Well I guess it's a good time to update the ole' journal. Right now I'm sitting on the porch of a rented house overlooking the Hawaiian coast with a rented Cannondale SuperSix sitting next to me. Things are pretty good right now.
Honestly though, as awesome as this trip is going to be, just got here yesterday and I'm leaving on the 29th, I'd rather not have to be here. My brother is getting married and his fiance decided that she wanted to have her wedding in Hawaii, sounds great in theory but this trip is going to probably use up whatever money I have saved that it hasn't used already, my girlfriend couldn't come, I'm missing two maybe three shows that my band is playing, and I'm missing two weeks of work. Oh, I'm also stuck with my family for 10 days...
But besides that I'm going to make the best of it, hence the rented bike(aka my escape) I am excited to spend some time here and it will be fun, I'm hoping to go snorkeling and whatnot, and obviously spend a lot of time on the beach to try to even out my horrible cycling jersey and glove tanlines.
Things back at the homefront a going good too, I have a full time job working as a mechanic at a bicycle shop, the pay is nice but I pretty much just pump it back to the shop. Things are going great with my girlfriend, we just moved in together to a sweet 2nd floor two bedroom apartment that is going to be quite cheaper and cleaner than the house I've been living in. I will miss living in a house with a bunch of my friends but I need a break from all of the mess and craziness. My band, Those Ghostfuckers, are starting to build up a head of steam in the local scene, we can easily pull 50 people to a small venue, we just headlined a show that Jeffery Lewis played, and he really dug our set and said we should play a show with him in NYC if we're ever down that way. Oh and there is a potential spot opening up for Bright Eyes at the end of the month. If anyone wants to check us out we're on facebook and just released an ep, that will soon be a full length album hopefully by the end of the summer, you can check out our stuff on soundcloud @ http://soundcloud.com/thoseghostfckrs
Honestly though, as awesome as this trip is going to be, just got here yesterday and I'm leaving on the 29th, I'd rather not have to be here. My brother is getting married and his fiance decided that she wanted to have her wedding in Hawaii, sounds great in theory but this trip is going to probably use up whatever money I have saved that it hasn't used already, my girlfriend couldn't come, I'm missing two maybe three shows that my band is playing, and I'm missing two weeks of work. Oh, I'm also stuck with my family for 10 days...
But besides that I'm going to make the best of it, hence the rented bike(aka my escape) I am excited to spend some time here and it will be fun, I'm hoping to go snorkeling and whatnot, and obviously spend a lot of time on the beach to try to even out my horrible cycling jersey and glove tanlines.
Things back at the homefront a going good too, I have a full time job working as a mechanic at a bicycle shop, the pay is nice but I pretty much just pump it back to the shop. Things are going great with my girlfriend, we just moved in together to a sweet 2nd floor two bedroom apartment that is going to be quite cheaper and cleaner than the house I've been living in. I will miss living in a house with a bunch of my friends but I need a break from all of the mess and craziness. My band, Those Ghostfuckers, are starting to build up a head of steam in the local scene, we can easily pull 50 people to a small venue, we just headlined a show that Jeffery Lewis played, and he really dug our set and said we should play a show with him in NYC if we're ever down that way. Oh and there is a potential spot opening up for Bright Eyes at the end of the month. If anyone wants to check us out we're on facebook and just released an ep, that will soon be a full length album hopefully by the end of the summer, you can check out our stuff on soundcloud @ http://soundcloud.com/thoseghostfckrs