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Today\u2026has been an odd day. It\u2019s hard to explain exactly why; just one of those\u00a0 days where you can\u2019t focus on anything, where you are randomly angry and stupid things like the walls being the wrong colour. I think it may perhaps just be a case of cabin fever, hard to say. Whatever the circumstances may be that led to it, I found myself at loose ends, unable to even focus properly on my embroidery.<\/p>\n
Which led to my finally \u2013 after far far<\/em> too long \u2013 picking up Strange.<\/p>\n Yes, she\u2019s here, of course she is, though I\u2019ve been horribly lapse about practicing. There are all kinds of excuses to be made, none of them good enough. And I\u2019ve missed<\/em> my guitar. Rather terribly actually.<\/p>\n The moment the brightly coloured strap slipped over my shoulder, I started feeling better. I haven\u2019t picked her up since before I came to the ship, except to hand her to Amras for tuning (I managed to forget my tuner\u2026twice<\/em>). But her weight is reassuring. Slowly, and albeit stiffly, my fingers found their stumbling way back through my one song I can play, and a few of my strumming exercises\u2026and as I was doing this, I realized that my shoulders were relaxing\u2026and my brain was unwinding.<\/p>\n I was smiling.<\/p>\n And I also decided it was time to learn a new song. Since stumbling through one song is okay and all, but there is no good in only knowing the five chords that make up<\/em> that one song, no matter how well I eventually end up being able to play it. So I popped online and found the piece I have been secretly wanting to learn to play since I first unwrapped Strange nearly a year ago (was it that long???) and stared in some dismay at the chord structure. Bar chords. Two of \u2018em. I can barely stumble my way through a C-Major let alone a C#Minor! But, this is a song I really do want to learn, and if I have to bleed my fingers to do that then I will\u2026although I admit I will probably have to go through several \u2013 okay several dozen, perhaps hundred \u2013 teeny tiny beginner steps first\u2026<\/p>\n But still\u2026<\/p>\n Ha, take that universe, I have my books, I have my thread, and I have my guitar\u2026I think those may be all the weapons I need just now\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2026has been an odd day. It\u2019s hard to explain exactly why; just one of those\u00a0 days where you can\u2019t focus on anything, where you are randomly angry and stupid things like the walls being the wrong colour. I think it … Continue reading