Birthday weekend

First of all, thank you all for the birthday wishes. Love you guys. *smooches*

My birthday weekend was very good. I got all my freaking out of my system in the weeks beforehand, so I was able to enjoy myself. Plus, I had a lot going on, so that helped keep my mind off things.

Friday night I went to the Indians game with my mom, BIL (his birthday was the day before mine) and Tate. I had several beers and was feeling no pain. :) They had fireworks after the game which always makes me happy. Love the fireworks. And we won, so yay for that.

Saturday I was supposed to run some errands, but I was not feeling so hot (see comment about beers) so I just hung out at home for a little while, before getting ready to go to dinner with the family. We went to the Olive Garden and had a nice meal. I filled up on salad and breadsticks (with alfredo dipping sauce *waves to Boo*) so I didn't eat much of my actual dinner (five cheese ziti). Afterwards, everyone came back to my house and we had some birthday cake. Then everyone else left to go to another Indians game, while I prepared to pack for my trip the next day and called it an early night because...

Sunday morning, bright and early at 6:30am, I awoke. Ugh. I don't even get up that early to go to work. I had to be at Tracy's house at 8 to pick her up for our journey to X-Fest in Dayton. We arrived at the concert a little before noon and we did some pre-concert tailgating. Tracy had made jello shots and I had brought some beer. I was cracking up laughing because the shots were so big that we were eating them with a spoon and to anyone walking by, it would've looked like we were just hanging out in the parking lot, eating jello. *snort* By the time we finished up and walked to the venue, we had missed the first band, but that was ok. The rest of the concert was good, but it went way too quickly. They had 2 stages and had it planned out so that when one band finished, another band was just starting up on the second stage. There was no time in between to just hang around and wait, which was nice, but it also made time just fly by. Before I knew it, 7 hours had passed and it was time to take my sunburn and leave. My mom had paid for a hotel room for us so we wouldn't have to drive back that night. We checked in there, went potty (damn porta potties at the concert. I held it as long as I could, but ended up having to go once. Ick.) and then we headed back out to grab some dinner. We were both starving since we hadn't eaten anything at the concert. Well, Tracy gorged herself on Starburst and Tootsie Pops, but that doesn't really count. :) We went to TGI Fridays and stuffed ourselves full of appetizers, and once again, I barely had any room for my entree. Heh. We got dessert to go and headed back to the hotel room to take showers, watch HGTV and chill out.

Monday morning, we drove back home.
The End. :)

Concert fever

I'm going to a 311 concert tomorrow night. This will be the 9th time I've seen them. :) Yesterday Glow and I got to talking about all the different concerts we've been to and how we can't remember all of them. I've saved most of my ticket stubs, but I know there are quite a few missing. I'm thinking that I've been to about 40 concerts. I'm in the process of making a list. :)

Wahhhhhh! As if I wasn't already concert obssessed enough, I just got an email alert for a ticket presale to X-Fest.

X-Fest XII featuring Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Sum 41, Flyleaf, Finger Eleven, Seether, Fair to Midland, and Evans Blue.

Oh, hey! Don't you love most of those bands, Jen? Why yes, yes I do. All except Sum 41. And hey, look at this- the concert is on your freaking birthday! And tickets are only $20 until tomorrow! But what's this? Oh, it's not in Cleveland... it's in Dayton. Boooooooooooooo! *cries*

Dayton is only a 3 hour drive, but I doubt I could get anyone to go with me. Unless... *looks longingly at Glow*

Random MeMe

Carey tagged me for the randomness, so here are 8 random facts about the concert I went to last night. :)

1. I was pissed because Breaking Benjamin had been billed as the headliner in everthing I'd seen about this concert, but they ended up playing second to last. *pout*

2. Ben, the lead singer of BB is really hot. I wish we could've gotten closer to the stage, but it was too crowded up there.

3. Glow's boyfriend Adammm (lead singer of Three Days Grace, the actual headliner. hrmph.) looked pretty gross. He had long stringy hair and was wearing some funky hat. At one point I was watching the tv screens they have by the side of the stage and I said "Whoa! When did Adammm get so hot? Who knew taking off a hat and jacket could do that!?" ... And then I realized that it wasn't Adammm at all. Ben had come back out to sing one of their songs with them. LMAO. Yay for more Ben!

4. BB didn't play the one song I wanted to hear most, but they played my second favorite. 3DG played the one I wanted to hear. Yay for that.

5. Both bands did covers, and I didn't really care for them. BB covered "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. 3DG covered "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins. They were both good, but I'd rather hear the bands own music instead of covers.

6. It's insane how expensive drinks are at concerts. $7 fucking dollars for a bottle of beer. $8 for a vodka lemonade. Assholes.

7. I love going to concerts not only for the music, but because there are always plenty of hot guys around. *grin*

8. It took us 40 minutes to get from the parking lot to the highway after the show. Traffic sucks.

I tag... YOU!

Randomness

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! Mine was pretty good. I did some cleaning, went out and bought a new mattress (my neck pain has been out of control. owie.) and yesterday we all went to my mom's BF's house for a cookout and swimming in his indoor pool. I was exhausted at the end of the day. Swimming sure is a workout!

I'm going to a concert on Thursday and I'm very excited. I wasn't sure if I'd be going because Tracy didn't know if she'd be able to make it and I really didn't want to go by myself. It's one of my favorite bands, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace are also playing. Soooo excited. I just hope it's not too hot. There's nothing worse than being at a crowded concert surrounded by a bunch of sweaty bodies. *gag*

I'm wearing my favorite scented lotion today, Bath&Body Works Eucalyptus Spearmint, and I can't stop sniffing my arm. :)

I'm really hungry. I brought a Lean Cuisine Macaroni and Barf Beef for lunch and it sounds totally disgusting. *sigh*