Daddy’s birthday!
Today is my daddy’s birthday. He’s turning 55. Still a kid at heart, this man has been through a lot, giving him enough experience to be wise and knowledgeable beyond his age. His body aches, but his spirit still manages to push him forward through every day, unstoppable.
True he can be a grouch sometimes, but it’s only to be expected.
This year we got him a looper. For those of you who don’t know, a looper is a machine that allows one musician, or a few of them depending on what you’re going for, to play a section of music, hit a pedal, and it will playback the section it recorded, while at the same time, recording another track on top of it, so on and so fourth.
Just using your voice as sound effects with the looper can turn out hillarious tracks. Just the other night it sounded like there was a rainforest in my basement!
I’ll be taking him and mama to DQ in a little bit so we can get ice cream.
It’s nothing much for a birthday, but we are spending time together and in the end, that’s all that matters. I love you daddy! Happy birthday!
<3,
xoxo
Summer Nights
This has got to be the gloomiest beginning of summer I can ever imagine! For starters, it’s rained every day for the past two, almost three months! We’re used to no rain for a week, temperatures in the high 90′s, the pang of excitement and want at the sound of the ice cream truck, coming around the corner to quench your thirst of something frozenly splended! Only to race around the house, gathering change and other people’s orders, praying you won’t miss him.
Now, the ice cream truck makes his rounds, but you aren’t so eager to greet him. A cool breeze would make you chilly with ice cream in hand, and a consistant 75 degree temperature just doesn’t put anyone in an ice cream mood.
Since I work nights, I’ve taken joy, on my days off, sitting on my back porch and enjoying the weather I usually work through. Right now it’s overcast, a cool breeze, strong enough to be noticeable but not a nunciance. I have my music on my iPhone playing on random, and watching my two cats roam around the porch and yard.
This summer night, though pleasantly comfortable, has yet to cure my craving for what I remember it to be.
<3,
xoxo!
