This past holiday weekend, I spent hours making many choices to create my new single Holiday Song. I hoped Holiday Song would be available during the holidays and, much to my amazement, it’s already up on Apple Music!
I’ll share more links to Holiday Song as soon as they show up. And I’ll be spending the holidays performing it for anyone who wants to hear it.
Here are the rest of my images for this Holiday Song blog post.
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Marriage IS fun and I considered my husband Michael’s suggestion to remove the “Chimera Bells” track from my Holiday Song and then just kept it in anyway.
I am encountering all sorts of maddening glitches as I try to release my first album through LANDR.
This is a short list of the problems:
The whole album is being rejected by Spotify and Apple because I chose the genres “Comedy” and “Inspirational” for some of the tracks.
The LANDR customer service rep didn’t read my help request carefully and suggested that I submit it to Spotify as a podcast.
The track order got rearranged after submission which really doesn’t work for a live album.
When I am trying to create another album release in case this one needs to be cancelled, LANDR is not letting me upload my best song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” claiming that it’s already on the album (it isn’t).
I’ve spent hours trying to fix this with no luck.
Anger, as I tell my patients, is the human reaction to not getting your needs met. We also talk about how anger is like a child — you don’t want it in the driver’s seat but you also don’t want to stick it in the trunk.
Can you see anger in my images for today?
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So many things to be angry about! I wish I could just wiggle my toes and forget about it all for now.
I dealt with anger before by writing this song and now I can’t get it on my album!
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And now WordPress is telling me that both versions of my song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” are unavailable on YouTube! I am soooo angry!
Thanks to all who are here for this angry post, including YOU!!
I know I’ve written before about how I can struggle with decisions, decisions. When there are too many options, I can worry about not having the information I need to make the “right” choice.
When I’ve spoken to people in therapy about their worries about making decisions, decisions, I’ve pointed out that our all-or-nothing thinking brains tend to think in extreme terms of wrong or right, upping the stakes on decisions, decisions we need to make. Also, we forget that if we make a decision, decisions we regret, we can also make further decisions, decisions in the future to help the situation.
Right now, I’m considering a decision, decision to get a new phone. Many people have suggested that my decision, decision to hold on to my iPhone 8 for years, years might not have been the best decision, decision (although I had a fun conversation recently with an IT specialist about how he has done the same with his iPhone 8).
Why is getting a new phone such a scary, scary decision, decision for me? Because I am happy with my current phone, even if it’s slow and limited in its capabilities. The familiar, familiar often feels safer than the unknown phone.
Do you see decisions, decisions in my images for today?
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So I finally made the decision, decision to go with the music distribution platform LANDR after previously making the wrong decision about how to distribute my original songs. Here’s the protest song that will be appearing soon on Spotify and elsewhere!
