Day 25

Yep, Day 25.  

So I made cookies today.  I haven't had one yet, but they are cooling on a rack right next to me as I blog and they smell delish.

Had dinner with some old co-workers last night at The Original El Taco.  I absolutely recommend this place.  It was sooooo good.  It's at the corner of North Highland and Amsterdam (in the space that used to be Sala).  This El Taco place was divine.  I had a bunch of guacamole (chunky and incredible), a tilapia taco and a chorizo taco.  And a few margaritas.  Normally I'm a huge supporter of Pancho's and nothing will do in the Mexican world for me what Pancho's does, but this place, came a very close second.  I suggest going anytime after 7:30, that's when the kids clear out.  But if you have a child (or like being near them while you dine and they whine) then they open at 5:00.  So far, not open for lunch but I anticipate that will change soon as every night of the week they are packed.

That was that.  

I have a job interview on December 3.  I'm not going to share with you, Internet, the details of with whom or where.  I don't want to jinx stuff.  But I'll fill you in post interview.  That's exciting.

Otherwise not much going on.  I missed the finale of The Real Housewives of Atlanta so I'm hoping to catch up on that today or tomorrow (who needs a DVR when Bravo reruns everything 97,000,000 times?).  

Oh, Jamie and I went to see the Kings of Leon at The Tabernacle on Tuesday night.  Man, were they awesome!  What a great band.  I had doubts about them live for some reason (maybe cause Jamie said he saw them on SNL and they sucked, but really, since when is SNL a fair judge on good live performances, unless your name is Justin Timberlake and you have your D*ck In A Box or your Paul Simon in a turkey costume?).  But they rocked it.  The show was sold out and we ended up snagging a pair of seats on the fourth row of the first balcony all the way stage right.  I was able to see the entire band on stage the entire show (which being five feet tall is sometimes not possible).  I wanted them to play all night, but instead I got two really rocking hours out of them.  If you care and you don't already have their new album, you must get it now.  I like tracks 3, 7, 8, and 9.  I don't know the names of the songs, just what numbers.  But the whole album is fantastic.

So that's that for now.  Hopefully in the next few days my life will get more interesting and I'll better things to blog about.  

Here's today's pic.  Jamie said the picture looked like I was a whore looking for a john.  But that's no the case.  I think if anything I'm more like one of those tractor trailers you see driving around.  Maybe I'll get a load of Kings of Leon CDs to deliver to Maine...

Day 15

Hello Internet!

Here I am, day 15 and still no job. Does this font look weird? It does to me. I'm pretty sure it's the font I always use but today it looks strange.

Anyway, no job. Yet. I just found a ton of cool jobs at Turner. It's not music, but I'm slowly starting to branch out. I want to stay in music. That's my passion, that's the career I want, but with the economy being so shitty the music industry is in the dumps. See, when someone like the Allman Brothers Band get paid close to $1mil (I'm not kidding) to do two nights over the summer the venue has to charge a ridiculous amount of money for tickets in order to recoup their costs. Since the economy sucks guess what, people aren't paying ridic amounts of money for concerts. Therefore shows aren't selling and therefore the music business is in the crapper. Ticket sales for concerts (not just over priced ones, Madonna) are down overall. I guess when people can barely afford gas (but now it's under $2) they stop spending money on frivolous things like concerts.

Anyway, the boredom is starting to get to me. I'm so bored I think I might get depressed, sign up for one of those studies they advertise for on daytime TV and make $500. Then I'll be happy again for a minute. I kid, I kid!!!

If you have any leads or need someone to book your next band please call me.

The pic above is not very flattering but I'm not in a flattering mood. :)

Day 11

Excuse me for not posting for a while.  I've been on the computer so much lately working on my resume, searching for jobs, reading dlisted, that I haven't had the energy to blog.

Not much has changed since the last posting.  We recovered from Halloween (save for the three pieces of candy I've hidden from Jamie).  I still don't have a job.  Same old same old.

Today I tackled the box of stuff I brought home from my old job.  Mainly personal things like photographs and for some reason a ridiculous amount of pens.  I don't know why I felt it necessary to take home every pen I ever touched at that place, but I did, and now I have approximately 750,962 pens.  And I assume they all work.  

In order to put all the things in the "stuff from the place I used to work" box away I had to clean out the closet.  Not the scary closet (the one where the water heater lives), but the much more intimidating junk closet.  The closet that is meant for a washer and dryer.  Luckily I don't have a washer or a dryer, because if I did I wouldn't have room for them.  This closet has everything in it from fishing poles and camping stuff to an extra comforter for the bed, from wrapping paper and ribbon to every single cord that has ever come with any sort of electronical (I totally made that word up!) device I have ever owned.  That closet is now the proud keeper of all of the above mentioned pens.  It was a tough job, but I did it!  I threw some things out but mainly just reorganized so that everything could fit.  The only thing that got evicted were Jamie's golf clubs, but in all fairness he snuck those in the closet one day behind my back and even though I had since discovered them I allowed them to stay until today.  But the trade off is that I now made room for all of his camping stuff (as well as mine), and that stuff all used to live in the trunk of his car.  I have a feeling his golf clubs will end up living there from now on.  Hey, you never know when you'll get involved in an impromptu game of golf.

Above is today's pic.  I know I look naked, but I'm not.  I also know my hair looks gross and stringy, but it's just wet.  I just got out of the shower.  

Anyway, I'm off to look for more work on the web.  If you need a pen, call me.

Day 6

Halloween was fun.  

We went to dinner with a group of friends at Matador in Glenwood Park and then headed to the North Highland Inn Ballroom.  Nothing too special, but a fun night.

I dressed as a baseball player and Jamie was the most hysterical Ugly Betty you've ever seen.  I wish I had some fabulous pictures to show you right now, but in typical fashion we schlepped the camera around only to find out the batteries were dead.  Jen got some pics of us and as soon as she emails them I will post them.

I only saw one Sarah Palin last night and it happened to be a friend of ours and to tell you the truth, she looked really good.  The best part of her costume was the $150,000 price tag she left pinned to her dress.  Good stuff.  Nothing we saw was all that out of the ordinary.  A woman at Matador was wearing space (like outer space) pajamas and this gigantic UFO thing on her head with lights and everything.  There was a Little Bo Peep and a sheep at the North Highland Inn Ballroom, but Mom pointed out they did that on some TV show she watches.  Otherwise it was your typical Halloween fare - slutty firefighter, skanky nurse, scantily clad cat, the usual.  

I promise I'll post the Halloween pics as soon as I get them.  In the meantime, I actually posted a picture taken today for my Out Of Work Photo Journal.  Enjoy!  It looks like I need to shower.  The lighting in here sucks for photos.

Don't forget to fall back tonight!