record a cd

I really thought I could get this done before the end of the year. Time is a serious issue for me lately, especially as I have comitted myself to sleeping more. It’s like I have lost 4-5 hours of productivity every day by sleeping a sane and normal amount of time. Oh well. It will get done when it’s done.

Lunch hour yesterday I was able to see my friend Maria, she is helping me with my Mama Songs CD and has finished her tracks. I thought she just wanted to hear me listen to some samples but she was done! blew me away, I like both songs, she is awesome. Her kids were both in school so I didn’t get a chance to see them. She bitched alot about her job and lack of funds which I totally relate to, so we commiserated a while on being broke struggling creative mamas. I said Seriously we have got to break out of being perpetually broke. She said word, let’s make some ends with this CD. It’s cool doing biz with her because unlike some of my other artsy creative friends she does not think money is an evil in and of itself or that we would be ‘selling out’ when we make some money.

The hardest part to me was setting my songs to music. Most of my songs I had already made as they are songs I made up for my children throughout the years, so I didn’t have to spend much time fleshing them out. But I am not very music/instrument-oriented so that was hard. My daughter, who is 16 and plays guitar, helped me out a lot and so did some of my friends. I wanted to have this done in time for the holidays but now I don’t know.
Mama Songs