Random blogging post.

What could I have done better today?

Well for starters, I didn’t do much, haha. I’m on my break from ministry, at the moment, and it’s nice to stretch my legs and feel no pressure. I have no intentions of going back to youth ministry, at least not as a praise leader or as anything really. I love leading, but also hate it. Obligation and duty often creep up on leaders-breaks are a luxury for the layman in ministry. Praise God for rest!

I really need to start waking up earlier-get my day rolling and working. I've got huge amounts of time in between classes and lessons...I'm thinking about taking private lessons for myself, again-to push myself in improving my technique and overall playing.

Hmm tasks to-be done in no particular order:
-Watch a movie (How to Train A Dragon [?])
-Clean my rooms and my car
-I've also gotta get a video from Eunice, maybe I'll visit her at school
-Visit Pastor Frank and hang out with him...
-I'd also like to eat some L&L's
-Pray for stuff
-Doing my LJ's at whenever times...the best time
-Gotta get this bass that Pastor Frank let me use, fixed up

I have class tomorrow which is relaxing and stressful at the same time. My teacher may finally let me solo finally (ever since the one time he let me solo in the beginning of the quarter) - Hopefully I don't screw it up. All he's been making me do is play rhythm! Blah blee bloo, stupid rhythm all day long. I HATE playing rhythm for anyone other than for people who can actually carry a solo going without throwing me off my groove. A soloist can very much throw a drummer or rhythm guitarist off if they suck. So I guess I'm trying to say I dislike playing for people who suck. I know I'm no king of the blues, but I can string together notes in such a rhythmic fashion without sounding like a vacuum cleaner going over the keys disjointedly. Yeah, I'm a little bitter about being left to play chords and being given crap whenever I make a single mistake.

Also learning how to play bass, a little more properly-I want to be good! I've been listening more intently to Pino Palladino on some of John Mayer's records and Pino absolutely rocks the bass like no one I've ever heard. After practicing on the bass for a bit, I could tell my fingers totally sped up on my ol' 6 string guitars like none other. I made up a speed lick that's a little shaky for me-but seeing as hammer ons and pull offs are my weakness, I'm surprised to say the whole lick is pretty much hammers and pulls! Anyhow, it is getting late-time to sleep.