Three Goals

Well that damn Leo didn't show up to meet me on Weds. night after all. I texted him telling him I was at the Big Easy and he texted back he just got done auditioning a bassist and was sitting down to dinner and wouldn't be out after all. So... I'm done. I wish Leo the best. But I'm done with him. I even sent him a possible gig today that someone needing an opener band asked me about.

It's funny... I feel lost and a little sad. When I kicked my ex-husb out of the house I felt like that was it for me, that I was damaged goods now and I didn't know where or how to meet guys anymore and I was destined to be single the rest of my life, probably. Then after a couple of months, I had more dudes to play with than I needed! 2 boyfriends at the same time! Mr. Wonderful Stefano! Then another 2 dudes at the same time and now a great romance with Jon! So... though it's hard to imagine now I'm sure it'll be similar with this bass playing thing. Jon keeps saying that I'm a great bassist and that great bassists are in high demand, which is true. But I still am unsure on what I'm going to do next, musically-speaking, or how I'm gonna do it. Just like when I was newly single.

So I have 3 goals that will keep me busy in the meantime and they are really good goals and are stuff I needed to do regardless!

1. Work on my bass playing. I need to get intimately familiar with the neck, knowing every fret and every note. I need to work on the blues bass canon, including Willie Dixon (esp. for the upcoming trip to Ohio) which I will work on this weekend plus Duck Dunn (got his book on transcriptions w/accompanying CD's--fun!), and Jon suggested John Entwistle and while that's The Who, it can only help me to expand my repertoire and a killer bass player is a killer bass player.
2. Work on my singing, particularly the art of playing bass and singing at the same time. Significantly harder than playing guitar and singing!
3. Work on my songwriting. I watch Jon write songs and of course, I've written a few in my day and I need to get back into it. Originals are priceless and eventually, that's how you make REAL $ in music.

Mastering these goals will turn me into a BEAST for my next musical project, whatever and whenever that will be.

Jon is playing tonight w/our harmonica frenemy so I'm gwine be at home shedding. Duck Dunn tonight. My librarian blues friend Er wants me to come out later and I told her I could do so around midnight after I'm done practicing; I've gotta head north to go to Jon's house anyway so it's sorta on the way, heh.

Tomorrow Jon and I are going to go look at a bike for me. I think I may be switching from running to bicycling, as that's something I can do w/Jon. He just bought yet another bike for himself and last night we went on a little ride around his neighborhood. I've also decided to go try out some fretless 5-string basses and perhaps that could turn into something I'm known for. Anyway, I guess I'm excited about this chapter closing and me being forced to embark on a new adventure... again, whatever and whenever that may be.