Exploring the Land of the Long White Cloud

All these years, I've been such a music addict but yet I can only claim fame to hot cross buns on the recorder and a very simple piano song as far as musical instrument talent. Well, not anymore! I've probably mentioned it but Dustin got me a ukulele for my birthday last year and thanks to ultimateguitar.com (yep they have tons of uke tunes!) I have a bundle of songs in my repertoire now. I keep being a bit shy to post any videos of me playing though. The great thing is it fits my hands perfectly (which was what kept me from learning guitar - my fingers just couldn't reach and I guess I didn't have the resolve to force them to!) and it works really well for lots of punk rock tunes. So, I don't have to learn new songs really, I just have to learn them on the uke. It's really handy to play things where I know the rhythms and words, it definitely makes it easier. I need lots of work on my strumming patterns as I seem to keep it at a simple down/up down/up. Ah w

I know that I don't pay enough attention to this blog but I wanted to let you know that I've started to blog on my business website so if you just need a fix, you can find me there too now!  www.assistia.nz My arms can barely hold my hands to type properly because I've just had a full on personal training session tonight. Getting prepared for adding a specialisation to my Zumba training! There's a class that has started at the local girls high school so I'll be part of a team of us leading that class. It just started last week so we've done two now and had about 40 girls attend each one! They seem to have lots of fun. I have done my first song for the usual classes I attend! Only a couple times but I am able to ask to add it to the playlists at any time so I just need to start asking more! I am starting to practice another couple of songs too! I should really be taking my phone with me on my morning Porter walks because Mt Taranaki has been stunning lately

Well it's not summer here that's for sure! At the moment, Porter and I are curled up under a blanket on the couch and the wind is gusting outside in the single digits! But I realize most of you still have about half the summer left to go. So, get in the sun, and crank this song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbMoEM99Dn8 Sorry, I can't embed it because it doesn't come up when I search within blogger's video tool! :(