I'M DONE!!!

Mark this one in the books, ladies and gentlemen. After much, much (and I do mean much) stress and sickness, I have COMPLETED all my tracks for the upcoming Bella album. Hallelujah!

Today is a good day, my friends. A good day, indeed. Now I just have to take these tracks into the studio tomorrow and have our wonderful engineer Colin do his thing and make us sound like rock stars. It sounds as though (according to the rest of the band's reports, as they were already there today while I was at work) he's quite capable in that department.

I'm especially happy because I was able to redo the one vocal track I thought was the weakest, being that for the song "Summer", which I formerly recorded in the midst of my Strep Throat, which seems to have cleared up at last, as of this afternoon.

Mmm, yes, I was also quite tickled when Matt called me after work from the studio to tell me that the mixing was going great, as I was very afraid that all our efforts might have been in vain and the resulting tracks unusable. It sounds as though that's far from the case, as the rest of the band tells me that this is going to be their new favourite album (I'm sure their just a tad biased). I'm excited to get in there tomorrow to hear what they've already done, as well as to work on the songs under my care.

And, with that, after having had a celebratory cigarette up at the bus stop by our house (much nicer than the 'Help me Lord' cigarette I had last night as I was frantically bouncing tracks so Matt would have something to take to the studio today) , I shall bid you all adieu and retire, once again at around quarter to five in the morning. The amazing thing has been that with the amount of sleep I've been getting lately, I haven't been tired. God surely is good.

Psalm 18 everybody. That's where I stand.

It was the worst of times; it was the worst of times.

Home from work early? Why yes I am, and thank you for noticing. You're such a good and thoughtful friend, Blog, despite that you're exceedingly evil in nature. Isn't that just the way?

Well, anyways, yeah, I left work early (after only one hour) because I feel like shite. I think I'm coming down with something, which is ENTIRELY inconvenient and badly timed (I mean, I want to have at least planned to get sick before it happens. Sheesh!), considering that I have to get this freaking recording done (and that pile of dishes on the counter isn't getting any smaller). Actually, I think that's at least part of the reason that I'm getting sick, as I've been under a lot of what the experts like to call "stress" lately. Or perhaps it's malnourishment? Ahh, the joys of being a starving artist (That's a joke. I'm just running out of what the experts like to call "groceries" at the moment).

Wow. Everyone, please feel sorry for me. I mean, after reading that last paragraph, how could you not? (I'm being entirely saracastic, of course... but you know, you gotta vent somewhere, right?)

In other news, I was just asked another random question by the new girl, Emily, at work today (she's the girl that asked me if I'm straight). Out of the blue she asked me, "Are you religious?". Pretty funny. Although that's not what I'd call it, I responded affirmatively to her question, so now she wants to have a "religion talk" at some point. She said that she loves talking to people about their religious beliefs and challenging them, and that her discussions tend to get quite heated. Should be interesting.

And alas, I should go to bed, or have a bath, or consume some vitamins, or perhaps some food. Maybe I'll be able to combine all that and have one great big "I'm going to get better" party! Hooray!

Groundbreaking

Ok, so maybe this doesn't have great significance or anything, but whatever. You know how people use emoticons (those sideways happy faces made with brackets and such) a lot on the internet? Well, there was one that I kept seeing on Myspace that I didn't quite understand, but I think I've got it now. Let's see if you get it:

<3

I seriously didn't know what that was supposed to be. I thought it looked like a double-scooped ice cream cone, or maybe a butt with a dunce cap on it. I think it's supposed to be a heart, though.

Isn't that something?