Well guys, I thought it might be time for a little bit of an update.
At the beginning of the month I began my new job: selling merchandise at (and for) WinterJam. Now I'm sure you must be thinking "oh that sounds fun!" To which I would reply "of course, it absolutely is!" However, let me just tell you this: even after dancing for 15 years, playing basketball in high school and going to college for 5 years, I have managed to pull more muscles, acquire more bruises and take more baby-wipe-showers than I care to admit all in the last 2 weeks more than I have in my 24 years of existence. Last night I just sat on the floor, crawled under a table and was about to lay down, but was quickly reminded that the floor was disgusting. And then I started laughing. I think perhaps I have a case of hysteria. Or a lack of sleep. Probably a lack of sleep and a touch of hysteria. We call this having a case of the winter jams.
All that said, I'm having a blast. I get to travel and work with some of the absolute best humans I have ever met. These are seriously super awesome sauce people. And who knows how they feel about me (remember that whole baby-wipe-shower thing), but I'm stoked to do this and work with them for the next 7318913287956 days. <--- exaggeration for dramatic effect, but that's how it actually feels.
I'm writing on this on the bus back to Nashville - our drive was from pretty much the bottom most part of Florida, so I thought, I've got a few too many hours to kill, let's blog about it. I've only seen one other human awake on my bus this morning, so either the guys don't want to see me (impossible, right?!) or they're just taking advantage of sleeping until we get back to Nashville. Which won't be for 8 years. All of this isn't too terrible though, because I currently have the front lounge to myself. More importantly though, I have a couple of chocolate chip banana bread slices in front of me (made by yours truly).
Let's talk about that for a hot sec. So I was dubbed the title of "bus captain" - which basically means I make sure we have everyone when we need to roll, and I check on bus needs. That kind of thing. But further than that, I think I subconsciously took on the roll of bus mom and feel this need to take care of my guys. So, the first week I made apple chips and peanut butter-honey-oatmeal squares. This week I made a loaf of bread - big winner too, they asked if I could make more. I'm thinking one loaf won't cut it though, so I'll probably need to make 8, because that sounds logical. We'll see if I have enough bananas for 8 loaves.
This weekend was all in Florida, which was welcomed after the sub-zero temperatures we had our first weekend out. Unfortunately, this weekend is over, and our next run is in PA and OH. Oh yeah, I'm coming to PA this week! So y'all should come to Reading or Pittsburgh. Or Penn State, but that's not for a few months. Check out the schedule here if you're interested: http://2017.jamtour.com/
We leave for Reading, PA on Wednesday, and so basically that drive is going to be super long. So long. So me and my guys are gonna have brinner on the bus (breakfast for dinner) and watch movies the whole time. My guys are pretty awesome and they may not admit it, but I'm pretty sure they think I'm awesome too. I can hope anyway.
5-second version: WinterJam is awesome, I'm not sleeping but I have chocolate chip banana bread and I love my job.
I think that gets us all caught up. Hopefully the guys wake up soon; I'm starting to get lonely up here. Stay tuned for more updates - I've got 2 and a half months to go, so many stories to follow.
Gotta catch 'em all,
Ellie
