Hi folks! 
My name’s Lisa and I’m (still) 33 years old, living close to Frankfurt/Germany. I’ve been hanging around JustinGuitar for a few months now and finally made up my mind saying “Hi!” to all the other lovely guitar fellows out here. 
My guitar journey started around 20 years ago (seriously? Oh my, time flies…), when I got myself a terrible 30 Euro-guitar from the ebay or whatsoever. By that time I was having piano lessons and just loved making music with my friends. Unfortunately, pianos can’t be taken around easily (haha), so I came up with the idea of learning guitar as well - just loved the sound of them and how many musical possibilities they offer. Started out as a self learner with some books and stuff from the internet. Looking back, I only come to one conclusion: If I had only known JustinGuitar back in those days! :-/
But I just enjoyed learning and playing, got a nice Cort Jumbo guitar (Earth-70E NS, it felt as I could hide behind it) after a few months when my parents got the idea, I will stick to the guitar.
To shorten the story: I made myself an ok-ish campfire player in my teenage years, singing along to the same old strumming patterns and crappy fingerstyle. I even wrote some songs back then (most of them terrible!) and entertained my friends or family at parties or birhtdays. Friends also gifted me a session at a Studio where I recorded a few of my songs - maybe I’ll share some later on… Music was pretty much my life back then.
But then, the real “serious” life entered the scene. Time for guitar was getting less, also had to give up piano lessons as my study was time consuming and I had to work in parallel. After my degrees I landed a job where I had to travel a lot, so the time I spent making music was getting lesser and lesser… probably, for some months or even a year or two, I didn’t even touch my guitars. I do regret this, as it is bringing sooo much joy and happiness to my life now.
Beginning of last year, I got a new job, moved to the neighbourhood of Frankfurt and fullfilled one of my biggest wishes I always had: got myself a 12-string (Martin D-X2E) and that was the spark relightening the fire in me. And that’s why I landed here: I wanted to restart and this time, build a solid foundation. So starting from grade one a few months ago, I am now in mid of grade 3. Still so many things to learn and explore - couldn’t be happier!
As I said before: I wish I had known JustinGuitar earlier, as the structured lessons and pratice routines help me a lot and I have the feeling of making huge progress in relatively short time. Awesome! Thank you so much for creating such a great, happy and joyful place, Justin!
Thanks to all, who made it till here - I am done for now. 
Have a fantastic day!
Cheers - Lisa
Nice to to read your backstory, sounds like you have a good base to build from and will make quick progress. All the best with your journey, hope to see your playing some time if you felt comfortable with sharing a recording. Would be great to see that Martin in action! 
Wish you an amazing and most enjoyable guitar journey 
… you are half younger or moer to many here 
…so enjoy now to the maximum and dream softly of what is to come possible 
