One long week

Well this week has had its downs and way the fuck downs. Ok lets rewind and get a recap of the past week staring with last Friday night ohhhhh, about 445pm. I am making dinner for Chris and I and out loud thinking "I've got to call my mom", just as I got words out of my mouth my phone rings and its her. She said she had bad news and I asked "Did uncle Joe pass away?"(Moms side of the family) She told me and then she says "I've got more bad news!?!?! Charlene your cousin passed yesterday around 430 pm"
At this point I'm in a little shock. Calling hours for my Uncle Joe are 4-7 pm on Friday(damn its 445 thinking to myself its family I've got to go) and service is 10 am on Saturday. Well I jump into a clean shirt and head out in the shittiest weather we've had all winter snowing about 2" an hour.
So Saturday goes without a hitch in the morning. Service was nice and quick it was at, I like to call it "Catholic Lite or Diet Catholic" church. Just to let anyone know I am not Catholic but I will give proper respect to all religions.
Back on track, Jim (a cousin) and I head over to our cousin Sue's house in Spencerport and have the get together. All of the family is there Tom,Sue, Mike ,Joe and Jeanne. With all their children and spouses(I must say we have a growing family). We catch up with everyone and hang out have some pizza and drinks.
Around 3 pm Jim and I head out for I have a CD release show that night!!!(que superhero music)
This is getting long thanks for staying with me I hope its interesting?
So, Later that night at California Brew Haus about 25 people brave the SHITTIEST weather(still coming down 2"an hour) and support their favorite band!
Fast forward to Tuesday night Calling hours for my cousin Charlene. My dads side of the family comes out for this.(It seems to me I see all my relatives at funerals and weddings.)
All in all a long week two family members are put to rest and I have absolutly no reason why I am writing all this you don't care about this

CD Release show

That's right CD release show for TABULA~RASA. March 8th at the California Brew Haus. Anyway this is a first for me and the band. It is a very time consuming process. Making sure that everyone is going to come out. Its very frustrating as well when people are making up way not to come and support. I hope we get a good turn out! That all for now!

31 and counting

Well Sunday was my 31st birthday. Another one down! More coming so for my B-day my brother got me a itunes gift card 30 bucks and gone in 30 seconds. Thanks Bob! My parents took me to dinner and got me a DVD drive for my computer. Thanks mom and dad. My wife well she got me something special (you know). Anyways.

I normally don't

I normally don't look through garbage but today a neighbor of ours was moving out and tossed out some old records! So being curious I looked through them, Stevie Nicks,Alice Coopers Greatest hits, Van Halen 1984, and bunch of other I've heard of. Now if they play or not is something to be seen.

Thank You Neil Peart

I know he will never read this but...
Over the past couple of years I started reading as enjoyment and to pass time on breaks at work. I always hear that Neil Peart wrote books so, I picked up one "Ghost Rider" the road to healing. Oh my he puts you right next to him in his travels. Its not a book about drums or drumming ( I know he has written a few as well).
For Christmas I asked for "Roadshow" another one from him this one about his travels on the bands "R30" tour across the U.S.A. and Europe. This man is a master of words and keeping you up to date on his emotions. I am going to work on reading more of his books and over the course of reading his books I've come to really like RUSH, not that I didn't like them before I now appreciate them more and him more as a human than a untouchable "Rockstar".
I would urge anyone to pick up a copy a try it on for size. He is truly a master of more than just drums, he is a master of written word.
Again Thank You Mr. Peart! I am a true fan of all of your work. I look forward to reading more for him(you, if you by any chance read this).
Matt

Venting

A couple things I need to get out off my chest!
1. I've come to a point in my life were people I've made friends with in the past and don't want to call and hang out or just flat out won't return phone calls. I stopped makeing the effort for it to be a relationship.
2. This goes with (1). This girl in high school I had a crush on, used me for rides to the mall and to her boyfriends house and all over the world. I did get to take her to the Prom and Senior ball(whipdy). I found out shes pregnant. I'm cool with that but she is VERY petite. I have a feeling shes going to have a hard time with the pregnancy.
3. I guess I'm cutting my loses! Good luck to me!

Muscle spasm.

Well this morning started off good. Then while eating breakfast with the wife I got a back muscle spasm. WTF!!! Just what I wanted to do is sit around the apartment and heat and take muscle relaxers. Oh and to top it off I got bumped to Second shift! Some dumb ass wanted Third shift and got it, now I know whats going to happen they are going to complain because they can't get use to the shift and the job is to hard.
Oh well hopefully only two weeks!!