Friday, February 13, 2009

Gosh is it already the middle of Febuary 2009

OK, I have been slacking off since December but in my defence its been busy. I was on tour with the Disney Cheetah Girls and we wrapped up December 21 in San Diego CA. I left and went home for Christmas and was only planning on staying home till the first of the year.
Well Christmas was a nice time with the family we got a wii game system and spent time with my mother. Then New Years was a pleasant event of just staying home and enjoying the family.
With the new year came new challenges. My job called me and informed me that due to economics and the way concert tours are that I should expect not to be back to work till middle of February. That was hard to swallow, as with no work meant no money. (no money= no food, no house...) So I took off to Nashville TN (the bus capitol of the US for entertainers) to find some work. I spent the first week on January going to every company in Nashville that deal with entertainment motor coaches and it was the same story everywhere, no tours going out. Its just an extremely slow start to the year. Finally I ran into Gaylond, the owner of Music City Coach and he offered me a job and pay that was better then I have ever received and the promise of work. I accepted the job and resigned my other job second week of January. Then the work I was promised was put on delay. I sat at home waiting for the phone to ring and finally it did the last week of January and it was a job, but just a weekend thing. Even though its just a weekend gig it paid good so I left. Drove the bus to Reno NV then flew back home after spending an extra day in Vegas due to ice storm in OKC cancelled all flight in and out of OKC. Now home again I wait for that phone call. Finally it comes, I have a week long gig for the second week of February. I take off to Nashville and just before I get there to pick my bus up, that gig is cancelled but they give me another weekend gig that pays good so I'm sticking around for that one. I'm a bit concerned that it will never pick up, but everyone says its just a slow start to the year. I'm off to pick up Little Anthony and The Imperials. They are a group formed in the 1960 and are getting inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. They perform at the Grand Ole Opera on Saturday then we have to go all the way to Albany NY for a show on Sunday, then all the way back to Nashville.
Monica had gotten so tired of me at home everyday she decided to get a job to get out of the house and add a little money to the household. (I personally think its a crazy idea...she works so hard just taken care of Madasun, now she will have to really juggle her time and schedule to go to work then come home and deal with Madasun. I guess the older girls are going to have to steep up and help out a little more.) Monica was Hired on Monday of this week and had to go in to take a drug test. MONICA FLUNKED HER DRUG TEST! OK the real story is the drug test facility called and said the found traces of darveciet in her urine and wanted to know if she had a perscrition for it and she did, but could not find the bottle. Finally the next day she was able to get the info to the drug testing facility and they passed her. So now Monica is a proud employee of Wallgreens. I hope it works out. I also have been told that work is really picking up so I should be so busy very soon, that I will be begging for some time off.
Well that's all the news that is the news. I am still trying to get this blog thing down but will try to keep it updated more often.