OMG BTW. Fucking Christmas day. Had a good haul this year. Mapex MPX Steel Snare. Really loving it. Went and had a practise and I'm not sure whether it was the new snare (I think that will have helped, it's in much better shape than my old one!), or just the fact I hadn't played in a couple of days (I always find that I improve more in the time I don't play than the time I do... Have you figured out if that makes sense yet?), but anyway I had an amazing practise. Just seemed to be pulling shit off. Played along with Sound of Muzak and just felt a whole load more comfortable. It's a good feeling.
Aside from that I got CDs (completed my Taylor Swift and Owl City collection ha!), clothes (cool new jacket from Dan and Linzi, cool t-shirt from them too that apparently only cost about £1, socks and boxers - much overdue! Boxers were also from Dan and Linzi and are funky and colourful which is great - been meaning to get more colourful underwear haha), drum sticks as per, 'Funkifying the Clave' - looking forward to getting into that! Anything else?... Genesis book - another Dan poundland gift. I doubt I'll cover-to-cover it but I'll def give some of it a read.
It's been a good day. Quite empty though without a family get-together. Missed seeing Ally and Linzi and Auntie Anne and Uncle James but they had to spend time with Anne's mum given recent events. Still got to see Papa, Uncle Richard, Rae and Sophie, and Uncle Robert who was there during the day and that was nice. Tuned Sophie's new guitar for her ha. Really hope she does grow up musical. I'd be happy to give her lessons - would make me feel better about the amount of money they gave us this year! Andy and Lou came up this evening. It's nice seeing them for a while but I don't like having company for long spells and they do tend to stay a while. I like getting on with things. There's always stuff to do. Practise etc. I'm sure you'd still agree. You should work your ass off but never try too hard right?
Speaking of which I'm gonna have to get back to doing college work. Nearly finished that essay on minimalism. Wanted it done by Christmas but never mind. Will def be done by new year. That's another subject in itself. Don't know what we're doing for it yet, starting to look like it'll be Lanark or possibly Livi if we sort that out soon. I don't mind either way. I've never actually spent New Year out in Lanark so I'd be up for it really. Marc isn't, but as long as we're all together that's what matters. Kind of have this feeling we might end up not being though. We'll see. There's another reason why Lanark could be alright but I never feel like I can really talk about that here in case this does end up getting read by other people. Still with a little prod I wonder if you can think back to what your situation was regarding girls around now. I wonder how that's turned out? Probably shite. Still have that feeling that I wasn't made to get girls or for relationships. Things just don't seem to work out for me.
Anyway, I've digressed. Back to the present. Gonna get these assignments done and out the way asap, then likewise with the rest of the degree. I just wanna get out and play, write songs and perform and try and get somewhere. It's all I wanna do right now and although my voice is totally gone right now - sore throat! - I think's it's improving cos I'm practising constantly, and I don't wanna stop. I also think my songwriting could be worth something. I get a lot of ideas, just don't get the time to develop them, and I wish I did. I really feel like if I had the chance to take some time to just write and play I could get somewhere. I guess we'll see. For now, let's get this (rather pointless) degree out the way.
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