{"id":114142,"date":"2014-01-07T22:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T03:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114142\/not-a-happy-new-year-yet\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T03:09:42","slug":"not-a-happy-new-year-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114142\/not-a-happy-new-year-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"not a Happy new year (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">just about a week into the new year&#8230;still just lurking on Facebook, only ONE person has asked about me&#8230;that kinda hurts&#8230;maybe when it comes to love or friendship, I&#8217;m more of a &#8220;taker&#8221; than a &#8220;giver&#8221;&#8230;that is possible I suppose&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I haven&#8217;t touched a guitar since the gig with SLR&#8230;.Lou is talking about going back out soon; I could just as easily skip it&#8230;but for his sake, I&#8217;ll go&#8230;That&#8217;s what friends do, right? As for SLR, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">we<\/span> have a gig coming up, feelin&#8217; very ambivalent about it&#8230;I assume we&#8217;ll get paid&#8211;I can always use some money&#8230;So now even gigs with SLR are about the money&#8211;I never ever thought it would come to that, but for right NOW&#8211;it has&#8230;What I WANT to do&#8211;play electric guitar in a working band&#8211;is not happening&#8230;*I* dunno why, maybe one of my &#8220;friends&#8221; does&#8230;If the SLR gig fell thru, I wouldn&#8217;t cry&#8230;but I&#8217;d miss the money&#8230;that&#8217;s pathetic&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Such is Life&#8211;it currently sucks&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">THE NEXT DAY&#8211;it may be getting slightly better&#8230;I&#8217;ll let ya know for sure when I get back from work&#8230;as of now I have (maybe) $3 in my pocket but on the bright side, tonight&#8217;s dinner (mac and cheese) is already made, I have enuff money to get to work and back, and I THINK the paycheck is already at the workplace&#8230;IF things are getting better, I&#8217;ll be happy&#8230;and grateful&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">WEDNESDAY EVENING&#8211;so I got the paycheck a day early&#8230;it&#8217;s probably the biggest one I&#8217;ve gotten since I started working for my &#8220;friend&#8221; Andy&#8230;I&#8217;ll be at the Bank when it opens&#8230;after that I&#8217;ll be going to Safeway&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">SLR wants to talk to me about practice and stuff&#8230;How can I possibly explain to her that making Music, even with her, doesn&#8217;t interest me right now&#8230;I think that would kill her&#8230;I KNOW I&#8217;m holding her back, and I think deep down she knows it too&#8230;(sigh)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Life is&#8230;okay&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just about a week into the new year&#8230;still just lurking on Facebook, only ONE person has asked about me&#8230;that kinda hurts&#8230;maybe when it comes to love or friendship, I&#8217;m more of a &#8220;taker&#8221; than a &#8220;giver&#8221;&#8230;that is possible I suppose&#8230; I haven&#8217;t touched a guitar since the gig with SLR&#8230;.Lou is talking about going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}