MommaOfMuse
Member Since 2010
Awww the madness of the Holidays has started at our house. And with it all my plans for New Year's Eve are shot out of the water. DH got a desperate call late last week from a local band, their original bass player got drunk and fell off the stage about a month ago and hurt his shoulder, didn't think much about it, until it didn't stop hurting so he finally went to the doctor last week and they scheduled him for emergency reconstructive surgery which he had on Wednesday but that also means he will be out 8-10 weeks and they already had several high paying gigs scheduled for that time period so they tapped DH as their at least for now fill in bass player (possibly permanent replacement if New Year's Eve goes well). The upside to now not getting to go out with my spouse for New Year's Eve is that the gig is literally 3 blocks from my house. So I'm within walking distance if I have to run home and test or check on anyone. And can easily slip out to run home and feed the troops at 11 pm so we won't be quite as much scum as we normally are when he is playing because we upset their feeding schedule.
I have very mixed emotions about this new group. While I dearly love going out to hear him play and know that this is what he lives for, I'm also selfish in that with the long hours he works on his day job, weekends are really our only couples time together and now with a band in the picture it means giving up some of those weekends so he can go play. The upside is that this new group has a very good reputation around here and gets the big bucks to perform. Nobody walks away from a gig with them with less that $200 for a 4 hour gig, so the extra cash especially this time of year is a welcome plus. The other upside for me is since DH loves to take me with him when he performs and likes to have me dressed to the nines when we do I get all kinds of girly perks when he is performing live, like this weekend he took me out to find a new outfit and I have orders to call my stylist today and set up an appointment to get my hair cut and styled this week.
Then I'm to get my nails done next week so they will match the new outfit. Now to just find new boots to match everything else...Oh the horrors I have to go shoes shopping...lol But hey anytime I can score a new outfit, new shiny things to hang in my ears and around my neck, and new shoes I'm in...hee hee.
The downside is that I have to go spend 4 hours in a bar with a bunch of drunks...lol As well as when the gigs are at any distance from the house I have to either figure out something to do with the critters or stay at home. Before that wasn't a problem because our next door neighbor was not only a cat lover but also an RN so she would just run over to test and shoot Autumn for me, and we would just take the drooler with us to guard the equipment trailer. Now if this looks like he is going to playing with them full time I'm going to have to go on a hunt for someone that I can trust to come in and test and shoot for me. Now Sara that lives behind us, also has a diabetic kitty and I know she knows how to test because I trained her, but unfortunately she also works nights so she is a no go to cover for me in the evenings. :sad: Oh well I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. It may come down to us traveling with the band, 3 diabetic cats and a large dog...lol But we all do what we have to do to make life work.
Mel and The Fur Gang
I have very mixed emotions about this new group. While I dearly love going out to hear him play and know that this is what he lives for, I'm also selfish in that with the long hours he works on his day job, weekends are really our only couples time together and now with a band in the picture it means giving up some of those weekends so he can go play. The upside is that this new group has a very good reputation around here and gets the big bucks to perform. Nobody walks away from a gig with them with less that $200 for a 4 hour gig, so the extra cash especially this time of year is a welcome plus. The other upside for me is since DH loves to take me with him when he performs and likes to have me dressed to the nines when we do I get all kinds of girly perks when he is performing live, like this weekend he took me out to find a new outfit and I have orders to call my stylist today and set up an appointment to get my hair cut and styled this week.
Then I'm to get my nails done next week so they will match the new outfit. Now to just find new boots to match everything else...Oh the horrors I have to go shoes shopping...lol But hey anytime I can score a new outfit, new shiny things to hang in my ears and around my neck, and new shoes I'm in...hee hee. The downside is that I have to go spend 4 hours in a bar with a bunch of drunks...lol As well as when the gigs are at any distance from the house I have to either figure out something to do with the critters or stay at home. Before that wasn't a problem because our next door neighbor was not only a cat lover but also an RN so she would just run over to test and shoot Autumn for me, and we would just take the drooler with us to guard the equipment trailer. Now if this looks like he is going to playing with them full time I'm going to have to go on a hunt for someone that I can trust to come in and test and shoot for me. Now Sara that lives behind us, also has a diabetic kitty and I know she knows how to test because I trained her, but unfortunately she also works nights so she is a no go to cover for me in the evenings. :sad: Oh well I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. It may come down to us traveling with the band, 3 diabetic cats and a large dog...lol But we all do what we have to do to make life work.
Mel and The Fur Gang
