Happy Birthday to Me! Heh-heh...I guess I deserve an explanation... · 7:03am Jul 9th, 2014
Ah July 9th, the only day in the year where long lost friends and family feel the need to suddenly talk to me. I can't say that I don't appreciate it though, it's nice knowing that you are still thought of. All in all, 19 has never felt so...empty.
Which brings me to why the second chapter has taken so long to be published.
I have been going through some serious shit for quite some time and I was put right into the center of all the madness that is my family. First it was the surprise visit from relatives who decided that they didn't need an invitation. THAT was fun. THEN, I got forced to accompany this lady with a bunch of people from high school to play for some family Independence Day shit she has every year.
Initially, I had refused to come along because for some strange reason, the musicians (that's me on trombone) who are PROVIDING the entertainment, have to pay $75 to actually be able to board on the bus. I thought I was the one who was supposed to get paid, not the other way around! Of course she didn't go down easy, and basically offered for me to go on for free.
It was at that point I realized that I was trapped. She had my number, and knew where I lived, so it wasn't like I couldn't ignore her. I ended up going on the trip, only for some of the parents who went on the trip to start ordering me around like I was 15 years old, (NEWSFLASH, if I wanted to, I could have just drove to the meeting place and then drove back home.) and ended up telling all of us to just stay in one spot and not have fun. We couldn't even get on the ATV's, because every single time we tried to hop on one, some five year old would start whining, and they would make us get off.
So I didn't get paid, and I didn't have any form of entertainment.... No, I can't say that, We did have a golf cart to just drive up and down with....until some of the high-schoolers got high and crashed it into a ditch. *sigh*
I ended up coming home 2 in the morning, tired, dirty and most of all, angry.
From that point on I had lost any motivation to do anything, for while I felt like I had no control over my life, and lets not go into all the other bullcrap that happened in June...
Anyways, I'm not here to complain to you guys, I just wanted to let you know that I'm still breathing and I haven't forgotten about the promise I made to you guys and myself. I'm not going to say that the next chapter going to come out this week, but I can say that it will be soon. So for all of you that have been patient, I thank you with all my heart, and for those that haven't well...
You still have time to learn.
It's late (technically early) now, some I'm going to sleep, hopefully when I get up I will have that focus and drive that I have towards music except in writing.
Until we meet err... read again!
- Red Thunder
