Saturday, Sunday, & Today (w/pics!!!)

Saturday March 20, 2010

“I need you to wake up Liz.”

I opened my eyes and looked over at Mr.V. It was late Saturday night. He had been driving all day, from Dallas to San Antonio; then back, to get us to our gig with Escaping Gravity. (It’s true; Mr. V makes shit happen one way or another; even if it means sacrificing all of his time.) “Text Andy and tell him they need to watch out for black ice and it’s snowing,” he said; “Oh and can you grab one of those energy drinks from the back? Please and thank you.” I didn’t mind because I knew why he was waking me up. He was getting drowsy. Combine that with the freakish weather and it wasn’t the best condition for driving, especially alone.

I threw off my blanket, undid my seat belt and climbed into the backseat. It took me a few minutes to wake up and get my head back in the game. I ran my hands over shirts, bandanas, cuzis, and bags. Finally, I felt one of the little boxes of Venom energy drinks, tore it open with one hand, and pulled out one of the cans. I climbed back into the passenger seat; “Here you go,” and handed the can to Mr.V. I was still freezing from standing outside for our show in San Antonio. I grabbed the blanket off the floorboard and wrapped myself up in it. “Did you put your seatbelt back on?” he reminded me. “Oh yeah,” and I pulled the belt out, refastened it, then cocooned myself inside my blanket.

The sky outside was pitch black, but I could see the little pieces of ice coming toward the windshield, Star Wars style. “The boys are about 30 minutes behind us” he said.  I text Andy the message about the weather, then went back into staring at the falling ice. Gazing off into what felt like light years we traveled through to get back home, my speeding thoughts were able to catch up with my body, and I started to feel unified again.

Hypothermic; but together.

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Sunday March 21, 2010 

Fashion show with some of the free merch I scored from Venom for modeling in their promo @ San Antonio. (AKA: "This is what we do when the internets is out.")

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Monday March 22, 2010

Made it to Oklahoma. Met an amazing girl tonite, named Ashley, on the train. She could very well be my best friend Brandi, just from a different dimension. More on that tomorrow. 

<3,

Liz

Future's so bright

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger.

 

If the Blog Gods were vengeful and unforgiving, I'd surely be rotting in Blog Hell right now for not updating. Thankfully, they've given me another chance. After the past few weeks of working into day and night, meeting the deadline for Open Heart, I had to take a few Liz days. I'm pretty sure it also had something to do with the anniversary of my father's death, and I'm still dealing with that in my own way, alone. Today, I'm ready to rejoin society and I fully intend on doing that...

right after this cup of coffee.

Earlier this week, my younger brother and I were sitting outside on the balcony, (where everything happens it seems). "You know, I never thought a year ago I'd be applying to the University of Texas", he said. The sun was high, and I had to squint my eyes just to look at him. "I never thought a year ago I'd be here either", I replied. We both giggled. 

I didn't understand the full extent of what I had said to him until this weekend, when I found myself on a perfect Saturday afternoon, stuck in traffic on the back of a Harley with Mr.V. I noticed we were stopped near Six Flags, and began wondering why people pay for thrills. I haven't been to Six Flags in years. The sun was bright and I had to squint my eyes to look up at The Titan roller coaster. Suddenly it dawned on me. I've spent so much time focusing on my future goals, I hadn't given myself a few kudos that were due for accomplishing the first one: Moving to Texas.  

I said I was going to move here, and I did. Ha! Check that off the list today!

I love surprising myself through retrospection. 

That Saturday in particular, I gained a wealth of information regarding my artistic career goals from Mr.V. The advice he gave me, no one has ever brought to my attention before. I admire him for his honesty in his business. As always, I have more to think about, if this is truly the career path I want to follow. Perhaps that was another reason for taking a short leave from life a few days ago? I thought about it, and yes, this is what I want. I'm ready to revamp my plan to make my dreams a reality.

Working the show in Deep Ellum Saturday night was fun, and I nearly died laughing when one of the members of Tonight, Tonight! kept making, That Thing You Do, references. They were an amazing group of musicians [as well as a witty group of guys] and I can't wait to work with them again. Onwards and upwards, our next show is Escaping Gravity @ The Trees this Thursday, March 18th. Then onto the South Texas Motorcycle Expo in San Antonio. 

Seeing as how this cup of coffee is gone, guess that's my cue to rejoin the world.