I suppose I actually need to pick up the guitar to get started...

... I'm frankly, having trouble doing that.  Playing the guitar sort of gives me some painful thoughts right now so, yeah, I'm trying to work through it.  If I ever get some time alone (who knows when that will be) I'll push myself to do it.  WHY IS IT SO HARD?  NOT FAIR!

Pushing myself on the "Interwebs"

This blog is pretty much just a way for me to push myself a little bit to keep working on learning to play the guitar and sing.  I have several challenges:

I don't have a lot of time.  Especially time alone, which is what I'm really more comfortable with when I'm fiddling around on the guitar.  (Let's face it, at this point in time, "fiddling" is what I'm doing).

I have a lot of other endeavors that I'm trying to juggle as well.  It's a fault of mine.  I get all of these ideas and I just can't give any one of them my complete focus.  I just get to bored that way.  Sigh.

I have no one who is actively encouraging me.  I know a few other folks who are trying to learn guitar and I try to ask them how it's going because it puts a little friendly pressure on them to keep at it.  I don't have anyone really checking in with me on my progress.

So, the main purpose of this blog is to maybe give myself some incentive to keep at it.  Just knowing that this blog is out there in the cyber world (whether anyone ever looks at it or not) keeps some pressure on me to keep working on what I said I would do:  Learn to sing and play guitar.

I'm not sure how often I'll actually post here, but I intend to try to post every week or so, even if it's just a little blip about whether I even picked up the guitar or not.

Anyway, that's it for the blog opener.

If you read this, then I thank you!

JJSB