The dogs slept through the ENTIRE night!
As in snoring, dreaming of chasing cane toads, and letting out the stinkiest farts, due to the hotdog nibs I've been giving them for training rewards.
Do you know how I KNOW they slept the ENTIRE night?
Because I didn't.
Not a wink.
Full on fucking insomnia.
It may be a double coffee day.
I'm not good at having naps in the day then trying to sleep at night.
It has never worked for me.
But what could I do?
Those little pills Dr. Bob gave me knocked me out.
And they really worked.
My ankle is very close to being deflated and boney once more.
Anyway, all night long, I had the pleasure of running a song through my head that I worked on all day yesterday.
You know the song.
There's no way you wouldn't, unless you live in a time warp bubble of some kind.
Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful'.
I'm trying to find as many positive, inspirational songs for the kids as possible, because the songs they choose are just about sex.
This whole country is all about sex.
As much as they are songs I am drawn to as well, with their contagiously characteristic beats of the Dominican Republic, I can't have them singing that for people from other countries when it's time to perform.
I know it's culture here, but I just can't chance that there's a Canadian predator in the audience who speaks Spanish, getting off because my little innocent children are singing suggestive lyrics.
So, I am translating 'Beautiful' into Spanish.
The translation was already online, but not the pentameter.
I've had to go through every single syllable and beat, to try to figure out the placement of each word.
I'll tell you, my brain has not had this much stimuli since the motorcycle accident, and that includes rewiring from brain injury.
It's so good for me.
Like, REALLY good.
Except for the obsession part.
Before the accident, I would have sheer infatuation with whichever song I was working on.
It was just part of my everyday breathing, that reverence.
Before the accident, I felt emotion with music and would frequently cry when a song I was working on moved me in the right way.
Yesterday, while working out the piano part for the song, that grace returned.
I was singing the English lyrics to get my singing/playing coordination down for the Spanish parts, when all of a sudden, I felt my heart being overtaken with elation.
The instrumentation, the melody, the words, they all came together to give me that feeling of the real reason I make music.
It actually happened.
I wiped the tears of joy away, thanking the angels for that moment.
I've been working towards that feeling since the accident.
I honestly thought I was broken.
I accepted that I would never feel like that again.
I felt I would just fake it for the rest of my life, but the real thing happened.
I spent 4.5 years rehabbing my body and mind from the accident.
Now it's time to rehab my musicianship.
And it is something beautiful.
Beautiful.
As in snoring, dreaming of chasing cane toads, and letting out the stinkiest farts, due to the hotdog nibs I've been giving them for training rewards.
Do you know how I KNOW they slept the ENTIRE night?
Because I didn't.
Not a wink.
Full on fucking insomnia.
It may be a double coffee day.
I'm not good at having naps in the day then trying to sleep at night.
It has never worked for me.
But what could I do?
Those little pills Dr. Bob gave me knocked me out.
And they really worked.
My ankle is very close to being deflated and boney once more.
Anyway, all night long, I had the pleasure of running a song through my head that I worked on all day yesterday.
You know the song.
There's no way you wouldn't, unless you live in a time warp bubble of some kind.
Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful'.
I'm trying to find as many positive, inspirational songs for the kids as possible, because the songs they choose are just about sex.
This whole country is all about sex.
As much as they are songs I am drawn to as well, with their contagiously characteristic beats of the Dominican Republic, I can't have them singing that for people from other countries when it's time to perform.
I know it's culture here, but I just can't chance that there's a Canadian predator in the audience who speaks Spanish, getting off because my little innocent children are singing suggestive lyrics.
So, I am translating 'Beautiful' into Spanish.
The translation was already online, but not the pentameter.
I've had to go through every single syllable and beat, to try to figure out the placement of each word.
I'll tell you, my brain has not had this much stimuli since the motorcycle accident, and that includes rewiring from brain injury.
It's so good for me.
Like, REALLY good.
Except for the obsession part.
Before the accident, I would have sheer infatuation with whichever song I was working on.
It was just part of my everyday breathing, that reverence.
Before the accident, I felt emotion with music and would frequently cry when a song I was working on moved me in the right way.
Yesterday, while working out the piano part for the song, that grace returned.
I was singing the English lyrics to get my singing/playing coordination down for the Spanish parts, when all of a sudden, I felt my heart being overtaken with elation.
The instrumentation, the melody, the words, they all came together to give me that feeling of the real reason I make music.
It actually happened.
I wiped the tears of joy away, thanking the angels for that moment.
I've been working towards that feeling since the accident.
I honestly thought I was broken.
I accepted that I would never feel like that again.
I felt I would just fake it for the rest of my life, but the real thing happened.
I spent 4.5 years rehabbing my body and mind from the accident.
Now it's time to rehab my musicianship.
And it is something beautiful.
Beautiful.
i fully approve of who i am, even as i get better
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