Jammin' and Snappin'

Since it’s summer, I’ve been picking up some hobbies that have collected dust over the years. Nothing new, just those activities I used to love, but got tossed aside due to the hectic combination of running, school, and fulfilling basic needs that tag along with living with five other girls in a college town apartment. The two hobbies I have been embracing this summer are guitar and photography.

Relearning guitar was at first painful, with my baby soft fingertips. But after a month or so I’ve developed some pretty rad calluses that help extend my playing periods from what used to be two minutes, to two hours a day now! You’d think I’d have a couple songs down at that rate, but my other problem is song ADD. I can’t seem to perfect a whole song and get real smooth at it before dreaming up a different one I want to rock out to. It also doesn’t help that I am constantly listening to a playlist of 88 AMAZING songs on my iPod and want to try to play them all, so I can’t focus on the task at hand. So far, I can play most of Flume by Bon Iver, some of Wonderwall by Oasis, the intro to Naked as We Came by Iron and Wine, and a few others. Sadly, I left my capo in Santa Barbara, but I found a pretty nifty solution:

Photography is also quite a task. I was hoping to learn some tricks and skills from my older brother when I was visiting him in Portland two weeks ago, but time flew by a bit too fast and we didn’t get around to a real photography lesson. He did shield the sun from my lens while I was taking a picture of Multnomah Falls though! What a pal =)   

What am I listening to right now? Thumbing My Way by Pearl Jam. Ahhh so good!