Mimzy**

Today was a not too productive music day. We recorded the guitars and bass but we didn’t get to the second guitar or lyrics. I’ve already written the second guitar part and have no lyrics. It is good to have a fairly finished product to work from. We spent most the day figuring out mic placement for her drums and I spent a lot of time figuring out complimentary settings on the different amps we use. I have a beautiful Marshall half stack that could be used for anything but I don’t have my effects over there so it wasn’t useful today. I also have a Peavey Modelling amp which is great for creating very specific sounds. Sarah has  Vox modelling amp too so I was experimenting with both their effects and cab settings. Its fun because sometimes you end up writing a riff that’s tailored to a certain effect which is a great lead in or change to an entire song.

Guitarists usually feel strongly about effects in one way or another. Jack White loves the shit out of them, Jimi Hendrix loved them, punk bands hate them,  metal bands go both ways but most guitarists love some kind of a wah and reverb. I play a Hendrix wah wah that is my oldest pedal I have and I love it. Also I love the Big Muff…that’s another Hendrix pedal.

So I’m taking my mother to the airport tomorrow, she’s going to Texas until Sunday. I’ll be staying at her house to watch her three dogs. Two of them are really annoying. I love animals but Schnausers have such a shrill barks. They’re really sweet but they’re so loud…then there’s a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel that is about the dumbest dog I’ve ever met. He’s a garbage disposal for food and regularly gets himself stuck in odd places.

I don’t mind it on the whole, they do tend to bark their asses off so I’m probably going to get woken up to shrill barks the rest of the week. Oh well…not much I can do about that.

It smells like Halloween outside! Anyone else excited for Walking Dead and horror movies?

*Edit

So my mom wanted to leave at 7:15, I got there about 7 and made some coffee, turned on the TV and started watching last night Daily Show. She gets really frazzled whenever she needs to be somewhere so I didn’t want to get in her space. Whenever we had any kind of family event or sports she would be the last one ready but still stressed about everyone else being ready even though we’d usually be waiting in the car for her. So I hear her upstairs walking back and forth between rooms rather quickly, then she comes downstairs and starts digging through the closet. I asked her what she was up to and she couldn’t find her black purse, her green purse didn’t match what she packed….so 8 o’clock comes around, no purse in sight. I hadn’t grabbed my guitar from my car yet so I got it and my amp out and poked around a few rooms…she comes downstairs and asks what else I had to do before we can leave. I say nothing and she’s says alright well lets go-times a wastin… I couldn’t help but laugh. 

So then she goes, "Oh yeah! After you drop me off you have to go pay the water bill, it was due last night at five and they might come shut the water off today if we don’t pay it."  …I’m like, okay…I thought about it while I was driving her to the airport and I asked her to call, she did and she got a week extension, so that’s good. My dad always took care of the bills and after he passed she didn’t know how to long onto the internet to pay things so we had quite a time figuring everything out. I’m going to try to figure out her set up for the water bill but she doesn’t know her passwords for a lot of things and a lot of websites use different layouts that confuse her. She’s not bad with computers but she never had a reason to use them other than her work computer so she guesses through things until she’s frustrated then calls someone.

It’s a wonderful day though! I made myself a turkey BLT with fresh tomatoes from the garden. Nom! The Pablano peppers I planted here are huge too! I think I’ll make Chili Rellenos sometime this week. Extra nom!