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It's Sunday morning, and I feel like I was beaten by a shoe. I just popped some ibuprofen, but lets face it, they're not miracle workers. We're in Philly, coming off our second Ghost concert and getting ready for brunch with friends. Okay, mostly I'm sitting here mainlining the coffee. The room has a netspresso machine, and I've gotta say, it's not bad. I'm actually kind of digging it.

Yesterday was a good day. I got up, did my work. I was on admin duties, which means that I was going through the faxes and emails and scanning orders. There was enough that for about an hour I was busy. After that, I took a few calls, had breakfast, it was quiet enough that I was just kind of chilling for most of it. Combined with the OT from last week and next week, I will have paid off either the hotel or the tickets, so yay!

After that, we got ourselves together and headed out. Traffic was a little slow in places, but we pulled up to the hotel/casino right at 2:35pm, and they were kind enough to check us in a few minutes early. After that, it was down to the casino to find a late lunch/early dinner at the Pan Asian restaurant, Luk Fu.

Despite the concept, the food was pretty good. Jess had Char Siu, and had the Korean Short Ribs. Both were excellent as was the lychee cheesecake we finished with.

Then it was back to the room to prepare ourselves for the ritual (that's what Ghost calls their concerts). I went full slutty goth queen, complete with nuns veil. (the veil didn't stay, because I took it off to get on the hotel-provided shuttle bus.)

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The boots turned out to be a less than good choice on my part, but I looked pretty good in the fishnets and skirt.

Once we were all ready, we hopped the shuttle bus to the venue and stood in line for an hour and a half. The sun came out and we roasted. But I had fun in line, passing out the bead bracelets I'd made. People got so excited about it! Some traded, but I was passing them out to anyone who wanted them.

I had thirty two bracelets, plus three that were kid sized. Despite the whole Satanic Pope thing, Ghost is a good band for kids. Very theatrical and fairly tame. Sure they're going to be singing what amounts to Satanic choir music, but there won't be profanity or violence or any disparaging of women. It's a safe introduction to metal for them.

The kids bracelets were my favorite to hand out. One went past me, and I offered her a bracelet and she lit up and traded me one. The other two, just as we started moving towards the entrance, there were a couple of girls, and I went up and asked their mother if I could give them bracelets. She agreed, and good lord, for some elastic and plastic beads, they were so happy. The older one told me it was her new favorite piece of jewlery. The people in the line were super cool and super chill.

Eventually we got inside, and found our seats. They were 12 rows up, right beside the stage. They were amazing.

The concert was wonderful. Ghost has a no-phones policy--when you go in, your phone gets secured in a Yondr pouch, so there's no video or audio of the performances. It's just you, and the connection with the band. I fucking loved it both times. No screens blocking your view of the performers, or bright lights facing back at you. Just you and the band and Papa Perpetua V.

It's funny, out of makeup, the singer comes across as a slightly awkward dork. But he puts on the makeup and mask, and boom. He's still a dork, but a magnetic one. Like a tiny powerhouse who just owns the stage. (Good lord, he tiny. His thigh is probably smaller than my upper arm.)

The music was amazing, though again, there were a few songs I didn't know well and one I had never heard at all. The boots started to kill my back, so I sat down for a few of the songs I didn't know and got up for the ones I did. The sets were amazing, more so since I could see them, and they sounded great.

After that, we got a cab back to the hotel, and changed into comfy clothes, and then wandered the casino floor in search of cheesesteaks. Then, we ate and crashed.

All in all, a good and sucessful day. Soon we will go meet up with poisontaster and chaneen. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!

It's Ghost Concert #2 day and I'm super excited. I can't wait to go forth and have a good time. First, though, work.

I did my fit test and makeup test. I wasn't 100% thrilled with the makeup, so I didn't take pictures. I'm will have Jess take some tonight, though. I decided on the vampire palette of reds and blacks and silvers for the eye makeup. I really had problems with the eyeliner. If I can't get the liquid liner to work, I'll go to the dark blue one. That seems to go on super well.

We decided that we're going to check in around 3, and then hopefully go to Luk Fu at the hotel for dinner at 3:30pm. After that, we shall go get ready, and hop the shuttle to the concert. I'm not planning on getting there super early, since we have seated tickets and we're not VIP. You can't get in til 6:30PM.

Yesterday was busy. I took 39 calls, and spent most of the afternoon calling people back to offer sooner appts/and or putting out fires. I've still got a few people to call to try to reschedule after one of our doctors decided to be out of the office when patients were scheduled. So, we're moving the patients that week. That's my project today.

Then we had dinner and took Yoda out for a nice walk. He's still behaving weirdly post 4th of July. He won't go outside without me along with. I'm his safety mama. It's annoying, but he was really traumitized by that and the car alarm beeping. I feel bad for him, because I'm not able to go long distances, so he's getting comparatively short walks.

I hadn't posted because I needed a couple of days to digest, but on the bloodwork from his vet appointment on Monday, Yoda's liver values weren't great. The function was fine, but he showed a lot of a ALT (I think). The doctor thinks it might indicate Cushing's Disease. He wants to watch and retest in 6 months. If it goes up again, we'll do more labs. If it's Cushing's, then he has a 2-4 year life expectancy. Which makes me sad. As much as he drives me crazy, I do love him very much.

Nothing we can do for now, though.

I wish we could do Philly for a couple of days, but alas. Overnight will have to do. Tomorrow, we shall go to lunch with our friends Chaneen and poisontaster, which will be awesome, then homewards bound.

Hopefully the Live casino is nice, and the shuttle runs frequently.

Okay, on that note, I've got a little bit of packing to do! Everyone have the best Saturday!