I've enjoyed writing things in numbered lists today, so I will continue that trend with this post.
1) Brett bought a ukulele today. He's wanted one for a long time, and occasionally when he would bring it up I would refer to it as a pukulele. He's on the couch tuning it right now, and is very excited to have it. We now have a piano, keyboard, cello, trumpet, bamboo flute, and...ukulele.
I have just over five years of piano lessons under my belt, and play terribly. Sometimes I sit down at the piano and try to bang out something that sounds vaguely musical, but for the most part we don't really get along. I've never really spent time with the other instruments. They're pretty much all just Brett's.
The imbalance of musical skill in our relationship does bother me on occasion (I don't really like being reminded of things I'm not good at), but for the most part I just try to enjoy listening to Brett play whatever instrument he feels like playing, and take pleasure in it that way. Sometimes I like singing, but I'm not very good at that either. As Brett will attest to.
2) I found out this morning that one of my photos is being used on Schmap's neighborhood guide for Portland, so that's pretty cool. They asked my permission awhile ago but weren't sure if they would actually use it. But they did. Yay! I've had other publications use my photos before (most of my first-time visitor hits come through image links), but Schmap travel guides are pretty cool, so this kind of makes me feel like maybe I really AM a decent photographer.
3) I started this post like an hour and a half ago, and now I don't remember what else I was going to write.
4) Avatar is on in a half an hour, and the oven has finished pre-heating for the frozen vegan pizza I plan on eating during tv time (lazy Friday nights are teh awesome), so I'm going to go. But OH! If you don't watch Avatar, you should, because it's supes cool. Courtney, you would especially like it, but I don't know if you have it in JP. US iTunes has it, though. But that costs money.
3 comments:
so... i think you are actually a pretty good singer. better than me anyway, i'm just sometimes not in the mood to hear singing. you know how i am about songs with words.. and your photography is totally awesome, and people have been telling you that for years... and now you have external (that is, people you don't know anyway) validation. so keep photographing. and quit not thinking it's good enough.
Boy do I know about the imbalance of musical talent...I got thrown off that teeter-totter a long time ago!
Brett: thanks for thinking I'm a pretty good singtographer. Not-thanks for all the times you've turned up the volume, clicked to the next song, or said, "just stop." in order to get me to stop singing. Boo.
Kim: teeter-totter! :D Also, I guess you would know all about that imbalance, wouldn't you? Not that you're not awesome, but Brad is also pretty awesome. And musically he'd probably beat most of us.
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