Yes, Ken, it’s been a while!! (since I’ve blogged!) …..a lot has happened….many things I can’t even discuss, but…..there is always a purpose, there’s always a plan and it’s all going to be okay. (can ya tell I’ve been praying…A LOT!!??) J Always a good thing in my opinion.

Question of the day: When was the point that your parent (my mom in this case) becomes the child and you become the parent??

For goodness sake, my mother…who is uber talented (I really don’t like that word “uber”…ah well it fits.) is working with me musically…she’s just the best!! Seriously!! So, I have this P&W song that I sang at church and we are doing a DEMO. So, I have the chords there, the bass line….minimal, but there….and I just need her amazing piano playing…she did this really cool thing at church and I LOVED it and wanted her to do that riff. Has she done it??? NO!!! “I haven’t had time, I’m not sure what to do with the MIDI….” Whine, whine, whine!! Come on mom! I’ve set it all up for you and all you have to do is press record and play. If ya mess up, you can do it again!! My technical mother who’s a wiz at computers…..you have NO idea!! I think, she’s rebelling!! All of those years of me rebelling and not wanting to do what she wanted….i.e. become a concert pianist…is coming around to bite me on the butt!! (oops! I typed out “butt”…note to all children…let’s say…”bottom.”) Okay!! Anyway, I was helping Marejohn out on Sunday and had to sit with mom at the piano. I was watching the music just flow out of mom’s fingers….all without sheet music mind you…and was just amazed!! I told mom later, “You have NO idea how talented you are, do you?” To which she brushed it off and said, “It’s just years of playing with Marejohn and such.” MOM, H-E-L-L-O!!! God has given you a MAGNIFICENT gift, admit it!!! J

Ya know I come from a musical family! On both sides!! But, my mom’s side is more “forward” about it! I had a music minister on my dad’s side…awesome baritone and I think EVERY family member on my mom’s side is musical!! My cousin Tony…percussionist with the Austin symphony, Debbie who has THE MOST GORGEOUS VOICE!! (You think I sound angelic…..Debbie’s voice is just breath-taking!!) I told her to put her group’s album on CD Baby at Christmastime. Debbie, I need to call ya and follow up on that!! In fact the 2 people I most wanted to sing like was Debbie and Marejohn!!

Anywho, Mom, stop rebelling and play your God-given gift!! The world NEEDS to hear!!!! J

Random Moment of the Day: Ya know I REALLY love the Disney commercial ‘Shhh, are you sleeping?” that’s playing on TV right now…it just makes me smile! It’s the one where the little brother goes into his sister’s room anticipating their trip to Disney and their mom comes in and says, “Okay, guys back to sleep.” And the little boy is SOOOOOO cute. I LOVE the way he says, “We’re too excited to sleep!” It almost makes me want kids….. J Okay fine I’ll probably have 1 one day, just not ANY TIME soon! ARG!!

 Okay, Tim messaged me the other day (from Radio Gets Wild) and told me about a jigsaw puzzle of indie female artists. I thought…cool! So I downloaded it and it’s really neat. Tim, you did good!  (The misuse of grammar was on purpose, Dr. English!)   There are other puzzles to, not just us, but if ya want a link? Here is it:

http://www.radiogetswild.com/Downloads/details/id=222.html

PS – It took my mom a couple of hours to finish it…including the time it took her to figure out to program. (hint, you can choose to have a light “ghost” copy of it in the background for the pieces to match) I thought that was pretty fast! Mom’s getting more “techie” than I am…which is V-E-R-Y scary!  

Adam!!! France first? THEN London??!!!  Okay!!  

Ya know it’s SO late….and I’m a nut for blogging right now! But, something cool happened a couple of nights ago! I got in late Friday night and was about to go to bed when my phone rang. I was going to let the voice mail get it and crawl into bed, but I thought…oh well…I’ll answer. It was Adam…in Orlando, Florida!!! So of course I was going to answer!!!

He said: “You will NOT believe what just happened!”

I said: “…uh…okay.” Thinking, “…man this better be good!”

He said: “Okay, so all of my family is over for my sister and brother-in-law’s birthday, right?

I said: “….okay….”

He said: “And Krissy asks, ‘So what kind of music does Karmyn sing?’ and I said well you know smooth jazz…traditional pop style….actually….it sound like this song on the radio….wait…..that really does sound like her song……WAIT…..it IS her song….I swear that’s Karmyn on the radio!! Then we hear the DJ say, ‘That was former Miss Louisiana, Karmyn Tyler singing Dancing in the Dark/Night & Day’ and we all freaked-out!!!!!!!!”

I said: “OOOHHH MY GAAAAW!!! No way!!

He said: “…uh YEAH!! That’s like the biggest jazz station in Orlando!!”

Needless to say I woke-up with my third wind of the evening! It was wild! After I got off the phone WHO did I wake-up and tell? MOM!! She was excited…but was more excited the next day when she asked me to repeat the story again and then really realized what I HAD said. I honestly thought….“Thank you God!!!”

Okay now, I’m off to bed!

PS – Tom, Kenny….I’m working on it!!! XXOOXXOO

PSS – Mom, I’ll fix the grammar later…for goodness sake!!!

I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was invited to speak at my old college stomp, Centenary College. It was at what we music majors call, R&R or Recital Hour. I was always curious as to why it had 2 “R’s.” Was it for Reading and Recital? Hmmm…I asked once and that was the response. Well, I spoke on what it’s like being an unsigned “indie” artist and all of the info I wish I had known at their age!  I was impressed at how many students were there! I think there was a head count of around 60. I know that when I was there, most of us skipped out on R&R. He had a certain number that we HAD to attend for credit, but skipped out on as many as possible. We were good students…just busy with other things…like watching movies, and…such!   (I’m not sure if I would have come to see…me…) ANYWAY, it seemed to have gone well! Thank you SO much to Dr. Smith for inviting me! Jen you’re an angel for suggesting it…and for introducing me!! I was a bit nervous about your intro, though! We’ve been best friends forever and you know E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G people would love to know about me…so shhhhhhhhhh!! Mums the word! Right?  You did great! And thank you to the students for being so receptive and good questions! (With what little time I had left for it…sorry, I’m a talker!) Even “Mr. Whistle-man’s” question!! I would have asked that! (You know who you are!)  And Dr. English!! You STILL look fantastic!! All the girls had a crush on him when I was there!  He looks just like Sean Connery AND he’s a fantastic vocalist and actor! Oye! You have it all!! (Thank you for your advice!) And Jen & Tom (a.k.a. Dr. & Mrs. Stone…same Jen as mentioned above.) I’m paying for dinner next time!!! ARG!!!!!!!!!!! Hugs and Kisses! See you Saturday!!

Random: Thank you Eban (with Reaching for Lucidity #140) for the…wow what’s the word…“strange?”… no…“hairy?” … no “scary?” …yeah, maybe…“scary” mental image of George Clooney!  Yikes! I only HOPE everyone was drunk!  And thank you for the play in #141! You STILL rock!!