First Day Back to Work!!!!

I was so excited to come back to work today, believe it or not. I missed these fuckin girls so much! They were all texting me while I was on vacation saying they missed me and couldn't wait to see me, etc. That kind of shit just warms my little black heart. So, now I get to do the whole reminisce on my trip thing and get all sad that it's cloudy, chilly, and raining here but whatever. I leave with these girls to spend a weekend partyin it up in Miami in 3 weeks!!! So Stoked!

Besides getting back to work and seein some people that i have really missed and catching up on the shit i had fallen behind on, i had a Chipped Red Polish meeting Sunday right after i got home. A-FUCKING-MAZING!!! Shit is really happening. Our myspace and blog layout is almost completely done, we have a ton of people lined up to work with, and the ideas just keep flowing. I have never been in the same room with so many girls that just get it and each other. The creativity that flows throughout our conversations is mind blowing. So many good ideas, so much inspiration...it makes me want to start sculpting or some shit. Know what i mean? I almost need another creative outlet just to get all the shit i feel inside me out. Kinda weird i guess but if you are a creative person you know what I'm talking about. Just look out for us, we are coming in full force!!!

http://www.myspace.com/chippedredpolish

http://chipped-red-polish.blogspot.com/

<3
G

Dear Mother Nature...

So, I leave LAX after a lovely 3 hour lay over and set out to chicago. They say a couple of inches of snow, temp is in the mid 30s, (worse than when i left) but whatever a lil snow? It's almost april, it is just one of those little snows, right?...FULL ON BLIZZARD!!! Really? Really? Aparently, i called on the wrong gods. I Tried to bring back the middle of summer and brought back the middle of winter. My bad. But I am home and ready to get back to the real world, kinda.

Tonight is CRP meeting, so excited to see the girls, it feels like it has been forever! Just chillin tonight to try and get my sleep pattern back to normal. The rest of the week though? All Bets Off Bitches! It's time to rage!!!

Holla!

<3G

Last Day Out and About

Kawaii, HI

Well, should i really leave? This place is beautiful, it settled my mind to a place i hope to keep it, no one is rushed or stressed, the people joke and play all day at their jobs, and everywhere i go there is music. It's places like this that really make you wonder, "Why do i follow a schedule? Why and i a slave to time?" I love Chicago, i really do, but the things i love about the city are also the things i hate. I love how busy it is, how there are people everywhere, all types. On the other hand, many of those people are so far up their own asses, they never stop and sometimes just stopping can make all the difference in your day and your state of mind.

I don't know exactly what kind of lifestyle i want to live or where i want to live it because i have not lived in enough alternative living situations to know what works best for me. But i know the kind of mind set i want to keep. I want to stay centered and feel good about myself so that i can use all my energy on others and my music. Life is so easy to just live, to just go through it on automatic and never get anything out of it and never really feel. I don't want to wake up one day and realize that i haven't made a mark or some sort of impact on this world. What do i know though...? The mind is easily altered by the situations you put yourself in, therefore, i am trying this new thing...surrounding myself only with people that inspire me, give me good vibes, people that make me better at my craft and encourage me in my music and whatever other endeavors i decide to endure. This is what will mold me into who i need to be, want to be, and can be. I want people to be excited to work with me not only because I'm fun or funny or some shit, but because i just give off a good vibe, because i help them reach their goals and inspired them. It'll happen...

Well, here are a few pics from my last day out:

The Fam

Lil Bro by the Beautiful Bamboo

Under the falls

um... my ass

Me and my little sister jumpin off the 20 ft cliff

Peace and love Ohana!

<3

G

Check It

A very amazing girl showed me this today and i thought i would share...

http://uploads.ungrounded.net/221000/221483_Play.swf


Enjoy!

<3
G

Well Done

3 more days in paradise and i spent today fryin my shit! Got up at 9 to get down to this surf spot with sick ass waves that Ive wanted to hit since i got here. Unfortunately, the tide didn't come in for another hour or so and if i paddled out to meet the waves, you would probably never see me again. So, toasted on the beach til the surf was up. BURNT MY FUCKIN EYE LIDS AND LIPS!! It kills. Damn you time change, i should have stayed asleep! But the surf was sick once the tide came in so relatively worth it...

Then we went hiking:

This was tunnel beach!

This was the luau from the night before. These girls were absolutely beautiful! My dad was sittin next to me and after looking at my little brother turns to me and says "I wonder whats keeping a 13 year old boys attention..." and i answered with, "probably the same thing that's keepin mine." Then he hit me in the head and laughed. Haha Bitches were fiiiine!

Well I'm going to grab a drink. Tomorrow is scuba day!

Peace and Love!

G

Helicopters Rule!

These sick photos where taken from the helicopter that we took over the whole island. 45 minutes of amazingness! I could have stayed up there all day and taken pictures, it was fantastic!



So get this...yesterday, heading home from the southern part of the island where we were snorkeling and skin boarding, we run into a huge crowd of protesters dressed in red. I'm like, "oh whats this, protesters? Sweet! I enjoy a good display of human rights...freedom of speech." Little did i know they were protesting against gay marriage. Gay marriage!? My mom was like "give 'um the finger G!" (it was cute) How many gay people do they know? Does this effect them directly? What? We get the right to marry and who knows what else can happen, what will we ask for next? Gay armies and ask for prettier uniforms that compliment our figures or some shit? Blows my mind! Paradise was just that...paradise! Until the locals crushed my soul. Human kind man. When will we start lovin each other?

(I have been such a free spirit lately, so precious)

Do me a favor people, compliment someone you don't know, on the street, in the library, the line at Micky D's, whatever. Make someone you don't know feel better about themselves or just good for that one moment. Prove to me that there is hope in the human race, please!!

Mahalo!

<3 G

This is the shit i live for! Super talented dude who blows peoples minds with his music. While he was playing i watched this little boy, maybe 4 years old walk up to where he was playing and stare at him for ten minutes straight. For the last 5 minutes he was staring, his dad was trying to pull him away but the little boy would not budge so he picked him up and walked away with him as the little boy watched from his dads shoulders. There is something about music and amazingly talented musicians that draws people in and doesn't let them go. This is what i strive for in my music. Yes, I'm a drummer and most people pay attention to the things in front of the drums before even looking at me but i believe there is an element to a good musician that you feel more so than hear. As cheese ball as it sounds, i want people to feel my music more than hear it. Most people wont get what I'm trying to say though so...never mind? If you get it you get me...

Aloha!

G

First Time Blogger, Long Time Listener

Good Morning!!!! Its day 3 in Hawaii and i still can no get on Hawaii time for the life of me! Its 7:15 am and i got wasted last night so I'm hella hung over and all i really want to do is sleep but i cant! WHYYYY?!?!

So, yesterday started out with yoga on the porch, yea i know, "who does yoga for fun on vacation?" I do bitches. I then proceeded to fry my skin slowly for the next 4-5 hours, being sure to flip every other hour to assure the cancer would set in well and good. Basically, my front is well done and my back is medium rare. I look great! But you can only flop around on a lawn chair for so long in Hawaii so i headed out with my siblings to the most northern part of all the islands to get a taste of the true beauty of this paradise I'm living in for the next week. The wild life here is breath taking, the people are gorgeous, and you can actually feel how beautiful the land is. Why i spent the better part of the day toasting ill never know. So, for the rest of my time here i refuse to get a tan from just sittin on my ass.

Today=Hiking

Tomorrow=snorkeling and scuba diving

Tuesday=meet some locals to smoke me down and hang for the night

Wednesday= explore tunnel beach. There is a massive tunnel that runs hundreds of yards under the volcano. Amazing!!!

The rest of the time...Who knows.

I may check out for a couple days just posting random picture so i can take advantage of my time here. If i get wasted again i may end up blogging though. Its my favorite time to write...when i cant see!

Peace Bitches

<3

G

Twelve Hours In The Sky

Standing Bow 7am Hawaii

Aloha! I am writing from Kauai, Hawaii!!! It is only 9:30pm here, I am a time traveler! So let me tell you a little about Gianna and her travel experience...

So, I have traveled an ok amount, mostly road trippin and tours but still traveling, but I tend to under pack believe it or not. I brought all the tech shit i needed but forgot everything necessary to keep it running, like chargers. Idiot! Brought a hand full of shorts and shirts, no pants (Kauai is very windy and rain forest-y meaning i wanted to go hiking and brought nothing to hike and it gets chilly when the sun isn't out) nothing to sleep in, which is fine naked sleeping is lovely, no gym shoes, but a shit tone of swim suits. WORST PACKER EVER!!! Thus far, rough.

The adventure starts at O'Hara airport at 6 am where i find out we have a 2 hour lay over in LAX after a 4 hour flight there. For some reason i didn't realize this before. At LAX i run into a million stores trying desperately to find something to charge my ipod because my next flight to the actual island was 5 hours and Gianna with no music usually ends horribly so the crew sits down to eat while i squirrel around this airport only to spent $30 on a temp igo charger, Lame. So, boarding time comes and I'm sitting in the very last seat of the plane right in front of the bathrooms, it immediately smells like death and people are already running past me to use that shit and are knocking my elbos over and over again and we had not even taken off yet. Which whatever fine i am pretty easy going about travel and the people i am around and situations i get stuck in but to throw some sprinkles on that Sunday i sat next to a couple from Wisconsin and Rockford which, don't get me wrong, both very nice places but have not seen many tiny females like myself covered in tattoos and spent our entire time together givin me the crazy eye until finally trying to do the whole "those must have hurt" thing. I was a little aggravated but that's what i get, no one forced me to look as scum bag as i do sometimes. Eh!

I love planes though. You meet some crazy people, its never the same, and they take you to amazing places. So, here i am. Been up for almost 24 hours now and kinda loopy but ready for a full day of surfing tomorrow and will post pics as they come.

Hang Loose!

Must...Sleep...Longer

Another day of work on a couple hours of sleep. Had two cancellation so had plenty of time to dooo nooothing! Therefore, I sat in the basement with one of my most favoritest co-workers, Jeannie. Let me tell you about her. Had a huge crush on her when i first met her...Babe! Total free spirit, curly gold locks, listens to amazing music, a bit of a hippie. She just got back from Puerto Rico and fell in love with an organic farmer with dreads, came back saying she was buying a one way ticket back and has been smittin over the bronzed babe ever since. Silly and adorable.

Anyway, we found this web site, Zodiac-signs-astrology.com because this is what you do when your slow at a salon, read gossip mags, go on facebook, or read each others horoscopes. I don't know if you believe in this shit but i totally do so i figures i would share a bit about myself the Sagittarius...

Independence is my principle, I crave excitement adventure and embrace change. Freedom is so important to Sagittarius that we will actually make decisions based on the amount of freedom that is given by the choice we have made. I make a great friend because of my positive nature and my kind heart, i will do anything to make my friends happy but apparently my kindness is selfish, they say i expect back what i give. Eh? Possible.Despite hardships, Sagittarius is always optimistic that good things will happen tomorrow and the future carries good luck.

I'm kinda cool. Such a Vagittarious!

First day blogging...March 18th...shlogging

Today=crazy. Got to work late, for a very sweet reason that I refuse to disclose at this time but made it here non the less. I leave for a well needed vacation to Hawaii to surf, chill on the beach, meet some crazy people, and hopefully find someone to give me a traditional Polynesian tattoo. My issue right now? I really like to not do things I'm suppose to be doing like, Oh lets say packing, shopping for warm weather cloths, all that shit your suppose to do well in advance. Needless to say, I am stressed but only because I made it that way. i like to do things I want to do before what i need to do. For example: this evening Cutcopy plays a set at Berlin tonight, sounds like fun, i work till 6 and want to go to 730 yoga, also fun (maybe not for you but for me), my friend gets tattooed at my buddies shop tonight, always a good time. Things I need to do: pack, buy sun glasses and sandles, and wash my cloths. None of this is on my priority list this evening. Lets see if i make the right decision tonight... da da da!