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veinbuster said:
We replace football with butter tarts
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You definitely could replace football with MY Butter tarts. Everyone who has ever tasted MY Butter tarts said I should open a bakery. My husband and I actually toyed with the idea about buying a bakery. The onus for 100 % of things would be on my shoulders. I said I didn’t want to do it. We gave every aspect of the business a lot of attention and some serious thought. I love making stuff but only when I feel urge. I would eventually become miserable doing this everyday.
 
Lola said:
You definitely could replace football with MY Butter tarts. Everyone who has ever tasted MY Butter tarts said I should open a bakery. My husband and I actually toyed with the idea about buying a bakery. The onus for 100 % of things would be on my shoulders. I said I didn’t want to do it. We gave every aspect of the business a lot of attention and some serious thought. I love making stuff but only when I feel urge. I would eventually become miserable doing this everyday.
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I have often wondered the same thing about me and music, had my life played out that way... my "joy" becoming a "job" and all that? A famous saying goes "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"...
 
JasonE said:
Unless what you love to do pays like crap. Then you struggle and that is work.
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True, but I love being the best human being that I can and that is a huge struggle at times. But it's worth it.
I have a friend that is half my age, but I swear is twice the person I am. My inspirational guide and full time mentor and doesn't even know it. Doesn't play, doesn't sing, and sees through BS like no other I know. Someone I would go to the ends of the earth for without being asked.
 
Daryl Jones said:
True, but I love being the best human being that I can and that is a huge struggle at times. But it's worth it.
I have a friend that is half my age, but I swear is twice the person I am. My inspirational guide and full time mentor and doesn't even know it. Doesn't play, doesn't sing, and sees through BS like no other I know. Someone I would go to the ends of the earth for without being asked.
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For me this is kind of a struggle too. I am generally a very easy going person. I am also able to see through BS pretty fast. Where I struggle is that I tend to focus on the negative things since there are so many of them around me in my job and in general, in life. I am aware of it and am trying to focus more on the positives. it is kid of a strange thing because in many situations I am always looking at the positives but in other situations all I see are the negatives.
 
JasonE said:
For me this is kind of a struggle too. I am generally a very easy going person. I am also able to see through BS pretty fast. Where I struggle is that I tend to focus on the negative things since there are so many of them around me in my job and in general, in life. I am aware of it and am trying to focus more on the positives. it is kid of a strange thing because in many situations I am always looking at the positives but in other situations all I see are the negatives.
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Strange How That Works...I Get It Though!
 
Lola said:
You definitely could replace football with MY Butter tarts. Everyone who has ever tasted MY Butter tarts said I should open a bakery. My husband and I actually toyed with the idea about buying a bakery. The onus for 100 % of things would be on my shoulders. I said I didn’t want to do it. We gave every aspect of the business a lot of attention and some serious thought. I love making stuff but only when I feel urge. I would eventually become miserable doing this everyday.
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You could start the NPL (National Pastry League). You could bake on Monday nights.

No Sergio, not “get baked”.
 
I made sterling and karat gold jewelry for the longest time. It was my career path atm but I ended up getting sick of it. Thank god for guitar. It came along at the perfect moment!

I still have a ton of made jewelry. I am going to sell it in a package deal. Then I can buy my purple Gibson Goddess and then I am done collecting my guitars except my Mesa Boogie amp I want I need!
 
Lola said:
How do you personally maintain emotional and physical equilibrium in your life?
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This is a really good question. I used to be pretty good at this. With some of the struggles I have had this year, this has been a challenge. I am trying to figure out how to get back on track. I am tired of feeling negative and angry and not being able to figure out where I want my life to go.
 
I am trying to keep everything from hitting fan. My guitar practice time seems to be taking a back seat to everything. When I get some time to myself I just want to sleep. I think I am burned out to certain degree. I am always being asked to do something either at work or at home. It just seems like I am always on call(PSW). I just feel like telling everyone to politely fu*k off an pls leave me alone. Honestly this is not too much to ask.
 
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Lola said:
I am trying to keep everything from hitting fan. My guitar practice time seems to be taking a back seat to everything. When I get some time to myself I just want to sleep. I think I am burned out to certain degree. I am always being asked to do something either at work or at home. It just seems like I am always on call(PSW). I just feel like telling everyone to politely fu*k off an pls leave me alone. Honestly this is not too much to ask.
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Feel for you Lola. It's hard when you get pulled in too many directions.
I find playing time has really increased since last spring. I'm in a better personal schedule and time allotment now so I manage to get in way more time than when I was working every day. And it's sooo much more productive.
I'm busy all day long, to the point where I'm sort of on the run. Daily physical workouts, practice sessions, home projects actually getting done, dojo is back in full operation last two months so teaching is going steady, how the crap did I get anything done and work too?
If I only had as much disposable coin as I do time to control...:D
 
Daryl Jones said:
Feel for you Lola. It's hard when you get pulled in too many directions.
I find playing time has really increased since last spring. I'm in a better personal schedule and time allotment now so I manage to get in way more time than when I was working every day. And it's sooo much more productive.
I'm busy all day long, to the point where I'm sort of on the run. Daily physical workouts, practice sessions, home projects actually getting done, dojo is back in full operation last two months so teaching is going steady, how the crap did I get anything done and work too?
If I only had as much disposable coin as I do time to control...:D
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Those are the two buckets of the scale, time and money. They are most always at odds.
 
Lola said:
You definitely could replace football with MY Butter tarts. Everyone who has ever tasted MY Butter tarts said I should open a bakery. My husband and I actually toyed with the idea about buying a bakery. The onus for 100 % of things would be on my shoulders. I said I didn’t want to do it. We gave every aspect of the business a lot of attention and some serious thought. I love making stuff but only when I feel urge. I would eventually become miserable doing this everyday.
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Ok, I’ll play. What is a butter tart?
 
Lola said:
How do you personally maintain emotional and physical equilibrium in your life?
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With me it's mostly emotional, because due to a foot problem I have had to let the physical go to the back burner for awhile (which in turn increases emotional turmoil).

Emotional is hard. Mostly because there is always something "going wrong" lately. I haven't had a "normal" patch of life for a few years now. Best friend cancer, sister in law cancer, mother cancer (RIP), sick dog (RIP), my Lyme disease, my rotator cuff tear, wife aneurysm, now I'm having a foot issue... the new dog is limping and we don't know why yet (could be cancer)... not to mention alot of this happened during COVID which amplified it all.

I could really use JUST 3 MONTHS of nothing going wrong. Just 3 months. It doesn't seem like too much to ask, but apparently the universe disagrees...
 
tiboy said:
Agree, but let me add good health to the scale. Without good health all the time and money in the world becomes irrelevant. So take care of yourself first.
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Agreed. I had a big reminder of that this year. I have been trying to find a way to motivate myself to get out and do more, or at least get back to the gym.
 
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