{"id":1947,"date":"2012-09-02T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:30:54","slug":"gonna-turn-out-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/09\/02\/gonna-turn-out-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonna turn out fine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I went to the State Fair on Thursday.  We did a lot of walking and I&#8217;m still in pain, because I am ridiculously out of shape.<\/p>\n<p>The night before we made a list of the food we really wanted to try and a few other things we wanted to check out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing in particular I wanted to see was a vendor called <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocknrolljewelry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rock N Roll Jewelry\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock N Roll Jewelry<\/a><\/b>&#8212;jewelry made from guitar strings and picks and the like.  Because <i>this is me<\/i>.  I perused the rainbow of guitar picks to choose from and debated on whether or not I really wanted to buy something.  I did like the idea of a guitar pick necklace with a custom engraving.  But what would I have engraved on it?  My name just seemed silly.  Especially considering I don&#8217;t actually play guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s suggestion?<\/p>\n<p><i>Andy Grammer<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like he KNOWS ME.<\/p>\n<p>We wandered around the Grand Stand floor a bit while I debated and went back to the stand.  The guy working the booth (possibly the owner? no idea) liked my <b><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/roosterteeth.com\/store\/product.php?id=78\">Lightish Red shirt<\/span><\/b>.  When I told him what I wanted engraved on the pick, he had to write it down.<\/p>\n<p>Then posed the question: &#8220;How tall is Andy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me?<\/p>\n<p>What relevance is this?<\/p>\n<p>Then it dawned on me that he really had no idea that Mr. Grammer is somebody famous.  He assumed <i>Andy<\/i> was someone I knew.  I did not correct him.  I felt silly enough as it was.  He was asking height for reference in how long of a cord to use for the necklace.  Gotcha.<\/p>\n<p>It was about a ten minute wait for them to process my request so we wandered a bit more.  When we went back to the booth, I don&#8217;t even know how many times the guy repeated <i>ANDY GRAMMER<\/i> in keeping orders straight.  It was then a young girl working the booth with him alerted him to the fact that AG is actually a known musician.  <\/p>\n<p>He asked me if this was the case.  I confirmed.  And he said he had no idea and just assumed it was somebody I knew.  Fine by me.  The less I have to explain myself the less ridiculous I feel.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have my own <i>shiny BLUE<\/i>, custom engraved, <i>Andy Grammer<\/i> guitar pick necklace.<\/p>\n<p>There is a guitar string bead on the cord that slides so you can tether it to your wrist.  Then you don&#8217;t have to worry about dropping your pick while playing.<\/p>\n<p>You know&#8212;if I <i>actually played<\/i> guitar.<\/p>\n<p>For <i>my<\/i> purposes, I&#8217;ve found a new <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.additudemag.com\/adhd\/article\/3967.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Better Focus Through Multitasking\" rel=\"noopener\">fidget object<\/a><\/b>.  One of the only useful tips I&#8217;ve found in relation to ADHD.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2012pics\/AG guitar pick.png\" title=\"Andy Grammer guitar pick\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now I have a music reference in necklace form to go with the custom music charms on my bracelet.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2012pics\/music charms.png\" title=\"Train and 3 Doors Down\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:375px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">\n<tr>\n<td col style=\"width:60px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/graphics\/headphones50.png\" title=\"now playing...\"><\/td>\n<td col style=\"width:315px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">Keep Your Head Up<br \/>\nAndy Grammer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I went to the State Fair on Thursday. We did a lot of walking and I&#8217;m still in pain, because I am ridiculously out of shape. The night before we made a list of the food we really wanted to try and a few other things we wanted to check out. One thing in particular I wanted to see was a vendor called Rock N Roll Jewelry&#8212;jewelry made from guitar strings and picks&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/09\/02\/gonna-turn-out-fine\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keep reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gonna turn out fine&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2012pics\/AG%20guitar%20pick.png","fifu_image_alt":"Andy Grammer guitar pick","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,29,134,31],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geek-love","category-mental-health","category-music","category-music-andy-grammer","category-pictures","tag-225","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2012pics\/AG%20guitar%20pick.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}