Oh what a week!

I mentioned that I was going to Nashville for CRS week, and was so excited that I'd be seeing my friends... well, I am and was. I had a great time!

Wednesday, I drove down there, and then when I got into town I headed straight for my friend Todd's house, for his baptism party. That was fun, pictures got taken, I could only stay for a little while, and then headed north again towards Nashville.

I got a phone call from my friend Tiff, and she was in Green Hills, so I stopped off to see her at a friend's bus... and ran into another friend of mine! We all ended up hanging out that night between the buses and then hit up our favorite bar, Losers. It was so good to see some old friends and laugh. It was a great start to a wonderful long weekend.

Then, Thursday I went to CRS and hung out at the Bridge Bar, only after getting a REALLY Hot dress from Aimee at Flavour! I did a video for her too, and I still have to edit it. It was so wonderful to see her and she did a great job dressing me for Thursday's CRS event! I am going to have to pick up a few more dresses next time I'm in town!

At Bridge Bar, I was able to see a TON of people I know, and it was surprising how loved I felt, as I sat there and kept seeing more and more people I knew, and I would get hug after hug, and then the same question..."Are you back in Nashville for good?"... I would tell everyone the same thing. I'm working on it, and I'm finally ready. Everything's handled.

I got a lot of great job leads (even in the economy's state), and met some new people too!

I ended up hanging all over downtown and midtown on Thursday night, rockin' out my dress... and had a blast!

Friday morning I woke up and felt human only after a ton of Starbucks. I looked like a train wreck until I got to my friend Brandi's house and we got to chat and I got to grab a shower. She even made me waffles! It was great catching up with her and I got to play her a song of mine as well. When I left there, I headed towards Losers to catch up with JJ and her new friend Josh Hoge. We sat there at the bar chatting for a bit, then I decided to head back towards downtown for more CRS fun. After a quick trip to Printers Alley and a couple hours of karaoke fun... Friday night proved to be a great night out, and I was treated to a great show courtesy of Digital Rodeo and CRS, that had all sorts of new country artists performing covers. My hands down favorite of the evening was Emily West singing "Nothing Compares 2 U". I closed out the evening at Broadway Brewhouse with some old NEPA friends.

Saturday morning I got up, showered and hit the door... went to Losers to check in and sit on the porch. That's all I wanted to do. Just sit there, and hang out on the porch. I thought I would be able to run into some old friends, and I was right. Little by little, they all ended up coming in, and by the end of the day, there was a great crowd of my favorite people... all hanging out on the porch and laughing.

Saturday night was the same way. I ended up being well behaved, and knew I had a long drive coming up.

Overall, I maximized the time I spent in Nashville. I can't wait to get back (for good).

So on the way home, I had almost no voice, which I attributed to all the yelling over bands, and talking and singing and carrying on... as well as the drinking... and didn't ever think it MIGHT be that I was getting sick. Whooops.

Yeah, I have spent the majority of this week in bed, sleeping, breaking fevers and coughing. Overall, I got what the kids had. I fell hard.

Last night, I got a phone call from Jon again. Not the first time this week, but it was a late phone call so I was surprised. I picked up, and after a little conversation, including him saying that he thought of me when he noticed it was karaoke night, he told me that he owed me a weekend. I inquired, laughing and asked why... and he said that he knew I came down there several times and that he owed me a weekend where he showed up here. I said, ok... when did you want to come up? And he gave me a date of April 18th. Haha! A month out... I just said, ok, let me know and I'll find out what's going on then and we'll go out and have fun.

I'm finally feeling a little bit better... I think by tomorrow I should be back on my game. :) Of course, that's just in time to clean up the house for the kids to wreck it this weekend. Haha!
And, they get out early tomorrow.

So, that's kind of it, my week in a really short post. I had a lot of fun, and still have SO much work to do with editing down all my videos and getting them up on the new site. I hope I can get some of that done this weekend... plus there's Parade Day on Saturday. I don't know if I can get to that or not - gotta see about a sitter.