Posted on October 22, 2009
Sometimes I feel like I totally go off course and that I’ve been off course for a long time. Thank God I am writing these blogs because it just proves to me that my little detours have only been for short periods as opposed to lifetimes. I have so many things that I want to accomplish that I am not finding the time for and also getting held up in road blocks. A couple of days ago I talked about not being able to actually upload my video content and not really knowing how to insert video from other sites…videos that I really liked and would recommend seeing. So I need to give myself a little pat on the back for actually getting that help that I needed to be able to move forward.
I have got to admit that that road block also transferred to my exercise time and my practice. Its been about a week and half since I have a really good workout, a really good singing practice, and a guitar practice. I wonder if the crazy weather attributed to it. I know that the traffic to the city has been wearing me out, so I have made a point to try and take the train a couple of time per week. It is so much better for me stress wise. I am not freaking out in traffic for and hour and half to go a distance that would regularly take me 20 minutes if there was no traffic at all. AAAArrrggg! It is so frustrating.
For a moment, my mind veared away from my singing and thoughts of another passion of mine, helping and motivating other women to live their dreams too, creeped in and took over for while. I am formulating my plans to share with other women business owners how to utitlize the internet to take their dream business to the next level, especially mom’s, who feel like there is not enough time in the day for themselves nor their dreams. I am going to keep developing on that plan but stay the course as far as my plans for my music career.
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Posted on October 20, 2009
Ok. Nichole Ayanna here. I disappeared again for about a week again. I feel like I am really back on track though. I had a lot of things to think about over the past week that I think, really took up my creative space.
I finally got some more training on actually doing my website. There was a little learning curve…a little hurdle that I had to get over. I couldn’t figure out how in the world to get my videos loaded into the website. I thought I knew how to do it, but I was sooooo wrong. I also needed to figure out how to load my Amazon.com recommendations. This way I can share with you my favorite books, music, and other great trinkets,like the Flip video camera. I got mine from Amazon at a great price and I love, so why not pass that bit of information on to you. I also couldn’t figure out why, when you clicked over into my CDbaby.com website, that it did not allow my visitors to buy and download each song from my the Nik-Tash’Ta CD individually. Finally, after about a month after I sent a “help me” email to CDBaby.com they responded, and told me what was wrong. I had included our publishing company as the publisher of one the songs that we did on the album that was a remake. I had to upload the correct publisher for the downloads to work properly.
That was a lot, right? There are so many things that go into operating this website. You’ve gotta remember, we just launched ion July, so this is all fairly new to me. But, stay with me as I grow it and it becomes more full of wondreful music and videos, and other things that I love. Let me know what you would like to see more of on my website. I know I need to get the videos up. As you see, that’s what I’ve been working on… More music and more photos are coming too…anything else?
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Posted on September 12, 2009
Today was such a beautiful day that I packed up my baby girl and brought along my sister Natasha for nice get away to Santa Monica. We walked along the Santa Monica Promenade and had a great time people watching and enjoying all of the street musicians out there. Lailah was mesmerized by this one guy out there that could play the heck out of the drums. I have never seen a drummer…just a drummer, as a street musician, but this guys was ridiculously awesome…just off the chain. Baby girl just had to get her dance on! It was so hilarious watching her bob her head and dance around to the drumming…my baby got rhythm already!this was a day that she was fascinated by so many things. There was another street musician that played the guitar and sang. She just recently has been picking on my guitar at home…so when this guy was finished with his set, she just had to go and strum on his guitar a bit. He was nice enough to let her do it. Can you imagine this little baby walking up to you to you like “can I play your guitar?” First off, I am sure he was surprised she was walking ’cause she’s so little…only stands about 28′ tall. Then she’s pointing like crazy at the guitar, then she actually can strum it a bit. Could this rant of admiration over my baby girl be just her Mommy’s adoration? Naaahhh…she really is an amazing baby.
We then walked over to Santa Monica Pier, which was awesome. I thought, no wonder tourist come from all over the world to Los Angeles, as I overheard a couple speaking a language that I totally did not recognize, eventhough I think I am rather worldly and am familiar with a number of languages. I couldn’t even tell you what it sounded like. We walked along the pier to make our way to the ice cream stand and enjoy some great frozen yogurt. Then Lailah took her first carisalle ride. It was like a mini-vacation for the just the day.
When we came back home I played the guitar a bit (not really that good…yet) and sang, while Lailah danced and sang. I think I have another little music fanatic in the family…
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