It went smoothly!

Friday was a busy day, as I knew it would be. The day went along without any stress and we timed everything so that we wouldn’t be rushing and wouldn’t feel pressured. I went earlier that day to pick up the U-Haul van and the rest of the band came over later in the day to help unload from the trailer to the van. I had to take it easy because of my stupid back.

We got to the place, and it started out with a pretty good crowd. A lot of the people that Carrie works with showed up and so did a few friends of ours. Then it seemed like we cleared the place out or something, like we scared them all away, it was really weird. And the staff was just as strange, like pulling teeth to get them to talk... It usually is when we play in Va. Beach. I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it through the whole night because of my pain but I hung in there. That's enough on that subject, I've probably already said too much.

After the show we all had to come back to the house and unload the stuff from the van back into the trailer. We all came inside and watched a little television to unwind but Jizz, Brea, and I were dreading the next few hours, because Jizz had to be at work at 6am and I had to carry the U-Haul van back by 7am and Brea also had to get ready for a remote that she had that morning. We made it though.

We skipped Brea’s brother’s birthday get together and decided to just stay at home to catch up on some sleep, which we did with ease. Jizz and his girl came over that evening to chat with us and to hang out for a few minutes. We decided to reschedule our dinner plans for another evening since we were all pretty beat.

Sunday was the first day my baby had off in a long time. We sat around the house all day, watched some movies and played some video games. It was a very nice and relaxing day. We’re going to the beach house this weekend and I’m looking forward to doing it all over again while we’re there.

I got up early with the kids yesterday, Monday morning. I went over to my mother’s house so we could have lunch together. She wanted to take me to a place her and her husband Roy have started to go to eat and also wanted to show me some new places to park the beach house, since Brea and I want to move it away from tides cause we almost got flooded out and I also want more shade trees around it. I had a wonderful time with her and she even tried to pay for our lunch but I never let her do that, I don’t like her buying my food when I feel it’s my chance to return a lot of the things she’s done for me all these years. When we got back to her place I gave her and Roy a crash course on computers and digital cameras. They’re getting it, slowly but surely. Once they get the hang of it it’ll be smooth sailing, I remember what it was like to set down in front of a computer for the first time. I just wish I could get over there more to help them.

Had a really bad dream last night, a nightmare. I dreamed Brea had left me for like a 16 year old girl and the d*mn dream wouldn't end. It just kept going and going and I could feel the heartache as if it were really happening. Most of the time my dreams jump from scene to scene, but this one didn't and just kept going and getting worse. It's bothered me and I can't stop thinking about it. I told Brea as soon as I woke up this morning and she assured me that it was ONLY a dream and everything was going to be alright. I want her here with me now to say the same things over to me again, but she's working at the station for her girls, her family, her package. I just want her to hold me some, and love on me and the kids, it makes all my worries disappear and makes me feel safe. I miss her...

We have practice today, we’ll see how it goes. I have to now go upstairs and try to learn some of the songs we’re going to be doing so I can be ahead of the game a little bit.

The weekend is here...

Wednesday rolls around and I am finally starting to get around without my back spasming out of control. I even went to the grocery store and picked up a few things we needed around the house. Brea came home in loads of pain from period cramps. She was doubled over in pain and eventually began to throw up and really couldn’t leave the toilet seat. I told her that I would run to the store to pick up some cramp medicine but she didn’t want me to leave her side. She called Carrie and asked her to pick it up when she was on her way over. So I cooked for her and tried to hold her head for her and tried rubbing her down but nothing worked. Carrie came over and we loaded Brea up on all sorts of muscle relaxers and cramp pills and it starts to pay off, and Brea’s cramps begin to fade away. We sat around and went through some new music we're going to be adding. My mom and her husband came over to pick up some things. Roy is out of work because he smashed his hand between a trailer and a forklift and had to get some stitches in his palm. It looked awful and made me weak when I looked at it, I thought I was going to pass out. Stuff like that didn’t use to get to me when I was younger but as I’ve gotten older I start to feel faint.

Thursday was a good day. I went to Brea’s remote with her and hung out with the girls while Brea did her thing. We were being silly in the store when we left the bar, it was funny. Before we left to go to the remote we noticed some sewage in the bathtub and the toilet wasn’t flushing properly so we called our property manager to leave a message for her to call the plumber and have him come out to service it.

Woke up this Friday morning with Brea and talked on the phone to my brother while she was getting ready. Had playtime with the kids and walked on over to the U-Haul store to pick up the van for tonight. The sucky part is that we have to have it back at 7am tomorrow morning! The toilet situation has gotten worse so the city just left to make sure it wasn’t anything wrong on their end and now I’m waiting for Roto-Rooter. Hope they come quick, can’t stand knowing something is wrong with my facilities.

It's going to be a busy weekend for us so I'm going to get some rest and watch some t.v. perhaps until I HAVE to get up and get to work. We have a show tonight, Brea has a remote first thing in the morning, we have to go to Brea's older brother's birthday party Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night Brea, Jizz, his girl and I are going to dinner. So far it looks like Sunday is going to be the day I spend with my woman and the kids, all alone and with no where to go or nothing to do. I hope so, we'll see what happens...

Man, I'm hurting!

Thursday night I went with Brea to her remote at the country bar. We had a good time with the people up there. I called around on this day to find us a u-haul to rent for the weekend and could only find a cargo van, which I pick up on Friday. I also carried the monitors upstairs for me to look at and repair, they have been cutting out on us the past two shows so I need to figure out why. Friday is going to be a very busy day for us.

Friday morning comes around and I get up to finish fixing the monitors. I walk to the u-haul place which is only about a mile away from the house and get the van at the scheduled 2 oclock pick up time. I come back here and load the van from the trailer all by myself, except for the amps cause they’re too heavy to lift alone. I also discovered that Henry’s drum mics were broken and he had no intention on telling me they were broke, so I had to resauder the wires on his mics and also fix his drum mic clamps that hold them.

We get to the place we were playing with Jizz and Henry riding in the back with the equipment and my mom is there to greet us and to help us out with the unloading. The show went great and I have the monitors and mics working wonderfully. People were dancing and grooving to our music... At the end of the night I was about to loose my mind because I was sooo tired and couldn't find the key to the van, come to find out it was in my back pocket. By this time my back is killing me and we came home and went straight to bed.

Saturday was a rough day, I could barely bend any which way without my back hurting, I pulled something pretty bad. Jizz and I pulled out the equipment we didn’t need that night for the place we were playing at, which were the speakers and our amps. Brea went to the store and bought Henry a birthday cake and some new drum sticks to give to him that night at the show. I was miserable with my back and din’t feel like doing a damn thing. I had to stop playing after the frist set, I couldn’t even bend down to get my water when I needed it. Brea was drunk and so was I. It was funny and at the end of the night we are missing the key once more, only this time to find it in Brea’s pocket as she’s passed out in the front seat of the van.

Sunday morning was kicking my *ss and Brea had to get ready for her two remotes. While she was gone to one I had to empty out the van and return it back to the store we got it from. Brea came home long enough to eat something and had to turn right around and go out again. We went to bed early this night.

Monday was even worse for me. It hurts to wipe my *ss, to move around and I keep spasming my *ss off! I managed to still clean the house up and to do the laundry. Brea said her niece, Sabrina, was going to come over to do our hair for us, which is a good thing cause we need to have it done. She did a great job on our hair. She’s going to start doing it for us from now on as far far as I’m concerned. We’re both very happy.

Been rearranging things...

The day before yesterday was a pretty good day. Brea and I started doing Taibo again and both our butts are still sore. I went to the grocery store and to a few other places to pick up some things for around the house and such. I also rearranged a few things downstairs in the kitchen and living room. Changed some pictures around and moved a few things. It looks a lot better.

Brea had told me last week that this past Tuesday night was the night her gay friend from work was going to the gay bar to celebrate and wanted us to go, so we did. I was even surprised they let us in the bar. It was 10 cent shrimp which brings out a lot of black women, Brea’s friend is black and this is usually what she did on Tuesday nights. Her friend had heard about us being “trouble” and the story has gone from, the truth which is, our acting manager the last time we played there paid a band bar tab when it was in our contract for us to receive free drinks and Brea got upset and threatened to break everything in the joint unless they gave her her money back, which we DID get back... to... we skipped out on a bar tab…. I don’t know where that came from, but we laughed it off. It took me twenty minutes while in the place to realize that we were in a gay bar and we weren’t at a remote or playing for the band and that I could show Brea public affection without being scrutinized or harassed. We had a good time and danced and drank a little. Brea’s friend was pretty drunk and was causing a lot of drama with her own crowd. We even ran into a girl Brea and I talked to a long time ago and she was impressed we were still together and said we were the only couple still together that she knows. That made us feel good and we love those comments. We cut out a little early cause Brea had to work the next day.

Yesterday Carrie came over to drop off some paper and to pick up some flyers. We all talked and I showed her some new things I had done around the house. We also made her try my homemade crab spread and spinach spread on some french toast. Mmmmmmmm, it was so good! It turned out great! Then Brea and I went to a couple of different stores to pick up all different shapes and size frames so I can do some things upstairs with our band pictures, to redecorate a little better. We both got to work on our crafts as soon as we got home and kept at it until 11 at night. It was fun and the pictures look really good. She bought some picture box kits to put her Prince stuff in like records and important stuff.

My mom found out she has to have surgery on her knee coming up at the end of the month and she’s a little scared about having it done. I told her it’s nothing to worry about and people have these kinds of things done all the time. I’m a little worried but I can’t let that on to her.

I have to now get ready to reserve a U-Haul truck for the weekend and I'm also getting ready to go on E-Bay to see if maybe I can sell my autograghed picture of J-Lo... maybe we'll get rich! I've had it a long time and I really don't need it any more. There's a die hard fan out there who would love to have it, I'm sure. I took J-Lo's picture out of the frame and hung my huge Anna Nicole Guess add in it's place. I love it, it's so beautiful!!! I also have to go upstairs and figure out how I'm going to hang my pictures... and I have to take two of our monitors apart to see why they're not working properly... then I have to cook dinner, (lamb with candied yams tonight, baby)... then I have to get ready to go to my woman's remote with her at the country bar! Yee-Haw!
Gonna be a busy day for me, not to mention Aunt Flow's in town f*cking with me!

Ketchup time!...get it?!

Things are going really well for everyone. Henry no longer lives with us so it’s been real nice having our privacy back. Jizz has a day job putting up privacy fences and Carrie is still doing her thing.

My brother Tommy and his woman, Jenny, came to a show a couple of weeks ago and stayed the night. We had a good time until I started showing my butt with Brea. Nothing too bad, more irritating than anything but they thought it was funny. My woman on the other hand, didn’t. They’re going to do it again except next time I don’t want us to be playing out, I want us all to go to dinner and stuff.

The last two shows we’ve had we’ve used the BOB FM truck from Brea’s work to haul our equipment around with. We can no longer use the van we have because all the weight keeps tearing up our transmission. We’ve added a lot of new things to our system this past year. We’ll figure something out soon but for now we may end up having to rent U-Haul trucks.

Went down to North Carolina twice within this past week and weekend. Once was with my mom and we went there to take Maddy to the fair and to eat lunch with her at her school and the other was with Brea going to the beach house and back to my brother’s to spend time with him, Jenny, the twins, Maddy, my dad and his girlfriend and also my Aunt Caroline, who I hadn’t seen for about five or six years until last weekend when they surprised me last weekend at our show at Dirty Dick’s Crab House. It’s nice having her around. I had a great time both times. I savor every moment with my mother, I don’t get to see her enough and it’s important for her to spend time with me, vice-versa. The picture above is of my niece, Maddy’s, kindergarten class. She’s the cute one in the front row in the little blue jean dress. This was taken the day we went to her school after lunch and donuts.

Stevie had to go to the vet for an emergency visit about 10 days ago. She woke up crying in pain because she had broken out in hives, having an allergic reaction to something, we’re still not too sure. Her doctor gave her a couple of shots and a prescription that she’s almost done with. She’s a lot better now.

I’m still working on the same big project I’ve been working on for a year now. I can’t believe it’s already been that long. We have another partner on board who can possibly make this happen. I’m not giving up on it and neither are my boys from N.Y. I’ve got too much into it to quit now, and I know someone’s going to pick it up. I feel better when I hear things like it took the networks two years to pick up the Gilligan’s Island show, and you see how well that one turned out. I can’t let everybody down, all their hopes and dreams, I feel, are centered around me and I will make it all work out.

Been looking and making the preparations to buy a house but the market these days is outrageous! Not sure what we’re going to do yet besides being patient. I want a house so bad though! I am already fixing up whatever we get inside my head. We deserve our own house and when I look at the way some of these people who do OWN THEIR OWN HOME take care of them it pisses me off!

Brea is doing really good at the radio station. She is one of the best jockeys in the area! She has also started taking more remotes and has slacked off on booking the band every weekend, until things start to take off (you know what I mean) there is no need to kill ourselves. So I just go along with her to help and to support her any way she needs me to. Plus its really good money, especially not to have to worry about loading and unloading equipment and playing all night as well! It makes sense for us to do what we’ve been doing, financially and physically!

I promise to keep this updated… if not for anybody else for myself, and for my nieces and nephew to read when they get older. I’ve left out a lot of stuff but this is the jist of it all…

I know, shame on me...

It's been a month since I've written in here and a lot of people have been asking me about it and wondering what's been going on with us. I have a lot to tell, vehicles breaking down, still trying to get our project up and running, stories about playing out, going in and out of town, visiting with family which includes my Aunt Caroline, who I haven't seen in over 4 years and have idolized since I can remember, she's so cool....

I promise to get you all up to speed on things just give me a few moments to work some things out and then I can go into more details. Right now I have to go in the kitchen and peel the boiled eggs I made for my family... we like to snack on them, they're good for you!