Tried to update a week or so ago, but DevArt ate my nice long update.

Okay, all our stuff has been out of boxes for ages now. In fact, they tried to come and collect the boxes twice. My room, however, is a huge mess because it's so much smaller than my previous room which was always a mess anyway. I suppose it would help if I picked the quilt and blanket off the floor and arranged everything from there, but I can't be bothered.

Sisterling learned some random tune on a guitar in music last week sometime, then came home and wanted to try it out on our guitar. Said guitar hasn't been played since we arrived in the Netherlands and it's been locked up for a couple of years now. Obviously, it was pretty out of tune, so Mum tuned it, Sisterling tried out her little tune, I got out my old guitar books... One thing led to another and I'm actually playing the guitar again. As much as I hate it, I now understand Sisterling's compulsion to play her piano or violin all the time. Now I can't yell at her about it! It's not like I can play much, anyway. Just the basic chords. So I can play Waltzing Matilda, Botany Bay and several other pieces, including Blue Suede Shoes in three different keys.

I wanted to talk in my failed update a few weeks ago about my eyes... We found out in church a couple of weeks ago that I've inherited Dad's eye problem, and I can't see things properly from a distance. I forget if that's long or short sighted... I used to wear glasses for an entirely different reason (I used to read in bed under my covers, a silly thing to do; it made my eyes focus closer than they were supposed to) and I was given those before we left Australia eight/nine years ago. I only had to wear them when doing close-up stuff like reading, writing, drawing... I stopped a few years ago though, which is probably about the time my eyes turned to the other direction. I got my new glasses today, and (I can barely believe this...) I need them for practically everything! Watching the TV, just walking around... I expected having to wear them in the car, but even for the laptop?! The one thing I refuse to wear them for is general reading/writing/drawing stuff that I needed my last glasses for. I don't need them for that close-up work anyway.
I suppose from now on, you'll see me wearing glasses in my drawings. Maybe if I want to do another photo-profile of myself I'll wear them then.
Hmm, I haven't tried playing my guitar with the glasses yet, but I probably need them then too. Damn, I can see trouble doing the chords out of the corner of my eye...

~Foalie


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