Like vs. Should

Specifically, I'm thinking about "Like vs Should" right now in the context of music.
I feel like I "should" write songs that are longer, more musically complex and emotionally deep.
But is that what I like doing? Is that even what I want to do? I like laughs. That's what I like. And that's probably what other people like to.

So... the choices are:
writing lots and lots of funny songs so that there is always fresh new material
OR
writing long/complicated songs that hold up on re-listening.

(probably I want to do both, right?)

The EP

It could be:

- less frivolous "departure"y stuff - like my "when I was a girl I was stupid" song and my "geek girl" song... with laughs still but also "purpose" and "emotion"(a la mr. darcy)
- upbeat (drums?) more fun light-hearted stuff - more in the vein of "ironically"
- the geek girl experience?

Also we should do a cover show.

Another effing goals post: physical edition

I just got a new app called "LoseIt" which makes me very happy. From what I can tell so far, it's pretty much like the cool Weight Watchers apps that my friends all have that make me jealous.
So - here's the thing. It's easy. I set a goal. And maybe I can achieve this goal?
And if I achieve this goal - I think I should get a tattoo. Because I've wanted a tattoo for a few years, but I've been too ashamed of my body to put something on it permanently.
Yay!
(tattoo idea is: <3 centered above my shoulder blades. alternatively, a Starfleet badge - but.... I don't know where that would go.)

I should be updating this blog more. Life is good. Vegas was fun. Nate is back finishing school.

Recent developments in personal goals

"Personal" goals:

• Write and send letters
• nothing here.
• Try writing fiction
• I had a good idea for a fanfic this morning - how all of the GoT's Stark family can be happy zombies at the end of book 7. :)
• Learn how to cook
• I had a good idea for this: enchilada casserole. They have something like this at the mexican restaurant near our house.
• Throw more parties/events
• We just need to set a date for the Star Trek: TNG murder mystery - and it will totally happen!
• Plan and take travels to: Grand Canyon, Alaska, Prague
• Aubrey and I are TOTALLY going to the Grand Canyon when we go to Vegas next month! Winning!

Life is good: April 4, 2012

For the "life is good" file: today I recorded a video w/Aubrey, volunteered at the radio station, and now I'm eating fresh warm bread, Nate is making me a cocktail and then we're going to watch Star Trek: TNG.

Something to add to the to-do list

I really wish I could paint. I had friends in college who were really good at painting, and they humored me and one even bought me a bunch of paints and they took me painting with them. I am just not good at it. Art is hard.
But I have a really great idea for a series of paintings that would look awesome in my new house.

Goals update

On my other blog at the beginning of this year, I made a list of goals. As I'm about to enter a crazy month and my money is disappearing, so I want to take a tally of how this has gone.


"Professional" goals

• Make an album with my band.
• This is the one that's farthest along. We've been recording the album in most of our spare moments for the last seven weeks, though we have been sidetracked by Song Fu, concerts and a commission project. We're trying to continue having fun, but it's hard.
• The "recording" part is a bummer, certainly. But the good stuff is: album art - for which we hired a local illustrator and a local photographer - is going well! Now we just need to write the liner notes and line stuff up and hope everything is proofed and mastered in time for the CD to be ready at the release show.
• I didn't get the new songs done that I was hoping to have done. Argh.
• Learn how to make a web application & learn enough of a language to do a sample project. Do the same with web design.
• This is... happening. Ish. I'm doing a lot of reading still. There's a PHP book I like. I had been reading a PHP book that was doing a very poor job of appealing to my "learn stuff" senses. In general, learning without structure/classes/help is hard for me. Also, time. 
• Make a documentary (with filmmaker M_ V_- one of my informational interview subjects)
• I'm failing at this one! I'd like to blame the people who haven't called me back, but I can't really. I should call them again.
• Take classes in computer programming.
• I am doing this! Thanks to my Alma Mater and a crazy-awesome professor, I'm in a "learn Java by programming games" class that is both helping me learn how to program Java and getting my head around programming in general. I really like it.
• Train and volunteer in community radio.
• I give myself an "A" here. I have already had my voice on the radio *twice* interviewing people, and I am taking occasional trainings that are awesome. The people at the community radio station are a little scary at first, but I've come to like them a lot and I think they like me too. Which is awesome. I really like radio and I am learning a lot about it.

"Personal" goals:

• Write and send letters
• Try writing fiction
• Learn how to cook
• Throw more parties/events
• Plan and take travels to: Grand Canyon, Alaska, Prague

I haven't even started on any of these. Maybe I will "when I move into my new house," I tell myself.

Things I have done that I wasn't planning on:

• Social media consulting (for multiple clients!)
• Freelance writing (I could almost make enough money on this to pay rent! Unreliably!)
• Managed a band T-shirt sale- orders, production, and shipping.
• Plan band shows in California and British Columbia
• Find a new house, apply for and get it, thus creating a lot of work for myself in sorting/packing/moving everything I own.

Alright, this post was relatively useless other than as a way to track my own progress, which is important because yesterday I watched more than three episodes of How I Met Your Mother.