Excited

I’ve got my headphones on again. Something I haven’t heard in ages. Something I was a participant to years ago now. A recording. A band. Young and on the right track of something, just not the music business. It’s amazing to look back now and see where I was at that point in my life. In the background, not fully understanding my need to sing and perform on my own. I found that in time though. That has brought me to where I am today. Austin, TX. Idea City. The place to be in the here and now.

I have been absent from this space for quite some time. No real excuses other than a lack of a need to use my fingers to type these messages to myself and the world. In the time I have been away, I have been busy as hell, sick as hell, and late as hell a lot it seems. I have even had to consult an ENT about having corrective nose surgery.

A quick note about going to the ER these days. Please don’t go to Seton Northwest if you don’t have to. I had the lovely pleasure of spending many hours there last week. Once on Monday (and I mean Monday as in all damn day!) and again Tuesday night into the wee hour of morning.

“Why?” you ask of me? “How could you be there twice this week?”

I offer you one word.

stupidity

Is it common sense (and if not, let’s take a vote about making it so) to start an IV on a patient and ACTUALLY connect the bag of saline?? Or maybe just getting the needle in there and prepped for connection is all the rave these days. Because these fools let me sweat a mean fever out on my own in a little room off 183N for about an hour before ever hooking me up to some saline to help drop my temperature!! Then a quick misdiagnosis and boom – I’m out. Back home to feel shittier than before going in 7 hours earlier!

So, the next night, I am still running 104 and feeling like I am dying. I get back to the ER and this time someone gets smart and gives me some antibiotics and morphine. Nakia is a happy camper and waits until the fever begins to break. I sweated out the gown and the sheets. Then it was back home to begin to truly and try to recover. Thank goodness it’s over now. I go back to work on Saturday.

I have missed the store a good bit. I also had to cancel a show at Carousel last week because of that crap that yes, folks – turned out to be strep (type G – whatever that means) – and I really hated having to cancel. There was really going to be a good turnout for the show and I actually heard that some folks showed up thinking I was coming on later or something. I feel horrible about it, but they seemed cool.

I have been really busy with my acting career lately as well. I have appeared in a national television ad for SBC, shot for a commercial print piece for SBC, AMD and Need For Speed/Best Buy kiosk DVD, and I got cast in a great role for an independent feature film that I shoot next month. I get to play an “emotional redneck type, able to cry on demand.” – so I think it’s going to be a great part for me. I do know the name of the character is Otis. The working title of the film is Northwinds and it is being written and directed JD Sitter.

I was really hoping to play Skeeterfest. I spoke with Matt Martin of the Skeeters and he said he and my old friend Josh Clowers were going to try and squeeze me onto the bill, but it was already pretty tight. So, I didn’t get in. But it’s OK because I have to get this nose surgery done sometime in November. And with me just getting over being so sick, I wouldn’t want to travel that soon again. Although I would love to get to see my family some more when I was there.

I have written new material. Material I think is going to really move me in a new direction as a songwriter. Hopefully as a performer as well. I am about to be in a position to put out a record. That record will be recorded by me. I have given it a lot of thought and spare the help of a choice few whom I trust beyond description, I really think I need to make this record on my own. I have been really inspired a lot lately. Especially to record. We shall see what happens. I trust it will be intense and full of energy whatever it is.

Let’s get something else straight. I have been so into the presidential debates and race that I am scaring myself. I can’t remember a time in my life where I felt more compelled to follow the whole thing. Any politics for that matter. I just have never been as into that sort of thing before and for this it just seems to make sense.

There’s tons of new stuff at the website. I strongly suggest you pull into that site for a bit and catch up. You got a head start with this update.

Be with me -

~Kia

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