Joy Leslie

WOOOOWWWW it’s LITERALLY been one month since my last post… So much has happened! If I wrote it all here, I’d have a 4 page entry - so here’s a brief recap:For Christmas I went back to AZ to see my parents. It was a nice, warm, and peaceful holiday… just my parents, my brother, my husband and the dog. We took family portraits, and went to see a Christmas dinner theatre. I got new clothes and my master’s degree framed! Pretty cool. Then right after Christmas, we took a 13-hour drive up to Sacramento to see other family. Mainly, my hubby’s parents, my granddad, and my uncle and family. The ride was PAINFUL. It was the worst rental mini-van EVER and EVERYONE had back pain. We stayed until Dec. 30th then made our way back to NY!I was actually pretty happy to be back! My brother has been working at Chun King music studio’s from 4pm - 4am pretty much every day on music. On New Year’s Eve, the husband and I joined him and I even recorded “In Your Arms” as an acoustic version for my album! So many people have given me positive feedback on that song, we couldn’t resist. So it was very chill new year’s, but great because I got to ring it in just right… So that makes an official count of 8 songs completed for my album! Uness actually comes back today and we’re going to finish up a fourth… that’ll make 9, and then just 2 more to complete it all! Can’t wait!Exciting news! My brother’s Diamond Girl is really taking off! He even performed it at DJ Clue’s birthday party at Spotlight in Times Square. I had such a great time watching up there - and he got this cool DJ and horn section to play with him… it was so awesome! Cassie, Cheri Dennis, Trey Songz and Diddy also made appearances. I have a photo that I’ll post from the night.Me and Ryan in the Green Room before his performance:I decided to get a part-time job as a secondary income. Nothing huge, just a few hundred dollars extra a month. I have an interview on Monday for Petaholics.com to be a dog-walker in the city! I love love love love dogs so this would be perfect for me. Wish me luck, y’all, I really want this one!As for a video, a while back a good friend asked me to reprise the wedding song I sang at his wedding back in 2000. This year marks their 8th anniversary - so happy anniversary to Ben and Kim Nunes! Hooray!!! Enjoy guys, and take care! I’M BACK!