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I’ma Take Guitar
Filed under Music by Kim at 4:51 pm on Aug 21 2009
Tonight not long after I walked in the door:
Me: I signed up to take guitar lessons at Laurel School of Music!
Jack: (air of faux petulance) Well, I guess there’s nothing I am allowed to do without Kim being good at it too.
Me: (ignoring him) Oh! Do you want me to see if we can take lessons together!
Jack: That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Me: How could that not be a good idea?
Jack: What happens if the teacher asks us to do something and I can do it right away and you can’t?
Me: Then I will be an adult about it and I will work at it and try harder!
Jack: …that has not been my experience.
OK so I have been known to be competitive. But I don’t think I would be! Plus it would promote togetherness! Well I told him that I would come home after every lesson and teach him what I just learned. Besides, these guitar lessons are nice and close, far cheaper than my drum lessons were, and something I have a sudden and acute interest in, so whatever! I am going with it. I am not even listening to my therapist who, when I told her I thought I should take guitar lessons, laughed in my face because she thinks I do too many things.
Also I wish I could join a bowling league and I still want to learn horseback riding. God, my life is one long summer camp.
1 TAOon 21 Aug 2009 at 5:29 pm
More power to you! It’s great you are adding another thing to your list. It’s better than not doing much of anything (I won’t say who is guilty of that.)
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2 PMMJon 22 Aug 2009 at 6:11 am
“God, my life is one long summer camp.”
This is because you’re awesome.
I’m still impressed you have free time for more things!
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Kim Reply:
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 am
Well, I’m not taking any classes right now, which frees up whole swathes of time. Time I would have previously spent playing WoW! So, you know, there’s that.
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3 chibaon 24 Aug 2009 at 7:42 am
my life is one long summer camp
Sounds like you’re getting it right to me. Keep it up!!
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Kim Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Yeah, no complaints here.
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4 Dadon 24 Aug 2009 at 10:01 am
Sounds like me but I seem to finish few and start many. (Summer Camp), If ever I stop you can throw in the dirt. Til then I will keep starting new stuff.
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Kim Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 10:56 am
It’s the journey, not the destination, right?
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5 Prosaic Paradise » Guitar Shoppingon 20 Jan 2010 at 3:36 pm
[…] This is my guitar. I bought it 8 years ago at Chuck Levin’s with a plan to get Alex to teach me to play. He learned quickly that I was a terrible student at things that require the kind of patience instruments do; so the guitar has lain dormant for the most part until late last year I decided it was time to try again. […]