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jimsal My Name(s):Jim, jimbo, jimy, juice...lol
Born on:Sept. 16th (Virgo)
My job: Dead-end factory job...lol
What I Should Be Doing: Recording Engineer, Playing in a band or solo performer, writing songs for famous people, writing more childrens' books or doing comic strips if not playing music
What I used to do: Everything you could possibly do in a Perkins restaurant, Assistant manager at Circle K, Jewelry/Watch repair @JCPenneys, and drummer in a rock band!
Dreams: to see the day when someone famous records one of my songs.....to make my own CD(s)
Loves: Family, animals, making all kinds of friends on the internet, and MUSIC!!!!!!!!  
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Friday, February 24, 2006
...Whoa! An Update!--lol!
Well, whatdaya know?--Jim has time to update!!
I have been quite busy this past week! I had to do the dentist thing today and all i can say is thank God for keyboards! Much better to type stuff out than trying to talk with your face half paralyzed from novocaine!--lol! I also had to run to the doctors for a small blood test...after that i had to upgrade to a larger storage unit to put alot of stuff in. You see, my mother-in-law is moving down here at the end of March and she is moving in with us...oh, and her dog Gabrielle...that will make 3 dogs in my small house....thank God again i don't have any kids...except for...well....the dogs. Now don't get me wrong, i get along with my mom-in-law great. Better than my wife...lol...so i have no problem with this..it's just making room because our house is small..her mom lives by herself and she is a very young 62 years old..she loves to do all kinds of stuff and is very easy to get along with! Diane was an only child(a sister passed away before di was born), and spent most of her life from 9 years old to 19 with only her mom. So they are very close and are all they got(well and me too). Diane has not had a holiday with her mom in 20 years! So it's a very good situation. So getting rid of stuff, cleaning out closets and the garage has been top on the list lately. I am also working on alot of music and a new song too...
I've also been at myspace alot lately, since i posted a couple of songs that i wrote. One is "Less", that was performed by someone else, and another, "Say Goodbye",which is a practice demo of me singing and playing the guitar. I have the music page as just me at the moment. I had talked to my wife about it and showed her what i had done so far, and she thought it was quite cool. My wife is an awesome singer and was the lead singer in a rock band i played drums for a ways back(that's kinda how we started going together).But when we moved to Florida, my job no longer allowed me the hours to perform in a band. But my wife's job didn't affect her chance to keep singing and she continued for quite awhile until "burnout" settled in. So for a few years now, she has been on a "performance hiatus".
So the reason I explained all that was because i all of a sudden had the idea that i wanted the two of US to get back together musically. It's been so long since we did this together and i missed it. Since i was never really a lead singer of any sort(my forte was harmonies), I realized alot of songs i wrote were probably intended for Diane to sing in the first place. So i'm planning on eventually changing my "solo" myspace page to a "duo" page instead, with the two of us. So, we chose the name of our little group to be "Duo-ver", as in "Do Over". In otherwords, all the bands we were ever in collectivly, always had all kinds of problems, musically and financially, break ups, etc....This time i told Diane we've waited long enough to get back together "musically". It's time to do this over! Thus, "Duo-ver" is born....lol! I have been recording some of my songs on tape just to get Diane started on learning the songs while my speakers are being fixed....yeah yeah yeah...the speakers are STILL being fixed...hope to have them this upcoming week. Then we'll get this ball rolling!!--so far my songs have had about 230 hits so far, with nothing but good comments. I appreciate all the kind words and positive feedback. When i get diane going, she'll be on there too...and it's about time cuz it's been a LONG time!!
Posted at 05:57 pm by jimsal
 |  |  | Name February 27, 2006 10:59 AM PST
Jim, this is fantastic news! I'll let Di sing on Saturday night at Bella Luna if you two can make it. |  |
  |  |  | jim February 25, 2006 06:38 PM PST
thanks kim and melisa!--Like kim, i have been spending alot of time at myspace with alot of musicians and enjoying all the great music of all these unsigned people!---i don't know how some of them are NOT signed!--there is really alot of unknown talent out there!!! |  |
  |  |  | Kim B February 25, 2006 05:22 PM PST
Jim, I think it's great that you and your wife are getting back to making music together!! My husband and I had the same situation...we were in a band together for many years, and he's also a drummer.
I didn't plan on being away from Blogdrive for so long, but I guess I enjoy spending time at My Space instead, with my musician peers. :-) There's much more interaction over there. |  |
  |  |  | ~*~ M ~*~ February 25, 2006 02:21 AM PST
WOW! Sounds like alot has been going on lately! I'm glad to see you did take a small amount of time out to update! Rawk On!
Glad your "music" life is going well!
I wish you the best at that!
I sure hope alot of the other bloggers come back to life!
God Bless You Jim! |  |
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