Mark Lanegan is going to play an acoustic show in Europe. . . he will play his album "Bubblegum" in it's entirety. How I wish I could see that show. I'm pretty sure i'd sell my soul to see it. . . provided I didn't need a soul to enjoy Mark's music. I guess i'm just thankful he is not playing this show in Seattle because I would either cry my eyes out because I couldn't go or be completely irresponsible and go anyways even though I have no money and owe my mom over two thousand dollars.
Other than for being jealous of all those lucky people who will attend this amazing Mark Lanegan concert in Europe, I have been fairly well. Alex and I are adjusting to life in Idaho. I recently got a job at Zany Graze in Lewiston as a hostess and am still working at a senior meal site cooking for old people. Even though I work two jobs it seems like i'm not making any money. I guess it's because i'm not. I only work a couple of hours at Zany's a day and it just doesn't add up very fast. I'd think about trying to find a different job if the job market didn't suck so badly.
Anyways, Alex hasn't been able to find a job yet and that is making things kind of tight. It's hard to be the only one bringing in any money. Hopefully he'll find something soon.
The thing that is really making it hard is that I owe my mother so much money. The reason I owe her so much money is because she let me take out a loan from the bank under her name to buy a car. The car I bought ended up needing the clutch and transmission replaced. Which that in itself was horribly expensive. Thankfully the car is running smoothly now.
Once we have the car paid off and Alex gets a job, I've got big plans for the future. Alex and I both have two bands in the works and I see a bright future for music. After we've paid off our car we plan to finish remodeling our house and spend way more many than any responsible adult would on band equipment and concert tickets.
Life is good but it'd be better if we had our car paid off.
Gee, it's been a while since i've been on here.I have not blogged in a long time because life just hasn't given me the time to do such things lately. Life is moving fast and somehow I am not.
Lately i've been somewhat stressed out. Mostly it's about money, bills, vehicles, and the house. Who would've thought i'd ever be concerned with these things. I remember being so young and ideas of bills, money, cars and houses were so. . . foreign to me.
I suppose the final statement that I was an adult came to me the other day. When I thought of Christmas I didn't think of fun, family, presents and snow I thought about how I had no money and how these next few months are going to be really tough. Yep, i'm an adult now. How boring.
To make things even more boring, I have to dye my hair back to a normal color so I can get a job in Lewiston. So, Goodbye Rainbow hair! I shall miss thee so.
Speaking of Lewiston, stress, cars and bills, I had to take my truck into Bruneal Tires today. Apparently my ball joints were going bad and they needed to be fixed. THANKFULLY my dad has pulled through and is helping me pay for it. Who would've ever thought!? Sometimes fate truly does deal me an Ace.
My mother and Grandmother accompanied me to Lewiston today. Actually, they followed me up in my Grandmother's car because I had to leave my truck there over night. Whilst in Lewiston, we stopped to look at this cute Honda Civic I found on Craigslist. I'm not sure yet but I think we're going to buy it. We're going in on Thursday to look at it again.
It's a 1995 Honda Civic LX. The girl who is selling it had it at a listing price of $2,500.00 but is willing to go down to $2,100.00 . Which is fantastic. She says the only reason she is getting rid of the car is because she has been dislocating her knees since she was seven which has led to major surgery. She's going in to have another surgery on her knees and driving a stick shift is just too much for her knees to handle. Also she got a new car and selling this car would help on the payments. In fact, the new car was sitting in the driveway so i'm pretty sure she was telling the truth.
The only bad thing about this is we don't have enough money to pay outright for the car so i'm going to have to get a loan from the bank. WHICH SUCKS. Thankfully I can get a deal with zero percent interest until July of next year. If we can't pay off that little amount of money by July then we don't deserve to have a car.
Other then for all of that, things are going well. Alex, Renee and I went to Seattle a few weeks ago to see a new band called "Them Crooked Vultures". It was AMAZING. It was one of the best shows i've ever seen. Unfortunately this time we did not have the experience of meeting the band but during the show I yelled "I LOVE YOU JOSH!!!" to Josh Homme who is the lead singer and he replied "I love you (to the whole audience) but I love you specifically" and then he pointed to me.
For the last several months I have been really neglectful of writing on xanga. I suppose it's just lack of time and the fact my space bar has something stuck underneath it making it somewhat frustrating to type.
There hasn't been really too much new going on. Our kitchen is almost finished in the basement. We're painting the walls and ceiling tomorrow. Well, I suppose I should say Alex is painting the walls and ceiling tomorrow. I will be at work, feeding old people.
Today my mother and my grandmother went to Lewiston to purchase a few new pots and pans for the senior meal site that I work at. We recently got a new oven range and it's one of those glass top cook tops and it has special needs in terms of the pots and pans used upon it.
Over all, we had a pretty good time. Generally I don't like shopping too much but it was kind of fun. It was nice to have my mom and grandmother together. My mom doesn't spend much time with Tutu (my grandmother) anymore and I think Tutu really misses her.
It's so nice to be back home. I really missed my family. It's so wonderful to see my grandparents more often. I could spend hours with Grampy (my grandfather) just listening to him tell stories. Given many of his stories are horrible because he was a marine in world war II and has all kinds of bloody nasty stories to tell, they're still interesting. You can't help but respect someone who has been through all he has.
Other then for spending time with family, nothing has been going on. Alex and I are trying to get the house fixed up but it's a little more difficult than I had originally given credit to. The house being as old as it is, has so many uneven and just funky angles to it. This makes EVERYTHING more difficult. But, all in all, I think we're coming along nicely and should have the kitchen done before the end of the week. Provided we don't uncover anything we're not expecting.
I wanted to say more in this but i'm just too tired. I have got to get up early early early to go to work in the morning therefore I must be going now. over and out
