Loving the Music.. and....

Thanks Emily, for these posts. Great idea! I am sharing it with Jeremy as it might be up his alley.

Since I am here, a quick catchup on my "house" status.

I started looking in May with a realtor from my old days at Massasoit. I was kinda frothing over some pictures of places and the prices I saw. I thought this might be my only window where all factors converge so that I may actually be able to get into a house.

So....R.E. Dan Derito has been patient, thorough and determined and we have seen plenty of dogs and a few viables. Finally I put an offer on one that was beat out by the end of the same day. Oh well.

So, I currently have an offer out on a "short sale" (just short of foreclosure) that was accepted by the seller but has to be accepted by their bank as well.

All my professionals are pretty convinced that I am in good shape to get the property, but as it is semi in the hands of the bank, there is that exra layer of approval.

I have not seen the interior since my first "go through" and that was practically in the dark and loaded with tenant stuff.

I DID see oak flooring under the carpet(!!!) It has an attached garage (!!!) A bonus room with a fireplace (!!!) a dishwasher (!!!) central a/c (!!!)

It also has foil wallpaper in the living room. Old gray grained and routered laminate cabinets, ala '60's, one cracked, but otherwise decent ceramic tile in the kitchen, I think.

It lists as a 3 bedroom, one of which could become a dining room.
I have no idea about closets, actual room dimensions, close-up conditions.

Anyway.... I am sort of climbing my current walls in anticipation.
Cooking up a storm and glueing myself to all the home improvement shows to keep me occupied.

I will probably use this site more for venting re: this process. I was thinking that this endeavor might even make a good "reality" blog all on it's own.

Anyway, hope everyone is happy and healthy and...
Best wishes,
Love,
Kate

In touch

Hey all,

I'm currently on a quest to integrate all my various e-presences, but it's hard with a work persona, a band persona, and now a family persona, all with different rules of conduct, etiquette, etc. but I'm trying.

Anyway, tour was great. Glad I was able to see Dan, Julie, Arielle, Kynna, her husband, and her kids with the similar sounding names, and bats and petrified forests and the dark side of humanity. Austin I think was especially strange and unkind to us on the band front, but the compensatory family time was a more than fair trade off. Is this an okay space to get into details?

Well, briefly, we popped a tire on the way from El Paso to Austin, stopping briefly in Van Horn, wherefore we encountered a very strange and unsettling people. It was the kind of town that made you feel like was overrun with vampires once the sun went down. Being that we were in search of a new tire we encountered many peoples that had very gremlin-like appearances, and didn't seem concerned with their hygiene, or the amount of pollutants they inhale.

So we ended up landing in Austin at around 10:30. We said it was cool if we played later, and they said they didn't remember that we were playing that night, even though their was a picture up in their display of our poster with a hand written date on it.

We played at around 1am that night and then opened the following night, but were able to stay in an empty apartment at a friend of claire's.

The darker side of humanity pertains to a fight I saw in front of the venue between two members of different bands that were playing that night, and 19 shots of gunfire that were fired later that night at Emo's, a club where two bands that we would play with the following Saturday in Dallas got blood on their vans and gear as they were loading out, and had to stay until 4am interviewing police as witnesses to the crime. Kynna assured us that this was unusual for Austin, but still, a bit strange.

Thanks for taking pictures, Arielle!

Anyway, we're up for best band (of the month) on The Deli Sf again, so please go there and vote: www.thedelimagazine.com/sf/

Also, you can buy the album on Itunes. I haven't done a big push yet because I want to build our twitter followership, email list, facebook fans, and have the physical record for sale on our website before I alert the masses.

How are you? When's the wedding? Are people on here a lot? Did I miss the boat?

makememakeyou.com

Jeremy