Eek, sorry it's been so long!
I am soooo sorry it's been so long.
I've kinda been in a posting rut. Everyday I say to myself, "I need to post in my journal." Then I get distracted, and forget. I suck! Arg!
Anyhoo... what's the latest? Let's see.
I think the biggest news (at least what's on my mind at the moment) is the show this Saturday night. I'm taking my 13yr old sister to see DFiVE9, Point Defiance, The Strain, and Shifft at The Hawthorne Theatre.
I'm totally stoked too. My friend Jenn is gonna be there, and I have old friends in 3 of the 4 bands playing. I'm so excited to see everyone. it's so funny because I went to the DFiVE9 show on August 19th, and found out about the Point Defiance show around the same time because Nic (DFiVE9's vocalist) is now the owner of the club. I was excited to see Point Defiance (I haven't seen/spoken to Lamar or Lucas in years), and then I found out that DFiVE9 was going to play as well, along with The Strain.
Another friend, Kevin Rankin (currently drumming for Animotion) is also gonna be there, and as it turns out he's going to play for both Point Defiance, and The Strain! How crazy eh? He's a great guy, and an extremely talented drummer, so if anyone can do it, he can. :)
Aside from just rambling about how excited I am, this is really a good show to take Elyse to. Not only do I like both DFiVE9, and Point Defiance (this will be my first experience hearing the other two bands, but Kevin Hahn is playing for The Strain, so I'm sure it's gonna be awesome), but having some familiar faces around is going to help make her experience that much better. I mean I've been trying to remember how I felt when I went to my first national show (Ozzy/Motley Crue, age 9, with my dad), and when I started to go to local shows that my dad wasn't playing on. I remember how much cooler it always felt, for me, because I could talk to the musicians, and just had that general access that you wouldn't have if you went to an arena show. I also pointed out that the cool thing about local bands is that if she ends up really getting into any of them, they play here a lot more frequently than any national act, and she can afford to go to multiple shows without having to ask my dad to take out a loan to pay for tickets, ya know?
I'm almost afraid that I'm more excited than she is, but I'm not sure. She tends to be a little less animated than I am, and she's 13 to boot, which means she gets that kinda melancholic teenager vibe about her, so sometimes it's hard to read her. I spoke to her tonight though, and she had spaced that it was this weekend. So when I reminded her it put some pep in her step. :)
Anyway, enough about that. I could just go on and on. Being back in touch with people, and slowly getting back into the local scene is just so exciting for me. I've missed it soooo much!
In other news...tee hee
My dad's still gonna be sent to New Orleans to assist with the clean up and rebuild down there, but hasn't been given a date. His company is swamped up here, and they really need him, so his boss has been fighting to keep him for as long as possible before he has to go. He's definitely going though. I'm still really concerned for him, but he's a natural born leader, so if anyone can be effective down there it's him. I just worry about what being in that atmosphere must do to ones mental state, ya know? I mean I can't imagine being one of those people who had to suffer like they did, but going in to clean up the mess from the storm? The disease, bodies, smell, heat...I am more than happy to volunteer to pack things or do phone work or whatever, but to actually be in that environment? I don't know if I'm strong enough. Probably not.
I have another Drs appt on the 5th, and I get to tell him that it's not gastro-intestinal. I knew it wasn't. I mean if your heart is doing weird things, 9 out of 10 times you're gonna be able to tell it's your heart. Every Dr that I've ever seen about this has gone to the gastro-intestinal thing first, and gotten absolutely nowhere. My current Dr rocks though, and now that I've taken the medication he gave me, and it didn't work he'll be reassured that it isn't gastro-intestinal, and we can start focusing a bit more rather than doing the random guessing thing.
Therapy is going very well. It's so funny because when I started going I had all these preconceived notions about how it would work, and how ineffective it would be. Several of the things I thought would happen, did, but they worked rather than just coming across stupid. I've actually learned quite a bit. Of course we're still just beginning, but it helps just knowing that I have that outlet, ya know? I never thought I'd open up to anyone in that situation, but I've told her things I never thought I'd say out loud! ha ha ha She's awesome!
Other than that I can't think of anything else to say at the moment. I'm really tired. I just signed on a little while ago to check mail and do a couple of things. I've had an evil bitch of a headache all day, so the computer was the last place I wanted to be.
I think I'm still adjusting to the new glasses.
So I'm gonna close for now, and get some sleep, but I'll try and be more active here. I know I need to catch up with several of you, and I'll be making major efforts after the weekend. I've just been spacing the whole journaling thing all together in the past little while. I'm really trying to get my portfolio done, but when ya work on something that's supposed to show off your stuff it never comes out right. I had a design that I started with, and have changed it like 50 gazillion times over the course of the past week or so. Tonight I promised myself that I wouldn't redesign it anymore until I got it finished, and got the content up there. It's not fantastic by any means, but it's further than I've been in months ha ha ha
Ok, ok...going now.
Ciao!
I've kinda been in a posting rut. Everyday I say to myself, "I need to post in my journal." Then I get distracted, and forget. I suck! Arg!
Anyhoo... what's the latest? Let's see.
I think the biggest news (at least what's on my mind at the moment) is the show this Saturday night. I'm taking my 13yr old sister to see DFiVE9, Point Defiance, The Strain, and Shifft at The Hawthorne Theatre.
I'm totally stoked too. My friend Jenn is gonna be there, and I have old friends in 3 of the 4 bands playing. I'm so excited to see everyone. it's so funny because I went to the DFiVE9 show on August 19th, and found out about the Point Defiance show around the same time because Nic (DFiVE9's vocalist) is now the owner of the club. I was excited to see Point Defiance (I haven't seen/spoken to Lamar or Lucas in years), and then I found out that DFiVE9 was going to play as well, along with The Strain.
Another friend, Kevin Rankin (currently drumming for Animotion) is also gonna be there, and as it turns out he's going to play for both Point Defiance, and The Strain! How crazy eh? He's a great guy, and an extremely talented drummer, so if anyone can do it, he can. :)
Aside from just rambling about how excited I am, this is really a good show to take Elyse to. Not only do I like both DFiVE9, and Point Defiance (this will be my first experience hearing the other two bands, but Kevin Hahn is playing for The Strain, so I'm sure it's gonna be awesome), but having some familiar faces around is going to help make her experience that much better. I mean I've been trying to remember how I felt when I went to my first national show (Ozzy/Motley Crue, age 9, with my dad), and when I started to go to local shows that my dad wasn't playing on. I remember how much cooler it always felt, for me, because I could talk to the musicians, and just had that general access that you wouldn't have if you went to an arena show. I also pointed out that the cool thing about local bands is that if she ends up really getting into any of them, they play here a lot more frequently than any national act, and she can afford to go to multiple shows without having to ask my dad to take out a loan to pay for tickets, ya know?
I'm almost afraid that I'm more excited than she is, but I'm not sure. She tends to be a little less animated than I am, and she's 13 to boot, which means she gets that kinda melancholic teenager vibe about her, so sometimes it's hard to read her. I spoke to her tonight though, and she had spaced that it was this weekend. So when I reminded her it put some pep in her step. :)
Anyway, enough about that. I could just go on and on. Being back in touch with people, and slowly getting back into the local scene is just so exciting for me. I've missed it soooo much!
In other news...tee hee
My dad's still gonna be sent to New Orleans to assist with the clean up and rebuild down there, but hasn't been given a date. His company is swamped up here, and they really need him, so his boss has been fighting to keep him for as long as possible before he has to go. He's definitely going though. I'm still really concerned for him, but he's a natural born leader, so if anyone can be effective down there it's him. I just worry about what being in that atmosphere must do to ones mental state, ya know? I mean I can't imagine being one of those people who had to suffer like they did, but going in to clean up the mess from the storm? The disease, bodies, smell, heat...I am more than happy to volunteer to pack things or do phone work or whatever, but to actually be in that environment? I don't know if I'm strong enough. Probably not.
I have another Drs appt on the 5th, and I get to tell him that it's not gastro-intestinal. I knew it wasn't. I mean if your heart is doing weird things, 9 out of 10 times you're gonna be able to tell it's your heart. Every Dr that I've ever seen about this has gone to the gastro-intestinal thing first, and gotten absolutely nowhere. My current Dr rocks though, and now that I've taken the medication he gave me, and it didn't work he'll be reassured that it isn't gastro-intestinal, and we can start focusing a bit more rather than doing the random guessing thing.
Therapy is going very well. It's so funny because when I started going I had all these preconceived notions about how it would work, and how ineffective it would be. Several of the things I thought would happen, did, but they worked rather than just coming across stupid. I've actually learned quite a bit. Of course we're still just beginning, but it helps just knowing that I have that outlet, ya know? I never thought I'd open up to anyone in that situation, but I've told her things I never thought I'd say out loud! ha ha ha She's awesome!
Other than that I can't think of anything else to say at the moment. I'm really tired. I just signed on a little while ago to check mail and do a couple of things. I've had an evil bitch of a headache all day, so the computer was the last place I wanted to be.
I think I'm still adjusting to the new glasses.
So I'm gonna close for now, and get some sleep, but I'll try and be more active here. I know I need to catch up with several of you, and I'll be making major efforts after the weekend. I've just been spacing the whole journaling thing all together in the past little while. I'm really trying to get my portfolio done, but when ya work on something that's supposed to show off your stuff it never comes out right. I had a design that I started with, and have changed it like 50 gazillion times over the course of the past week or so. Tonight I promised myself that I wouldn't redesign it anymore until I got it finished, and got the content up there. It's not fantastic by any means, but it's further than I've been in months ha ha ha
Ok, ok...going now.
Ciao!