Hi! I'm Lindie, from Pretoria. I've been playing... correction, I've owned a guitar for almost 3 weeks now. The noise I make with it can not be called playing by any stretch of the imagination. I am still in the having trouble getting simple chords right stage of learning, but at least my fingers don't quite feel like they are being ripped open anymore. Minor progress, but I'll take it. I knew going in that learning the guitar is hard, but somehow you just don't realize just how hard until you try forcing your fingers into shapes they feel like they weren't designed to make. Then comes the realization that I will never have long nails again. *sigh* I'm not even a musician yet, and already I am suffering. ?

I have noticed that when I do my before work morning practice, the cat comes to investigate and sits watching me. Sometimes she purrs. Either I have my very first fan, or she thinks I am playing the mating song of her people. Or maybe she just wants to gnaw my strings. Cats, who knows what goes on in their crazy little heads.

Right, so reasons I took up the guitar. I like music and I wanted to make some. I have no delusions of becoming a superstar, but I do intend to pull it out when we have family gatherings and muck about until someone tells me to stop. Also, my cousin bought his 10 year old daughter a guitar, and by George, I am too immature to have a child 1/3 my age beat me at this.

I shall not bore you with my gear; it's cheap and entry level and the less said the better.

Eish, why don't I just get my name changed to Rambler? Anyhoo, hello. Thanks for having a forum where I can join and be awkward.