An Awesome Weekend!

Hello!

So I tried to make a video blog to post here instead of just typing up a blog entry, but it didn't load. (Boy I sound lazy eh?) So here I go typing!

This weekend was AWESOME! A lot of things happened this weekend!

So friday, I got my new digital grand piano! Which I am super excited about! You know how they say to physically write down your plans & goals on paper for both short term and long term? Well a while back, I did that. I made a list of things I wanted and planned to get within the nearby (short-term) future. I put the 3 things on a stickie note on my macbook pro's desktop so every time I opened my laptop I would see the stickie and read it every time.

The 3 things on the note were:

1. Alexis USB Sound Board with 4 Inputs - $149.99
2. Yamaha Arius YDP140 Digital Piano - $1,039.99
3. 2010 Audi S4 $45,900

Now I don't know the exact percentage, but I remember reading that the percentage of all americans, if not, everyone in the world is very low when talking about people who physically write down their goals. The small percentage that do write down their goals are most likely to achieve those goals.

The first item on the list is a sound board or a mixer. I already have one exactly like it, but the USB piece of the board broke and doesn't work in the sense that I can't plug it into my macbook or computer like I want. So I need a new one to make recording A WHOLE LOT easier. I plan to get this hopefully within the next month or two.

The second item I wanted because it was the exact same digital piano I used in one of my music classes over at CSULA and I LOVED the way it sounded. I even brought my then working sound board to record inside the actual class during the class and also loved the way it sounded when recorded! So I made that specific choice.

And of course, who wouldn't agree how just flat out sexy audis are???

So a week ago I got a letter from the Pasadena City College saying that they were having a piano and being that I was a local musician I had the option of making a private appointment before the public sale to get first priority on the pianos that they have. Among the many pianos they had were digital pianos! So that night after receiving the letter I called to make an appointment. Instead of getting a used digital grand piano for a used price, I ended up getting a brand new digital grand piano for a used price! You see, the school (PCC), at the time of ordering, they had ordered one or two extra and in turn, never used. Upon arriving at my appointment time this past Friday, I viewed a used one. The lady showing the piano to my mother and I, said that it was sold and was unavailable. Even so, I sat down at the piano bench, turned the piano on, and started playing just to see how it would feel and sound. The showroom lady again stated that it was sold and was unavailable. I pulled out my headphones which I had brought, plugged them in & put them on, and continued playing. She stuttered to make the statement again but was quick to stop herself by stating that she would go check in the back to see if they have any more. So she did, and when she returned she came back with the sweetest news ever. They had one more left and it was still boxed up, brand new! I asked if we would still get the used price of $1,250.00 for this new piano. She said "Yessss! Of courseee for youu!" in a chinese accent. So I went home happy :)

I was shocked that I had gotten my digital grand. I thought of that list I made. Y'see I have been making money selling things on ebay ($850 in the past 4 weeks) and I will soon be getting a job building a friend's website for $500. Add that up, and it gets my digital grand piano! So WRITE YOUR GOALS DOWN EVEN IF THEY ARE BIG ONES. You never know how you will achieve that goal, but just by writing your goals down, you are one step closer to achieving it! ..just how I achieved my big goal of getting my digital grand piano to record my music.

With the sound board, like I said, I will probably getting it within the next two months easing my recording processes. And I have no doubt that my Audi S4 is coming soon.

Friday evening, I went to my usual friday night rehearsal for the youth praise band that I run.
Saturday morning I went to church and came back around 2ish?
Saturday evening I went to my church's Valentine Social which is basically a semi-formal dinner with live entertainment. The entertainment was the Michael McDaniel's Jazz Quartet. It was interesting for me to see the jazz band and to hear a different style of music I am not used to listening to. It's always a benefit to listen to a broad range of music genres and appreciate them. So that was nice. But I must say, this Valentines was quite lonely without a date! heeheehee...

Sunday morning I woke up early to clean the WHOLE house for my BBQ! I also transformed my garage into a music recording studio having drums, my new digital grand, speakers, my recording computers, bass amps.... Just the whole works! We had the BBQ. Some friends came over and it was awesome!

Sunday night 4 guys slept over and we had a blast! Everything from making crazy videos to wrestling, to... more crazy videos! We woke up this morning, had breakfast, made some more crazy videos, and did some more wrestling. We went to a chinese buffet for lunch and got some boba. Came back. Tried to make some fun, silly music recordings but failed miserably and the guys left. I then had to transform my garage back into a garage for I wouldn't have time tomorrow while I'll be at school from 8am to just over 8pm... A tiring but CRAZY FUN weekend.

So lesson I guess is to WRITE YOUR GOALS DOWN AND PUT THEM IN A PLACE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE AND READ EVERYDAY!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, Valentine's Day, and President's Day! Have an awesome week!

-Aaron