Friday Afternoon Blues

Today I got the Friday afternoon blues, and I'm writing a song about it! I'm very excited, because it's happening quite easily, which is a good sign! I started playing guitar more since camp, especially because I haven't been at soccer or basketball for a few weeks, so I have way more energy than normal, which is really nice! I play piano every once in a while too, to the great chagrin of my brother and sister and niece. I lost my iPod recently, and the lack of constant music has maybe led to me being able to be a little more creative. I like it, kinda.

Ah.

Alas, it's been a long hard month of no blogging, but it reflects a long hard month of no creative action. I guess I'm like every other musician who says "YEAH!" but then writes "blah." I think my problems lie in two places:
1. I come home from work and I am too tired to write anything. Instead I have a drink and go to bed, or I go play soccer or basketball or do some other crazy thing. I guess my tiredness excuse doesn't work. I suppose I should say I'm too busy to write.
2. I have no formal music training. Therefore, I can't sit down and play cool music from my own head. I can only play guitar, and not very well at that. All the chords I know sound the same, and none of my four guitars is any better at inspiring me with the way it sounds when I play it than the next.
My solution for these two problems: practice. Wishful thinking, but it's the only way, I think.