The End
Andi is moving away from Exeter, through no choice of his own i must add. Therefore looks like Simetry is no more.
:’(
I will miss him too much to carry on with someone else.
Andi is moving away from Exeter, through no choice of his own i must add. Therefore looks like Simetry is no more.
:’(
I will miss him too much to carry on with someone else.
Today I had a nice quiet Sunday.
Woke up not too late - around 9am, then went to band practice at Andi’s a bit later. We recorded some stuff and hopefully it’ll sound good. Andi said “it went surprisingly well”. I think he was referring to my minimal coughing on the recording. I need to see whether i can do something about that because i naturally cough all the time. I think it runs in my family or something.
Then this evening i went to church. The songs were a bit pants this week but i registered my interest in doing something in the music group so i’ll see what comes of that.
Had pancakes with James and did a mini birthday celebration because of him going to Lisbon and missing both. Poor James. :(
Now i’m going to go to bed early because i’ve got meetings all this week and i find it easier to stay awake in them if i make sure i go to bed early every day during the week in question.
Time is what affects me. There’s never really enough of it to go round. I don’t even have a family or even any pets yet I still feel as though there are too many responsibilities in my life for me to do everything to a satisfactory standard and still have time left over to enjoy myself. Unfortunately I tend to make the time to enjoy myself and then feel exceptionally guilty for not carrying out my responsibilities to a satisfactory standard rather than the converse where I end up with no time to myself. I think if I didn’t take the time out then I’d stop altogether so it’s best this way.
So many things have happened recently. Firstly James and I got engaged which is in itself very fantastic. We started with the planning straight away because we always agreed that engagements should be just that, engaged to be married. The date’s all set and the venues, but now the arrangements need to be made and it’s bearing down on me like a big weight at the moment because other things are getting in the way whenever I try to attend to it.
The first thing to get in the way was the trouble going down in my job. For some reason my boss decided to turn on me one day and although he claims he “didn’t mean it that way” and I misinterpreted what he said, either way he was acting like a total freak so I decided it was time to find a new job and leave. It was the only thing to do really. Thankfully I got a decent job on my second interview but the whole process of sneaking time off work, swotting up for the interview, going through with it and the aptitude tests and then finally having the agonising wait to see whether you’ve got it or not is a bit of a nightmare. Thank goodness I only had to go through that twice. I have high hopes for my new job. It seems much more challenging than my old job (from what I’m saying now, whether that’s good or bad is another matter!). I seemed to thrive on this in my old job so I’m hoping I’ll get that back. It also pays a lot more which is an added bonus but I need to stress that that isn’t the reason I’m leaving my current job. I always think happiness in the workplace is much more important than getting highly paid, although I’m not saying I’d work for free! I start my new job the week of the 18th October. I have another 3 weeks at South West Water and then I have one week off.
In that week, James and I are moving house – the second thing to get in the way! About a month ago Leaman’s got in touch with me to tell me that our landlord was selling up and did we want to buy the house for £270 thousand.
Another thing, although I wouldn’t say that it “gets in the way” because it’s totally my choice…is the band. Now, I love doing it but I still feel guilty when I turn up at *another* practice having done no new stuff *again*. I always say “yeh I’ll look at that one” and then I come along to the next practice and I’ve not had time. I quite often pick up my bass and play for a few minutes at a time and the other day I was quite proud coz I did lots of practice but what I’d really like to do is actually work on some of the stuff that Reagan and Andi have put together. The stuff I’ve done recently has been squished together in the space of about 10 minutes and is pants. I admit that myself. I listen to it back and I think “wtf?!”. Still, new stuff aside, we have decent live demos now and Andi has sent them out. We are hoping to have gigs soon so that’s going to be another thing I need to think about. I’m excited though because I love singing so much so it’s a good thing I’ve decided not to do Japanese this year to make more time for this.
Last thing that has transpired in the last few days is my health. Not the usual mad-crazy-epilepsy that makes me so special this time, but screwed up hormones and shit. Truly messed up. They thought it was really bad and made me stay in hospital in case I lost too much blood and needed a transfusion! It wasn’t a very nice experience in hospital and it upset me a bit. I know they are professionals and stuff but it’s not the kind of thing you ever feel comfortable with around people you don’t know. At the moment I’m on a course of pills that will make my blood clot better because basically it’s not doing that at the moment and then they want me back in for more blood tests and discussions about monitoring me in the future. Great. Just what I needed right now but at least I haven’t started my new job yet and if they can sort it out now then that’s for the best. Today I’ve been off work just to make sure the pills are working and I think they pretty much are now. I will continue to take the 6 a day of these ones until I run out in addition to some pain killers, vitamins and obviously my usual epilepsy stuff. Bleh.
Anyway…we shall move, settle in, set everything in their rightful positions, and I WILL take control of everything again and I WILL make sure that everything in my life runs to MY plan and no other plan. My new job WILL be fantastic and I will do it to my best ability and I WILL get some decisions in place for the wedding. That is my resolution.
Simetry is still going strong. We now have several excellent recordings that hopefully will help us get some gigs.
I’m so proud of andi and reagan. They are really great talented guys :)
Had a bit of a crisis of confidence with the old bass playing yesterday…in fact if i’m honest it’s been lasting a few days. I just don’t want to let down Andi and Reagan by being crap when the band is otherwise doing really well. I feel that my quality of singing has gone down due to playing the bass, and understandibly my quality of bass playing isn’t great as i’ve only been playing a couple of weeks. BUT apparently those two things together still equal better than before.
I was suffering a bit from not having enough time to practice on Mr Big. Things are looking a bit less hectic in the out of work life now that i’ve finished japanese and the house is coming together, so i’m going to dedicate more time to doing proper practice as opposed to ‘practicing the songs’ so that i can become a much better bassist and hopefully have a better technique. Hopefully this weekend i will also be able to get a bass amp. Have arranged to buy one, just need to go and pick it up. 50 - BARGAIN.
The band is now called Simetry hence the name change for the section.
It’s going really well - Reagan is turning out to be a really good drummer and now i’ve taken up learning the bass guitar. Reagan says that chicks who play bass are hot hence the emotif! hahaha.
Andi and i now have some goodish recordings of all but 1 of the songs now. They are mostly for me to listen to and learn them better now. Probably try and persuade him to let me give it another go in about 2 weeks time.
Not going to post any for you guys to listen to because the file sizes will all be too big if they are going to be of decent quality.
Reagan seems to like them all and says he still wants to be in the band despite having heard me singing! whoop!