Monday. Yawn. Blech. Formatted my Sony laptop and my Compaq desktop over the weekend, along with a gig on Saturday night which was rather utterly boring. Oh well, this weekend's Cherokee Yacht Club and Velvet Room, so we're gonna own, it'll be far more fun. I'm thinking I might not even accept any more Boston's gigs. No matter what they spout, I've *never* seen that place crowded. EVER. It was a happening place 10 years ago. It's not 10 years ago anymore.

I'm going to get the top of my left ear pierced either tonight or tomorrow, I'm kinda nervous but it'll look pretty cool when I'm onstage since I wear braids. Just dreading not being able to sleep on my left side for awhile, ugh. But I want to do it early in the week so it's got a bit of a chance to heal before gigs this weekend. I'd like to get the cool niobium one that's the purple/blue/metallic looking color, but i don't know if they'll let me put that one in out of the gate, so if not, I'll just get the regular silver/titanium one for now and in a few months I'll put in the niobium one. I'd like to get my navel redone with one of the half-moon looking jewelry that has the cute little dangly dragonfly or butterflies. But I think I'll wait awhile to let my ear heal up before I go back for more, heh heh.

My boss is no longer my boss. ADS did a restructure and I'm on a different team that does "new development". All I have to say is BRING IT ON! :)))))) We'll see what happens. I haven't had too much to do lately so I've just been supplementing my Flash knowledge by voraciously reading technical books on Actionscript, practicing more C#, VB.NET, etc etc.

I want to see "The Hulk" at some point this week.

Another weekend.....tiring, yes. Fun, yes. I'd love to see the stats on the Velvet Room for cash run through the place in a night -- I think we may have the record on that one. It was to date the most phenomenal, fun, amazing gig I've played with SMiRK yet, and looking forward to many many more.

Got asked by four different people about our originals. So did Aaron about 4 times as well. What's Tulsa coming to? Three years ago if you played an original you'd watch people run the other direction -- now we get asked for originals every gig? WOOHOO. A lot of new fans came out of Saturday night's gig, and I hope I get to see them at more shows. Someone even told me I sound like Natalie Merchant. I could only hope :: blush ::.

Box has us booked well into August with dates now, they're keeping SMiRK busy. Steve's added a lot of marketing ideas for us to use, and has been such a fantastic addition to the band. I miss Rod because he's just a great guy, but we had to forge ahead and do what was best for the band.

Just got off the phone with Jeff Scheel from Gravity Kills. He's doing our bookings now for SMiRK and is just an all around awesome guy. He got us a booking at Velvet Room next Saturday (June 14th) with the acoustic show. I'm looking forward to it!! :)

Working on some band stuff tonight. This band's really beginning to become a full time job. So on top of the day job, the freelance web contracting, and the band, I occasionally get that thing that starts with an s... yeah that sleep word ..... ugh.

Saw "Finding Nemo" yesterday. Praise to Pixar Animation Studios. You guys are the best. I've never seen animated water look like that before. *W-O-W*!

All I have to say is that things with SMiRK are beginning to look VERY VERY good. More to come when I can talk about it. Suffice to say that ...... an IMPRESSIVE show is on its way.

DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIT! I just spent the last 30 minutes writing a post that somehow hit the bit bucket. DAMN fricking blog.

Monday morning. Blech.

Saturday at Cronie's was awesome. Not the fullest crowd possible, I think because it was a tad nippy for end of May and it's an outdoor gig. People were kinda hanging out inside to warm up. But, it's a huge stage, and me and huge stages get along great -- it's the "ham factor". :) Went so great, in fact, that he wants us there next Saturday for a repeat -- either upstairs or downstairs. Went so great, in fact, that the Tulsa Jaycee's called the bar owner looking for our number today so they could book us for a huge July gig. .: happy dance :. We have lots of work to do in the interim, but I think we're on our way.

Worked out over lunch today. Biked 5 miles, ran 1 mile. My quads were still screaming from the Saturday night gig -- you try running around in 3 inch block heels on a stage all night ;) But I made myself do it. Pilates tonight :: groan ::

Saw Bruce Almighty last night -- it was pretty good. Enjoyable evening, except for the fact that I had the cool middle seats where you're right on the balcony and you can kinda put your feet up. Movie gets started, and some fat idiot and his wife come in and the fat man sits next to me. He then proceeds to take his shoes off and put his DISGUSTING claw feet on the rail. Welcome to Oklahoma. :: gag :: And his feet stunk too. The know it all behind me was jabbering constantly, but such is life. I'd pay 2x the ticket price just to sit in the "non-inbreeder" section of the theatre, provided they'd make one :)