Jeremy and I are spending a week in Seattle and he is recording music every day. Right this very second he is recording a Selena Gomez cover. Great song.. although the lyrics are a bit girly for a male to sing. Jeremy is EXTREMELY talented. Don't know how he does it! We get to the studio in the morning and he records or writes all day. I write with him.. but don't do any recording cause I am TERRIBLE.. although if Willie Nelson could do it so can I right?! J/k (kinda) Anyways, since I just sit in the studio for hours I decided I would add to our blog. Maybe I will add on to our Nashville experience.. that will be exciting! Well last I left off Jeremy hit a deer and we arrived in Nashville after many struggles. Nashville was SOOO pretty! Definitely one of my favorite places I have EVER been. There were only a few downfalls to Nashville
1) My hair looked like Miss Frizzle on Magic School Bus every time I stepped outside. (I don't even know if her hair was frizzy.. but going off her name it would be a joke if it wasn't.
2) There are like 400 freeways in Nashville.. You take one and get off the wrong exit on accident and you are on another freeway going the wrong way.. then you try to exit that one to get back to where you were and you are on ANOTHER freeway.. pretty soon you are in Canada.
That's about all the negatives I can think about actual Nashville. The positives
1) It is SOOO green!
2) GOOD restaurants
3) You go to the grocery store and see Martina McBride
Anyways.. Jeremy and I spent 4 months in Nashville and slept on the floor 3.5 of those four months. When we first got to Nashville we were so excited to FINALLY be there from our long struggle getting there. Well.. when we got there our apartment wasn't ready and they made us go find a hotel to stay at that night. Not a problem.. if it wasn't the weekend of the Music marathon! Every hotel 60 miles from Nashville was BOOKED! Actually there was ONE room left at a VERY nice hotel.. One that Kelly Clarkson would stay in when she visits Nashville. (Actually I believe she lives there now.. but you get the point) EXPENSIVE! Well.. we make our way up to the top floor of the hotel.. turn on the tv.. "Weather Alert: Tornado warnings in the Nashville Tn. area" Uh.. Jeremy.. I have never been in the whole tornado situation.. but I think I heard once it is not good to be on the top floor of a GIANT hotel during a tornado. Well.. we survived. Although it was very sad because that is the same weekend when all the flooding happened, many died and many lost their homes. It was pretty crazy to drive and see water EVERYWHERE.. covering entire houses. Well we finally got into our apartment. We were there for a whole three weeks when we were forced to leave because Jeremy decided not to do a job and the company was paying for us to stay there. It was a good thing he decided not to do the job though cause the company got in a lot of trouble and had to leave Nashville anyways. Well where were we gonna go now?! We looked on craigslist and found a GREAT place! It was the basement of the drummer of Chris Ledoux. No contract.. pretty cheap. EXCELLENT! Well.. i'm not sure about you.. but the smell of pot is not very pleasing. It was SO bad! I covered all the vents with towels and duct tape.. which ended up us still getting plenty of pot smell and no air from the vents.. which was kinda funny- lady upstairs- "How is the temperature downstairs? Lately it has been really cold upstairs so I turned down the air! If you guys get too hot or cold let me know!" haha all the cold air was staying upstairs and not going through my duct tape covered vents. Well it got so bad.. I think I started to feel high myself.. so we left. They did not give us our money back.. even though we were only there for one week.. more money lost. BUMMER! :) Well.. luckily my sister and her husband were near Nashville for the summer selling alarm systems. They were kind and let us stay with them. We were there for a week and all the sudden they come to us with the news "our company is moving to Arkansas for the rest of the summer" So we had one week to get out.. they offered for us to stay with them in Arkansas but that would defeat the whole purpose of us being out there for Jeremy's music. Soooo we found ANOTHER place to stay at. It was 300 dollar/month rent. Nice eh?! Not saying this in a racist way AT ALL.. but we were the only white people in the entire apartment complex. We slept on couch cushions on the ground the whole time we were in that apartment.. which was for a while. It was a bonding experience :) And I must say the couch cushions were pretty comfy! Well I have forgotten to mention that this entire time living there we were trying to find jobs.. and it wasn't happening. SO we were both delivering yellow pages for ten cents a delivery. ROLLIN in the big bucks now! We would run from door to door to try and get as much money as we could! That gets pretty dang tiring when you do that for 8 hours. Unfortunately I hurt my ankle doing it and could barely walk..jobless.. for a while.. then we went back to delivering when I got better. The funny part about that job is the rules are that you have to set the book up against the front doors.. no throwing the yellow pages on the driveway or you don't get paid. Well.. Tennessee driveways are like a mile long.. uphill. Ten cents an hour due to those darn driveways. I can't even tell you how many dogs attacked me.. at least 4 per day. I had to whack them with my yellow pages for defense. Anyways.. we finally got a driving job delivering medicine around Tennessee to hospitals/care centers/etc. We got the job and weren't able to start it for a couple weeks cause they required all sorts of stuff we had to have mailed to us from Salt Lake. We also had to prove we were residents of Tennessee.. and we were pretty much homeless and didn't have an address. So we asked a random girl at church if we could use her address. Nice girl.. she is a singer.. if you read this you should support her.. name Michelle Renee. Well to prove we were residents we had to open up a bank account in Tennessee and wait for the bank to mail something to us.. therefore we were not able to start the job until all this happened. We also needed Tennessee drivers licenses to start the job. So we went and got those. FINALLY we could start the job. Good things about the job
1) We got to drive ALL across the beautiful state of Tennessee
2) We got to choose our hours (which we were on call.. and we put our availability was 24 hours a day cause we DESPERATELY needed work.. and we would get annoying calls at 3 in the morning and had to go deliver medicine.)
Bad things about the job
1) It was a rip off job and we ended up losing more money than we made. hahaha! Stupid company. Our boss looked like Arlene on Garfield too.
Well we had to quit that job. What to do now?! We were SO beyond broke.. no jobs.. except for delivering yellow pages for 3 bucks an hour. Well.. we tried to stick it out for a while until the final breaking point.. I crashed and totaled Deborah (my beautiful blue car) WOOPS! I rear-ended somebody. haha That's when we decided we had enough and weren't supposed to be there. So seriously a week later we rented a car and drove back to Utah. HOME SWEET HOME!
Well.. Tennessee haunted us for a while after that. We got a ticket in the mail from the Tennessee police department for a red light Jeremy ran on the way to church one time. Be careful.. you never know when a stop light is taking a picture of your license plate. We also got a call from the Tennessee bank telling us we had all these charges.. had to pay those. And the worst haunting of all.. that we still go through this day.. We see yellow page bags ALL over.
OVERALL.. a crazy experience. BUT it was such a good experience. We learned so much.. spent a lot of time on our knees trying to figure out what we were supposed to do. We also made some GREAT friends there that we miss so much! Our friend Marabeth offered to let us stay at her house and that was extremely nice of her. She also found Jeremy a gig at a cancer fundraiser.. which was so fun! I would not trade that experience for ANYTHING. I LOVED Tennessee.. it was still such a good time even with all we went through. THE END!
One last funny thing I have to add on here for journal purposes that nobody else but Jeremy would understand.. "The biggest thing here in Nashville are the people.. and YOU on your way!" haha I also forgot to add.. BOTH of our laptops crashed in Tennessee.. so we had to go to the public library that was like 20 minutes away to do all our job searching. haha
