Posted Sep 30, 2006

Locked and Loaded!

Well the summer’s over and it’s now my favorite season of all…. Hunting!! I’ve gotten to go a few times already this season and can’t wait to do a lot more on my few days off this fall. Dad’s still way ahead of me on the game brought home this year but I’m trying to keep up. We plan on keeping mom really busy cooking!

The shows have been so great lately. The Ran Fans seem to get louder and crazier with every show. I love it. Thank ya’ll for always making me feel welcome up there and singing along with all my songs. Believe me, it makes the show much more fun for me and the band.

The shows that stand out the most to me are the two we did at Joe’s Bar in Chicago in September. There are a couple of reasons for that: Luke celebrated his 18th birthday with us a brought Nonny, Uncle Stan, Dad and a bunch of our friends and we got to debut 4 songs from my upcoming album. The audience seemed to love the new stuff and made me even more anxious for the album to come out!

I’m off to do my photo shoot and video in a couple of weeks. As always, that means I’ve had to cut back on eating some of the goodies I love (Chicken fried steak, funnel cakes, cookies..) Lots of salad, fruits and wraps. Tony is keeping me working hard too, which helps! My "no food-bad moods" have gotten better too. I guess I’m getting’ used to it.

We are really excited about the tour with Dierks. I think the shows are going to be great because he likes for the crowd to be right up next to the stage, just like me. I’m also glad for everyone to hear another artist from my home state, Randy Rogers. I think ya’ll are going to like him. I’m already thinking of some good tricks to play on both the guys and their bands. I’ve got to get the jump on that so they know they can’t gang up on the girl!

Speaking of the Dierks tour, our drummer, Keith will be out for the first few gigs of the tour because he and his wife, Erika, are delivering our very first band baby! She’s due anytime so ya’ll all give him a big congratulations when you see him again. I’m sure baby Zebroski will be making his debut as a future rock star at some shows very soon! We all can’t wait to spoil him rotten! (Especially baby lover Scotty Wray)

We’re working on some new shirt designs for later in the year. Junk Gypsy is doing a great job of putting them together and making them extra cool. Hopefully we will have some of them out by the end of the year.

I guess that’s all for now. I’m enjoying meeting everyone at the meet and greets. See you on the Locked and Loaded Tour!