Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet (6)

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Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet (5)

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Weight Loss 2009 International Press Release

Attention: World
Time: 7:03 PM, Tuesday January 27th 2009.
Location: The Bowels of Humiliation
Announcement:
I could feel the bottom of the barrel with the tips of my big toes on the night I initially set up my Wii Fit character. You are put through a series of questions and skills tests to determine your weight and level of fitness. The program, when asking me to stand on the board for the first time, quickly chided me by saying that only one person could and should be on the board at a time. It then splashed the word "Obese" across the screen for all to see. I knew that all had seen it when my oldest son burst into fits of uncontrolled, lose the use of your legs, gasp on the ground for air, laughter! No use of the car for him when he turns sixteen! Finally, to add visual insult to emotional injury, the Wii fit promptly inflated my little innocent Wii Character to whale like proportions. That little guy couldn't touch his toes if a ham sandwich was sitting on them! All he can do now is waddle and lumber after the rest of the Wii characters before sitting down next to a Wii Tree to wheeze loudly like a 3-pack a day smoker.

We are starting WEIGHT LOSS 2009
Slogan: Think of my fat little Wii character!
Current Weight: Too embarrassed to disclose
Goal Weight: 215 lbs (that's right.... stop laughing... you would try to lose weight too if you had seen the alligator tears rolling down the swollen cheeks of my chunky Wii character as he tried to stand up to be picked for a Wii fit balance game. So Sad!
Procedure: smaller portions, less eating after 10:00pm or from the stashes in the closet or under the bed, weekly humiliations... I mean weigh-ins, exercise.... I don't mean JUST getting out of the bed to pee in the middle of the night, extra exercise.

I will post the weekly results (if they are positive) on this blog.

Wait..... it may be time for dinner? See ya!

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Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet (4)

Still more from the closet! A Lakland bass and a Les Paul guitar fell out while I was sweeping.

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news and notes

Saturday
Went with son to bass lessons, cut pictures of electric bass ads out of NAMM mags while I waited for him to finish!

Cleaned and vacuumed van with oldest son.

Went with family to open house for new Draper lds temple, Temple was beautiful but very warm, kid threw up in front of us half way through the temple, near sealing rooms, crowded - nose to nose, waited forever for bus to take us back to car. Family enjoyed the open house!

Family went to Red Robin for dinner - I had the blue ribbon burger without tomato or onion

Got kids to bed and played hearts with neighbors - I shot the moon with the first hand then got killed the rest of the game. I left wearing just a sock - in the pouring rain - strange because we weren't playing strip hearts! I really don't remember much after doing the third belly shot off the neighbor's cat. What in the world is in my teeth?

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Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet (3)

Self explanatory at this point I do believe. If you are confused - see related posts then turn off computer, take a little white pain pill and lay down, the spinning will soon stop.

Opps.... Sorry, wrong closet!

Back inside girls......

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Quip's Corner - Little Yellow Panties

Here you are Richard, my twisted play on the "yellow pansies" post in August. Since we both have always read it as panties anyway. Female and parental criticism may begin forthwith.

Little yellow panties
Little yellow panties dropped on the floor. Discarded and forgotten, kicked aside into yesterday’s laundry. On a nearby cushion, a girl nests, chin raised, shoulders back, quivering from laughter. A silver flip phone pressed to her ear, hidden by cascading waves of damp blond curls. She squeals and wiggles her burgundy tipped toes as she shares a juicy rumor between girls. A crisp pink cotton towel is wrapped loosely across a buxom chest and under cream colored forearms. It drapes down across a bare lower back, providing little cover, the ends flapping open and closed as the girl leans forward to dab at one last naked toenail. A sea of pinup posters blaze across bedroom walls, wolf eyed movie stars and lip syncing crooners flex and leer. A queen-sized canopy of pale violet ruffles cover mounds of stuffed pillows and a community of portly bears dressed for a slumber party. Wild royal blue and gold pom-poms, still weary from the big game, sit limply in a heap upon the surface of the dresser amongst tiny snow white porcelain figurines of ballerinas in repose. A stereo the size of a credit card spews throbbing electronic drivel into space, each artist mimicking the previous. The girl snaps the phone closed and drops it to the floor. In an elaborate pirouette, she rises from the cushion. Allowing the towel to spin and fall from its protective perch, she shudders as the cool air assaults her exposed skin. Without hesitation, she dashes for the closet, slowing just enough to snag the little yellow panties with a pinky finger. She can feel her heart begin to race in anticipation. He will be here in less then an hour!

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Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet (2)

I continue to blow off the dust from the closet. Here are a few more!!!!

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Aaron's Fantasy Bass and Guitar Closet

I will start posting pictures from my fantasy bass and guitar closet. These are instruments from my fantasy collection. I hope you enjoy the fantasy as much as I do.

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Air, where is the air?

It has been so long since I looked at my blog, I couldn't remember my password.

I was able to reset it without calling Richard. I am fairly proud of myself!

I wilted, as delicately as a 300 lb can wilt, into the couch this afternoon, still decorated with snowpants, multiple layers of socks, boots, long johns and garments (which had been on strapped to this delicate physique since yesterday morning - what a smell), long sleeve shirt and coat.
I have returned from attempted suicide (overnight snow shoeing scout activity). I have not be able to catch my breath for 18 hours. I waddled up to the cabin approximately an hour and twenty minutes after the first scouts and leaders had arrived yesterday afternoon. (we all started together) I spent more time bent over gasping for air and staring at my shoes then looking down the "trail". It averaged about every six steps, depending in the attempted incline. I now remember that I am a musician's son. Why hadn't someone reminded me at 12:30 PM Friday morning when I was at walmart trying on snow pants over my jeans, while sitting in the isle way because no one was manning the "try on the clothes booth" thingies. The worst part was the three pair that were too small to go over my hips but also refused to come off my calves. Someone certainly must have wondered why a large bald man was losing a wrestling match on the floor of walmart with pairs of black and bright blue bib snow pants. I eventually won every match, but the pants got fairly dirty from rolling on the floor.

I am home now.

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Employee spotlight questionaire

I was asked at my place of work to fill out a questionaire about myself. I probably overdid it with detail but thats how I did it. I submit it here as well since it did take me twenty minutes to fill it out. That type of committment should not be kept under wraps. Any and all inaccuracies are completely my doing, my fault and responsibility, probably done to inflate my sense of self worth and none of your business. No small animals were in any way hurt during the completion of this questionaire or during the posting to this blog......I think?

Personal Information:
WORK:
I grew up in a home where the parents were owners of a small music publishing company. I worked doing various jobs in the company from 10 years of age through college. (I still try to pick up extra cash now and then by doing odd jobs for the company) I answered phones, took phone and walk in sales, picked and shipped orders, managed the warehouse, provided customer service support, cleaned, built shelving, and working in the production department doing music engraving on the computer. I then spent two years visiting with the wonderful people of Belo Horizonte Brazil, where I learned a little portuguese. I returned home and took a job in video duplication and production. I also began installing cultured marble for bathrooms. From there I was hired as a part-time teller and was asked to be part of the team that opened the Pleasant Grove Branch of Bank of American Fork. I went from part time teller to full time teller, new accounts and collections. I then escaped banking for two years and worked in the guest service department of the Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas as a bell man. From there I took a job as a Commercial loan officer, managing a small loan team, with the commercial banking side of Washington Mutual. I left Washington Mutual to come to Family First Federal Credit Union about 4 and a half years ago to help create and develop our business lending department. I have enjoyed every minute of it and hope to finish my career here with the great people at FFFCU! Gulp….breath….phew…

PERSONAL:
I was born on September 8th in Provo Utah.
I grew up in North East Orem.
I am the oldest of seven brothers and sisters.
I grew up with music in the home and at work so I started playing piano when I was young. I soon switched to the bass, where I played in the orchestra and jazz band through school. I also played the bass in a number of school and community theater productions throughout high school. When I was sixteen, I took my bass and traveled with a group of musicians and folk dancers for three weeks and performed a in a number of shows in London and Greece as part of an international folk music festival. It has now been seventeen years since I last played music of any kind accept the occasional doodle on the piano at my parents home. I recently purchased a new electric bass guitar, motivated by the fact that my oldest son has started junior high and is in beginning orchestra on the double bass, so that I can refresh and relearn the instrument as well. We practice together. He uses my double bass to practice while at home and I use the electric.
I am now married and have four children (two boys and two girls).
I enjoy reading, writing silly stories, music, cooking, sports, collecting books and dvds, trees and gardening, fishing, hunting and family.
I love creative writing and hope to have some of my stories published one day when I grow up.
I love James Bond movies and TV shows like: The Office, House, Top Chef, Iron Chef, Diners Drivins and Dives, C.S.I, Frasier, and MASH.
I am a fan of the following sports teams: THE DALLAS COWBOYS, The Kansas City Royals, The Chicago Bulls, The BYU Cougars and The Brazilian National Soccer Team.

E.O.W. Questions:
What talent would you like to develop?

Music: the bass and guitar (I just started trying to teach myself the guitar, I received an acoustic for my birthday), Being more organized, Being a better, more patient father.
What profession would you try for a day?
I’ve always wanted to be a marine biologist! Go figure? I love sharks. Strange, I know.
I’ve also been intrigued about working for the F.B I - behind the scenes in the analysis end of things.

What do you like to do with a free hour?

Be with my kids, read a book, EAT, sleep, go fishing.
What store would you choose to max out a credit card?
Barnes and Noble, EBay, Any DVD store, Any musical instrument store, Cabela’s
I am a collector by nature and obsession.

What do you want that can’t be bought with money?

Safe, protected, happy and contented family.
What are your favorite minutes of the week?
Friday afternoon about 5:25 PM and Sunday evening about 7:45 PM when I realize that Monday is a holiday.

What is your favorite place to eat lunch or dinner?

Tucanos, The Outback, PF Chang’s, Red Robin

What are you like first thing in the morning?

I am happy and sleepy. I am typically happy any time I am awakened (6:00am, 3:00am, 1:00am) I don’t mind being awakened in the middle of the night.

What is your favorite meal of the day?

I love to eat. (obviously) What meal would not be a favorite? Although, I tend not to want to eat much before 10:00 am? Who knows.

What’s your favorite season?

I love all the seasons for what they bring!

Spring brings an incredible awakening of life with tiny green buds emerging from dormant branches. The sun warms the earth and brings color back to the world. The anticipation of new outdoor projects and planning for the year. Spring flowers, the emergence of people from their homes, walking barefoot in the grass again.

Summer brings the heat, the outdoor holidays, good food and fun, Barbeque and watermelon, splashing, running and swimming, days the last forever and staying out late under the stars.

Fall brings a crispness to the air, a welcome change from the heat and the feeling of shorter days, wonderful change in the colors in the mountains, a feeling of home and family, football and the bustle of back to school, apples and pumpkins, muted warm colors of browns, yellows and oranges, pulling out the sweaters and long sleeve shirts.

Winter brings a beautiful white blanket of snow. It allows for the delight in hot meals, snuggling under a blanket, Holiday family parties and togetherness, bundling up for snow ball fights and snowmen, sledding down the snow hill with the kids, watching the soft snow flakes drift down, illuminated by the porch light, when everything else is done, the crackle of a wood fire, the silence of winter.

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Busy two weeks

It started with work restricting our ability to look up any blogs at work.

I have taken Monday through Thursday off this week. It is my "try to get things done around the house" week.
I replaced a door knob
painted the front door
built a work bench and shelf in the garage
cleaned the garage and replaced the water in the storage barrels
painted the hall bathroom

We purchased tile for the hall bathroom. I return to work tomorrow and Saturday at the expo at UVU. I believe that I greet people at the door. I am sure glad that I finished that college degree!

I still have a long list of projects to complete around the house.

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My Birthday!

I have had a very nice birthday so far. Family members have called. I have been given very thoughtful gifts. One of which has taken (my choice) my initial nest egg away from my new bass fund...... For Now.

On the 9th of September, the fund begins again. But today the money went towards the purchase of a Fender Acoustic Guitar. I am very excited about the prospects !!! I can't wait to get it out and begin. Here is a picture of the Fender guitar starter kit. It should be a great guitar with which to learn!

I will begin teaching myself the basics of the guitar while also reviewing the basics of the electric bass. I started my self-imposed bass lessons last night and plan to contine 15 -20 minutes a day. Dad gave me a book from which to practice.

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My New Obsession

With my sons as my inspiration, I have wanted to relearn the Bass. With this new goal, I have determined to buy myself my first electric bass. I want to stay true to my father and buy a "Fender Jazz Bass" but which one?

Clarke recommended that I check out this bass and I love it. It is part of Fender's signature line of Jazz Basses. It is modeled after Fender's classic 1970's Jazz Bass. I am plastering pictures of this Bass all over a jar and will then use the jar as a collection cup for my odd change and present money so that I can save up the required funds ($600 - $800). I am expecting that this project will take some time, maybe 2010 or 2011? Cross my fingers.

Geddy Lee Jazz Bass®
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Mean, mean stride! Our Geddy Lee Jazz Bass guitar is an exact replica of the tonally singular instrument that Rush’s revered bassist/vocalist has riffed away on in front of thousands of devoted fans worldwide and on many a mega-selling album.The bass has an alder body; the one-piece C-shaped maple neck (thin) has a maple fingerboard with black binding and black rectangular position markers. The two vintage Jazz Bass single-coil pickups crackle with life and bristle with the energy; other features include chrome hardware, vintage-style tuning machines and a Badass® Bass II™ bridge.

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My picks for week one of the NFL!

• New York (NYG) vs Washington
• Cincinnati vs Baltimore
• Jacksonville vs Tennessee
• New York (NYJ) vs Miami
• New England vs Kansas City
• New Orleans vs Tampa Bay
• Philadelphia vs St. Louis
• Pittsburgh vs Houston
• Detroit vs Atlanta
Buffalo vs • Seattle
• Arizona vs San Francisco
• Dallas vs Cleveland
• San Diego vs Carolina
• Indianapolis vs Chicago
Green Bay vs • Minnesota
• Denver vs Oakland

The dots indicate the picked team.

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