If I could I would marry Brooklyn, its food, its people, its pretty pretty things.

So I drove up to Brooklyn from my parents house in Philly on Friday morning. Though this drive gets boring during hour two and sometimes if Staten Island is feeling especially like a parking lot hour three it is still decent.  Two and a half hours was the perfect distance for me to move away from my family almost ten years ago.

Friday I went to dinner with three lovely girlfriends to Fiore.  The service as always was amazing and due to a connection to the owner we were treated to complimentary soup, pizza, desert and wine.  We will be returning next Friday.  We followed this up by meeting up with a fifth lady then arguing over where to go in the bitter cold.  Thank goodness T had her car.  We headed over to the The Woods to meet up with a buddy of mine who also had his friend with him.  We will get back to the friend as the most important thing of the evening was the car featured below. Not only did it have working christmas lights, antlers and a bumper made of stuffed animals it was BLARING “Dominic the Donkey” Which made it even better. So thank you car for making the walk to dinner that much more amazing.

T’s button collection which adorns her car is also below, to get a shot that even came out we held up a few cell phones which probably looked ridiculous consider the five of us were crammed into and shivering in her city friendly mini car.

Back to The Woods, the music was excellent but it was insanely crowded which congrats to the bar owners is good for them but makes me hate people. I will be going back next Friday after dinner at Fiore again for a friend’s birthday so I guess I should not complain. Not that anyone reads this anyway. That is where I met my friend’s friend who I was told by the friend is shamed by girls regularly for being so weird. I did not think he was that weird in fact I found him nice and charming so when my friends and I were leaving the bar to go to a party and he asked to come I said yes. A drink in at the party and he stopped speaking and just started gesturing then became the person who just stands at a party. I should mention he is a kindergarten teacher which amused me when he could no longer stand up well. So I returned him to my friend through a 45 minute ordeal that involved walking a friend halfway home, a hired car, getting my car with a sober friend, driving to the bar where our mutual friend was and then to the mutual friends apartment when we determined he was not at the bar. Then I sat on my friends stoop for ten minutes with this boy who in the end was just another run of the mill dude than what I was kind of hoping was awesome.

Saturday we went to a craft fair at 3rd ward, I spent money. This is I am sure shocking.

Then we went to Brooklyn Label for brunch, I love this place. It is yummy you should go there. Also they have really good hot chocolate.

Sunday was great, we went to Connecticut to visit a friend had lunch then went bowling which was much more fun than I remember it being. We then drove back to the city to the Upper West Side for a friends Christmas/Birthday Party. Where I got to see a lot of old friends from college.

Sunday was brunch at BK Label again, stopped by the BK Brewery then drove to my parents house in Philly. Back up to BK on Friday but have to get my grandparents from the airport tomorrow, yay!

BEST CAR EVER

DINNER AT FIORE

BRUNCH AT BROOKLYN LABEL

T’S BUTTON COLLECTION

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I GOT THE JOB!

So I got a call back the other day about the touring job I applied for and was offered the position!  So I am off again, touring North America with another traveling show.  This tour however will be very different in many ways, I have a partner managing the merch with me!  So I am not alone!  I will again be working for a touring partner so I will not be a part of the main touring crew which is always a challenge but also nice sometimes.  So my tour will begin on January 25th which is nice because I get to be home for Christmas with my family and go to Barcelona to visit my old touring buddies then have another two weeks at home before I have to go out again!

So happy so nervous, I go for HR orientation tomorrow which I am excited for!

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Last nights dream…

So I had this dream that I was in California and staying at my aunt and uncles house.  Now it really was not their home, it was right on the beach.  You walked across a yard then a boardwalk and there was the beach.  They live by the beach but not that close.  Anyway they had additional family members as well.  My aunt and uncle in reality have three boys.  In my dream they had a little girl as well, and I was staying in her room with her.  This little girl was adorable but had these crazy sleep acrobatics.  So she ended up doing a back flip out of her bed and landing on her head between the bed and the wall.

She survived, it freaked me out so bad.

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Ed Hardy

Eww

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Oooooppppsssss….

So after my mother soundly kicked my dads ass in whatever card game it is that they play nightly he was a bit pissy and started bitching at me about the phone bills I owe him. My lovely pops is kind enough to pay my phone bill (5 of the 7 people in my immediate family are on the same family plan) when I am on the road. He does this so my phone does not get turned off because as you can imagine mail service to a hotel I occupy for a week or a moving tour bus is not reliable. So he takes care of all my bills, which are really only my cell phone, padi membership and any hospital bill that might arrive due to run ins with locals all over our beautiful county, but to be honest only in the south.

He does all this because I cannot do it myself, I return the favor by letting them pile up and honestly forgetting they exist. The fact that he only brings it up every four months when I happen to be around and he is in a bad mood because he just got his ass kicked in rummy does not count to him. I should be responsible for it, and he is right, but I am just not responsible like that. I am in my head trying to figure out a million different things that have nothing to do with my cell phone bill. None of them are important so I won’t list them here (nail polish selection, Chloe Paddington bag, ebaying stuff i never use, walmart dvd sales, etc)

After yelling back and forth for five minutes I go upstairs and start looking up bills, only to realize that I am the main phone. So the main charge for the entire family plan is on MY PHONE. I have been highlighting said total and sending it in as an expense for about a year and a half. All told my old company (which no longer exists) paid about 6,000 dollars for my families phone bill. So while I should have been dividing that number by FIVE and only sending that in for expenses I had been sending them the entire thing. This never occurred to me, or the accountants at my old company. My dad never noticed because the bills would pile up for months then I would give him a wad of cash (1300 bucks or so) and he would be satisfied, probably thinking I was paying him extra for being awesome. Either way he never questioned it and it never occurred to me because it was expense money kept separate from my own and was always approved.

I feel terrible. I loved my bosses at this company and was very sad when they slowly left after the company was bought out by what can only be described as the man of touring companies and my entire expense situation changed. I got 5 dollars a day for my phone expense and that was it. No turning in of receipts nothing. So how does one deal with such a revelation. I am genuinely worried about the karma from this realization. It’s not bad enough that an amazing company was destroyed but it also paid my families phone bill for about a year and a half. There is actually nothing I can do about it now, and it was partially their fault for being so careless. However I feel bad and I am sorry.

Just had to get that out there.

Also second interview tomorrow at two, I really want this job. I cannot not work anymore.

Wish me luck!

Filed under: December 09, Uncategorized , cell phone bill, dad

Daffy Duck, Dance Party, Barcelona, I want to marry a UFC fighter…

So I had my interview with the company that I interviewed with and will be having a second interview with HR and Operations on Thursday. Good sign, if they offer it to me however I will have to ask for more money. They want to pay me the same as someone on another tour that is easier and admitted they would be putting someone with no touring experience on the thing. So really they just told me to ask for more money. Hopefully I will get it, but honestly I will probably take the job anyway as I just really need to work at this point as I won’t feel as bad leaving them when the job I actually want comes up in the future. But it should be a good experience and will be good for my resume.

Sister, Brother in law and niece #1 came over for dinner and afterward we had a dance party, it has been a while since I have done the hokey pokey (the dance sicko) and it is still incredibly akward and my family looked ridiculous.

I also got my ticket to Barcelona for new years today and instead of the 800 dollars it would have cost me I called US airways and this nice lady found me a ticket for 50,000 points which I had been saving up for just this purpose a trip to Europe. It cost 150 dollars in processing but all in all I got a wonderful deal which is amazing. So I am leaving on the 27th of December and heading back to Philly on the 10th of January. Which is a nice little vacation before this tour starts in February. Seeing everyone from my last tour will be nice I miss them and even getting to talk to them every once in a while is a treat.

Also I want to marry a UFC fighter. That’s it.

Christ I am boring.

Filed under: December 09, Uncategorized , barcelona, dance party, interview, new years

As a snowman….

So I have been in Williamsburg, VA for the past few days hanging out with my friend Rachel and her sister Erin.  I got here last Thursday and went from the train station out to a few bars saw my friend Nate and met a few other guys that live around here.  Friday we just lazed about the house me being hungover and tired from the 7 hour train ride the day before.  Erin, Rachel and I have been on an amazing movie watching marathon including Twilight, Lords of Dogtown, Grey Gardens, Because I Said So, The Notebook, Mean Girls, I love you Beth Cooper and today we went to the movie theater to see New Moon.

Last night in a fit of boredom/crazy we went to the grocery store and stocked up on junk food and a ginger bread house kit.  The gingerbread house is amazing!

Saturday we went to Colonial Williamsburg and walked around looking at the buildings and shops.  It was pretty cool,  I had never been there before.  Then that night Rachel and her cousin Julie took me to Saddle Ridge which is a giant bar that plays country and rap.  It is also fully equipped with a mechanical bull.  Which at about 1 am is very funny to watch.  No I did not ride the bull I am not that kind of girl.  I was however told before we went that it was a “meat market”  never has a phrase described a bar so well….and then I hit on the bass player of the cover band.  In retrospect he was only cute from far away with his hat on, and I did not have my glasses.  So there is that.  At least I did not do anything embarrassing like tell another guy to stop talking so I could keep flirting with him…oh but I did.  I am a creep.

Anyway spent the next few days doing fun girl things and then hopped on the train to Philly yesterday which took a relaxing 8 hours in which I luckily sat next to a nice girl who was very supportive of the fact that we were surrounded by crazy people.  One of whom grabbed my arm and I swear was a second away from licking my tattoo until I told him not to touch strangers.

Also exciting I got an email from a really big company asking if I wanted to talk about a touring gig.  They have openings on two different tours so we shall see.  I was supposed to talk to them at three yesterday and then today and we have finally settled on Monday at two.  So hopefully I will be back on the road by January, though not with a circus but with a cartoon.  Which is in my eyes just as good.

I am going to go eat more pie now, tis the season!

Filed under: Nov 09, Uncategorized

Unemployment…

It is currently one a.m. and I am sitting on my brothers couch.  I will be woken up in a painful five hours by my niece who will inevitably want to play with me.  Why am I awake?  Because I have no job and am the worst sleeper on the planet.

My tour ended in August of 09 and I have for the past two and half months been visiting friends and family and applying for jobs.  I have recently stepped up the applying for jobs section of my life and hope that it gets me somewhere.  Meanwhile I have received two rejections one after my first interview ever, which I believe I bombed. The second in an email from the same company about how other people who already work for them got the job.  Regardless I am hopeful.  My next interview will be much better I am confident now that I will be confident as opposed to bumbling and clueless.  Let’s hope this sticks.

So tomorrow I will be exhausted and hang out with little kids all day, then go to my parents house. (where I live now, unemployed carnies cannot afford New York City apartments wish I had thought of that 12,000 dollars ago)  I will clean my room do laundry and pack for what is sure to be a truly ridiculous weekend south of the Mason Dixon line.  Yes folks I am going to Williamsburg, the historical one, not the one where my lease and illegal sublet reside.  I hope to get drunk, be hit on by complete strangers who have no hope of getting any of me, and hang out with a dear touring friend whom I miss terribly.  All of these things are sure to be accomplished so I am not worried.  What does concern me is the mode of transport, I will be taking the Amtrak train the 7 hours from Philadelphia to Newport News and hope to not stab anyone.  This does not include the hour and a half of train and wait time from my parents house.  I will be using a rolling suitcase as I cannot imagine carry a duffel for this six-day jaunt is going to be something I have any interest in doing.  So Thursday to Tuesday morning.  Should be interesting.

Just to clarify no one will be getting anything off of me anytime soon because all I want in me is a job nothing more, nothing less.

Filed under: Nov 09, Uncategorized

LEG 7

shit.

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Madison, WI; Overheard at the Circus; Foreigners…

Madison is fucking cold.

Overheard at the Circus

“what you do?”-vitali

“frank dutch ovens me every night”-katie

“wait until i start eating healthy, i am going to melt your face off”-frank

Foreigners are interesting.

I wish I had more interesting things to say.

I am going to watch super bad and pass out now.

Tomorrow is going to last forever. We go back to being in one city for a week and not just a few days next so that will make tour much more relaxed. We have been in four cities in the past two weeks and loading in and loading out is just a pain in the ass.

Filed under: November 2007, Uncategorized