Sunday, December 23, 2007

October 2007 to December 18th 2007

So, after the tour was said and done, I went back to Philly for a little while to hang with the family and friends. There wasn't too many things going on. Saw some friends, celebrated the glorious event that is Halloween! And went to my mom's annual Halloween Party.....oh yeah, there was Chris's b-day which was a bunch of fun!

We all went out for vegetarian chinese food, and then i think a few days later people came over for another celebration at Nat and Mark's house in Northern Liberties. Overall i think Chris had a good 25th b-day.

After seeing people and hanging with the family, i went back to L.A. immediately upon arriving home my computer decided to die on my causing my withdrawal from the web for about two weeks. After a few calls to apple, it was fixed, then it was time to look for a job.

however this coincided with Thanksgiving, which was at nick and emily's and was awesome, so i wasn't looking for something that was going to give me lots of work, becuase i still had to pack for home, run other errands, and hang with friends. Therefore I fell back on the ol' Lush for employment, which was nice.

Probably i'll go back working there as soon as i got back to L.A., that way i'll immediately have a job and a little bit of money coming my way while i try to find employment on tour.

Anyways, i'm back in Philly now. So far i've just been hanging with the family, playing with the dog, and christmas shopping. The only other interesting thing i could say going on is that i'm working on music again, i know i say this alot, but there's one song i've been working on since this summer and i feel like it finally might be coming together.

All my music and recordings got scrapped from my HD failing, so this was the only song i could remember, and i kinda like the way it's going, so i think it's a good sign the rest got scrapped.....

welp. i'm goign to be off, have a good holiday season


(p.s. if this isn't making too much sense or my thoughts aren't worded right, i apologize, i'm watching tv and doing typing)

-Mb

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

IMG LIVE August 2007 to October 2007

Well, after the last tour ended, IMG Live let my buddy Emily fly in for the weekend to Atlanta to keep me company. That was super cool of them to do and i really appreciated seeing my buddy.

After Emily arrived I made some awesome soup and some tomato & mozzarella sandwiches on whole wheat. I also was obsessing over Mimosas' so we made those two. Emily really dug the layout of the hotel room. You'd walk in, and on your left there would be a small kitchen complete with stove, sink, & fridge. then ahead of you would be an awesome living room with one of those fainting chairs and a flat screen. Then in a seperate room was the beds with an awesome shower & soaps etc from Bliss.

I think the next day we went to the flying biscuit for lunch or breakfast which emily really liked, i'd been there earlier in the week with Ashley from IMG. I highly recommend going there if you ever get stuck in Atlanta and are just wondering where there is an awesome local spot to eat at.

There was a little bit of work that interfered while Emily was there, but nothing too grave...we also went to the mall for a bit,...oh! we tried to go see a movie i think , and failed at that, but we were able to get some massages which was really awesome!!!! Also i think emily and me hung out with Matt and his buddy Mark a bit. Mark was a really cool dude, very funny.

Soon Emily and Mark both left back to their places of residence and Matt and I met up with Jay Finn and we started our trek out to pick up Susan in the North.

The second leg of the tour went really well. Me and Matt were so surprised at how we had little to do on the tour. Jay Finn and Susan just sorta handled their side without any complications. We had a great time on the tour and tried to make the most of our days off going to Disneyworld, New Orleans, Baltimore, Omaha, NE, and some other amazing spots....I could go into major detail about incidents with cops, walking a few miles to go get gas when we ran out, getting peed on, and eating lots of crab, but i'll just leave that to your imagination, or you can just ask me about it and then we'll have something to talk about when i see you next!


chow for now

mary