So, I just read that a teenage girl hung herself over a fake Harry Potter ending.  She apparently downloaded a faux copy of the book that states that Harry Potter and friends met a gruesome end.  Come on people, he is a character in a book.  I understand that it’s a great book and all (I am told), but seriously? That’s worse than my old rehab roommie that got caught with a gun in her mouth after Kurt Cobaine killed himself.  At least he was a real person!!!  Am I showing my age?

On to other things….most people don’t understand me when I tell them that my back went out.  Well, let’s see…on Saturday night I decided to go roller skating around my mom’s neighborhood and when I returned my sciatic nerve was INFLAMED and being PINCHED!!!  Did I fall? No.  I am that out of shape.  So, for those of you who don’t know what a sciatic nerve is…the sciatic nerve is the largest single nerve in the human body; it runs from each side of the lower spine through deep in the rear and back of the thigh, and all the way down to foot, connecting the spinal cord with the leg and foot muscles.  I suffer from sciatica, which commonly refers to pain that radiates along the sciatic nerve and is typically felt in the rear, down the back of the leg and possibly to the foot. Sciatica is one of the most common forms of pain caused by compression of the spinal nerves, and the leg pain often feels much worse than the back pain.

We are talking as severe pain in the ass!  Literally!  So, back to my Saturday night, this couldn’t have happened in a better place.  My step father is a chiropractor (www.drjunkin.com) who has been my saving grace over the years.  Anyways, by
9 0′clock I can’t even put any pressure on my left leg and I am dying.  So after adjustments, traction, blocks, and electrical stimulation, today, I feel much better.  However, I can still feel that it is closely there waiting for me to make a wrong twist or turn.  So, when my back is “out” I don’t do anything but stay at home.  I refuse to work because it is IMPOSSIBLE!

Ok, now you know all you need to know or ever thought you wanted to know:)
Moving on…I now have 3 songs completed for my cd.  9 more to go.  I’m gonna need to narrow it down because I have so many songs that I’d like to put on it!  I am excited that I have come up with some funds to do another song with Troy, so we are going to work on “Sadly.” I cannot wait.  I also need to complete 2 other songs with Gary soon because they are still fresh in my head:)  Time goes by fast:)

 Anyways, have a listen at www.myspace.com/mindyhughes

I thought for sure that I was going to eat my words today.  After class I was driving to my step dad’s clinic (Chiropractor) to see my mom and get adjusted and it was pouring down rain.  290 West was not moving so I decided to do a big no-no when it’s pouring: I exited the freeway.  I took 18th up to Hempstead which had water already above the curve.  Luckily I was in my Honda CRV, but the water was rising fast and I had to sit at a few lights with traffic.  I thought for sure that I was going to be one of the idiots I was making fun of in an earlier post.  That would stink!!  Luckily, that didn’t happen.

We’re about finished the first track on the album and it is sounding amazing.  Troy (www.myspace.com/absolutesoundstudios) is a phenomenal producer and he has an amazing ear.  I am so blessed to have him and Gary (www.myspace.com/sonicanvasmusic) to work with.  Good producers are hard to find;(  I am about to start working on “Uncertain” with Gary and my husband really wants me to have Troy produce “Sadly” because of his style.  On that song I will also use Hamilton (www.myspace.com/hamiltonloomis) for guitar if he is available.  He is AWESOME!!

Anyways, I have been in bum mode and I’m having a hard time getting out of it.  For the first time in many years, I don’t have to work, don’t have to work hard towards something, and I can relax.  Of course, working with music and getting some gigs will be nice.  My booking agent is working on that now, so more to come.

Ciao for now:)
Mindy

I’m quite the ambivalent one.  I live in constant chaos and it really is starting to get old.  I say yes to everything and no to nothing which always leads me with freaking dilemmas.  I want to settle in on one thing, and I hope that what I choose won’t be a mistake.

So my first summer session is completed with two B’s and an A. I know I made a B in one of the classes because I missed 5 classes; a fifth of the class.  I don’t really care though, it was hard keeping my head up and my eyes open.  Not that I didn’t like the class, I just have a hard time trying to interpret people’s work acting like I know what they were thinking at their time of writing.  Too many people mis-interpreted my last album.  It is funny, I am a Christian and I think my album was most confusing to Christians because they couldn’t think outside of the box.  Comments like, “I thought you were married when you wrote this album,” well 1) there are lots of songs people write that may take years before they put them on an album and 2) you can’t take words literally sometime: read between the lines.

My album was about my constant chaotic relationship with God that year (my doing, not His) and so I wrote about it.  Well, I guess it was mis-interpreted into a love affair of some sort or another, who knows.  So that is why I have a problem with trying to interpret other people’s work.  I think we should all try to make it our own experience.

 Ok, enough ramblings about that.  I can’t believe all this rain we have had in Houston. Even more unbelievable is watching the news and seeing idiots in the mercedes’ and BMW’s trying to cross water that is way too deep, seeing them climb out their windows, and fall into the water.  Give me a break!  High water is a magnet for people in Houston.  They feel the need to see if they can go against all odds and “float on water!” HA! I was less than amused.

ok…enough for a day or so:)
Mindy

It is pouring outside. What a nice way to wake up this Monday morning.  I actually don’t mind all that much, I don’t have to be at the studio until 11 a.m. so hopefully the rain will have subsided a bit by then.  I am excited about getting another song done.

It is such a weird feeling for me to get up, early I might add, and not have to be rushing off somewhere or trying to catch up on some assignment.  I know that I will have stuff to do when my Creative Writing: Fiction class starts, but that can’t possibly be like these last three classes together.  I am by no means complaining about this short spell of no responsibilities, it is just an odd feeling.  I wake up and gather my thoughts and try to think of where I am needed today: the studio:) Not so bad, I just hope some creative juices can flow:)

I may be starting back at work next week.  I know, I am a sucker.  However, my stipulation is no adult unit, I will only work with the adolescents because that is where my passion is.  I don’t mind working my butt off underpaid when I am doing that because it is what my higher degree is in:) Paying dues….gotta love it:)

7 months and 1 new day.  A glorious but rainy day and I am happy to be alive!

Cheers!
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