the mono is returning…. or atleast it feels like it
My throat is on fire and im really tired. the last time i had this feeling was when i had mono… when we are in AZ. xdsx is getting ready to go back to AZ now that I think about it. Arizona will be the death of me.
Author: Josh Highland
Blog Catch Up
So my kidneys weren’t shutting down, I think I just had crazy body aches from getting another cold. I swear, I’m the sickest person I know… and no I don’t mean sick as in "sick ink" or "sick dirt bike, bro!". I mean sick as in "I am never well". I really think I have "Josh Highlands disease". Once the first of the year comes around, I'm so going to the Dr.
I have taught notPopbot a few new tricks. She hasn’t been online to chat in the last few days, but she has been busy doing other things. Lets just say that she knows A LOT about lyrics these days. Speaking of which, the notpop lyrics database is doing really good. It's growing really fast.
Jason Keller is leaving on Thursday and wont be back until new years eve. I’m going to miss playing Unreal Tournament with him for the next few weeks. We havent got around to patching that hole in my ceiling yet either. I guess that will have to wait until the New Year.
Ryan Gregson fell off of his mtn. bike and shattered his wrist. He had to have surgery, and pins and plates placed in it. That means no guitar for a whole. That poses an interesting question? who will play guitar in xdeathstarx while he heals? We have a show the first week in jan in AZ. I’m guessing that Eric will drop off of vocals, and play guitar, and thommy will come back for one last show with us. I just did the paper work on it… this will be the 7th formation that xdeathstarx has played in, and there has been 13 different people that have been part of xdeathstarx at one point in time. I don’t think many bands have stats like that. maybe its not such a good thing.
Yennys is having a party on Sunday after church. That should be good. I have to go to a wedding in Bakersfield on the 18th for Amy best friend. I have only met her once. The wedding should be good, but I don’t look forward to driving to Bakersfield and back alone. I tend to fall asleep when i drive long distances by myself. Time will tell.
My kindney is shutting down
GRRRR…. PAIN!
I’m sitting here is pain, pain like I haven’t felt in a long time. I think i pulled a muscle on the right side of my back. It hurts deep inside, like I broke a rib…. But I haven’t gotten hit in the ribs in a long time. Im thinking that I pulled a muscle moshing on Saturday night for plague: The red letters at Koos, or my right kidney is shutting down. Either way it sucks. The show on Saturday was fun though. I like the new Koos.
IWC Thanks Vegan 2004
So the day after keller and i got in that brawl, it was the IWC anual vegan
thanksgiving. Its a yearly tradition that all of the IWC and friends get
together the weekend after thanksgiving to celebrate our friendship and
actually enjoy a meal that most of us can eat (yes, most of my friends are
vegan).
Jason and I woke up early are started to fix the fest. We make 30+ lbs of
MOSHED-potatoes, 16 lbs of vegan ham logs, 10 lbs of un-turkey, and 4 boxes of
stuffing. Natalee made a ton of food also.
There was about 45 people that showed up to erics for "IWC Thanks-Vegan
2004".The 30+ lbs of MOSHED-potatoes we gone in about 10 minutes. There were
more deserts then I could count. I ate until I was stuffed. We should of made
more food though.
Afterwards we all watched starwars. What a great evening
Wedding, Work, Food, And A Fight
The day after the glasshouse show, I had to drive to vegas with Amy, and her dad to see amy's sister, Alli get married. I havent been to vegas oin a while, since we got back from hellfest earlier this year. I was $100 at video poker in the first 5 minutes I ws there. It paid for the whole trip. The wedding was quick and to the point. My wedding is just around the corner, but I dont think that Elvis will be standing outside of the chappel greeting people. On the way home it snowed the whole way. It was retarded. We made it through the cajon pass just before they closed it for the night. We got lucky there.
It was a short work week due to the holidays. I have been busting my hump here at work to get this project finished before your yearly review comes up. Im hoping for a big raise (I need it, house stuff is expensive!)
Thanksgiving was good. Jason Keller (who now lives with me) and I were cooking wizards. We threw together some good veggie food for us to take as we visited family and friends. Later that night Amy and I hung out with Yenny, Little ryan, and Daniel and watched Elf. What a good movie. Later that night (2am). D-Bo rolled into town! Keller and I hung out with him until 4:30am. It was good to shoot the breeze with him and catch up on things.
The next day I hung out with D-Bo and got some cucas and stuff. Lafter in the day, I drove D-Bo, Scott, and Keller down to the House of Blues Anahiem. Himsa, Arch Enemy, Bleeding Through, Cradel of Filth for free? hell yeah I was into going. We got there early and hung out. I think I have my wedding show details on lockdown. Its going to be amazing, but I cant say anything about it yet until its 100%. We watched Himsa and Arch Enemy. Both were amazing. The crowd didnt react to them well though. It sucked. I hate metal shows. We went onto the floor for bleeding through with Casey and started to have a good time for bleeding through. Metal heads dont know what is up and took offence to our dancing. One big guy hit Casey and threw him in a headlock and started to choke him out. Casey was trying to get him off but it wasnt working well. Now Im not a fan of fighting, anyone who knows me well knows that Im not that down. Hell a friend of mine, Chris from Suffocate faster was stabbed a few weeks ago while watching bleeding through play (it was actually this same tour). Im not going to let someone I know get hurt by some meat head though…. so I jumped into the fight. (i typed all the details here, but deleted them, they really arnt needed). Jason Keller saw me taking on several guys way bigger then me and joined in. They were sorry when it was over. Jason got thrown out, with the other guys who started the fight, Casey and I escaped into the crowd. Jason broke one of the guys noses before he knocked him out. They tries to fight us in the parking lot after we left the show, but we told them to take a hike. We didnt want to fight in the first place, and we didnt have anything to settle with them. We were just trying to defuse a situation. They talked crap to us for a while, but eventually left. What assholes. I hate metal shows. I had to take Keller to get a tetnis shot because one of the rabid metal head bit his hand during the brawl.