Truly Last Minute

March, wow!  I had forgotten I made some of those other resolutions.  Still, I got a song done for the month, finished March 31, but during the day, so it wasn't that bad.  It's called "Dear Mother," and really digs down into my heart and shares about my relationship with my Mom, who will celebrate her tenth anniversary of passing into eternal life this October, Holy Mother Church, and the Blessed Mother Mary.  It also taps into the softer side of progressive music, being a piano/voice only song, yet in 7/8 time.  I'm rather proud of that.

I didn't start a blog about cooking, although if I did, I'd have a recipe to share, thanks to a recipe I whipped up for dinner last night (still tonight if you're in the later US time zones).  Hopefully soon.

While I found some leg and arm exercises, I also don't quite have the whole routine down.  But, I have my arm measurements and know where I want to go with that.  I have no idea how long it will take to get there, but I have where I am and the goal.  And no, I'm not ready to go public with that.  I might when I've expanded my arms a bit more and can say, "Can you believe my arm circumference used to be x, but now it's y?"  Didn't do my leg measurements yet.  Push ups, I think I burned out and hit a plateau.  Respiratory issues didn't help either - allergies, sinus/throat infection, etc.  I've been stuck at 50 push ups and having to break it up into two sets of 25.

Now for my April song.  Yet another deep, contemplative one, I call it "Tentative Sage."  It's all about a man called to speak out on something, and he believes in the message, but not himself.  At first it holds him back, but as his courage grows, he finds placing the message above himself keeps him humble and helps him persevere in spreading the word.  So, being after midnight EDT, it is May 1, and I left for work at not having finished the lyrics for the last verse.  I get out at midnight, so I left certain I had failed in that all important songwriting resolution.  In the last half hour, I jotted down little things as I could, hoping to squeeze out that last song.  It was getting late, and I couldn't just not work, as that would result in a little something called getting fired.  As I scribbled the last line, the last word out, I checked the time, and it read 11:59 pm!  I had made it!  Having ADHD and mild obsessive compulsive tendencies, the nerves and the sheer fascination with how I had beaten time combined to give me a massive adrenaline rush.  This, along with the feeling that after almost failing this resolution, I just have to write at least one line of whatever my May song turns out to be.

May resolutions aside from a song?  Get back to regular blogging.  Both my personal blogs and my contributions to the Tenth Amendment Center have been nonexistent for the past month.  I need to change that.  May will also be an organization month.  We're dealing with more clutter than we'd like, and I want to make sure the living area and kitchen stay at an acceptable maintenance level, then go on the anti-clutter attack in another room.  If I take care of one room 2-3 times a week, things will look great.

That said, good night, God Bless, and I'm off to write a song line or two and then get to bed.