It's been awhile.
This year's been a good one, one with lots of stories too numerous to relate to you here. There are a couple that come to mind seem adequate to blow the dust off of the cover of this blog.
I've begun piano lessons. I began taking them a little over a year ago, surprisingly I failed to mention them in my posts here. I love piano. The incredible beauty that is the ability to express emotion and ideas through your fingers on a keyboard never grows less astonishing to me. I've always felt a connection with music, but never as much as when it is my fingers playing the keys and my feet pushing the pedals. I'll share pictures, maybe even a video if I can work it out, of my piano playing.
School is going well. My classes are mostly electives, which makes for a breezy senior year experience. I am taking advanced photography with one of my favorite teachers, Miss Peery. I've learned so much from the ability to choose my own assignments and the feedback I receive from my class and Miss Peery. And the very nice Canons that I get to check out and take on adventures is not a luxury lost on me. In fact, I've printed four of my images professionally 11 by 14 at the extravagant cost of 20 dollars (thanks adoramapix, it was well worth it). One of them is framed and on my wall, and another is framed on my floor (I'm working on hanging it).
Now to the lost phones part of this post. As a very nice birthday gift, my friend took me to Lagoon, an amusement park north of Salt Lake City. Both of us lost our phones off the first ride of the day, a tame roller coaster built a loooong time ago. Her's was later recovered. Mine, however, suffered a more mysterious defeat. My phone automatically backs up photos taken to Google Drive, and about an hour after my phone's disappearance, a couple of girls who I don't know took some selfies on my phone. Google shows that my phone has been inactive since that day. Curious, eh?
Now I'm saving up for the new Moto X Pure. If there's anything life's got going for it, it's unpredictability. And baseball. And piano. Oh, and ... well, I guess life's pretty okay.
