day in the life..

when i was on the road, a lot of people asked me what a day for me was like so for anyone else who may be curious, here it is:

i normally start the day around 10 or 11..mainly because we drive at night and so i like to sleep until we are in the city we're supposed to be in. if we get in a city at like 5AM i'll wake up earlier around 9 and i'll count the night before's merchandise settlement and make sure th emoney matches with the merchandise we sold. i just can't be awake too long on something moving..it makes me sick haha

i normally eat cereal for breakfast unless there is a rare occassion where everyone wants to eat brunch together like the time we went to portland and ate at Doug Firs..which was the best breakfast i had on tour.

load in is normally around 3PM. sometimes it can be as early as 1.

i load in all the merch and start on my displays and counting in..i take a long time cuz i'm a perfectionist so while it takes others an hour it normally takes me like 2-3 hours haha. but trust me..my displays are prreeetttyyy

i grab a sandwich unless the venue caters and then i grab whatever is on the buffet line or order my food...HOUSE OF BLUES had pretty great food :)

i work as soon as doors open. normally 6 or 7PM until around midnight or 1AM. then we load out and i'll see what everyone is up to for a few hours until i go to bed. i'm normally the first to go to sleep.

we stay up a lot to watch nirvana or hendrix or tom petty.

one of the greatest things i learned on this tour was the appreciation for classics. i learned about the music that inspired my favorite artists. i didn't get any of that growing up because my parents don't listen to music and growing up the only music i was exposed to was the radio. Top 40. those names were never mentioned by any of my friends or family members and i hadn't even heard of those names until i grew up and read it in magazines and even then it didn't interest me..now i love tom petty and nirvana and it was so great to be around musicians who were so in love with classic rock. and so greatful for the movements they were able to make due to these musicians' introduction into the world of music

tis all.
for now.