Anyway... I haven't been updating as much in my blog because it is, as you may have guessed, now the busy season at On Location wherein we work our asses off to promote a very noble cause - namely, BOURBON. (Hey, I love the stuff, so fuck off...) Not to mention the fact that if I'm NOT in the middle of working a 110 hour week, I then am spending my time *actually* talking to Emily or my family instead of writing about them, or else, heaven forbid, sleeping!! But now that I have a few moments to collect my thoughts, an update, here's for your reading pleasure!
So the first major event of our busy season is the Kentucky Bourbon Festival (or "Bourbon Fest" as we call it at OLLS). Incredibly, Emily made the drive from Nashville all the way to Bardstown, KY (Bourbon capital of the world!) to see me and come to the Wild Turkey Boots n Bourbon party! It was INCREDIBLE having her hanging out with us there, and she even got me up on the dance floor with her (although I'm a horrible party dancer, slow-dancing with my baby made me SOOOO happy.)We also worked on the Bourbon-related parties for Ryder Cup and all the booths for the KYBF tasting/Gala event. So all in all, it was a crazy couple weeks there.
The show I just did this past week was the Xavier University Founder's Day Benefit and Banquet at the Cintas Center on the XU campus. THAT was a cool-looking show. The banquet honored an XU alum who owns and runs Home City Ice here in Cincinnati, so the theme for the party was ice-related, and they had us light and fog the west concourse of the Cintas Center like an ice-box (see picture above). There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that I love more about our industry than putting low-lying fog and atmospheric haze where it is not normally used.
However, my MOST favorite thing that has happened in the past few weeks was that when I made the decision to work a 14 hour day to bust through everything for Bourbon Fest and get myself a free weekend off, I was able to go visit my baby in Nashville. Wanna talk about a special weekend? We didn't GO anywhere or do anything, we just hung out, cuddled, Emmy showed me around the campus, and we went to a couple of awesome restaurants, and most of all, I got to spend two nights in my baby's arms on a weekend when she really needed me to be there for her. THAT was amazing. So between visiting Emmy in Nashville, and dancing with her in Bardstown, I have never ever been more positive that Emily is the woman I want to marry - the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. I love you baby!!
