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Saturday, July 20, 2002
Music I've finally done it! I've started a website for my trio. Yea!!!! :) Currently it's hosted on Geocities until I get my own site stuff sorted out. If you'd like to check it out it's right here. It's currently just a rough splash page (Flash) but keep checking back through out the day as I build. The song will change as well or at least that recording of it will. I'm just playing around in Flash right now and using what I have on my comuter. The song is an original, recorded live with nothing fancy. Well that's it for now, I've got to go build!!! :) Friday, July 19, 2002
More Trials - Or -The Young and the Terminally Broke It has reached crisis level here. My mom is crying and unable to sleep and my dad is very cranky. We are so financially strapped we didn't grocery shop this week. Now, we're not starving right now but the fridge and cupboards are very baren. The problem is that the weekly gigs that I had been relying on are no longer paying gigs as the bar is not getting enough "liquor" sales to cover costs. The web business while promising, isn't bringing in the funds. My brother hasn't worked in 3 weeks as the work just isn't there for him either. (Oh did I mention that we are a 4 adult household? I had to move home a while ago after 8 years on my own due to a horrible landlord and evaporation of work) My dad doesn't get paid 1/3 what he should be and my mom works to the Chamber of Commerce which is non-profit and pays very little. On top of all that the $800. I was expecting in August for some theatre work I'm doing is not going to materialize as we had to strike a deal with the town in order to put it on (couldn't afford the rental money ourselves) so they get all the money. I just found this out tonight. I had been counting on the money to help with bills and to get new contacts or glasses. The one's I'm wearing are over 5 years old and falling apart and the contacts keep irriating my eyes. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! I'm thinking www.savethewards.com is sounding pretty good. Website and Email Trials If anyone has sent me an email at tamara@wildbutterfly.net in the last 4 days I haven't recieved it. My website and that email address are down for some mysterious reason. I've checked around and Netbuilder.ca/com (my webhost) is down as well as all of my clients sites who use Netbuilder. I'm not a happy spider. Not panicked yet but still not amused........ If you'd like to resend any lost email please send to t-ward2@rogers.com Thursday, July 18, 2002
A Good Day It's a good day. I still have very little singing voice and I still have a gig tonight but it is a good day. I've lost 4 pound since Monday, (Eating 3 meals a day and very little snacking) I've started using weights again. Instead of eating when I've been stress the last few days, (and boy have I been stressed) I read my book, wrote in my journal and wrote some music. I also had a nice surprise. When I started this blog I confessed my weight and stated that it was 2 pounds lighter than my heaviest weight. Not so. I just found my Weight Watchers book from last October and I am almost 20 pound lighter than I was 8 months ago. Yea me!!!!! Not much else to report. If you try to get to my website and can't it is because of a problem with my webhost. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Have a great day everyone, I have to go feed my animals their dinner. :) Monday, July 15, 2002
Crying me a river I am so unhappy. I've lost my voice yet again, I can't hit any note above a "G". 2nd time in 3 months. You must understand, to me being unable to sing is like being unable to breath or articulate fully. Not to mention that when the biggest chunk of your self esteem is tied up in your ability, the sudden loss of said ability is like losing a part of you. I now stake my claim as "Bad Timing Woman". I have a rehersal Tuesday, Wednesday and a gig Thursday. Next Friday I have a HUGE possibly very important gig and all I can do is croak. What I really feel like doing is screaming. Of couse that would be highly counterproductive. So instead I'm going to cry. Quietly. With as little strain to my voice as possible. Sarah Strikes Again Apparently my nose is not safe around Sarah. Or at least I should refrain from drinking while reading Sarah's Blog. I was reading the post entitled "Sarah talks about breasts again" while drinking my very hot tea. Needless to say I was the none too happy recipient of a nasal enema. Then I got to the last three words. How did you know Sarah? This made me laugh so hard it took a full 10 minutes to stop coughing. The laugher was born of personal experience. Before I had my surgery, I used to have nightmares about going out without a bra on. Sarah, you are a far braver soul than I. Of course at that time I beat your cupsize by...... well the difference between to small canteloups and two very large seeded watermelons. :) Being a woman is such fun. I am Whirling Dirvish Woman, hear me roar... I have discovered my super power! I have the ability to whirl through the house like a tornado, banishing dirt to the Land That Lysol forgot. I think I would have preferred x-ray vision. Alas, I guess I have to work with what I have. :) It's been a busy morning. I was supposed to have a business meeting to discuss some advertising possibilities this morning at 10:30 but the lady was early by 40 min. Thankfully Whirling Dirvish Woman was out full force. The only thing I hadn't done was blow dried or curled my hair, put on any makeup, get dressed........ The sight of me frantically trying to pull on clothing while yelling "I'm coming" over the VERY LOUD barking of my 2 VERY LARGE dogs must have been quite funny. I suddenly morphed from Whirling Dirvish Woman into Clumsy Wildly Flailing Panicked Woman. I finally made it to the door, ushered the woman past my vast zoo, (besides the 2 pony sized dogs I have 7 large cats) put out the dogs, put the kettle on for tea (I was raised by Ms. Manners) and then sat down to hear all about how this advertising could change the face of my business. Well, it would change the face of something all right, my bank account. A full page ad is $628.00 and a half page ad is $349.00. Don't get me wrong, the flyer is really nice but I am so poor I had to decline going out for coffee because I didn't have the $1. for a tea. While I'm on the subject of lack of money I was yet again surprised by the audacity or perhaps ingenuity of some people. I was reading Sarah's blog and she was mentioning a woman who has a website devoted to asking people to send her money to help her get out of debt. ????????????? This astounds me. People have been trying to convince me for almost a year to put paypal on my site for donations to help towards the cost of running the free web graphic portion of my website. I can't even bring myself to do that. I'm having enough trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of asking people to invest in the recording of my CD. At least in that, people would hopefully see some return on their investment. Wow. I guess I'm just not pushy enough. I know that in order to make any money or hope to get a record deal I have to have a CD first but in order to make a CD I need money. In my business classes we were told about Angels. No not the winged, singing kind. These are people who invest silently and anonymously in a business or project. Unfortunately I have yet to meet an Angel. Oh well I guess the money will come eventually. Don't hold your breath waiting for www.helptamaramakeacd.com . :) |
