A series of unfortunate events...

At least that's what I'm calling it. For the last 2 weeks I seem to be getting sick off and on. Jesse seems to be healthy as can be though. Which is both nice to see and irritating as all get out. For some time now we've both been taking a multi-vitamin everyday and I will admit it sometimes I forget. I forgot 1 time the other day and if this is what happens after forgetting 1 time then believe me I will never forget again. I love hanging out at home and relaxing, but I'm really getting sick of being cooped up inside. I have missed every nice day for the last 2 weeks. First it was a stomach thing a week ago, next I got a vaccine shot which seemed to give me a bad reaction, and now this... a very intense head cold. I am normally a very healthy person, but this all came on with a vengeance. Last night I was running a fever over 101 degrees and I felt completely out of it. This morning it's back down a bit to 99 degrees. I think my core temp always runs a little high, so I'm not that worried anymore. I'm probably going to call the Dr just to see what they say since nothing I've been doing seems to be working very well other than sleeping it off. Hopefully this will go away already and I will have time to build up my immune system again before our next round of visitors. David & Chad are scheduled to be here on the 14th which means I have about 2 weeks to get healthy and no it's not the swine flu for those of you who are worriers. Take care of yourselves.

And the final product...

Is finally here. The long awaited (in my house at least) poster for the EP release party. Jesse & Adam have been working hard on this one. Oh and lets not forget that I helped with the mustache o' words. :)

The time has come...

To show your support for Denver's local music scene. There is the link to vote. I know you won't know all the acts, but I think you can skip categories or even look up the names online to decide who is worthy of your vote. The important 2 to remember are Ideal Fathers for best band under Post Punk & DJ Soup for the best DJ under the non-traditional DJ category. Please help the guys out this could mean alot to them & they would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance everyone! :)

Your Vote Counts...

Ideal Fathers have been nominated for an award from Westword.com the local publication that loves them so. Here's the latest little ditty about how to vote for the guys. Online voting hasn't started yet, but when it does even you out of towners can put a good word in for the fathers. Remember every vote counts & having the honor of being called Westwords best means a lot around Denver. When Westword recommends a band, a restaurant, or in the case of our friend Matt a DJ people really listen. Matt won Westwords best up & coming DJ last year and was subsequently able to quit his day job & pick up enoug high paying gigs to make a living doing what he loves. Like I said every vote counts, even yours.

Thanks for voting!

Love,

Erin, Jesse, & the rest of the Fathers

Sketch...

Jesse has been working feverishly the last few days trying to finish up poster desigs for the big show in May. The other night he had me help him perfect his sketch and this is what we came up with. Well Jesse did the whole thing all I did was help him make the writing in the mustache. In case you are wondering what it says... Larimer Lounge. Which is the dive bar/venue where the guys show will be. It's also coincidentally the location of Jesse & I's first meeting and our first date. *Cue everyone saying Awww How sweet. I'm pretty impressed & I can't wait to see the finished product.

Mr. Fix it...

For those of you who don't know we have a less than handy landlord who when asked to fix something tries to do it her self and 9 times out of 10 ends up making the problem worse. Prime example our kitchen faucet. For some reason it started dripping some months back and the drip got progressively worse. We called, she came over and banged around in our kitchen for a while, and then left stating it was fixed. It was fixed for about 10 seconds and from there it progressively got worse. It ended up getting so bad that we had to manually turn our hot water off to save our sanity and to stop wasting water. We only turn the hot water on to wash dishes and then promptly turn it back off. We've called my dad and asked his opinion, but honestly it's hard for him to understand the problem since he's not here. We've been dealing with the issue for some time and debating if we should call & tell our landlord that the problem she said she fixed is actually worse or if we just keep on dealing with it. Not having hot water in your kitchen sink is a major annoyance, but then again so are having a leaky faucet and having a landlord who tries to save money by fixing (aka making things worse) herself. The other night I was doing dishes and the sink was driving me bonkers. Jesse decided to to some investigating and we took the sink apart. I must admit I was a bit nervous since neither one of us are plumbers and he's not really the handyman type. I thought we would surely loose a piece or forget how to put it all back together and we'd be sinkless for who knows how long. Well Jesse proved me wrong. He did some research online and called the ACE near our house. We walked over there, bought some parts, and before you knew it with a little help from me (mainly reading online sink fixing directions) he had fixed our sink. I have never seen him so Proud or Excited. It was all he could talk about the rest of night. He ended up going out with the guys later that night and I can't help but laugh as I picture him slightly buzzed going on and on about how amazing our faucet is and how he fixed it. He feels very accomplished as he should. I'm so glad our sink is fixed and I'm very proud of my Mr. Fix it.

IF pictures...

Jesse obviously head banging. He's been complaining about a sore neck ever since.

Picture from a show long ago.

Okay so I asked Jesse if there were pictures from the other night and he said yes on our myspace. I could tell by his tone that he didn't care much for them. I said What you don't like them? He never seems to like any pictures of himself anymore. I know he's annoyed that I posted the picture of us at Bump & Grind. He said I guess they're ok, but they're really blurry. He was definitely right about that. I would have posted more, but there were only 4 & the other were worse than this one. The last picture is an old one of Jesse doing his Mad clapping @ a show. Apparently someone in the band decided to get creative with it, so I decided to share it with you.

*On a side note Vinnie the long lost original member (he's the one who actually started the band) of Ideal Fathers has returned from his studies in South America. He was able to make it to the show on Saturday and surprise the band. The guys were super excited to see him and finally get to catch up. Vinnie seemed to really like the show and is really proud of what the guys have accomplished since he had to leave the band. It was a nice reunion for everyone. Glad to have you back in town Vinnie.