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Thursday, October 24, 2002
The Blues "Love to sing them? Crazy about the colour? Now try the emotion!!! If you call in the next 15 minutes you can have "The Blues" for your very own. For one low price of $15.99. But that's not all! If you call now we'll also throw in "Lethargy", "Listlessness" and "Crankiness" at no extra cost! That's right. No extra cost! But there's more! If you pay by credit card we'll include this handsome case of "Hopelessness" for the first 100 callers! So stop than annoying giggling, quelch your zest for life, pick up the phone and call now! Not available in Hawaii, Ontario residents add GST" That's pretty much how I'm feeling today. Sad thing is I don't remember picking up the phone and making the call. Hey! Aren't we supposed to at least get a set of plaid tea cosys or a CD of the greatest all time marchs with deals like this??? :oP Monday, October 21, 2002
Poor Shannon I just got off the phone with Shannon. She's so upset because of something that happened at work. Short version: The vet had extended credit to a client for something. Vet went home leaving Shannon. Client came to pick up said credit item and and few other things we ready as well. He asked Shannon if he could grab them while he was in. The vet never at any point said that the credit was only for the one thing so Shannon let him have it. She got totally reamed out. In typical Shannon fashion, she took all of the blame on herself. IMHO they are the one's who are idiots. What? Is Psyhic part of the job description now? But this isn't why she's so upset. She just recieved a call from the office manager. Shan's due to work at 1Pm. Kelly called to get her to come in an hour early, "We really need to have a talk with you" Shannon asked "Does this mean I'm in big trouble for something?" Kelly: "Let's just say you'd better come with a defence prepared" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell?!!!!!!!!!!!!! What more do they want from her? A defence? She already took the blame and said she screwed up (which I don't agree with) what more do they want? They've done things like this before. Bastards. She figures she'll either get fired or she'll get so upset she'll quit. I told her that if she thinks that this is going to happen anyway, make sure she speaks her mind. Nick, if you read this she could really use a funny, silly message on her machine. Just don't mention what's going on, she'll want to tell you her self. Why can't we all just have a little joy? Only in my life... So last Tuesday we had our last gig with Stewart. Oh joy, oh bliss...I wasn't concerned at all about Stu or the gig. Ken had told us that it would be a dinner gig in Aurora for some sort of organization. No problem!!! We do soft, slow music best as we are a trio and lacking drums. So I get all dressed up in my best dinner/elegant clothes compleat with 4' heels. "It'll be an early night" Ken promised. I have no problem standing still and singing in heels for extended periods. Hell, at 5'2 you get used to the torturous things. Ken picked up Stewart as he wanted to make sure that Stu couldn't back out. I questioned Ken about this worry. It went something like this. ME: "So big deal. If Stu doesnt' show up, it wouldn't be the first time. We've been playing the last 3 weeks without him, what's the big deal?" KEN: (strangely) "Oh, ya know.... I just want to make sure he doesn't bail" I'm thinking at this point, "What's the big deal. You're always telling me that we don't need him and we should play by ourselves" I get this strange feeling that Ken isn't telling me everything. ME: "Is it going to be disastrous if he doesn't show?" KEN: (Huge pause) "Well... not really" I don't think much more of it. Fastforward to the trip up to the gig. We're all in the car talking about the night ahead. ME: "So Ken, where are we playing?" KEN: "Aurora" ME: "Well duh! I mean who are we playing for? I know we're playing in the basement of a church." KEN:(With his ever present "hahahaha I'm sooooo funny" grin on his face) "Paranoid Schizophrenics." ME: "Ha ha ha! Very funny! Really, who are we playing for. KEN: "I'm not kidding" Ya right!!! Sure Ken. We get to the church and go inside. That's when Stu and I are met with the first of our surprises. We see a poster advertising a DANCE!!! So what? You may think. Well, we are a trio. We can play dances, we've done one every Halloween at Sax's for years but we haven't played one in quite a while. We've spent the last 2 years focusing on softer stuff. We do play some upbeat stuff but not enough for an entire night. I try to have a heart to heart with my churning stomach. "Hey! Relax. These are people you will never have to see again. You didn't book the gig. You don't need to have rehearsed this stuff in the last 2 years..... you're a professional you can fake it. Strangely enough my stomach didn't believe me. After looking questioningly at Ken and getting a "I couldn't have sworn it was a dinner...." mutter, we met the lady that hired us. Ken immediately says to her, "Tell Tami who we're playing for tonight. " "Paranoid Schizophrenics, medicated psychotics, manic depressives......" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Only in my life!!!! To be fair, they really liked us.... It was fun but my back was soooo sore. I hadn't planned on standing up for 4 hours playing dance music in 4' heels. I guess this is what they call paying our dues. In other music related news, we're getting ready for our Nov, 2 CD release. Jody is playing really well. I do feel like a bitch however. Jody's daughter Crystal sits in on our rehearsals. She is the nicest kid and she has a really great voice but..... We're trying to teach Jody all this new music, which in itself is a lot of work. Crystal uses a mic and sings along. She doesn't know most of the stuff but tries to follow along. Any other time this would be great and I would love to have her learn a couple and get up with us but right now I'm finding it very distracting. It's hard to be able to sing the songs the way I want to. I'm the kind of vocalist that plays around with the music a lot. The first verse I may sing one way and then the second very I play with the rhythm of the lyrics. Crystal really makes that difficult. She's 13 and soooooo into music. I love to see the eagerness in her and I would never want to dampen that enthusiasm. Ken's in a tough position because it's his niece. We'd love to get Jody to come up here for rehearsals but his wife needs their only car for work and it's too far to pick him up, rehearse and take him home. I'm not sure what I'm going to do..... Why I love my friends The reasons really are numerous but here's a good example. I'm reposting something I just read on Nicks blog He provided me with a much needed LOL. Nick, you crack me up!!! Now for everyone else to really GET why this is sooo funny I should tell you that the actual name of the play is "What the Rabbi Saw" but for the longest time everyone thought the poster read "What the Rabbit Saw". We were wondering if it was a sequel to "Harvey". Last night I went to see my friends Shannon, Mike and Chris in a play called "What the Rabbit Saw." I thought that the acting was great, the charaters funny, but plot wise, I was dissapointed...why you may ask, because there wasn't a single rabbit in the entire show....just a Rabbi, but what do ya do. The show was, unfortunatly, laugh out loud funny. Again you may ask, why unfortunatly, well, you would understand if a little old lady was sitting one row infront of you and loudly passed gass everytime she laughed...oh boy.. So over all the show was great and I really enjoyed it...minus the lack or rabbits and the granny flatulents.... - Nick 8:15 AM + |
