The Bright Side

For the first 36 years of my life I was the undisputed king of pessimism. The glass wasn’t half empty, the glass was bone dry.

Then I met Jen. Slowly but surely my attitude toward everything changed. It was all her fault of course. Who knew that being nuts in love could affect your outlook on life and give you a sunnier disposition?

I’m going to have a super stressful day at work today. It’s going to be uber painful. Then this morning we had car trouble. Uh oh!

But this isn’t the old Rob, this is the new improved Rob. The issue with the car is being resolved lightning quick, Jen is coming to the rescue, but it does mean the kids and I have a few extra minutes at home this morning. Just enough time for me to shave off the two weeks of beard that had spawned on my face.

See? That’s me looking on the bright side. I’ve taken a negative and turned it into a positive! I’m not even remotely upset about the car situation. Instead I’m happy about getting to see Jen for an extra few seconds today, and not having an insanely itchy face anymore.

Rob is feeling positive. Who knew?

June Music

It’s June 2nd. I’ve tortured you by making you wait a whole day for a June Music update! I’m sorry!

Yesterday I stitched together three ideas. I don’t really have a theme this month, but so far everything is 100% iPad (that won’t last), 100% Strat (that probably will last), and almost, but not quite, bluesy. Well, 1.5 of the new things at least.

All three are ready for vocals. Can you believe that? I wanted to write lyrics for one of them before work today but I decided to sleep an extra 15 minutes and then leave a little early instead.

That plan fell apart as epically as most of my music plans do. I was in the car at 7:15 on my first day back from vacation and the damn thing wouldn’t start. I had to call for a tow, and of course the tow truck driver got the sucker running almost immediately. It was fine all the way to work and back. The turd.