Good morning all....  well, I was so proud of my husband last night.  He intered a blues contest called "Guitarmageddon" and last night he was first up to play.

Let me just give you some information about my husband Joshua... He is, by far, one of the most amazing guitar players I've ever seen, however, when it comes to playing in front of anyone, he gets a little nervous. 

For example, he played in a talet show at my brothers church with the youth pastor, and he threw up before the went up because of nerves. 

Along with nerves, he is a procrastinater of great proportions.  So he didn't decide to go to this thing until 5:00 last night and of course had nothing to play and no back track picked out to play to. (a back track is the background music like the drums and rythem guitar.) 

So on the way to Eugene we're skimming through back tracks and he's fiddling with his guitar trying to prepare anything.  It wasn't until we pulled into the parking lot that I finally said, "I think you should play with the fifth track, you sounded good with that."

He agreed and we walked into the contest with my brother Justin (who was also in the contest, but had been preparing for a month) and my sister-in-law Sarah (who cut Shurleens hair ;-))

After waiting about 20 minutes, Joshua ended up being first, something he wasn't to thrilled about.  He went up there knowing only what track he was going to play to and nothing prepared  to play.

At this point, I am so nervous I'm sweating, I was worried he would forget where the music stops or where the stops in the song are, or what he was even doing.... I should've known not to worry.

He got up there and It all just came naturally to him.  The entire song was a great big solo... He should've got a great score on originallity, it doesn't get much more original than making it up right on the spot. 

He blew a lot of people away, when he was done people where cheering and whistling.  I was so proud of him. 

He didn't win the contest, but he had so much fun going up and playing. 

I just felt like sharing my husbands accomplishments with everyone,

Have a wonderful day and God Bless......

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Posted by CommunicationFUNdamentals

All it takes is practice! Getting comfortable with presentations are things I deal with all the time with my students and I am a former performer of sorts myself so I know what he is going through. The more you do it, the more comfortable you become. Way to go!!!

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Posted by Happyhome

It is so wonderful to see a wife to obviously proud of her man! That is awesome!

Blessings,

Angela

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Posted by giggles3

I just found you thru your mother-in-law.
That is so great about your hubby! My hubby has been playing in bands since he was in High School and he still gets nervous when he has to play in front of a crowd.
I am adding you to my friends list, sounds like I will really enjoy reading all your entries to come.
Christina

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Posted by MuckFootMom

That's really neat. And it is wonderful to hear women so proud of their husbands.

We have a guitar that sits in the back room, waiting to be learned. LOL!

kim

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Posted by OreoSouza

When you told me about Joshua, I was proud of him.

When I read this entry about him, I started to cry. I'm just so proud of both of you...for him for using his talent even tho he gets so nervous...for even having that tremendous talent. And proud of you, for loving him so deeply and walking with him so closely.

Every mother should be as blessed as I am.

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