Past and Pending
A great song by The Shins. If you don't know it, you should look it up. Incidentally, one of the innumerable songs he played for me, for my pretty little ears he claimed to like so much. It has an undeniably fantastic French Horn part in the song, to which I say this: any musical group that can incorporate a French Horn into a song so well deserves my total respect.

French Horn
My second instrument, after the saxophone. I was always second or third chair, never quite good enough at it. But I did love it, and still do- the sound of the French Horn seems to fill any empty spaces that reside inside myself inevitably each day. His girlfriend at the time played the French Horn and he reminded me of this often.

Girlfriends
Annoying, a lot of the time. I've been one once in my life. I have not been one since, for going on three years.

Three Years
My nephew, Jake, is three years old. He's great and my self-proclaimed "only man in my life." I can't imagine a world without him. My other nephew, Wyatt, will be one-year-old in March.

One Year
The amount of time I've spent wishing I were his girlfriend. I hope that in three years I will have forgotten him, and that I can't imagine a world with him.

Forgetting
I don't remember how I got here.