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Ok so some more good and bad things...

Bad things:
-I am getting stressed about organizing things and worrying about Tim's health and tracking down the W2s for my taxes and have been having a really rough health week. My Crohns has flared up a couple of times over the past week and a half or so. Not fun.
-As fallout from health concerns, I am not going to see the Barefoot Monkeys fire show nor am I going to attend the rocking show at the Juggle This! conference in NY. I miss juggling conventions and this one is so close by and has an insane lineup of talent at the evening show. Bah.
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Good things:
-Tim is doing really well! On Wednesday we got his butt out the door for his first physical activity in like a week and he took part in an intense club juggling session with us. It was rocking. We all agreed we missed the ~10am rehearsals and we wrote some great stuff for our circus show. Then on Thursday he had his first real performance-type test when we did dry runs of our fire show. With some extra work on a couple of the torch routines and the entire show twice it was quite the rehearsal. Tim rocked it and was confident enough to give me the green light for the next good thing...
-We are going to Georgia! The east-coast-boys' first non-Northeast gig is gonna happen in just a few days! Exclamation marks!!! Georgia Perimeter College didn't bat an eye at the high price tag to bring us down so we are gonna enter the wild and crazy world of traveling with fire performance equipment and tracking down fuel and some fueling-station supplies!
-Friends are great! Tracy and I are hanging out a bunch which is grand and who-knows-what-else-may-happen and can-I-not-screw-this-upable which is a ball of fun. But also there are lots of great people here in Boston. Janey, Zoe, Tomio, and company are grand and are a perfect fit for my desire to have witty friends that don't need to booze it up to have a good time (ok, it also helps that playing card games like 'Set' and doing crossword puzzles and playing video games are also quite fun in their minds even when hanging out in a group). And I haven't even gotten to see most of the other great friends I have here in Boston: Katie, Peter, Chad, Chuck, Morgan, Patrick, Roger (who ditched us for a crazy five month cross-country tour), Jaime, Logan, Aaron, Nick, JT, Dio, Laa...see how many awesome people I would love to spend time with? It's an overload of awesome...
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* This item kinda belongs in both good and bad. So A Different Spin was once again requested to perform for America's Got Talent. Yes, those fine readers who have read this blog before know that we auditioned in Boston for the preliminaries and were asked to be ACTUALLY part of the show and be filmed in front of the celebrity judges (including The Hoff) in NYC...but we couldn't make it because that was the time we were supposed to be at Atlanta for the APCA conference. Well they decided we were still awesome enough to bring onto the show and invited us to come to LA! We received an email just about two hours ago requesting our names and departure city so they could book us flights...but we can't make the date as it is on our very-recently-booked gig in Georgia! RAWR! So I wrote an email back declining but expressing our interest in being on the show if another date works out. This is insanely frustrating as we passed once and are now passing again so maybe they won't ask us back for a third time. And we may NEVER KNOW what could have happened. Ugh. On the bright side, if we ARE asked back for the Seattle filming or the Texas one or the quick second LA session we would have more time to prepare and Tim will be 100% healthy. Trying to find the positives...