...So I figure I might as well update...
Since it seems I'll be up for a little longer.. It is really difficult to go to sleep after four days of blissed out non-working and being laziness.
Took my first paid time off days this weekend so Matt and I were able to attend Lollapalooza in Chicago. So I had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday free.
And now tonight I realize that I really really don't want to go to work tomorrow!! (What else is new??!) Lame! But what can you do. Gotta make money somehow. I'm toying with the idea of getting a different job, which also sucks because I've been at this one for just 3 months, long enough to have my PTO in effect and be eligible for all the benefit stuff...but I really don't like it. It isn't really at all what I'd like to be doing, and I miss working with the public. Like a lot. I've been talking with Matt a lot recently, because I feel like I am really cut out to be in the service industry, like working in a restaurant/cafe setting or in a shop. It just sucks that people (mainly my parents) don't think that is a good enough full time job to have if you have a degree (which also doesn't make a ton of sense, cause like Matt says, so many people in retail, etc... have degrees).
So I will probably start looking around soon to find something that isn't going to make me as insanely unhappy as I have been for the past few months. I mean, the pay is pretty good and it's sad that that is the only thing I look forward to is getting my paycheck. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have always looked forward to payday, but at the other places I'd worked, I had customers to look forward to seeing, and also felt like I was making more of a difference in someone's happiness since I was able to help them out or maybe make their day a bit better. So yeah, basically I need to figure out where I want to be next. I am thinking that my time would be better spent working full time at a shop/restaurant and also doing an internship type thing that would allow me to use my degree and keep up what I'd learned to some extent.
Okay. No more work stuff...
Melissa and I went to see the Rentals and Ozma at the Pabst last week. It was a totally good show. They even played i.j.t.o.t.l.o.m.d. that I'd never thought I would be able to hear live. It made me smile big. Melissa and I went to the bathroom after the show, since we planned on staying a little longer for the meet and greet, and all of a sudden, we hear this guy's voice, and he is all confused like "wait, this isn't the men's room!!" and it was totally Matt Sharp. So that was pretty funny. But altogether a great show.
Then, the weekend with Matt and Lollapalooza...Okay well I can't give out tons of details since I really should be going to bed soon...but here are the music highlights:
--Reverend Horton Heat (played all of their super good songs, plus Johnny Cash cover)
--The Shins (would've been rad, but sound quality sucked!!)
--Theivery Corporation (probably the best set I saw all weekend. Totally cool and chill)
--Husky Rescue (Cool group that was sort of mellow)
--Mates of State (FINALLY got to see them! And they are adorable.)
--Feist (Really quiet and nice female vocal stuff)
--Peeping Tom (Mike Patton's new project)
--Wolfmother (Straight up rock 'n roll)
--The Flaming Lips (and me finally witnessing the craziness of them... with a giant blow up santa claus and about a dozen people dressed like Santa Claus; the inflatable giant ball; and everything else insane about them)
--Gnarls Barkley (ONLY dressing as tennis players...)
--Kanye West (a few songs of his... but we were so wiped out we just had to leave)
--Queens of the Stone Age (pretty good. They played some older stuff too, as well as something of Desert Sessions which Matt was pretty happy about)
--Broken Social Scene (pretty cool stuff, with a few female guest singers)
--Mixmaster Mike (just great. We only caught about 30 min. but still good)
AND the rest of the highlights:
--Perry Farrell (um yeah he is too ridiculous. And makes me crack up upon seeing him.)
--Running into two of the Blues Traveler guys (including the harmonica guy) on the corner outside of the event grounds.
--Cops on Segways.
--Matt and my ridiculous adventure of trying to find the parking office of the Millenium Park underground parking structure after the machine failed to give us our $7 of change after we paid $13 to park. It only took about an hour...
--Hitting up Superdawg um, like 2 or 3 times (I can't even remember how many it was...probably 2 though)
--Hala Kahiki the best tiki bar.
--Our crazy hotel which for some reason couldn't manage to keep a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our door (even the crappy one that I made by ripping a hole in some paper!!)... it was like people kept coming by and stealing them or something, so of course, we always got a knock at 8:00 and got pissed since we planned to sleep later... and also, um apparently Matt and I count as one person since they would only ever leave 1 towel in a king bed room... WTF??!!!
--Being super happy we had an ipass.
--The nice anniversary dinner on Thursday.
--Getting to be lazy and spoiled by seeing Matt for a lot of days in a row. And reminding myself that in less than a month we'll be in the same house.
--Matt buying the Guitar Hero game and us freaking out about it. It does rock though.
Well, I guess that about wraps up the highlights of the weekend. And it does make me sad that it is over and tomorrow is back to work :(
xo.
--Jamie
Took my first paid time off days this weekend so Matt and I were able to attend Lollapalooza in Chicago. So I had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday free.
And now tonight I realize that I really really don't want to go to work tomorrow!! (What else is new??!) Lame! But what can you do. Gotta make money somehow. I'm toying with the idea of getting a different job, which also sucks because I've been at this one for just 3 months, long enough to have my PTO in effect and be eligible for all the benefit stuff...but I really don't like it. It isn't really at all what I'd like to be doing, and I miss working with the public. Like a lot. I've been talking with Matt a lot recently, because I feel like I am really cut out to be in the service industry, like working in a restaurant/cafe setting or in a shop. It just sucks that people (mainly my parents) don't think that is a good enough full time job to have if you have a degree (which also doesn't make a ton of sense, cause like Matt says, so many people in retail, etc... have degrees).
So I will probably start looking around soon to find something that isn't going to make me as insanely unhappy as I have been for the past few months. I mean, the pay is pretty good and it's sad that that is the only thing I look forward to is getting my paycheck. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have always looked forward to payday, but at the other places I'd worked, I had customers to look forward to seeing, and also felt like I was making more of a difference in someone's happiness since I was able to help them out or maybe make their day a bit better. So yeah, basically I need to figure out where I want to be next. I am thinking that my time would be better spent working full time at a shop/restaurant and also doing an internship type thing that would allow me to use my degree and keep up what I'd learned to some extent.
Okay. No more work stuff...
Melissa and I went to see the Rentals and Ozma at the Pabst last week. It was a totally good show. They even played i.j.t.o.t.l.o.m.d. that I'd never thought I would be able to hear live. It made me smile big. Melissa and I went to the bathroom after the show, since we planned on staying a little longer for the meet and greet, and all of a sudden, we hear this guy's voice, and he is all confused like "wait, this isn't the men's room!!" and it was totally Matt Sharp. So that was pretty funny. But altogether a great show.
Then, the weekend with Matt and Lollapalooza...Okay well I can't give out tons of details since I really should be going to bed soon...but here are the music highlights:
--Reverend Horton Heat (played all of their super good songs, plus Johnny Cash cover)
--The Shins (would've been rad, but sound quality sucked!!)
--Theivery Corporation (probably the best set I saw all weekend. Totally cool and chill)
--Husky Rescue (Cool group that was sort of mellow)
--Mates of State (FINALLY got to see them! And they are adorable.)
--Feist (Really quiet and nice female vocal stuff)
--Peeping Tom (Mike Patton's new project)
--Wolfmother (Straight up rock 'n roll)
--The Flaming Lips (and me finally witnessing the craziness of them... with a giant blow up santa claus and about a dozen people dressed like Santa Claus; the inflatable giant ball; and everything else insane about them)
--Gnarls Barkley (ONLY dressing as tennis players...)
--Kanye West (a few songs of his... but we were so wiped out we just had to leave)
--Queens of the Stone Age (pretty good. They played some older stuff too, as well as something of Desert Sessions which Matt was pretty happy about)
--Broken Social Scene (pretty cool stuff, with a few female guest singers)
--Mixmaster Mike (just great. We only caught about 30 min. but still good)
AND the rest of the highlights:
--Perry Farrell (um yeah he is too ridiculous. And makes me crack up upon seeing him.)
--Running into two of the Blues Traveler guys (including the harmonica guy) on the corner outside of the event grounds.
--Cops on Segways.
--Matt and my ridiculous adventure of trying to find the parking office of the Millenium Park underground parking structure after the machine failed to give us our $7 of change after we paid $13 to park. It only took about an hour...
--Hitting up Superdawg um, like 2 or 3 times (I can't even remember how many it was...probably 2 though)
--Hala Kahiki the best tiki bar.
--Our crazy hotel which for some reason couldn't manage to keep a "Do Not Disturb" sign on our door (even the crappy one that I made by ripping a hole in some paper!!)... it was like people kept coming by and stealing them or something, so of course, we always got a knock at 8:00 and got pissed since we planned to sleep later... and also, um apparently Matt and I count as one person since they would only ever leave 1 towel in a king bed room... WTF??!!!
--Being super happy we had an ipass.
--The nice anniversary dinner on Thursday.
--Getting to be lazy and spoiled by seeing Matt for a lot of days in a row. And reminding myself that in less than a month we'll be in the same house.
--Matt buying the Guitar Hero game and us freaking out about it. It does rock though.
Well, I guess that about wraps up the highlights of the weekend. And it does make me sad that it is over and tomorrow is back to work :(
xo.
--Jamie