In which there are totally pictures about the whole thing.

Saturday morning after K dropped me off at home I took a 4-hour nap. He had to roll in to work and I felt a little bad about that, but I just haven’t been getting my usual 8 or 9 hours a night since I started hanging out with him and I had to be on my game for the Dayton gig.

Curtis & Syl came and picked me up around five and the three of us drove to Dayton. After burgers and a few drinks at the bar, we suited up and proceeded to make the music from nine to one. (Pics from the gig are here.^*) The gig was fun, but whoa, Nelly! was it ever redneck! I nearly got brained by a couple who were dancing where my mic stand was supposed to be, I picked three cowboy hats up off the floor and handed them back to their owners, and overheard a completely earnest conversation about spurs. And if that weren’t bad enough the band, to keep the drunks on the dance floor, broke into In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, which scarred me for LIFE. I mean, it’s not like I haven’t done Shotgun Wedding eleventy-hundred times in my career, but In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?!?

Looking forward to those festival gigs.

Sunday we had a bona fide full band rehearsal for the first time in months. RB recorded it and burned us all practice CDs, so we’ve even got material to work from. Since I still haven’t installed the big hard drive in my laptop, I’ll have to figure out how to get the thing onto my iPod without utterly aggravating myself so I can listen to it during downtime this weekend.

Thursday I’m flying to Seattle for my annual (and much needed) Amma-time. Next Tuesday I expect will be a little surreal for me; I’ll stay up all night for Devi Bhava, get myself from Puyallup back to the airport by nine thirty, and be home by eleven. (K: “Can I pick you up from the airport?”
Me: “On Tuesday?”
K: “Yeah.”
Me: “But you’ll be at work.”
K: “I don’t care.”
Me: “You want to take time off work to pick me up at the airport?”
K: “Yeah. Whatever. Pleeeeeeease?” OMG teh cutez.) Once home I’ll probably drag myself up the stairs, unwind my sari, curl up with my blue dog and sleep all day.

Later today, I’ll be going to the cemetery with my grandmother to do the Memorial Day duties. Later, after doing the wiring at my cousin’s, I think we’re BBQing at his place. The area’s having severe weather warnings, but right now it’s a perfectly gorgeous day.

[^* I may have created a monster. In the past three weeks, K’s gone from being a normal human being to having a domain name website he won’t shut up about and carrying a super sweet tricked out cell phone he uses to Twitter and Flickr from. (Sound like anyone else you know? I swear, I’m dating the male version of myself.) (I’ve always suspected I was conceited, but I may have outdone myself this time. Promise you’ll kill me if I threaten to take up golf, though. Pinky swear!)]