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PARTIES, AND BIRTH OF A MONIKER? |      |
| » CATEGORY: Daily Blog | BY:
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| » POSTED ON: 6/14/2011 12:44:00 AM | MOOD:
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This past weekend's events consisted of the following: Meeting, Magic night, two graduation parties, a music gig, and the usual church stuff. Oh, and I got my lawn mowed, but I doubt anybody wants to hear about that. The meeting (for the big project I've been working on) went well, but not much to fill in on details there, for obvious reasons. Magic night was fun... We got an early start, ate Chinese food, drank lots of tasty and new beverages, and played several games of MtG. Church was its usual self (which isn't a bad thing)... We did have a visitor, and it was a guy that I knew, but hadn't seen in probably about 20 years! Oh, and I made a couple people cry with my singing. But then again, that's the norm.
Ok, on to Saturday stuff. I was invited to three graduation parties, but could only attend two due to scheduling conflicts and the music gig I had right in the middle of all of them. The first party of the day was for one of my cousins, who just graduated high school. It was actually held at a small bowling alley, so I got to show off my splendid moves on the lanes! Well... relatively speaking. I got to bowl two games, and the first one, I got a 125, but the second, I fell to a 96. But, it was good enough to win both games... by large margins... I don't think the PBA will be calling anytime soon, but hey, I think I've run my bowling win streak to at least four straight wins! Anyway, I had a pretty good time there. I got to chat with my cousins for a good bit, and I especially enjoyed the chat I had with my cousin Bobby, who is making his own electronic music album! Oh, and the cakes... oh, the cakes... I really need to get pictures of them. They were very artistic, but one in particular caught my attention. It was done up as one of the stage heads of the techno group Deadmau5, and on the base was a spot-on icing representation of NYAN CAT!!!
The second party I was invited to was a collective college graduation party for the mother of one of my friends, and her two daughters, who all graduated from the same college at the same time. I didn't get to go to that, though, because right after my cousin's party, I had to go home and get dressed for my gig.
So yeah, me and the band I'm in, the Shadyside Community Band, had a gig out at Undo's for some glass museum's annual conference. We were essentially supposed to serve as background music while the attendees arrived, so we just stuck to some lighter standard pieces. We weren't expecting to be paid attention to, as we were acting as glorified elevator music. In fact, we were told not to expect applause, because we were just acting as a set piece. But the people attending actually took note of us, and were applauding after every number. Toward the end of our set, some of the people were coming up to us between numbers and chatting with us, commenting on how good we were, how they liked my hat, etc, etc. One guy, who I guess was one of the heads of the organization since he gave the opening remarks to start their dinner, came up and was asking about us, like who we were and where we were from. So we told him that we were the Shadyside Community Band, obviously based out of Shadyside. He replied something like "Shadyside? So you're all a bunch of shady characters then?" We laughed about that comment, and somewhat agreed. I mean, who could argue with that logic, especially since I was wearing my pin-striped pimp hat? So, when that guy gave the opening comments, he was thanking various people for organizing their conference, then he went on to thank us, saying "Thank you to the Shady Characters for their performance". So, was this going to end up being a name origin gig? It would be funny to look back, if we ever made it big, on that moment when we could say "this is how we got our name". Then again, nothing has officially been discussed regarding this, so stay tuned!
And finally, we're getting to the last party of the evening. I went straight from the Undo's gig to the graduation party of a Steak n Shake waitress I've befriended. She actually ended up being the only person at the party that I even knew! So there was a good bit of time where I was pretty much sitting alone eating. I didn't mind, though, because the food was pretty good, especially the meatballs! Towards the end of the party, I ended up in a long conversation with this one guy, in which we traded stories about work, our towns, girls, and beverages of choice. I met and chatted with a few other people there, so for being a party where I only knew the guest of honor, I guess I was social enough!
Well, it's getting late, but I hope you all enjoyed yet another glimpse into my life. I've got another crazy weekend coming up at the end of this week, which includes me diving into the fray at my church's VBS! That's right, I'll be teaching songs to young children. It could get ugly! Stay tuned!
-- TG
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OPINIONS: 6 PEOPLE APPROVED, WHILE 2 PEOPLE DISAPPROVED
