Anxiously Awaiting

Where to begin. Life. Has. Been. Busy. From attending my 4th wedding of the summer with my lady friend to working on my project proposal for my only grad school class; I barely have enough time to breath. Honestly, it’s good for me. I often thrive in high energy situations. I still stay in touch with old friends, and enjoy making new ones. I have stepped down from a lot of the reponsibilities I had at First Baptist. It was made clear to me by the Lord that I needed to give some of that up and move on in my leadership there. The lady and I celebrated 6 months of dating–a big deal to us, and we are looking forward to our future (whatever that may be). My boss of approximately 1 year has decided to move on to another section of the vast empire that is MSFT. Oh, and eric is making a come back (w00t) to the blogging world. Life is good.

I haven’t played much music lately. I’m more or less just plinking around when I have time. I wish that my music was more of a priority in my life, but it doesn’t look like that’s possible right now. Last night the lady asked me: “Have been playing guitar any lately?” My answer was “a little,” but obviously not as much as I would like. I need to make some time for some creative song writing, but I feel ill equipped. It’s hard to record stuff in my room at the D10’s because I’m afraid I’ll disturb someone. My amp sounds better cranked from about 12 to 2 o’ clock; and that’s just loud enough to be obnoxious. Plus I really really need a desk and a decent chair (or medicine ball) in there, I just have no clue where or how to fit it. Since being gainfully employed I have acquired a decent amount of stuff. Stuff I never thought I would own; like a Les Paul, two Firebirds, some other nice guitar toys, and a rockin Orange amp ;).

I’m doing really well financially despite the economic slowdown. I do hate that gas is so incredibly expensive, because that directly effects how much I can go and hang out with my lady. I like her a lot, so even if gas were $6.00 a gallon–and that may happen soon–I would still go see her. I have plenty of money saved up as a cushion in case something should happen, but currently I don’t have a goal to save towards. I don’t want a house, I don’t need a car, and I have all the guitars that I want. Well, almost. I still want a 56 Les Paul gold top, but those are expensive and I really don’t need it. The only big expense in my world right now is grad school. At over $700 a class, that can get a little pricey times two classes per semester (my self imposed maximum limit). I do get reimbursed after I pass the class, so it’s not a huge problem. I front the moniez and MSFT pays up at the end. I like this relationship despite my grumblings against the evil empire.

Anyway, that’s all that’s new with me. I’m going to try and be a little more consistent with updating here, just so that I don’t have to do these massive brain dumps. I expect that most of you will probably TLDR this unless you are really interested in my life. In which case I say: get one of your own!

Adieu.