It’s the end of Christmas Day and I must say it was a great day. I enjoyed spending time with my wife and my housecat. I just listened to music ,worked on music on my new music device I received for Christmas, and all around just relaxed. I’m off work until 1/5/26, so I’m looking forward to more days like this upcoming. I need to upload some more music to Distrokid and write some lyrics to some beats I’ve been working on. I have absolutely zero aspirations to be “in the industry”. I just enjoy music and hip hop in particular. Hip hop is a lifestyle and making beats, DJing, and rhyming are just a part of it.
I got the Roland P-6 from Santa this year for Christmas, and its a neat little device. I’m looking forward to learning to use it more and more, but I’ve already figured out the workflow on it, as its very similar to the Roland 404 mk2. It’s lithium battery powered and much more portable than the 404 mk2, so I’m hoping I can take it to work with me and work on some music on my lunch breaks or breaks in general. We’ll see how that goes, but that’s the idea at this point.
I wish we had more family here that we could have hung out with though. We used to go to my wife’s mom’s house where she lived with my wife’s sister. We would exchange gifts and eat a nice dinner and just hang out. Those days are gone, because both of them have passed away in recent years. It really sucks, because I realize now that I didn’t truly appreciate those times for what they were. They weren’t judgmental like my family or negative, they were good people who just wanted to be around family for the holidays. I really squandered that opportunity for a while, although in recent years I kind of lightened up and took my shoes off and enjoyed spending time with them.
I want to be able to get my wife and I closer to her daughter and grandson, so we can be more of a family and enjoy time with each other. I want us to create our own memories and always have them to look back on ya know? Hopefully that will happen in the near future and we’ll be able to have family nearby that we can go spend time with and hang out with. I want to teach my step-grandson how to make music and see if it’s something he’d be interested in. I want to show him what IT work is like to see if he’d be interested in that. He’s a smart kid, and the world is his oyster right now. He can build himself up to be whatever he wants to be right now. I’m sure his mom is aware of that, but I’d like to be there just to re-iterate it.
Anyways, have a Merry Christmas leading into the New Year. I hope you got some cool toys and that you got to spend time with loved ones, even if it’s only a hamster or goldfish. Enjoy your life to the fullest and always appreciate the small things. L8z!