So I cannot sleep lately. I try to go to sleep around 11pm and cannot for the life of me fall asleep. I toss and turn. It's too hot in my bedroom and my puppy tries to push me out of my own bed.

Last night, I tried to fall asleep. I was unsuccesful. At 12:30am, I got up and took a shower. I figured that the hot water might make me want to go to sleep. Instead, I lied awake (but clean) and my hair was crazy this morning.

I finally drifted off to sleep around 2 or 3am. I fell in and out of sleep until about 5:30am. I got up to let the puppy out and went back to bed. For the first time, I think I really slept this morning. I seem to sleep better in the morning than at night.

Aergerlich!!


I'm at work now. It's been a frustrating day. Things are not working the way they should and people that we are counting on to move, are not moving. I hate to be the annoying person that calls incessantly on a job, but hey - if the shoe fits. It's the same way with booking shows. You have to continue calling until someone responds in the way you'd like. Maybe sometimes they do what you want, just so you'll stop calling. It's not a pretty thing, but mostly effective.

Sydney puppy is very rambunctious today and keeps bugging me about taking her on a damn walk. She also won't stop bringing me her tennis ball in hopes that I'll quit work early and play a game of catch with her. The only trouble is that she doesn't really like to let go of the ball, which can make the game quite one-sided.

Things are moving along slowly on the music front. We have re-worked the structure of one of our new songs, "Just Me" and I think it really works well now. We also have several in the works that we're really trying not to rush the inspiration. I have some great ideas for a few of the tracks and we are laying down some rough ideas. One of these days we're just going to walk into the studio and finish the damn album. That's how it's going to be with this one, methinks.

SomeGirl is also swinging along nicely. I have layed down about 5 tracks and there are about 4 more that I have written words and melodies for. I just have to solidify the exact chord progression that we want and then send it over to Steve. He'll synthpop the hell outta the trax.

Nick is prepping for a September trip to Salt Lake City. He will be performing at A Different Drum Synthpop Festival. This is the same label that SomeGirl is one. Nick will be performing with Swedish sensation: Moulin Noir. Really awesome synthpop act and super nice guys. That should be a blast for Nick to be able to work with them.

Well, sheeyat, I best be getting back to bustin' ass at the International GrandCare Systems Headquarters.

L SIGNING OUT

Ah, it's good to be back. Not that I really went anywhere, mind you, but rather I was a bit indisposed. Yep, got bitten by the GTA: San Andreas bug again. Nothing quite like driving down Rodeo with a shotgun every now and then... I was in its grips for a good week, rhymin'n'stealin'.

Until last night that is. I hit the fourth chapter of the game, and about that time the missions get annoyingly difficult. They cease being fun, really, and become a nasty grind. So after crashing my plane into low-lying trees for the 30th time, I decided it was time to quit.

And that was that. Time to do something useful.

I inherited an LCD projector this weedend, one part in my master plan for our new live look and feel. Having fiddled with it and affirmed some technical notions I had about the setup, it was time to start creating video content.

So, needless to say, it was time to raid archive.org for some video content. There's a lot of new stuff there since I last stopped by, and I found some really amazing stuff. Namely, a particular CGI video that fit our song The Feeling almost perfectly... Then plenty of cute soundies and really awful old-timey stripper clips to compile for a Fever video. Great stuff.

This should keep me occupied for the near future... w00t!

lately i've been getting so restless...feeling impatient and like i want to go outside and run 6 miles. then, i could come back in drenched in sweat and return to work.

i'm sitting at work just feeling jittery and well...impatient.

i can't seem to focus real well and it seems there are only a few solutions:

- work out profusely, do an hour of power kickboxing for example or go on a long, power run.
- go to the binkery and have a few too many martinis
- record a bad-ass track for the upcoming eb album

well, the 3rd option seems the most probable right now. i think part of my restlessness comes from being summer. every summer i usually am in the midst of a big workout frenzy and having my share of cocktails on various outdoor patios. not to mention, the adrenaline from shows always gets me going, and i am itching to perform again!

as far as working out, the long walks that i take every day with my puppy are just not cutting it. i probably walk about a mile every day in the back woods, and don't get me wrong - it's exhausting, but not high cardio. i dig high cardio activities. i am also aching to play some tennis or join an intramural soccer team and play.

i am restless. the last thing i feel like doing today is sitting at my desk in the air conditioning and being productive. meh.

enough day dreaming and back to work. i have a meeting in 3 minutes - - on purchasing and inventory. blech.

Die Ungedueldige Laura