Feb. Update.

I haven't blogged in a while.

So let me give you a quick update.

Umm....lets see. I've seen big D, ska is dead, the slackers, big d again, and next week is The English Beat with Fishbone. So its been skatastic since I began Mission Ska in November. I was planning a show in March at Churchills but it just turned out to be too expensive so i cancelled and decided to scale back. All ages shows with smaller bands.

What else? ok well i got a text from a friend who works at SAE telling me that some company was looking for editors. so i called them and we set up an interview. i went. it seemed to have gone well. although there's a language barrier because he doesn't speak english. but i think i held my own. it felt cool to know what i was talking about and to have some input and stuff. :) they haven't called back and frankly i don't care if they do because i'm pretty busy with mission ska. of course i'm not gonna turn it down if they wanna offer me a job.

we're in the process of looking for houses. finally. we're limited of course because we only have one income and we can't go west or south because ed doesn't want a long commute. we just started looking and its already looking bleak. we got this realtor that came highly recommended by my friend april. although she seems nice she's not really meeting my needs as far as communication goes. she hardly ever gets back to me. i'm thinking of going with my mom's cousin instead.

we haven't told my parents that we're looking for houses, no have we told doris. with my parents i know they're just try to tell us that buying a house is a bad idea just like they did before. and doris will try to take over. so we'd rather wait till we find something we like before we even get them involved. but today my dad busted out with "so...have you found a house yet?" all snotty like. just come out and say someone told you that. don't be all 5th grade about it. geez. annoying.

wed i went to the big d show by myself again. got to meet some of the guys i didn't meet last time and got to talk to ryan again. i swear he's just the best. and i waited around in the cold till 2am to give them cupcakes but they didn't come out. so i left them with a note. hope they got them.

ok i think we're pretty caught up. now, the reason i'm writing this blog is to tell you what i did today. i dropped my parents and grandma off at the port for their weekend cruise. so i took their car and went to kendall to scope out some possible venues for shows. jenny had told me that they have a stage at Super Wheels (a cool skating rink). i had emailed them about it but they never wrote back. so i went in there today and talked to them and they were really cool. they said they put on rock shows in there all the time. well mostly hip hop and DJs but they do rock as well. so i asked what it would take and she gave me the specs. very interesting. i think it would be an awesome place for shows. then i went to kinkos and printed out some more mission ska flyers. i was going to leave them at Drake's. Drake's is a night club in kendall in a strip mall which i had asked if they do rock shows. They enthusiastically replied (via twitter) to tell me that yes! and to get in touch with them. so when i went over today i saw they were closed. probably because they're only open at night. fine. i called the number they gave me and this guy answered (without even saying the name of the business) and he was all rushing me. and i asked about booking bands and he was just acting like i was completely bothering him. he gave me snippy answers like he didn't want my business. then he was like can you hold on a second? and i said sure. he proceeds to put me on hold. and about 5 min later i fucking hung up. i mean how fucking rude. you could have very easily asked me to call back at another time. that was just a dick move. wow. so yeah thats one big strike against them. they're acting like they're all that and shit. psh. they're so not.

i feel like i got maybe 3 hours of sleep last night. i'm zausted. but thankfully i don't have to pick up ed and this is vday weekend.:) nothing big planned this year as i'm like whatevs about it. all i care about is that we spend some nice time together this weekend. i don't need anything special. sat night we're going to an english pub to have some dinner and watch some ska. i'm really looking fwd to it. :)

oh ps. yesterday i made mini cupcakes for valentines day. and today i brought some down to my fav front desk guy danny. he was happy :)