FEBRUARY 22ND - 12:58A.M. I am too excited to sleep tomorrow is the day I start the rest of my life :) so what to do should I do drink myself to sleep or should I watch snakes on a plane starring the bad ass mother fucker Sammy jackson hmmmmm its a toss up maybe ill do both i kinda have a toothache anyways maybe the alcohol will help GOD THIS MOVIE IS SO GREAT I really don't care what anyone says its what it should be lol . 11:49 A.M. mornings to me are everyone elses mid day lol so I am going to take a shower here soon call up ol' john farmer the landlord guy set up the meeting to sign the paper work and get the building . yippee ! I am excited and everything but now I have to find other artists that is going to be a hassle and a half . you can't exactly post something on monster and get ppl oh no no no you have to know ppl and when I moved here I cut off most of the ppl I knew to have a fresh start . oh well .
March 10th - 12:37 p.m. So the shop has yet to get open in fact we have not even given him the money yet man i havent written on this thing in a while . anyways its been rough lately .... my girl friends father killed himself last friday we were there for 5 days .... he was a cop ... she hasnt really stoped crying since then . our room mate is mia AGAIN rent is again past due alot . he showed up yesterday saying we have to move out . not sure how long we have if he shows up today i am going to ask him to hold off till sunday hopefully i can either raise the money i need to move or pay him . blah i wish my partner would call . i swear i hate when i am up this long with out something to do .
March 11th - 10:49a.m. I give up this is the last time i write about trying to open the shop i think . Yesterday i tried calling my partner up to tell her i had found someting terrific out . i started calliing and texting early in the day and she never called or wrote back i called her house and nothing . it got to the point that the rings went from 5 rings voice mail to 2 rings voice mail ahhh the ol fuck you button . so I have officially given up hope on that . Today i am going to a few shops in louisville to see if they need an artist . I went late yesterday to a place in indianna to a guy i had meet drinking one night i didnt ask because the first words out of his mouth were man its been very slow this year . blah I hate when I get like this I dont like being whinny but as of right now the badness stands as is . 1 - no money 2- no interenet to get ppl to my house to work on them 3- might be homeless in a day or so because my roomate has not paid the rent . feeling very loanly and depressed . stupid dreams . SOOOOOOOOOOO lets recap what all has happen since i decided to do this
1- tried to save the money did really good almost had it all TILL my cat got very sick and had to have a 4000 operation
2- the neworleans conevntion was a complete bust ended up lossing 3000 on hotel and stuff normally i break even at cons
3- had an investor he got talked out of it by my old boss so she could keep me
4- rumor has it (not 100% sure) that other ppl i worked with had a girl go tell the boss that i had been very rude to her she fired me
5- this one is my fault - did a tattoo off the books (now mind you at least once something like this happens) fellow emploees came to house beat me (which by the way has left a scare under my eye and sinus problems) and stole ALL my equipment
6- used my apprentices money to open up in a terrible location
7- phone and water got turned off same day at the shop had enough to get water
8-eletricity got turned off got it on thanks to a dear friend of miine
9- girlfriend started well lets say she found something to keep her mind off of problems (again my fault and will never be mad at that)
10 - ray of hope with a person saying they wanted to invest hoever turnes out (at least by what her best friend at the time said ) that it was a ploy to get "MORE" from me
11- aprentice disapperars
12- 2 count them 2 other shops reopen less than a block away from my shop (one i could see by going outside) buisness drops
13 about 2 months behind on the rent
14 - another ray of light (and by no mens am i mad at this person ) one of my best friends decided she wanted to be partners and i love this lady with all my heart so i say yeah i draw up the plans and junk .... she finds out shes pregnant her current job has medical so she dosent want to take any risks she has always wanted a baby so i completely underastand sides means i am an uncle
15 - the apprentice texts me and says she wants her money back for her apprenticeship i fell obligated to do so seeing as it was a huge help in opening
16 - get back from christmas feeling dpressed and stop going to the shop didnt see the point
17 - worked out of the house a little caught my rent up some .... didnt help
18 - worked on a client she was talking about money i mentioned i wanted and investor to reopen she says oh my god i want to do that . and after about a month and a half of meetings and the such i am right here where i am at sitting here writing all this stuff out with nothing to do except try and feel sorry for myself . never liked doing that .
19 - oh yeah and of course there have been the friends who lied to me and tried to manipulate me to get what they wanted and that sent me over the edge for a second
currently i am working with a great group of guys at Derby City Tattoo on Barret ave
Valentine