oh yeah, lawyer called thurs morning, i close on the house on sept 3rd. in the afternoon the bank called…this time a 3rd different person…to tell me i need to call them to schedule closing. w.t.h do they NOT talk to ANYONE else in the office?!?!?!?!?! calling them tomorrow anyway to be like, what the hell, i already have a closing date!
new metallica
new metallica songs on their myspace. maybe it’s being on myspace, or comp speakers, but the quality is so tinny, hetfield’s vocals sound so high, the whole thing lacks depth and so almost sounds like a demo – but it’s not. and i’m not sure if i like the song. i think metallica is trying too hard to sound like themselves, just like u2, and aren’t doing it very well. but then again, i’m not an old school hardcore metallica fan so what do i know 😛
tour starts again tomorrow. taking the laptop but no idea what connection will be like.
bad kitty
kitty killed my joshua tree sprout…bad kitty.
Tour de Falls
spent a nice day out at the falls with glen and his family, in town from the UK for a few days. we did the Cave of the Winds for the first time and it’s very cool, you definitely get wet. the plastic bag poncho doesn’t quite cover my calves so the bottom of my pants were soaked. but they give you these stylin rubber sandals to wear so you don’t go around with wet shoes the rest of the day. and then you can donate them to 3rd world countries after, so i did. went on the maid of the mist too, which i still think is a “must do” if you go to the falls. got dinner at the casino, used a gift card and i still have $50 on it to spend arg haha. walked across the bridge to canada to view the falls and came back to the states. tomorrow we’re heading to toronto, with the only thing on the list to do is CN tower. they want to stay downtown so i dunno, we’ll figure something out haha
posted a bunch of photos from my phone on facebook
i’m sore from all the walking, tomorrow will only be worse, followed by 2 concerts in 2 days…i’m gonna be hurting sunday for exploring in detroit with david haha.
ps. to olympic reporters…maybe you shouldn’t shove a microphone into a 15 year old divers face, who just missed qualifying to compete for the gold, then say you’re sorry and understand she’s upset and crying. and maybe you shouldn’t ask the sprinter who got disqualified what he thinks about it when he didn’t know anything about being disqualified and thought he won bronze. just a suggestion.
No. Just no.
the biggest fucking spider i have ever seen outside of a cage at a zoo or museum was on my door when i got home from work. i almost walked into it. huge ass web across the door, and i touched a bit of it and startled the thing. when i moved i almost threw up. brown and black stripped, hairy i’m sure. omg i’m going to have nightmares. went back into the car and got the raid, probably used half the can on it, it wouldn’t die. it finally fell off the web and i was able to get inside. oh god barf barf barf. the proper ending to a shitty day
harry fn potter
i neglected to mention i finished all of harry potter. i finished book 6 and couldn’t wait to borrow 7 from someone so i went out and bought it. i think 6 was my fav, i liked finding out about voldemort’s past, and the setup for the end book was great. 7 had alot in it, some parts were sorta boring, but you really couldn’t take anything out of it. i was happy with the ending, tho i really expected harry to die. there was a nice twist with the wands, and yeah…i enjoyed it.
i’ve also finished reading “On The Road”…as far as generation defining, hippie inspiring books go i think i preferred “electric kool aid acid test”. on the road was mostly boring, dean was irritating, and eh…i guess i just don’t see what makes it so great.
still reading “collapse” and i finally got the follow up books to the Golden Compass. after that i’ve run out, so send ideas haha
bootlegs
out of 40 nin shows seen as of this time, i have recordings of 25. most of the missing ones are from europe. 26 if you count the madison square garden dvd i never watched. 28 if you count i have a dvd of one berlin show i haven’t watched and one london show.
and more new tour date announced for november. already have tickets to the resched worcester…
11.09.08 Worcester, MA
11.11.08 Ottawa, ON
11.12.08 Montreal, QC
11.14.08 Hamilton, ON
there are a few others like grand rapids, and columbus that i don’t think i have it in me to go to (if i can even afford ottawa/montreal it’s just that we’ll already be out that way…). and then…vegas…dec 13. i’m so not going to have the money to go out there for it. *sigh*
house crap
a spam email i got: “urgent! obese malodorous boy missing” LOL wtf
old tour bootlegs showing up. detroit 05 and boston 05. been looking for boston for ages, and had talked to the taper about it back then. since trent was pissed about the seats it was an interesting show. our 2 newest shows have shown up too, which is nice. i’ve decided i miss aaron during only. some people have said they like robin’s version better, but i have a hard time even recognizing the song when it kicks in after the intro. and yeah, i just think i like aaron on only better. but i do love trent’s choreography with the light screen better than the static of the with teeth show version. but then, no tour can hold a candle to the stage and show of this tour, so it’s a given.
i am far beyond aggravated with the bank/mortgage stuff as dan so nicely found out on IM today. they’re going into ridiculous territory now, asking where my mom got the money to give me 4 months ago. maybe she saved her change, and extra grocery money every week for the last 30some years my parents have been married (which she has). maybe she took after her parents, who were depression children, who didn’t trust banks, and that’s why the money isn’t in a bank account. because she doesn’t have a bank account doesn’t mean they money came from selling drugs or mafia activity. they asked me to explain the deposit, and i did, a gift from my mom. it should end there. period. but no they must be told where the money came from so they want proof that my mom sold my grandmas house 2 years ago. my lawyer is calling them cuz he thinks it’s ridiculous and unnecessary as well. i understand the things they are asking for to a point, but that point has long gone, and now i can’t wait to be done with this. because even beyond the things they’re asking me for, they clearly are incompetent, and have no communication within their offices. i hope hsbc gives me a feedback form to fill out about the process because they’ll be getting a piece of my mind. i’ve already gotten attitude in emails with them.
went to the erie county fair yesterday with people from work and adr. not as many ppl went this year, they’re all slackers. it was a nice day though, not too hot, but i forgot sunscreen and thus am burned. not horrible but enough. walked around, ate, saw monkeys riding dogs, looked at cows, perused the stuff for sale in the agri-center as we avoided the rain. the usual.
dream
dreamed i was going to the niagara wheatfield prom. i don’t know who with, since i don’t know anyone in high school, but there were work people there also. there was tons of security and a dress code. if they didn’t like what you were wearing you had to go in this big classroom and change in front of all these other people. i guess i had to change so i had to go find some clothes in this room, then went out into the hall. i saw dan from work and he was bored as hell, his date ditched him. people kept looking at me funny, like why is she here when shes not in high school but dan is even older than me and no one cared. then just like that it was over and they were making everyone leave. i was like wtf kind of prom is this that it’s only 2 hours long.
i hate banks
i’m going to kill someone at the bank. while in CT the lawyer called me to see if i wanted to move up the closing date. i said sure if we can do it before the next tour leg starts. he calls back, the bank says they haven’t gotten any of the required information which i sent 2 weeks ago. so i email the contact at the bank, his name is brian. he’s out of the office until yesterday. but yesterday he writes back and says yes, everything is in the hands of the underwriter. so i get called by some other lady at the bank, i don’t know what her job is, and she says again she doesn’t have any of this information. i say i sent it in 2 weeks ago by mail, as per the envelopes included with the rest of this paperwork i don’t understand. well i need to send it all in again. great. she wants me to fax it, i don’t have a fax machine. she says, i can take it to any hsbc branch and they will fax it for me for free. WELL THAT’S NICE TO KNOW! she says, the quick closing fax cover sheets were in the folder, which they are, but NO WHERE does it EVER say ANYWHERE what the hell those sheets were for, or that i’m supposed to take all the stuff to an hsbc branch for THEM to fax for me. if i had known that a MONTH AND A HALF AGO this would all have been so much easier. but no, i have to send in 7 things including 2 letters from my mother (lol) all over again. this shit fucking sucks. don’t buy a house.
plus she calls at 10:30 am, i now am exhausted and have a huge fucking headache.