Surgery update and other life stuff

First off, thank you all so much for all your good wishes and thoughts when I had my surgery last month. :) I had it on Aug. 13 and I'm glad to say I didn't have to get a pacemaker after all! :)

The procedure was about 6.5 hours long and my doctor really thinks he fixed me this time. (It was my 4th.) At the end of it he gave me adrenaline, and that didn't even make my heart go fast, so he deemed it a success. So thank you again for all the good vibes!! :)

I'm fully recovered now and have been having a good end to my summer. A few weeks ago a band that I really love from Bellingham, WA, called Yogoman Burning Band, came to town and played at The Jambalaya in Arcata. (Remember, that's the place in town that has the Jessicurl Island Fantasy drink on their drink menu! :) You can read about that in my previous blog about it here:
http://www.jessicurl.com/blog/2008/03/random-fun-updates.html

The lead singer of Yogoman had gotten in touch with me through MySpace a few months ago and asked if I knew anybody at the Jambalaya and to see if I could help get them a gig there. I had never met him, I guess he just found me through his friends list on MySpace, I'm not sure. Either way, I was super happy to help! This band is super fun and I'd been loving their cd for months after hearing them on our awesome local radio station KHUM. Since I DO happen to know people at the Jambalaya, it was all too easy to get the gig booked. They played about a week and a half ago and it was AWESOME. There were a bunch of them, and hotels get expensive for touring bands, so I also hooked them up with places to stay. :) Some of them stayed at my house and some stayed with a friend of mine. It was great getting to know them all better that way and they were stoked for the hospitality. :) I took some pics so I'll paste them here.

Here is the whole band, after the show.


Here's one of me with Joel, the trumpet player.


I love this one of Jordan, Mars, Thomas and Joel totally rockin' out. :)


This is me and Robert the guitar player. The red hat was loaned to me by Joel. :)



The next day I left for a 3 day music festival called Earthdance. My SUPER favorite band, Spearhead, was the headliner, so I was totally excited to see them. Once again, I was lucky enough to get my picture taken with the lead singer, Michael Franti. (If you've checked out the Public Service section of my site, you know what an inspiration he's been to me and the donation program we have. You can read about that here: http://www.jessicurl.com/Public-Service-p-3.html)

Here's the picture of me with Michael Franti.


The festival was awesome and a great way to end the summer. Three days of camping and hanging out in the sun is good for you! :) (Yes, I wore lots of sun screen. It was HOT out there!) Not to mention, I was very thankful to be well and feel like dancing!

I'm really really going to try to blog more often, because I do have some other things I want to bring up. Feel free to give me a friendly reminder if you think it's been too long. :)