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its somewhere around 2am, and everyone in my house has been asleep for an hour. its rare that the only people that were here tonight were the people who live here and also that everyones asleep so early. as a result im up bored trying to kill time until i get tired, and i thought that i could kill some time posting here since its been a while.
for starters, Aubree and I passed up any type of Christmas exchange to get a new place to live. We found one in Altoona, and I have to say, I love it. It's the most expensive, but also the nicest and most spacious that we've lived together in. We have 2 other roommates, Tessa and Joey (we'll get to that), and there's plenty of room for us all to live comfortably. If we felt like remodeling the basement or the attic, we could probably even fit another, but I don't think any of us would want that. We all seem to really be happy here with our little family. We have enough privacy that for once we can finally have all the people we wanted over without having to worry about pissing anyone off through the walls/floors. We're all pretty low-key regardless. Word has it that Andy is going to take some fun family photos of us for the walls. We're thinking some cheesy group ones, and also some individual, senior picture type things.
also in these pictures will be my new dog, Riley.
He likes: Drinking too much water and barfing, sleeping (under blankets only), ripping up my damn carpet when no ones home, his bear
He dislikes: People food, linoleum floors, the fury that comes out of me when I catch him ripping up my damn carpet, stairs, being cold
He's great. I can't yet face the thought of leaving him for a couple months at a time.
recently, like a movie decided to add a new member to the band. with practicing 5 days a week, and usually writing and demoing the other days, we're really coming down hard on ourselves and trying to be as prepared as we can possibly be for when the day comes that this album is finally completed. by the time it starts hitting shelves, we want to be completely prepared to get back on the road and really be on top of our game from a live stand point. we thought if we were going to make a move like this, that it should definitely be before the album came out. we came together and decided on a friend of ours from Ohio named Joey Howard. another "J" name, i know. we get it. we met him a couple years ago on tour when he was with his old band "The Garrison Year". i called him one morning at about 3am and put the offer on the table, and no more than a week later he was living with me. he's extremely talented and is apparently the newest heartthrob in town. I'd do him. he's a great singer and a great songwriter. he'll be playing guitar in Jimmys place and adding an entire arsonal of sweet, sweet harmonies to Jimmys stank-ass vocals.
Since he's been in town, everyone's been wanting to do nothing more than to cook for him or meet him. So I've been riding his coat-tails on his "Eat Across Blair County" tour for two weeks. This picture is from our first dinner night at Andys. Andy's getting to seriously be a really really great cook. I'm looking a lot like my grandfather in his later years in this, and we're both showing our extreme support towards wearing winter hats with t-shirts indoors. I'm quick to point out that my saint of a Grandma made me my hat, and it kept my head warm both indoors and outdoors for the last several months.
I have so much more to bring you up to speed on, Livejournal, but Im bored with this and its getting lengthy. We have a show with Mae and The Composure tomorrow in State College. Should be a good time
I'll try to get myself to remember this exists and to post in it more often, but I won't make anymore empty promises over it. We'll see how it goes
for starters, Aubree and I passed up any type of Christmas exchange to get a new place to live. We found one in Altoona, and I have to say, I love it. It's the most expensive, but also the nicest and most spacious that we've lived together in. We have 2 other roommates, Tessa and Joey (we'll get to that), and there's plenty of room for us all to live comfortably. If we felt like remodeling the basement or the attic, we could probably even fit another, but I don't think any of us would want that. We all seem to really be happy here with our little family. We have enough privacy that for once we can finally have all the people we wanted over without having to worry about pissing anyone off through the walls/floors. We're all pretty low-key regardless. Word has it that Andy is going to take some fun family photos of us for the walls. We're thinking some cheesy group ones, and also some individual, senior picture type things.
also in these pictures will be my new dog, Riley.
He likes: Drinking too much water and barfing, sleeping (under blankets only), ripping up my damn carpet when no ones home, his bear
He dislikes: People food, linoleum floors, the fury that comes out of me when I catch him ripping up my damn carpet, stairs, being cold
He's great. I can't yet face the thought of leaving him for a couple months at a time.
recently, like a movie decided to add a new member to the band. with practicing 5 days a week, and usually writing and demoing the other days, we're really coming down hard on ourselves and trying to be as prepared as we can possibly be for when the day comes that this album is finally completed. by the time it starts hitting shelves, we want to be completely prepared to get back on the road and really be on top of our game from a live stand point. we thought if we were going to make a move like this, that it should definitely be before the album came out. we came together and decided on a friend of ours from Ohio named Joey Howard. another "J" name, i know. we get it. we met him a couple years ago on tour when he was with his old band "The Garrison Year". i called him one morning at about 3am and put the offer on the table, and no more than a week later he was living with me. he's extremely talented and is apparently the newest heartthrob in town. I'd do him. he's a great singer and a great songwriter. he'll be playing guitar in Jimmys place and adding an entire arsonal of sweet, sweet harmonies to Jimmys stank-ass vocals.
Since he's been in town, everyone's been wanting to do nothing more than to cook for him or meet him. So I've been riding his coat-tails on his "Eat Across Blair County" tour for two weeks. This picture is from our first dinner night at Andys. Andy's getting to seriously be a really really great cook. I'm looking a lot like my grandfather in his later years in this, and we're both showing our extreme support towards wearing winter hats with t-shirts indoors. I'm quick to point out that my saint of a Grandma made me my hat, and it kept my head warm both indoors and outdoors for the last several months.
I have so much more to bring you up to speed on, Livejournal, but Im bored with this and its getting lengthy. We have a show with Mae and The Composure tomorrow in State College. Should be a good time
I'll try to get myself to remember this exists and to post in it more often, but I won't make anymore empty promises over it. We'll see how it goes