a quiet study place. Howard is going to school online to obtain his Master's. Zoe also does a lot of studying so I created a space for the students. I also am using the desk as we speak. I was happy with the space! Howard was actually impressed with my effort. He said it was a beautiful office.
We also had Zoe leaving for a school related weekend conference! She was selected to attend a weekend leadership camp in Prescott. Between service hours for National Junior Honor Society, and her AZ Merit scores, she is well on her way to a great high school experience academically! The leadership camp will also help propel her into the next phase.
I took a pic of her at the school getting ready to leave. You can see, she wasn't thrilled that I had to take a pic.
Finding ourselves with a weekend to ourselves, we went to dinner and dessert. We had Vietnamese food at the Mekong Center, our favorite Vietnamese place called UNPHOGETTABLE.
For dessert, we went to a great little place called Tea And Snow. We had the most delicious dessert. I will ask for this often when the occasion arises. It is scrumptious!
Shaved Ice with mango and coconut flavored ices. Adorned with red bean and rainbow jellies!
I was tired and definitely emotionally wrung out but I have a sense that we did good! We did the best that we could for this little girl and she knows that we love her and are there for her. She knows that we will take her back in a heartbeat should she need us to step in. I hope that makes her feel more secure in the transition.
I'd like to think that we made a difference in this little gals life! She and her Mom will be coming for Thanksgiving. We will drive over to pick them up and then return them home Thanksgiving eve.
I have no idea what is on the agenda for today. I would like to get our multicolored Edison lights up! Some of our neighbors have been putting up their Christmas lights!
The time has come... After having been here for the past 10 months, she's going home to Mom! The caseworker came for his regular monthly visit yesterday. When I asked him how the case was coming along he told me that the reunification team had been put in place and that she can return home to her Mom Friday morning.
My daughter didn't even know. I was able to call and give her the good news! She was speechless. Excited and probably scared too. Alissa herself has mixed feelings. She has become part of this family, and was content to be here so I imagine it will be a big change. It will be for all of us! I had my days when I longed for the peace and quiet I had taken for granted a year ago. Now, I just think I'll feel empty. Alissa will surely be missed! Her enthusiasm and spirit in the house was a treasure. She is a survivor and a kind soul!
I will be packing her things up today as she will picked up by the parent aide in the morning. I really
hope this past year made a difference to the living conditions and circumstance in which she will be
navigating from. I can only think it has to be positive, solid change. I have had a lot of big changes this year with a lot of heartbreaking, profound sadness. I just want to shake this year off and focus on the things that I can do and that fulfill me. Although this year has been full of big changes, in ways, I felt like I was on hold. I'll be glad to feel the weight of the responsibility 24/7 lifting.
Change is interesting in that it always forces you to take a look at your life. The good, bad, ugly and wonderful things that make up your life. I can envision spending some time to evaluate and revisit my hopes and dreams. I surely hope to find something good in all this work of life I've been doing.
Praying For Time
Maybe we should all be praying for time... When I decided that I wanted to do this cover, Alissa had just come to me. I remember being totally connected and invested in the darkness of her life circumstance that brought her here to me. I was bewildered and angry I felt as if I could totally relate to this dark message! The darkest song I cover but,
it helped me to deal with the emotions I was having about life at that particular time.
I lost my Dad shortly after she came to me also. I was really questioning a lot of things about what all of this life thing is. A lot of deep reflection and pondering life this year.
As he was passing, this song came to me in spirit. I covered this in his final hours and I had felt this songs message would have depicted my fathers ideology.
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven- it isn't hard to do...
A virtual ton of emotional stuff this year omg!
You just do the best you can do. I naviagate with my own mission statemenet that I wrote last year.
Something More Than Nothing written by Tyna J. Metzner
Why can't you see that I'm real and breathing and I, have a wish to fulfill. I want to know that there's more than nothing, in my heart I know that there's something.
I know theyrv'e been times before when I, I should have walked out that door and I, I sometimes think that I want to - but I know, how far can I go, it's not just me and so I have to just be.
I find myself trying to explain things away, but the pain of loving you, it follows me. So I wait for the day I can feel "free", to be just me- I can't wait, for the day that I can change something more than nothing.
If I could do it all again, differently, I'd write, a better part for me. I'd show the world just who I can be, the Queen, of something more than nothing!
I'd take the time to invest in me, to see all that I, can be. It's not enough to settle for nothing, if your heart tells you this than find something- and you'll see, just like me, that you can do, something more than nothing.
It is about this time of year that every time you go to the grocery store, you buy a few or a lot of extra things. We start squirelling away cans of cranberry sauce, karo syrup, spices, and extra butter...In my house, I have an apartment sized pantry and I'm busting at the seams trying to find little places in my kitchen to squirrel stuff. What were they thinking putting an apartment sized pantry in my 3 bedroom house? So inconvienent to have this set up when you are a home cook. Meaning that I cook and am in my kitchen everyday, workin it lol. It gets really annoying when the same can of frosting keeps falling out of the pantry on your toe. I have rearranged this darn thing many times trying to make it more workable but to no avail. Now, I resort to squirreling things away wherever I can!
Where is the kitchen pantry contest! They have a contest for everything else... Where can I enter for a "dream pantry"? I know I'm not alone in this. Many women, probably right here in my neighborhood,
are feeling the food intrusion. I have French's Fried Onions and Martinelli's Cider coming out of the
woodwork and the wine rack too lol.
Lol, you thought that I was kidding? My pathetic two maybe three small shelves pantry.
I could never make it in a "tiny" house. Not with my cooking on a grand scale lifestyle.
Living large in a small kitchen = frosting on your big toe!
These roses came from my front yard. My roses bushes are loving the moderate temp here in Phoenix. I am enjoying having roses in the yard to cut and bring in!
Ok so today is the day! Today is the day that I change my thinking! I can't change much in this world but I can change my thought process. I can put blinders on, put my head down and focus on what direction and how I want this savant and my life to go. After having an enlightning argument with my husband, I am reminded that I'm here only because I have to be. The disconnect in our relationship runs so deep to the core of my spirit! I understand that he is choosing to try to destroy me. I also understand that he views me as whatever he wants and needs me to be for his purpose, not as a person in my own right with goals, hopes, dreams and aspirations for myself. The coexistence will live on but my desire for a meaningful friendship with this man has left me.
What he will never care to understand : how much more determined I become when he disparages
me! The more hell bent on destroying my spirit , the more love, compassion and sheer will I have to succeed and overcome him. This life lesson is surely a test of will.
Yesterday was one of those days that I wished that I could run away from home...
But, I find I remain steadfast in a commitment that I made. If only to be true to myself so that I have no regrets to overcome.
We found ourselves in Downtown Chandler, AZ last night. Our neighboring town. We had dinner at a casual eatery called the San Tan Brewing Company.
The food was good but huge portions.
This was an interesting combination of foods. Mac and Cheese Burger on a Pretzel Roll. If I hadn't been coming off of the stomach flu this would have been much more enjoyable. I wasn't impressed with the cheese they chose to use or the texture of the noodles for that matter. My own opinion! It presents pretty on the plate though!
Howard really did enjoy his bacon burger and beer. Here he is posting his own pic about celebrating the fact that he survived the lay off! We just found out... We have been breathing a big sigh of relief.
That was definitely worthy of celebrating! Downtown Chandler was beautiful all lite up for the holidays. It was crowded and loud in the San Tan Brewery. I felt like I should have worn a pair of Norton's (expensive high tech earplugs) in the place. Bustling is a better word for the place. Packed, a nice light hearted atmosphere. Downtown Chandler itself has a nice vibe to it. I really like just walking around through the local shops.
Today, I am going to be assisting Howard in our own backyard ambience lighting project. We are stringing some multicolor Edison lights in canopy fashion over our backyard lawn. These we will leave up for a few months as they are not just for Christmas! My hope is to be able to enjoy them until next summer. It really makes for a nice dining experience on the patio. Now AZ is the envy of the rest of the nation with our beautiful temps. Today the high will be about 80 degrees. Not hot! 80 here is just beautiful! The nights are chilly dipping down into the 50's. Chilly to us, not to most of the U.S.
Howard likes to do these kinds of projects and, he does them well. This is his thing, he really gets into to decorating for Christmas. Every year after Christmas he hits the sales on lights. This year, he bought these Edison lights as well as all of the lights we bought after Christmas. I have a feeling that he has forgotten how many lights he bought last year. He will be surprised when we dive into the Christmas stuff come Black Friday. We spend Thanksgiving weekend decorating outside rather than shopping. I detest combat shopping! Our display gets a little better each year. Our neighbors tell us how much they appreciate our Christmas display efforts. We are a corner house among many older neighbors who do minimal decorating. As I said, this is Howard's thing and I don't discourage him because this really makes him happy! He is like a kid in a candy store when it comes to Christmas stuff. We look and we plan months in advance from store to store. It makes him happy. I'm all for supporting happiness!
I found a smokin deal on these lights from Walmart.com. They were running $10.77 in the store. I found them on sale last weekend online at Walmart.com for $ 7.77! a $3.00 a box savings! They shipped them for free, and I got these within 5 days of placing the order.
We bought 12 boxes of these to string for today. I'm excited to see the completed canopy!
I chose the title for this post due to a dream. I woke up thinking that I want to effect a change. Not sure what this mind speak is trying to tell me but I'm sure it's for the positive and good!
I think this was a really great thing to do with this almost 5 year old. We took both Zoe and Alissa to our local Guitar Center music store. I think that we spent over an hour in there checking out different instruments.
They each tried. Drums, guitars and keyboards. This is my kind of candy store although I purchased my keyboard from a company called Zzounds.
What a great experience this was for both kids. Zoe doesn't know it but she is getting an electric guitar for Christmas. We think she will have fun with it. I was amazed by how natural a pair of drumsticks was in the hand of Alissa. She looked like a natural!
The love for playing an instrument and playing music is always a good thing to nuture! I think it's money well spent! My biased opinion of course!
Going to our local music store was like taking the kids on a field trip! A hands on music experience. How do you know what you might like to do unless you are exposed to new things? Please folks, don't forget to nuture your kids musical aspirations!
You never know, they may end up wanting to do something like this when they grow up.
Who cares that it doesn't pay lol the experience, contentment and joy it brings to the spirit of a person is priceless!
Being human is cool most of the time. The human condition and vulnerabilities hmmmm sometimes not so much. If you have ever had a sick kid around, you realize that you can get caught up in it quickly. Don't know how or why exactly but these little people can make you so sick! My four year old granddaughter came to visit us day before yesterday and she was getting over the stomach flu. I caught it! I'm dealing with it but miserable. I'm in good company as it swept over my household all except for Howard. He must have the immune system of Superman. He never catches anything. Within hours lastnight, we were dropping like flies! Fast and virulent it came and lickity split I want it to go!
These G-Kid creatures share so many things with me. They make great hosts for things that can and
will knock you on your butt. That is where you can find me today, in bed or sitting in my chair. Any Mom or Grandma knows this is the stuff of nightmares with kids. Plenty of wash and disinfecting to do. Not to mention caregiving on top of being ill yourself. We will make it through the flu on this Veteran's Day 2015.
Howard got into his escape hatch and went to work. I hope he stays well and can make it through the day! We have enough fallen soldiers here today.
All kidding aside, I am thankful to all of the service people who sacrifice much for our freedoms! They should be honored on a grand scale with great appreciation! Have a wonderful Veteran's Day!
Thanksgiving is two weeks away yet but for whatever reason, this song that I posted on SoundCloud is being played a lot! When I originally posted it last year, it took off. More than any song that I have ever uploaded! When I originally posted it, I wasn't even that happy with it. For what it's worth, here is the link. Click on the link if you are interested...
I have yet to figure out what Christmas song I will cover next. I only know that they seem to be worth the effort. My dream is to write one...
I am still dealing with CPS who is dragging their feet on getting things going. My poor daughter has been put on the back burner so many times. The judge had ordered that a reunification team be put in place to start the process of getting Alissa home to her Mom. That was at the beginning of Oct. Here we are in November and the coordinator just called to set up the first visit with Lexie. I had to light a fire under the caseworker. I wrote a letter last week asking the caseworker about the progress he was making with getting the team together to expedite the process. I never heard back from the caseworker, but at least now a team is in place.
Alissa will be going home soon.
We have a foster care review board meeting for the 23rd. I will not be attending but will be available via conference call. I feel like I should let the review board know the hell it's been having to deal with CPS and this caseworker specifically. Knowing me I won't. Besides, this isn't about me, it's about Alissa. So, I will just float along with flow of this slower than molasses process. My daughter has a lot of patience for this. If that were my kid, I would be jumping up and down on somebody's desk!
Have a great Tuesday!
Wherever you go, there, you are! Hope you find yourself in a good place to be!
Bless her heart, this kitty is patient! She is now having to put up with four year old antics... I walked into the room and Alissa had put her sunglasses on Twink. She didn't seem too stressed out about it as you can see.
I appreciate this great ambassador for her species!
She imparts nothing but love to all who have the privilege to know her! One of the great greats in my life! I call her my BFF.
Today I am full of concern for one of my grown daughters. She is going through a really tough breakup with her husband. They got married very young and have been together for 12 years! They have a couple of kids and this will be very hard for them I'm sure! It's a nasty breakup with plenty of emotion being flung around by both sides...A.K.A. (drama). So sad to see as I love and understand them both! I really do! Awwwww!
Meanwhile the kids get caught in the crossfire. I have counseled them both as best I can without having them tune me out. I certainly have no business in giving out relationship advice but I love them. I hurt for and right along with them!
Even when they are grown, you never stop worrying about them and how they will make it in this
world.
On a lighter note, pardon the pun, here ya go...
I'll Be Home For Christmas
By the way, has anyone heard any updates on how Rick Davies of Supertramp is doing? I am so hoping that he is feeling better and doing well with his cancer treatment protocol! I just want to hear that he's ok!
That's the way it is in life. Practice makes perfect.
I'm still far from perfect but I have practiced this a lot. Although I didn't write this song, I have worked hard at trying to make it my own. I arranged it. You won't find a version like this because I wrote it.
It kind of came to me.
As I write this, I am uploading this song to YouTube. I am working on getting a separate PA system to run my vocals through. I have been running both my vocals and my keyboard through a Roland amplifier. So I am hoping for a big improvement in the sound quality of my vocals!
I think that my husband is starting to understand that I'm not going to give up on my dream of trying
to do this professionally. It helps that others are starting to take an interest in my music. That is a
tremendous boost!
Don't know if I'll ever get anywhere but I'm working on it!
Meanwhile the earth keeps rotating on it's axis. TIME, is marching on!
Christmas shopping was on the agenda yesterday. All seven G-kids are taken care of.
Zoe is now trying to wear contacts. She got a trial pair yesterday. I'm working with her on learning how to put them in and take them out. I am a long time contact lense wearer myself so I understand the learning curve.
I'm sure she can do it! She isn't sure that she can though. I'm hoping that she
gains more confident today.
Here is the upload!
I Put A Spell On You written by Screamin Jay Hawkins. cover arrangement, Tyna J. Metzner
This is always my favorite way to wake up in the morning. I get up at 5:00 am. so that I can spend an hour to myself planning, thinking and writing my blog! Liquid inspiration! I like to ponder my next musical project. I haven't been able to have quiet time for recording a video. I was asked to try a couple of new things to create a better quality YouTube video but I have my four year old granddaughter under foot and I simply haven't time to spend on myself. Today, I may attempt a video.
I was told that my Granddaughter may be able to go home around Thanksgiving. I think we are all trying to transition our thinking for that big change. I have had her nearly a year, and I think she has really become dependent on the schedule I have tried to create for her. I know that she and her Mom will have to create their life together! I really hope that they can fall into their own happy life! I won't know what to do with myself with the quiet. I imagine that I can do a lot with my time! I am really looking forward to having time to think! I have missed my quiet self! I enjoy having time to create and write! It takes a great deal of focus and quiet time to be able to do that! Songwriting is a process I'm finding. Everyone has a different way of writing. So far, the music comes to me first, and then I write my lyrics.
We all have our hobbies, and this one makes me the happiest "Me" that I can be. I think I understand that I probably won't get to be grand in this lifetime. My dreams are still mine and I won't ever give up until I am unable. Age, is just a number! I still want my 2nd act! If I can't do it on a large scale, I will create my own. My accomplishment will not be measured by other peoples expectations of success. If I only create for myself, I will have had the personal success and experience of having created! If the universe doesn't recognize and or appreciate my musical contribution, that's ok. I have created! It is the process of creation, that is the reward! (This I tell myself when I feel I can't get anywhere with it all.) Seriously though, the feeling that I had as I finished my first original, I will never forget! It was an extremely spiritual experience. This propelled me into a feeling of empowerment like no other! I felt as if I had finally recognized my truest, authentic self!
I tried like heck to get it out there for the world to hear. I thought it would be well received. When it fell on deaf ears, I was stumped. Lol. When I play my own works, I feel at peace, as if my soul has spoken. If my songs are thought to be good, or just awful, doesn't really matter! They are unique to me and my life experience. I have appeased my human spirit. This is the true reward in life. If the universe and the masses, choose to recognize and reward you is insignificant really! The reward is the experience along the way! That being said, I will share yet again my first songwriting endeavor. True to my life experience and straight from my heart! I almost see this as fitting in a country genre?
Something More Than Nothing!
It's the journey, not where you end up that matters... Greatness, begins and ends in the mind and spirit of the beholder!
"Whatever I touch, there I will prosper!" "Whatever touches me, I will make better!"
How do you measure your own success? What makes your heart sing? Whatever it is, do it today!
Being tech challanged is a pain in the butt! I tried several times to get the link posted to the song this sweet lady mixed for me. I'm making one last effort to get it to you lol. I hope that this works! I posted it on Google + and it seemed to work so, here goes!
Sometimes the kindness of strangers is humbling! This sweet lady approached me via email. She had seen my videos from a site that her daughter Katy, from the band (Cherokee Blonde) and I had been posting videos to. Kathleen, is the Sound Engineer/ Videographer for the band Cherokee Blonde. She wanted to give me a taste of how much better I could sound with professional mixing. Boy was she right! I was amazed by the quality of sound difference in comparison to my stardard flat iPad sound capability!
She had me record a vocal track and then the piano track independent of each other. That was interesting in itself lol. She then mixed the two tracks with her magic software and ear!
I couldn't believe the amount of time she took to try to help me! I am so thankful to her for this!
She also offered some ideas for better quality videos which I haven't gotten to yet! What a sweet person she must be to be willing to put the time into helping little ole technology challanged me! I do so appreciate the help and support!
Having heard what my music could sound like, I long more than ever to be able to get into a studio to record! What a dream come true this would be for me! It would be like heaven to hear a completed track that I did with full sound engineering and mastering! Like heaven I tell ya! I'm sure all artists must feel as I do!
I wonder what it was like for Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson to hear their completed works for the first time, fully finished. I bet they cried tears, I would!
Meanwhile, the holidays are inching up on us! I am in the process of budgeting, planning and online shopping. Like many of you, I suppose. I hope to find the time to arrange another Christmas song or two. I would still love to do a video with all of my G-kids singing. I would love to have a YouTube video with us all together! Just for fun!
Cardiologist says more SVT episodes are likely for Zoe. It is not a life threatning condition. It is more uncomfortable than anything. If she has more episodes, cardiologist can do an ablation proceedure to fix the electrical short for good! We would opt for that over Beta blocker meds! She's young and meds are scary and have side effects!
Now, we just wait to see if she has anymore episodes...
She's been cleared for all regular activities and back to her life. She was able to ditch the heart monitor as well!
