On Saturday, since I didn't have mandatory overtime at work, Thad and I took a two-hour road trip to Kalamazoo, MI for our first bellydance hafla of the year.


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Chapter I-seem-to-have-lost-count: Car troubles. Again.

( Woe is me. )

So during band rehearsal last night, everybody got pulled, one by one, aside to be spoken to. When I was the last one, I kind of figured that it was about me ( Read more... )

This week has just been crazy insane ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to see "Beastly" with Johnna. The movie is a modern take on "Beauty and the Beast". It was a nice little movie. Neil Patrick Harris was a wonderful comic relief. The theater room couldn't help but giggle everytime he spoke ( Read more... )

The day started off horribly. Actually, the day BEFORE went horribly, because I had caught this huge-mungous cold. Saturday when I woke up, I was congested, and it had ventured down into my lungs. The whole right side of my face was swolen and itchy, my right eye was red and kept watering, and my throat was itchy in an allergy sense, one I am ( Read more... )

I never really told anybody this. I kept it pretty hush-hush, except maybe to Thad, but... Now I can finally say it here, with purpose!

( I'm with the band. )

So another attempt at winning Mötley Crüe/Poison tickets from WRIF failed. At least, this time, I got through, though it kept ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing and... Then I heard caller number 40 on the radio. It wasn't me, so I hung up. *sighs* There will be other tries. *crosses fingers* I wanna go so bad ( Read more... )

Just when I think I'm getting good at playing the doumbek ( Read more... )

richard from the band katara is helping us play at our performance in toledo on april 2nd so that we sound fuller. he mentioned liking my doumbek. rune mentioned that I was trying to play it cool when deciding which doumbek I wanted. I mention that I had told jake (from wine & alchemy) not to base his decision on me ( Read more... )