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slipjig3What gives your life its deepest meaning? Creation. Connection. Transcendence. That's the short answer; I'm still filling in the details.
So--When's the album coming out?!! Actually, I'm glad you asked! My stumbling block until recently has been a lack of a decent microphone (I've been using the lousy built-in thing on my MacBook up to now), but I recently discovered that my kids have a Rock Band mic for their XBox, which is USB compatible, and which they were willing to lend to me. Between that and my new guitar strings, I'm finally ready to roll on recording again. I have six songs done (a couple of which I might cut new vocal tracks for) and four-maybe-five to record from scratch, of which three will be relatively simple to do, and then The Elmsley Count is frickin' done, man. Watch this space.
Do you know what your favorite colour is yet? Did we not decide on purple? Or was purple rejected as being too ostentatious? Bah, I don't remember. Purple, unless purple is a problem. Either way, this is going to be the only real capital-C Colour in the whole outfit, if I'm visualizing this correctly, so it can pretty much go in any direction. (Wow. How's that for decisive?)
Are you happy? A couple of months ago, I was going through a rough bit of stress-times, wherein a bunch of unrelated and quasi-related things were bearing down on me, which happens from time to time. But for the first time in a very long while, I ran down the list of what was going wrong in my world, and added to the end, "…but life is still good." Am I happy? Yes. Yes, I am. And I can't begin to tell you how good it feels to say that.
Why didn't you buy the Adipose plush toy from me? I didn't know you had 'em! Argh! I'm sorry!
How's your stripper pirate rock star career going? *grumble* *gripe*
Do you have pets? I do now! When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rafaela moved into her new apartment, I inherited her two cats, Sunny and Lucy, whom felisdemens promptly renamed "Fatback" and "Pantywaist." They fail to get along with each other, or with the existing household cat Hamlet, whose main attitude towards them is, "What'd I do?"
It's all worth it, right? All this hard work I do to make my world a little better? Totally worth it. Everything's going to come out amazing. Just you wait. *hugs*
Where did your icon and username come from? "Slipjig" as a moniker dates back to my very first AOL account 16 or 17 years ago. A slip jig is a traditional Irish dance form in 9/8 time; I chose it because I had a thing for Irish folk and folk-rock, and the odd time signature suited me. (Much later, I learned that slip jigs are traditionally only done by women. C'est la vie.) The icon is from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a medieval medical manual, and is an illustration from the page on "acorns." I mainly chose it because I liked the little beasty behind the tree.
Do you have any time this summer? I'm lonely. Hi! I do have some, at least as long as the unemployment holds out. Unfortunately, me being in the Boston area means you're no longer a short hop away, so simply hopping in the car is no longer an option. Let us ponder this.
What's an entry that you're especially, deeply proud of? Since I was recently looking at some very very very old posts as I reported yesterday, I'll dust off a bit of the days when Girl-Child and Boy-Child were 5 and 2 respectively, and getting holiday portraits done was an adventure. Not my greatest post ever, but I find myself unduly amused.
I'm still gathering questions at this post, if you are thusly inclined.
So--When's the album coming out?!! Actually, I'm glad you asked! My stumbling block until recently has been a lack of a decent microphone (I've been using the lousy built-in thing on my MacBook up to now), but I recently discovered that my kids have a Rock Band mic for their XBox, which is USB compatible, and which they were willing to lend to me. Between that and my new guitar strings, I'm finally ready to roll on recording again. I have six songs done (a couple of which I might cut new vocal tracks for) and four-maybe-five to record from scratch, of which three will be relatively simple to do, and then The Elmsley Count is frickin' done, man. Watch this space.
Do you know what your favorite colour is yet? Did we not decide on purple? Or was purple rejected as being too ostentatious? Bah, I don't remember. Purple, unless purple is a problem. Either way, this is going to be the only real capital-C Colour in the whole outfit, if I'm visualizing this correctly, so it can pretty much go in any direction. (Wow. How's that for decisive?)
Are you happy? A couple of months ago, I was going through a rough bit of stress-times, wherein a bunch of unrelated and quasi-related things were bearing down on me, which happens from time to time. But for the first time in a very long while, I ran down the list of what was going wrong in my world, and added to the end, "…but life is still good." Am I happy? Yes. Yes, I am. And I can't begin to tell you how good it feels to say that.
Why didn't you buy the Adipose plush toy from me? I didn't know you had 'em! Argh! I'm sorry!
How's your stripper pirate rock star career going? *grumble* *gripe*
Do you have pets? I do now! When
rafaela moved into her new apartment, I inherited her two cats, Sunny and Lucy, whom felisdemens promptly renamed "Fatback" and "Pantywaist." They fail to get along with each other, or with the existing household cat Hamlet, whose main attitude towards them is, "What'd I do?"It's all worth it, right? All this hard work I do to make my world a little better? Totally worth it. Everything's going to come out amazing. Just you wait. *hugs*
Where did your icon and username come from? "Slipjig" as a moniker dates back to my very first AOL account 16 or 17 years ago. A slip jig is a traditional Irish dance form in 9/8 time; I chose it because I had a thing for Irish folk and folk-rock, and the odd time signature suited me. (Much later, I learned that slip jigs are traditionally only done by women. C'est la vie.) The icon is from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a medieval medical manual, and is an illustration from the page on "acorns." I mainly chose it because I liked the little beasty behind the tree.
Do you have any time this summer? I'm lonely. Hi! I do have some, at least as long as the unemployment holds out. Unfortunately, me being in the Boston area means you're no longer a short hop away, so simply hopping in the car is no longer an option. Let us ponder this.
What's an entry that you're especially, deeply proud of? Since I was recently looking at some very very very old posts as I reported yesterday, I'll dust off a bit of the days when Girl-Child and Boy-Child were 5 and 2 respectively, and getting holiday portraits done was an adventure. Not my greatest post ever, but I find myself unduly amused.
I'm still gathering questions at this post, if you are thusly inclined.
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Date: 2011-06-30 03:42 pm (UTC)You WILL buy all your DOCTOR WHO items from me.
:::adds my own Antonio-Banderas-as-Puss-in-Boots pitiful pleading glance:::
Please?
[I'm a helluva lot cuter than Amazon or Newbury Comics, and I need the money a LOT more than they do.]
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Date: 2011-06-30 03:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-01 05:18 am (UTC)2) I loved the entry about the portraits. Oh, and your song was one of my favorite Fairport Convention songs.