Well somehow my personal bank account supposedly was overdrawn which i can't believe happened because of how much was in there the morning before I got paid at midnight. And then my bank has the balls to charge $125 for an overdraft fee! Forgive me for my language but FUCK that and double FUCK them! I am going to get a new personal account at the bank where Jenn and I have our joint account. That will also make it more simple for me to transfer money between accounts and avoid the $2 ATM fees that I get taking money from my account out of their ATM from my current account. Plus this bank has a branch directly across the street from where I work. I am going to open an account there and then send in the information for direct deposit to go there and then close my current account. I know that this bank charges $30 (I believe for an overdraft) which is a HELL of a lot better than $125!

So it looks like we'll have to use money that shouldn't be used for rent just to make our rent. I feel so worthless...I don't know where that huge chunk of money went and the banks are closed until Monday so it will be a little while before I can look into it.

Well we have band practice today! Which is awesome! Can't wait to hear/feel my guitar go with the bass. John won't be able to make practice so it will be just Chad, Brian and myself. But it will still allow us to work on the music and work with Chad doing lead vocals and help us decide how we want to do backing vocals since that should change a bit because chad was doing 70% of the backing vocals. We will go with Chad atleast for now and see what happens down the road. I did hear back from a drummer but he is looking to do only two shows per month and while that would be sufficient for now, we are looking for someone who is more in the mindset that we are..of...ANYWHERE/ANYTIME. But we almost feel that we can't be that selective because he's only the second one we'd heard back from and the first one that got back to us ended up going with another band before we could audition him. I guess if we find no one else we could have him come in but we'd have to let him know that we might have to replace him if we start getting offered a ton more shows than he can do. We feel badly enough now about turning down any shows. Hopefully we'll work this shit out and be ready to prove to everyone (including ourselves) what we can really do. But we consider ourselves very blessed to be where we are right now. Case in point...

We have officially been booked for the Performance Stage (main stage) at Grape Street Philadelphia which is a big deal in our region! We've been wanting to play the main stage there for a long, long time and now...in less than a year of actually playing shows...we have our shot! We are going to promote this show as heavily as we can, get everyone there that we possibly can and perhaps get invited back on a "regular" night. But it will be the high of our lifetimes to this point haha I am praying that we'll be able to record it and put clips up. We definitely need the audio/visual keepsake that it would be. Oh yes..I want to SHOW you all.. the web-based proof! God are we psyched!!

Well I need to eat something, load the car and head down to the studio for practice. But I will be back afterwards and be around here. Have a great day!

Holy crap
I worked in the banking industry for 8 years! I have never heard of a 125 over draft fee! Are you sure that was just for ONE item?
» kkama67 on 2006-11-11 11:47:08

that's awesome about your show :) I can't wait to see how it all works out for you!!! I'm excited.

Ugh...that's hella sucky about the bank account. I know where I used to bank, they charged me $33 every time I overdrafted and I thought that was ridiculous...I don't know what my bank charges now for overdraft fee since I've never overdrafted on this account, but that's still extra sucky for you. I'm sorry :(

» lazypuppy on 2006-11-11 11:58:05

sad but true
There are banks that charge that much, usually it's if it's the second time for the year though. When it happened to be, jumped from 15 to 125, I moved to BoA.

I hope the show goes well and you have a great turn out! :)
» Katrina on 2006-11-11 01:49:45

Well, I had to find out someway, but I did. I appreciate the shot I was given, but I guess I'll be on my search again for another band.

Hope all goes well at Grape Street, and good luck to etheracide in the future.

-Chris
» Dormanium on 2006-11-11 03:29:24

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