Holimusidays!

I hope your holidays were glaaahrious. I hope you were able to rest and laugh and get lots of hugs.

I had the privilege of playing for a good many Christmas parties this year. And then I spent actual Christmas with my in-laws at a lake. It was fun. I ate some turkey. I slept a lot. I even read a book. I forgot to take pictures. Got some pretty sweet gifts. Yep. That’s about it.

Wow, this blog post is really starting with a bang….

Well anyways, right after Christmas, my husband and I took a trip to Ft. Walton Beach, FL to get away and write some songs, thanks to my aunt and uncle’s gorgeous beachside condo. Good lord, it was heaven.

I really wanted to post pictures of the inside of the condo, but every picture I took looked like our suitcase exploded on it.

Aw, heck. We’re all friends here.

Woowee! What a treat we didn’t deserve in a million years. And we wrote new songs that you can hear at my shows!

So we drove back from Florida on New Years’ Eve, just in time to hang out with these n00bs:

We hung out, ate soup, drank some sherry (and by sherry, I mean I tried the sherry and then proceeded to cut it with a large amount of Mountain Dew), and then drove to downtown Nashville to “watch the music note drop.”

In the freezing rain.

And the chick on the left in the last picture wore her pajamas.

I love my friends.

So anyways, we stuffed ourselves onto Broadway like sardines, running into each others’ umbrellas, and feeling the water seep through our clothes. This picture really sums it up nicely.

I kid, I kid. Well, not about the rain part. I kid about the insinuation that it wasn’t fun – okay, so it wasn’t the BEST time I’ve ever had, but if it wasn’t for good company, I believe I would’ve been the cranky so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-live-in-an-ice-cube lady. Instead, I was the joyful mute, glaring at the intoxicated many who ran into me with my laser beam eyes. Wow, Jessie, you’re lame.  But I digress… how cute are my little friends?!

Yay, adventures. 🙂