Life Update 8/21/2017

Hello, hello! I am not dead and, more importantly, am back into blogging! I would say it's been a crazy, busy year and a half since last I wrote, and while it definitely has been, crazy and busy just seem like the new norm--dealing off and on with my mental health, changing jobs within my company, getting back into school, and especially since now my wife and I are expecting! 

Yep, little Baby Spendlove is due in March 2018, and we are just ecstatic. I mean, just look at the little guy! (I'm convinced it's a boy. My apologies, baby, if you are a girl and I'm calling you the wrong thing.) We have been waiting a long time to be able to have a baby, and this little cutie just fell in our laps out of nowhere, virtually on the eve of Rachel having surgery to be able to get pregnant! Hashtag surgery averted. 

Our little tyke!!

I suppose us having a baby and preparing for his/her arrival is helping me straighten up my schedule and prioritize my time, so that I make sure I'm getting the important things done each day. And in that straightening up of my schedule, I'm finding myself with free time and the desire to write again. I've been writing in a physical journal for the past week or so, and that's been helping get all the thoughts in my head out as well as, I think, helping me get bit by the writing bug again. So, a week ago or so, I went back and read all my posts on this blog and I realized just how fun it was and how much I missed it. And I wasn't as scatter-brained a writer as I remember being, honestly!

So, here we are! I'm starting up album reviews again with the new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard album that dropped just last week--Sketches of Brunswick East--which I find rather fitting because my last album review before my sabbatical was for their 2016 release Nonagon Infinity, and that album was my gateway drug into the rest of their prodigious discog. Anyway, expect that review to be coming soon, and for many more to follow!

Thanks, those of you who are still here and still interested, for taking the time to read and to share your passion for music with mine. Music is one of the things that makes my blood pump in my veins, that gets me out of bed in the morning, and that simply makes me happy. I'm excited to start writing and discussing it again and to contribute in some way, hopefully, to turning you guys on to good, new releases as they come out. Stay tuned!