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On The Subject of Guitar Hero / Rock Band:
I cannot be alone in feeling that the only thing that keeps me from being a musician is my lack of instruments. If I only owned a guitar, I could learn how to play it well in a week. If I only had a drum kit, people from across town would want to hang out in my garage while I jammed. If I only had a harmonica, I would keep it in my pocket and, at any moment, play the story of your sorrows with my impromptu tune. If I only had a piano, I could easily master the classics and fill the house with music.
Easily.
Alas, Rock Band and Guitar Hero *World Tour* have taken that dream of mine, thrown it from a 12th story window and shattered it on the pavement below. Suddenly, I am keenly aware of my rhythmic inabillities. Suddenly, I have visual confirmation that indeed my hand-eye coordination is not so coordinated. Suddenly, I know beyond a shred of doubt that I am, in fact, tone deaf.
Songs that I have known and loved and rocked out to for YEARS, I can't beat in this game. Songs that I could sing you perfectly in my sleep, pitch for pitch - note for note, have become meaningless blurs of light and sound and a chorus of "booooooo".
I guess this is what is meant by "Don't quit your day-job".
Segway: On the subject of My Day-Job:
There is slightly less than a foot of snow on the ground (and on the rooftops, and on the cars, and on the tree branches, you get the point...) and yet -- here I am at work. Like a -- what? Like a sucker! It hasn't been bad, honestly. I guess people are still too busy digging out at home to realize their security system is beeping. Also, my boss bought us all breakfast so that was an unexpected high point in the morning. Tomorrow will probably suck. As will Wednesday. But busy means business - and business means jobs for all of us. Can't be made about that.
On the subject of snow:
I hate snow; it's a pretty public fact in my life. I think it's too cold, too wet, too windy, too smushy... I just am not a fan. But today, for the first time since I was in third grade playing in the snow with Sarah Broughton (and then her parents made us cocoa and we curled in the den under blankets), I feel excited by its presence. For the first time since I was a kid, I want to make a snow angel or have a snowball fight. I am excited at the prospect of taking the kids sledding down a hill tomorrow afternoon -- and plotting which one I could take both of them down..
It's beautiful outside -- I'm tempted to sing Winter Wonderland. I'm tempted to take up photography this very minute so I can preserve the memory of icicles on branches; of my boss helping push a stranger's truck out of the snow; of our dogs getting lost in a massive cloud of white.
And Now For Something Completely Different:
2G1B (2 Girls, 1 Book) is still plugging our way through the Bible chronologically and, let me just say, the Old Testament is seriously epic! There is so much to comment on, I just can't even formulate the sentences. I'll say this: at least we've finished Job.