I had to work this morning. It was okay. I have to work again tomorrow morning. That will be okay too. When I got out of work I was listening to some music on the way home. Every now and then, I hear a song and think to myself "I'd love to learn how to play that on guitar." The problem for me has been this: I haven't had the desire to pick up my guitar because it sounds awful. It was a fifty dollar guitar I bought off of ebay. I learned how to play some basic stuff. But as I started to get better, I learned to hate my guitar because it just hurt my ears. I wanted to sound good. Well unfortunately, I don't sound that great anymore because I'm out of practice anyway, but I'm hoping to change that. So as these thoughts of wishing I could play guitar again were going through my head, I called a local music store in Edwardsville. I've been wanting to get a new guitar. Nothing too expensive, but a step up from my junker. I asked about layaway options. It sounded reasonable to me. 20% down and pay it off within 3 months. So I came home and brought it up to Neil. He was not keen on the idea. We do have a lot of expenses right now due to the wedding and whatnot... but I feel like a new guitar would just put me in a better mood, it would give me something to do, a way to express myself. Him and I had discussed getting a new guitar a long time ago, but life happened, bills came up and it got put off. Neil had to go to the bank to deposit some funds into the wedding account and when he got back he surprised me with a budget in cash to spend on a new guitar. I couldn't believe it. I was just thinking that we'd put it on layaway, not that I'd have a guitar today! He takes good care of me for sure :). Well it was funny because he said, "So, is it okay if I hang out with Josh tonight and play video games if you get a new guitar? It'll keep you busy either way." That was hysterical to me. It almost seemed like he felt like he had to pay me to hang out with his friend, but he swore that wasn't the reason. He had a good point though, after getting a new guitar I wasn't going to want to pay attention to him. Even though I was looking forward to spending the evening with him all day at work. But this was a nice compromise. So we went to the music store and I picked out what I thought was a black, but as it turns out it's kind of dark purple, Fender T Bucket. It was on sale for $300, originally $450. And it's so much better than my other guitar! Now, obviously if you're a guitar player, you might be a snob and think, that's a piece of crap... my guitar was a million dollars and is autographed by Jimi Hendrix. Whatever. As you get better, you invest more into it. You wouldn't give a beginner guitar player a really expensive guitar. Speaking of which, if you know anyone who's just getting started... I still have an old guitar I'm trying to get rid of. I won't even charge anyone for it. :)Typing is causing my fingers to hurt even more, I have to wake up early, and I'd like to spend some time with Neil to thank him for being so good to me... so I gotta go now.
I got my first real six string
At the five and dime
played it til my fingers bled
was the end of summer 2010...
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