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Day Two Hundred Twenty One (Year Six)

Tonight was interesting.  It basically involved reintroducing myself to everything I had started working on in January.  When FAWM started on the 1st of February, I told myself what I always tell myself, which is that I will make progress on the project while still finding time to work on all of the things I had started in January.  And then reality kicks in, and I find myself working on nothing but the new project, while the rest of it gets put on hold for a month.

And so tonight, my only goal was to sit down and get back in touch with the things I had been looking at a month ago.  I got out my list of things I hope to finish this year, and that helped to put me in the right mindset.  Then I started going through a few of the piles that had gathered up in the last month, and that was where I really found the heart of what I had been working on. 

Things are uncovered now.  Dusted off, if you will.  And the progress is ready to resume.  I'm happy that the first two months of the year yielded progress on two of the three recording projects that are on my list for 2016.  Both the EP, and definitely the power pop record, are in better shape than they were on January 1.  Now it's time to get back to some of the other things on my list, and also time to do a bit of recording and lyric writing.
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