wyld_dandelyon | Life's Been Chaotic, but there's Music!

So, I did FAWM. For some reason, words were being hard, so a number of times when I stared at the blank page for too long I switched tactics, and started noodling on one or another instrument and started recording a backing track, which usually eventually led to writing lyrics. But it was always a slow process. On the 27th, I did song #13 and #14, and headed to bed. (And those were two songs because the backing track led to words that just didn't go with it, so I had an instrumental and a song with words.

Then, the next day, suddenly my brain work up and I got 6 more songs between when I went to sleep and when the site closed. WTF brain?

I didn't manage to post here or set up a card draw. I didn't manage to get seedlings started for the garden. I did manage to pick up a fish tank with "Pleeky the Plecko" from someone in the neighborhood who had a dispute with his landlord and needed to rehome the fish. I did get my health insurance straightened out, but it'll be more expensive than the plan that claimed to cover MCW but did not, in fact, cover my MCW doc. I got my poor cat an appointment for surgery and yesterday she got the mass on her neck removed.

And then last night and this morning, I somehow got two short albums up on Bandcamp in time for Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp doesn't take their usual fee out of payments made to the musicians.

The longer, more filky one is here: https://wylddandelyon.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-dreamside

And the shorter one is here: https://wylddandelyon.bandcamp.com/album/make-a-fuss

I'll be putting the proceeds toward paying off the cat surgery. (That makes three cat surgeries in less than a year--Ri's eye enucleation and neutering; Keigan's spaying; and Donnflaith's mass removal. No more, please, oh universe!). ((If you want to donate toward cat surgery without buying music, the paypal.me/DeirdreMMurphy link is still working. Please put cat surgery in the notes if you do.))

I got a thingy designed to block noise to stand in for the horrible cone or onsie that cats usually get to wear after surgery, since the placement on her neck meant neither of the other items would cover the surgical site. Of course, she's not wearing it over her ears, just around her neck, but it is doing the job I bought it for, so I'm pleased.

When she's less freaked out, I'll get a picture of her wearing it.

And after I pay bills, I will schedule some actual recordings to post in the future over at my Patreon, at least some of the ones on Bandcamp (to people at the designated get-music reward level) and some of the other stuff too.

One of my frustrations was that Bandcamp won't accept visual files that are "too small" or "too large", so I made some cover art for the songs that I couldn't use. I'll use them on Patreon, though, since I am continuing to post lyrics publicly there, but the actual MP3s will be for members only. Having some art from pictures that were too small to make Bandcamp-acceptable art will let me not repeat the art in my posts there.

Well, I hope to see you here again soon, and to have energy and focus enough to do the promised card draw.