Bob Dylan 8-26-08

In case you didn't already know, Bob Dylan is my absolute fave. =) He came to LR Tuesday night and I had great seats in the pit. I had a perfect, up close view of my main man. Unfortunately cameras were not allowed. I did sneak my camera in anyway...cause I'm a rebel like that, but when it came down to it I was too afraid to snap any real pics. There were security guys everywhere! =( Here are the pics that I did take:

Before the concert, Caleb, Amanda and I went to Sticky Fingerz for happy hour. We had a blast drinking, chatting and...playing Uno. =) Note Caleb's poker face.

Caleb

Manders & Court

Very dark pic of Bob (far right) with my camera.

Tiny pic of Bob from my phone.

Manders and I after the show. Remember in Wayne's World when Wayne & Garth had back stage passes to the Alice Cooper concert? And they walked around holding them up and showing them to everyone they passed? Manders and I did that with our Dylan passes. =) And no we didn't have back stage passes (I FREAKING WISH!).

Caleb and I after the show.

par-TAY!

I had the busiest Saturday ever! I'm so tired right now that I'm 'bout to PASS OUT. I'm trying to hold on though. If I take a nap, I'll never sleep tonight. Anyhoo, this is how it all went down...

Saturday afternoon, I went to Hot Springs for Torcan's 4th birthday party. Torcan is Ashley's son. He was the only kid there (besides his newborn sis), but he still had a blast. His daddy, Jeremy, made some yummy spaghetti and there was an ice cream cake. He RACKED UP on gifts. Here are a few pics:

Torcan opening gifts. Thomas the train was the theme of the day.

Torcan posing next to his favorite bday prezzie: a Spiderman helicopter!

His baby sister, Brannagh.

Me...in my party hat! =)

After Torcan's party, my friend, Amanda, and I headed to Little Rock for another birthday party. This one was for my friend, Sarah, at Cozymel's. I heart Mexican food & Mexican beer! Here are a couple pics from that party:

Sarah & Amanda

A shot of the crowd...

Amanda and I

Amanda and I left Sarah's party and headed to my friend Caleb's house. We parked there and then the three of us walked downtown to the Rev Room for a concert. THE AVETT BROTHERS! YAY! We met two more of our pals there: Kristy & Angie. Fun times! We danced our booties off. Here are a couple pics and a video:

Kristy, me, Amanda, Angie, Caleb

The Avett Brothers

Walking home after the show.

So, after that whirlwind day...I'M BEAT! I think I might go to bed at 8:00 tonight!! I might be a little too old for that kind of partying! NAW! It was too much fun.

I'm Going! Yippee!

I bought tickets to see The Avett Brothers. I am very excite! =)



*doing happy dance*

Quick Update

I'm finally moved out of the apt! Yay! Now I have tons of stuff piled in the garage of my new place. Boo!. Moving=sucks!

I took the next step at church and started going to the New Membership sunday school class. So, after two more weeks I can finally transfer my membership to Otter Creek! Yay! And after that, I'll be able to start helping out in the Missionettes department. I'm so excited! BTW, the meeting with the pastor's wife never happened! She's a busy lady. I'm not sure what I'll have to do to nail down an actual meeting time. Pray for me!

I still haven't gotten the Charleston pics. Dad said he'd burn those pics onto a disc for me this week. We shall see.

I'm going to see Walking With The Dinosaurs this Wednesday. I'm super excited. I'll try to take pics from that. Next week I'm going to see CATS. Yay! I'm so excited (apparently I'm excited about ERRRRTHANG!). I'm taking Rachael, who has discovered a love of all things Broadway. Unfortunately, there will be no pics from that, but I'm sure Rach and I will take a bunch of goofy pics of ourselves before and after the show. Fun times!

Peace out!
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Steph and I watched two movies this weekend:

I'm Reed Fish. This was a very cute, quirky independent film. I rented it because of Alexis Bledel. I'm a die hard Gilmore Girls fan! The acting was great and now I want to buy an Schuyler Fisk album! Unfortunately, she doesn't have one. I'll have to be satisfied with her background vocals on Joshua Radin's album We Were Here. I love, love, love that album, BTW.
Mr. Brooks. I didn't expect much from this film. First of all, I didn't think that Kevin Costner would be convincing as a bad guy. I mean, he's better suited for romantic comedies and sports films, right? Well, I was pleasantly surprised. This movie was very entertaining. William Hurt was a great as Mr. Brooks other personality and Dane Cook was a nice little comic relief. Oh yeah...Demi Moore was in the movie too, but she was forgettable. Sorry, Demi.

Vacation Details...

Saturday night (10/20) at 9:30 p.m. Mom and I started out for Charleston, SC. I drove because Mom can't see at night. =) We drove all night until 7:30 a.m. when I couldn't drive any longer! We got a hotel room and slept for 4 hours. Mom woke up raring to go! We made it to Charleston by 6:00 p.m on Sunday.

We originally booked a room in North Charleston. It looked fine on the internet, but when we got there...it was soooo ghetto! And sooo scary! Mom ran in and canceled our reservations and then we headed to downtown Charleston...not knowing where we were or where we were going to stay! Mom called several hotels and they were all booked. Finally she found us a room in the heart of Charleston for $120 a night! Yikes! But we took it...we were desperate! We checked into our rooms, ordered up food and then hit the sack.

The next morning we hit the streets bright and early! Charleston is awesome! It's so old and full of history. We had booked two walking tours for the afternoon and evening, but that morning we just took off on our own. Our hotel was in a perfect location, so we didn't have to drive anywhere. We went down to the warf and looked around. We went up and down almost every street. I couldn't stop exclaiming, "oh! Look at that house!" Everything was so beautiful.

At 1:00 we headed to the place we were supposed to join the Historic Homes walking tour. Our tour guide was 60 yrs old and full of knowledge. He was also VERY BORING! Sigh. Mom and I hung in there for an hour or so then we cut out! We toured the rest of the city on our own. We finally headed back to our hotel at dinner time. My feet were so sore! I also had ginormous blisters on my heels. My feet were so not used to being in "real shoes"! =) (side note: those stupid blisters are STILL there!)

At 7:30 that night we were scheduled for a Ghost Tour. Sounds exciting, huh? Mom is so into ghosts and stuff like that. She was very excited and because I didn't want her to miss out... I dragged my poor, aching self out on the town again. =) The tour guide encouraged us to take lots of pictures because sometimes ghosts (orbs) show up on the film. No such luck for me. Mom and I soon became bored when we realized that our tour guide was just going to tell us a bunch of stories. We thought we'd get to do fun stuff...like go in cemeteries, etc...instead we just walked right by the cemeteries. Sigh. Another super boring walking tour. So, we headed back to our hotel, ordered up food, watched The Bachelor and then hit the sack.

The next morning we checked out and drove four hours to Greenville, SC. It's a very cute town. Nothing compared to Charleston, but still super cute. Their downtown area was very tourist friendly. Mom and I just drove through though. We had very little time to check into our hotel and get ready for the SYTYCD show.

On the way to our hotel we were praying, "Please Lord don't let this one be ghetto!" At first glance it didn't look bad. I told mom we could rough it for one night. =) So, she checked us in. When we got to our room it looked like it would be fine. So, we sat down and ate our Subway sandwiches. While we were eating, we heard a noise...like someone was trying to get in our room! So, Mom boldly goes to the door and opens it. There was a guy standing there... he said that we were in his room. Mom said, "Um, no. We just checked into this room." So, he scratches his head and says, "That's weird. I stayed here last night." It turns out the motel had switched his room. So, we continue eating our sandwiches. I decided to take a quick shower before getting dressed for the show. When I went in the bathroom I noticed that there was toothpaste in the sink and hair on the floor. Eeeew! The shower looked okay though, so I jumped in real quick. Looking back, I can't believe I did that! But I didn't want to be stinky for the show. Heh. While I was in the shower, I noticed that there was a bar of soap WITH HAIR ON IT! SICK! Thank the LORD I was using my own body wash. I hurried up and got out. We didn't have time to complain to the manager before we had to leave for the show.

After the show, mom and I hurried back to the motel. We were planning to sleep for a few hours and then get up early and hit the road. Mom said, "Check the beds first! I don't want to sleep in a dirty bed!" So, I pulled the covers back on the bed that I was planning to sleep in. It was fine. All clean. No probs. I told her this. So, I got in my pjs and started looking at the road map. Mom got ready for bed and took a sleeping pill. Then she headed over to her bed and pulled back the covers and screamed! There was a PUBIC HAIR in her bed! and when she moved the pillow...there were hairs under that too! OMG! That guy must have slept there! And the motel didn't clean the room! They just made up the beds! G-ross! So, I called the front desk and said, "You better send someone up here to change the sheets NOW!" The woman working the front desk explained that she was the only one there and that she couldn't come up and change the sheets for at least an hour. WHAT?! I said, "Well, then we want a refund. We're checking out!" So, mom drives down to the office to check out while I pack up our stuff.

When she gets back, we decided to be wild and crazy and just DRIVE THRU THE NIGHT! At first I balked at the idea, but then decided we might as well since we were planning to get up at the crack of dawn and drive anyway. Guess who had to drive though....ME! Yep. Mom had taken a sleeping pill and couldn't see at night anyway. So, we headed out at midnight Tuesday night. Mom tried to stay awake, but eventually couldn't fight the sleeping pill. She slept and I drove. I sang out loud to the radio, put the car on cruise control and chair danced...anything I could do to stay awake. It was HARD! I mean, sooooooo hard! I did get to see downtown Atlanta in the middle of the night. It's quite impressive. =) I was praying the whole way. Finally, I was so delirious that I had to pull over. I woke mom up and said, "I'm pulling over at this gas station and we're sleeping!" She said, "mmmmokay" and went back to sleep....for about 10 minutes. I was tossing and turning. I couldn't get comfy. Finally she said, "I'm up! I'll drive!" It was 6:30 a.m. by then. So, we run inside and buy some Krispie Kreme donuts and bad coffee and set off again. I dozed on and off the rest of the way home. We made it to Benton at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

So, that's the story of our worldwind vacay to South Carolina. Icky motels aside...we had the best time! I took about 300 pictures of Charleston. My dad is supposed to be burning them on a disk for me. I'll post some as soon as I can.

Gotta get back to work!

Vacation...

I was on vacation all last week. Mom and I drove to Charleston, SC to check out all the old homes. On the way home, we stopped in Greenville, SC to see the So You Think You Can Dance tour. Between those two cities, I took about 400 pics! I'm thinking about uploading them to a different website so you can see ALL of them. I'll try to work on that after work today.

To be continued...

*Go here to see the So You Think You Can Dance pics!

Casting Crowns

Rachael and I went to see Casting Crowns in concert last night. Fun times! It was like one huge worship service. I loved it!

The "ticket guy" (Dale) was WAY late, so we had to entertain ourselves for over an hour with the camera. Also, Rach wrote a song about our experience. It's amazing how many words rhyme with Dale. =)

Here are the best pics of the night:

I heart Burt's Bees!

High Five!

Worried that our tickets weren't going to show.

Excited that Dale finally showed...over an hour late!

Leeland

Blury Casting Crowns

Great show!

Who has free tickets to see Casting Crowns?!?!?!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Thank you, Mom and Dad. This def makes up for the emotional roller coaster you've put me on the last couple of days. Hehe.

David Bazan

Last night I went to Sticky Fingerz with some pals to see David Bazan. I'm a big Pedro the Lion fan, so when I heard he was coming to Little Rock, AR...I was STOKED!

The opener was Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (love the name). He wasn't completely unfortunate, but....it was a total disaster show. I felt really sorry for him. He told a lot of really reDONKulous jokes in btwn songs. I'm sure he's a cool guy and his music isn't all that bad, but he def had a bad night. Bless his heart!

Then David Bazan played...and he didn't disappoint. One of my friends said that she wished he'd brought a band (it was just him and his guitar), but it didn't bother me. I love his voice. I could sit and listen to him forever. He played a lot of Pedro songs, a couple from his solo EP, Fewer Broken Parts, and stuff from his side project, Headphones.

I had a really good time last night. I'm not normally one for the bar scene, but I'll make an exception every once in a while for a great musician. I did get a little bit irritated by all of the stupid girls out last night. Heh. Why do they act that way?! I digress...

My friend Caleb came out to hang with us. He's hilarious! Here's a blurry pic of him being silly as usual. He was so rockabilly last night! =)

And here's a pic of me entertaining myself in the bathroom. Um, I was kinda bored during the opening act (poor guy!). Plus I really loved that reddish gold wall.

And a pic of me and Angie...we laughed so hard over this pic! She didn't handle the flash very well. She looks trashed, but I promise she isn't! Hehe. She's 6 months pregnant...so no beers for her!Fun times!