No matter what happens, or what goes wrong, God is always there and He has a plan for everything. He knows what's going to happen and we can trust in Him because He knows what's best.
I think that lately I've probably forgotten that. Sometimes I can't believe that God still loves me after all of the stupid things that I do, but He does.
That amazes me.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I'm On The Up And Up
Sorry about my emotional breakdown yesterday. Haha
I'm fine now. Thanks to Relient K. Relient K almost ALWAYS makes me happy.
:D :D
you know, I first heard about Relient K when I was 9 I think back in 2002. My brother had The Anatomy Of The Tongue In Cheek. He came in my room one day and was like Christi!! listen to this song! It's hilarious! So I listened to it, and I thought it was awesome. It was Sadie Hawkins Dance. I listened to that song over and over and over again. I didn't buy any of their other CD's though, because I wasn't really into music back then. I only listened to 1 band really and that was MercyMe (haha). So eventually, my brother didn't like Relient K anymore, so he gave me the CD. I listened to it ALOT. Then finally in 2004 when I was 11, I started to get intrested in music, and I asked my grandma for Mmhmm for Christmas. I think it was the first CD I had ever asked for for Christmas or a Birthday, and I had only bought 5 other CD's in my lifetime and that was the Freaky Friday soundtrack, and all of Switchfoot's CD's up to The Beautiful Letdown. Anyway, I listened to mmhmm, and I thought it was awesome. I bought Apathetic in 2005 and that was probably when I considered Relient K to be my favorite band. Before then, my favorite band was Switchfoot but now they're my second favorite. I don't really think I was a hardcore fan of Relient K until last year because that's when I really got into the internet and that's the best way to learn about bands in my opinion. Hey, it's not my fault I was born in 1993 lol. On my 13th birthday, my friends bought me "Two Lefts Don't Make A Right...But Three Do". I was really excited about that. I didn't buy "Relient K" until this year, but it is Relient K's original goofiness and stuff that made me fall in love with them so I of course loved it. Even though I didn't really get into Relient K until a couple years ago, I think I'm as hardcore as anyone who's been a fan since the beginning. I may not have everything they've released (earlier EP's, Deck The Halls And Bruise Your Hand, The Vinyl Countdown etc.) but if you talk to me for more than 15 minutes, I'm sure Relient K will come up somehow. Anyone who knows me at all, knows that Relient K is my all time favorite band and I'm very passionate about my love for Relient K.
It's not an obsession, it's a way of life.
Wow, I didn't mean to go off and tell you the whole story of how I became the obsessed fan that I am today...but I guess I did haha
I'm fine now. Thanks to Relient K. Relient K almost ALWAYS makes me happy.
:D :D
you know, I first heard about Relient K when I was 9 I think back in 2002. My brother had The Anatomy Of The Tongue In Cheek. He came in my room one day and was like Christi!! listen to this song! It's hilarious! So I listened to it, and I thought it was awesome. It was Sadie Hawkins Dance. I listened to that song over and over and over again. I didn't buy any of their other CD's though, because I wasn't really into music back then. I only listened to 1 band really and that was MercyMe (haha). So eventually, my brother didn't like Relient K anymore, so he gave me the CD. I listened to it ALOT. Then finally in 2004 when I was 11, I started to get intrested in music, and I asked my grandma for Mmhmm for Christmas. I think it was the first CD I had ever asked for for Christmas or a Birthday, and I had only bought 5 other CD's in my lifetime and that was the Freaky Friday soundtrack, and all of Switchfoot's CD's up to The Beautiful Letdown. Anyway, I listened to mmhmm, and I thought it was awesome. I bought Apathetic in 2005 and that was probably when I considered Relient K to be my favorite band. Before then, my favorite band was Switchfoot but now they're my second favorite. I don't really think I was a hardcore fan of Relient K until last year because that's when I really got into the internet and that's the best way to learn about bands in my opinion. Hey, it's not my fault I was born in 1993 lol. On my 13th birthday, my friends bought me "Two Lefts Don't Make A Right...But Three Do". I was really excited about that. I didn't buy "Relient K" until this year, but it is Relient K's original goofiness and stuff that made me fall in love with them so I of course loved it. Even though I didn't really get into Relient K until a couple years ago, I think I'm as hardcore as anyone who's been a fan since the beginning. I may not have everything they've released (earlier EP's, Deck The Halls And Bruise Your Hand, The Vinyl Countdown etc.) but if you talk to me for more than 15 minutes, I'm sure Relient K will come up somehow. Anyone who knows me at all, knows that Relient K is my all time favorite band and I'm very passionate about my love for Relient K.
It's not an obsession, it's a way of life.
Wow, I didn't mean to go off and tell you the whole story of how I became the obsessed fan that I am today...but I guess I did haha
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
You Do It To Yourself, You Do
I'm not in the best mood right now. Things haven't been going my way lately, and it seems to for everyone else. I know that nothing ever goes exactly the way someone planned it but it seems like lately, alot of things have been going wrong for me. Now, I'm not mad at anyone but myself so don't think that I'm mad at anyone. Let me make a list of what's gone wrong lately. Some of these probably seem really stupid to you, and things that I shouldn't be upset about, but I really am, even though I don't quite know why for some things. They're just little things, but alot of little things can add up.
There were a few things I forgot to put in my book for Relient K that would have made it way cooler.
We couldn't go to the concert early because we had to take the Touchet's and they couldn't get to the Alfonso's house until 5. If I had gotten there early, I probably would have met Relient K.
I didn't get picked for Sadie Hawkins Dance but it seems like lots of other people I talk to have the best luck at concerts, and meet everyone and have the time of their life. (I won't mention any names)
Relient K was "sleeping"
We had to leave the concert earlier than I wanted to because we had to take the Touchet's home. Relient K might have come out after we left but I don't know, because we had to leave.
After we drop off the Touchet's and are almost home, I realize that I lost only Relient K t-shirt that I spent $20 on.
Videos:
I found out that every time I pushed the zoom button on my camera it screwed up the sound so it sounds like they have really horrible tempo. I zoomed alot in some videos.
I accidentally closed youtube when The Best Thing was 95% done, so I had to start over.
A few of my videos are too big to upload to youtube. I don't know why, because none of them are over 4 minutes long.
I uploaded 4 videos to megavideo.com and 3 of them failed to "convert" or whatever. So I upload them to youtube and waste about 2 hours because after they were done I go back to megavideo and the other ones actually DID convert.
One of my videos stopped in the middle of uploading
Rebuild just won't seem to upload.
The video I uploaded to google video never finishsed processing, even though it said it did.
I got a 36 on a vocabulary test today.
I finally sent Matty T. a message that's worth replying to, and he hasn't been online since the 2nd, so that means it's probably gonna get lost way down there in his inbox and he's never gonna read it, which means he's not going to reply.
On top of all this, my Mom has been saying that she hates the Christmas song that I'm supposed to play for the Christmas recital coming up in December. She's always telling me when I mess up and telling me how to fix it. I'm the musician, not her. She shouldn't be telling me what I'm doing wrong. She seems to think that I don't notice it when I mess up but I do, and I know how to make it right. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her. She never says she's proud of me or anything, instead she's always criticizing my playing. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her. It seems like she wants me to be the best that there ever was, and I'm just not at that level yet. I know that I'm really good. I mean seriously, I'm 14 and I'm playing Beetoven, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, and stuff like that. I may not be as good as all of the insanely amazing asian kids that have no life and practice 20 million hours a day, but that's because I have a life, and I have more things to do then sit at the piano all day perfecting every thing. It just makes me really frustrated.
I'm trying to remeber Romans 8:28 when all these bad things are happening to me, but it's really easy to get discouraged. Don't get me wrong and think that I'm depressed, because I'm not, because I know that there's no reason to be depressed when your delight is in the Lord. I've just been noticing things that aren't going the way I planned alot lately.
I know that I had an amazing time at the concert, and that alot of cool things happened but it's just so easy to get hung upon the history of what's gone wrong (hah, Relient K lyric)
Don't bother leaving a comment telling me how stupid it is that I'm upset or that I should stop complaining and being mad. Just don't. It's my private thoughts that I openly posted on the world wide, highly traveled, information superhighway so don't tell me how to think, because it won't help. You can say anything else though.
There were a few things I forgot to put in my book for Relient K that would have made it way cooler.
We couldn't go to the concert early because we had to take the Touchet's and they couldn't get to the Alfonso's house until 5. If I had gotten there early, I probably would have met Relient K.
I didn't get picked for Sadie Hawkins Dance but it seems like lots of other people I talk to have the best luck at concerts, and meet everyone and have the time of their life. (I won't mention any names)
Relient K was "sleeping"
We had to leave the concert earlier than I wanted to because we had to take the Touchet's home. Relient K might have come out after we left but I don't know, because we had to leave.
After we drop off the Touchet's and are almost home, I realize that I lost only Relient K t-shirt that I spent $20 on.
Videos:
I found out that every time I pushed the zoom button on my camera it screwed up the sound so it sounds like they have really horrible tempo. I zoomed alot in some videos.
I accidentally closed youtube when The Best Thing was 95% done, so I had to start over.
A few of my videos are too big to upload to youtube. I don't know why, because none of them are over 4 minutes long.
I uploaded 4 videos to megavideo.com and 3 of them failed to "convert" or whatever. So I upload them to youtube and waste about 2 hours because after they were done I go back to megavideo and the other ones actually DID convert.
One of my videos stopped in the middle of uploading
Rebuild just won't seem to upload.
The video I uploaded to google video never finishsed processing, even though it said it did.
I got a 36 on a vocabulary test today.
I finally sent Matty T. a message that's worth replying to, and he hasn't been online since the 2nd, so that means it's probably gonna get lost way down there in his inbox and he's never gonna read it, which means he's not going to reply.
On top of all this, my Mom has been saying that she hates the Christmas song that I'm supposed to play for the Christmas recital coming up in December. She's always telling me when I mess up and telling me how to fix it. I'm the musician, not her. She shouldn't be telling me what I'm doing wrong. She seems to think that I don't notice it when I mess up but I do, and I know how to make it right. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her. She never says she's proud of me or anything, instead she's always criticizing my playing. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her. It seems like she wants me to be the best that there ever was, and I'm just not at that level yet. I know that I'm really good. I mean seriously, I'm 14 and I'm playing Beetoven, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, and stuff like that. I may not be as good as all of the insanely amazing asian kids that have no life and practice 20 million hours a day, but that's because I have a life, and I have more things to do then sit at the piano all day perfecting every thing. It just makes me really frustrated.
I'm trying to remeber Romans 8:28 when all these bad things are happening to me, but it's really easy to get discouraged. Don't get me wrong and think that I'm depressed, because I'm not, because I know that there's no reason to be depressed when your delight is in the Lord. I've just been noticing things that aren't going the way I planned alot lately.
I know that I had an amazing time at the concert, and that alot of cool things happened but it's just so easy to get hung upon the history of what's gone wrong (hah, Relient K lyric)
Don't bother leaving a comment telling me how stupid it is that I'm upset or that I should stop complaining and being mad. Just don't. It's my private thoughts that I openly posted on the world wide, highly traveled, information superhighway so don't tell me how to think, because it won't help. You can say anything else though.
Monday, November 5, 2007
I forgot to say this on my last post
And I should have, because it also made me happy.
When we were inside about to go out by the tour buses, I showed some people I knew my penguin and it made them smile, and then this girl that Cecelia was talking to, it made her smile, then I saw this lady who goes to my church and I was like "Oh my gosh!! look what I got for Relient K" and I showed it to her and she smiled and said "Only you, Christi". Then we went to the merch table and we were talking to that guy that travels with Relient K and we showed him the penguin and he smiled, and so did 2 other girls that were there.
When we went over to wait by the tour buses, I got out my stuff and some girl saw my penguin and she was like "Oh my gosh!! Is that a Relient K penguin???" And I said, "Yeah it is!! Watch this!!" so I turned it on, and she said "Oh my gosh, that is so cute!!"
Then, I was talking to Cecelia and I said that Relient K better come out, because I come bearing gifts and this other girl was like "You got that for them? That's so awesome!"
The singer from Ruth (I really don't know his name) was out there and he saw the sour patch kids and he was like "sour patch kids are my favorite!!" And I said "aww, I'm really sorry, I would give them to you, but they're for Relient K" Then I told him to look at my penguin and he said it was cool, then I pushed the button on it's hand...
and he saw it, and he smiled and then he did a little dance while the penguin was singing hahahaha
So, I got people I knew to smile, the merch guys to smile, some girls I didn't know to say something positive about it, the singer from Ruth to do a dance, and I got that guy who didn't smile at all to smile and almost laugh because of my penguin!!!!
I hope that something like that happened when Relient K saw it =]
p.s. I'm gonna do my best to upload pictures and videos today :D
When we were inside about to go out by the tour buses, I showed some people I knew my penguin and it made them smile, and then this girl that Cecelia was talking to, it made her smile, then I saw this lady who goes to my church and I was like "Oh my gosh!! look what I got for Relient K" and I showed it to her and she smiled and said "Only you, Christi". Then we went to the merch table and we were talking to that guy that travels with Relient K and we showed him the penguin and he smiled, and so did 2 other girls that were there.
When we went over to wait by the tour buses, I got out my stuff and some girl saw my penguin and she was like "Oh my gosh!! Is that a Relient K penguin???" And I said, "Yeah it is!! Watch this!!" so I turned it on, and she said "Oh my gosh, that is so cute!!"
Then, I was talking to Cecelia and I said that Relient K better come out, because I come bearing gifts and this other girl was like "You got that for them? That's so awesome!"
The singer from Ruth (I really don't know his name) was out there and he saw the sour patch kids and he was like "sour patch kids are my favorite!!" And I said "aww, I'm really sorry, I would give them to you, but they're for Relient K" Then I told him to look at my penguin and he said it was cool, then I pushed the button on it's hand...
and he saw it, and he smiled and then he did a little dance while the penguin was singing hahahaha
So, I got people I knew to smile, the merch guys to smile, some girls I didn't know to say something positive about it, the singer from Ruth to do a dance, and I got that guy who didn't smile at all to smile and almost laugh because of my penguin!!!!
I hope that something like that happened when Relient K saw it =]
p.s. I'm gonna do my best to upload pictures and videos today :D
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Oh Relient K, why must you be SLEEPING?!?
The concert yesterday was amazing for the most part. We had to take some people there and they couldn't get to the Alfonso's house until 5 so we had to wait for them. When they got there mr. Alfonso was still in the shower but he got to the car at about 5 after. But then, he realized he had to get all the tools and stuff out of his car so we left the Alfonso's house around 5:10. He then had to go to bi-lo and get some cash and a 3 musketeers bar (?) so we ended up getting to the bi-lo center at 5:40. 20 minutes before the show was supposed to start. So we got there and I went a bought a switchfoot t-shirt and a Relient K t-shirt. I didn't get any buttons because they were 5 dollars and I only had 4 dollars left. So we found our seats and then Mr. Alfonso saw Scott walking by so he went to go talk to him. When he came back he said that Scott was gonna get the word to Relient K to look our way when they pick someone to play Sadie Hawkins Dance.
So the concert started and Ruth was pretty awesome. I really like them but I always feel sorta bad for the opening band because everyone's sitting down and they don't get like thundorous applause like the headlining bands do. They were awesome anyway. Then Relient K started playing and they were awesome, as always. When they did sleigh ride they had fake snow blowing out of these machines so whenever the song goes "outside the snow is falling" Matt changed it to "inside" :) Right before Sadie Hawkins dance Matt asked who could play the song so I stood up on my chair and got everyone around me to scream like crazy...but Matt didn't even look over where we were. I think John Warne saw me but Matt had already said some other girl on the other side could do it. The girl he picked was the ONLY other person who knew how to play it. I'm pretty sure that Scott told them to look over on our side, but Matt didn't AT ALL. I wasn't too dissapointed because I wasn't really expecting to get picked in the first place, but I really would have liked too. He also got these two other people to play the tamborine and something else...and they were on the same side of the building as the girl that got to play the guitar. Relient K's show was still amazing. They played alot of songs and alot of songs I really like. They did the Tears for Fears song and the Office song and then Matt said that if you don't watch the office or have never heard of it then *music* we just wasted one minute and 59 seconds of the show.
When Relient K was done and they were getting ready for Switchfoot's show me and Cecelia went to go look for Mr. Alfonso to see what he was doing. We wanted him to go talk to Scott and see if we could somehow get my stuff to the guys before we had to leave but we couldn't find Mr. Alfonso anywhere. After walking around the building, which is just a giant oval, for a long time we decided to go back to our seats and see if he was there, but he wasn't. He came back after switchfoot's show had already started but he didn't talk to Scott. I really don't know what he was doing lol.
So Switchfoot's show was INCREDIBLE. They are sooo awesome live. Sometimes Jon would scream into his guitar and it makes it sound really cool. At one point in the show, I can't remember what song it was, but Jon was crowdsurfing and the microphone cord was really really long and it was lit up. It was really cool. He went all the way to the stands in the back and got up there where some people were and was singing the song up there. It was really cool. He had to get back to the stage now so he ran faster than I've ever seen anyone run back up to the stage to finish the song. I had never seen anything that cool before. During On Fire he told everyone to get out "something shiny" (cell phones, what else) and that was the most cell phone waving I've ever seen during a show. It was amazing. So they were done, and everyone was still cheering and then the people in the stands were stomping on the floor really loud and fast so they would come back out and do another song. So Jon came back out and started playing Dare You To Move and everyone went CRAZY. It was soo awesome. Switchfoot has the coolest live show I've EVER seen in my life. If you can make it out to a show on this tour, you definately should. It's incredible.
So then it was over, and Ruth was out there signing but I saw some of my friends so I didn't go over there. Then we realized that we had to leave in like 10 minutes so we went over to Relient K's merch table and asked the if any of them traveled with Relient K so we asked that guy what would be the best way to give them my stuff and he said we should go wait out by the tour buses, but we really needed to leave so he said that we could give it to him if we needed to. Obviously, I didn't want to do that, so me and Cecelia reminded Mr. Alfonso that daylight savings time ended today so we had an extra hour of sleep so he said that he would call Savannah and Gerry's mom and ask if we could stay an hour later.
We went over by the tour buses and after only about 15 minutes of waiting, Jon Foreman came out there. I got him to sign my shirt, and I got a picture with him, and I got a video of him saying happy birthday to Mrs. Carie because she really wanted to go to the show for her birthday, but her husband took her out to dinner instead (haha). Then the lead singer of Ruth came out there and we talked to him. Then another guy from Ruth came over there and I got a picture with him and he was said that we should be tigers so I got a picture with him looking like a tiger lol. Then they were walking away and we all shouted bye and stuff, but then they came back and the singer guy was like "Hey, if we bring our trailer over here will you guys write in the dirt on the back of it?" So of course we said we would so they backed their trailer up to the gate and we wrote all over it. Then another guy from Ruth came out there (Jon Foreman was still there, he stayed out there for like 30 minutes) and I got all of them to sign my shoe because I didn't have anything else for them to sign. They were really cool. They stayed out there for a really long time too. The singer said that Relient k wasn't going to come out tonight so we really hoped that he was wrong.
So after they left and Jon Foreman left, this other guy starts walking out and we all yelled at him to come over here. I think he was either a stage guy for Ruth, or Ruth's manager. I'm not sure. But we asked him if he could go tell Relient K to come out here and he said that they weren't coming out tonight. We asked him why and he said they were "sleeping" because they were really tired. I don't really believe him because I don't think they would be sleeping already at 11 O'Clock. Maybe they were, but idk. Cecelia was actually pretty mad at them, but I told her not to be. We knew that we would have to leave pretty soon so we asked him if we could give him my stuff and he could give it to Relient K. This guy had a really stern look on his face the whole time we were talking to him. He asked me what I had for them and I showed him all of it, and then I made the penguin sing and go crazy like it does and it made him smile haha. Cecelia asked him if he would promise not to eat the candy we got and he was like, I don't know, sour patch kids are my favorite. We really wanted him to give my stuff to Relient K so Cecelia was like "look man, she spent all her money on them and she really wants them to get her stuff" He said, "you spent all your money on that??" So I told him that I did and I don't have a job so I don't have alot of money and that's all I could afford. So he said that he would give it to them. I asked him if he could take it and then let us watch him take it into their bus and he said that he would do that, but he just stood there with his arms crossed. Cecelia was like "well, are you gonna take it or what?" And he said he would, but he still had his arms crossed. So she finally had to pretty much shove it at him haha but he finally took it and we saw him take it into their bus.
A few minutes later Mr. Alfonso came over there and said that we needed to leave, but we wanted to see if that guy could get Relient K to come out. Mr. Alfonso said we could wait 10 minutes and that's it. So we were waiting, and then 2 trucks pulled out in front of Relient K's bus so we couldn't see if anyone was going out or into it, so we didn't know what was going on. 10 minutes passed, and no Relient K. So just as we were about to leave Chad and Jerome from switchfoot came out there so We got to wait 5 more minutes so we could get our pictures with them and stuff. When Gerry got her picture with Chad she was like "Dude! we gotta hurry! I'm so grounded right now!! We were supposed to leave an hour ago but you're worth it" And Chad said "You were supposed to leave an hour ago??? Whoa! then you better hurry up! I wouldn't want you to get grounded" So her and Cecelia and me got our pictures with him (I totally forgot to ask him to sign my shirt) So then Jerome came over there and Cecelia said we needed to hurry before Savannah and Gerry got grounded and Jerome said "Oh no!!! don't get grounded!!! Let's make this quick hurry hurry!!" So we all got our pictures with Jerome and Chad and I got Jerome to sign my shirt.
So then we had to leave without meeting Relient K, but at least I KNOW that my things got to them lol. Cecelia was really ticked off about it. She was so mad at them. She's was talking about how Switchfoot and Ruth came over there, and they didn't look tired at all, why couldn't Relient K just come over there for a few minutes!! I told her not to be too mad, because they probably have a good reason for not coming out, but she still is pretty mad at them. I'm a little dissapointed, but I'm not gonna let it bother me too much. Anyway, after we dropped off Savannah and Gerry at their house, and we were heading back to the Alfonso's house, I realized that I didn't have my Relient K shirt that I spend $20 on!!! That made me really mad. I looked in my bag and all in the car and I couldn't find it, so it was either left on the road by their tour buses, or the Touchet's have it. I'm gonna call them here in a minute and see if they do. I really hope they do. I really don't think I would just leave it out there, Unless it fell out of my bag or something, so I'm really hoping that Savannah and Gerry have it.
So over all, we had a pretty amazing time last night, except the fact that Relient K was "SLEEPING" Hopefully I'll get to go to a show on their next tour and we'll be able to stay late and meet them.
I got 17 videos (6 switchfoot, 2 ruth, 9 Relient K) and 282 pictures. Alot of the pictures are blurry because we were pretty far away. I'm gonna upload them tomorrow when I get to my house. I'm gonna upload all the videos, and I'm probably gonna do 2 albums on facebook which is 120 pictures, and maybe 40-50 on myspace, so if you really LOVE pictures, then add me on facebook :)
So the concert started and Ruth was pretty awesome. I really like them but I always feel sorta bad for the opening band because everyone's sitting down and they don't get like thundorous applause like the headlining bands do. They were awesome anyway. Then Relient K started playing and they were awesome, as always. When they did sleigh ride they had fake snow blowing out of these machines so whenever the song goes "outside the snow is falling" Matt changed it to "inside" :) Right before Sadie Hawkins dance Matt asked who could play the song so I stood up on my chair and got everyone around me to scream like crazy...but Matt didn't even look over where we were. I think John Warne saw me but Matt had already said some other girl on the other side could do it. The girl he picked was the ONLY other person who knew how to play it. I'm pretty sure that Scott told them to look over on our side, but Matt didn't AT ALL. I wasn't too dissapointed because I wasn't really expecting to get picked in the first place, but I really would have liked too. He also got these two other people to play the tamborine and something else...and they were on the same side of the building as the girl that got to play the guitar. Relient K's show was still amazing. They played alot of songs and alot of songs I really like. They did the Tears for Fears song and the Office song and then Matt said that if you don't watch the office or have never heard of it then *music* we just wasted one minute and 59 seconds of the show.
When Relient K was done and they were getting ready for Switchfoot's show me and Cecelia went to go look for Mr. Alfonso to see what he was doing. We wanted him to go talk to Scott and see if we could somehow get my stuff to the guys before we had to leave but we couldn't find Mr. Alfonso anywhere. After walking around the building, which is just a giant oval, for a long time we decided to go back to our seats and see if he was there, but he wasn't. He came back after switchfoot's show had already started but he didn't talk to Scott. I really don't know what he was doing lol.
So Switchfoot's show was INCREDIBLE. They are sooo awesome live. Sometimes Jon would scream into his guitar and it makes it sound really cool. At one point in the show, I can't remember what song it was, but Jon was crowdsurfing and the microphone cord was really really long and it was lit up. It was really cool. He went all the way to the stands in the back and got up there where some people were and was singing the song up there. It was really cool. He had to get back to the stage now so he ran faster than I've ever seen anyone run back up to the stage to finish the song. I had never seen anything that cool before. During On Fire he told everyone to get out "something shiny" (cell phones, what else) and that was the most cell phone waving I've ever seen during a show. It was amazing. So they were done, and everyone was still cheering and then the people in the stands were stomping on the floor really loud and fast so they would come back out and do another song. So Jon came back out and started playing Dare You To Move and everyone went CRAZY. It was soo awesome. Switchfoot has the coolest live show I've EVER seen in my life. If you can make it out to a show on this tour, you definately should. It's incredible.
So then it was over, and Ruth was out there signing but I saw some of my friends so I didn't go over there. Then we realized that we had to leave in like 10 minutes so we went over to Relient K's merch table and asked the if any of them traveled with Relient K so we asked that guy what would be the best way to give them my stuff and he said we should go wait out by the tour buses, but we really needed to leave so he said that we could give it to him if we needed to. Obviously, I didn't want to do that, so me and Cecelia reminded Mr. Alfonso that daylight savings time ended today so we had an extra hour of sleep so he said that he would call Savannah and Gerry's mom and ask if we could stay an hour later.
We went over by the tour buses and after only about 15 minutes of waiting, Jon Foreman came out there. I got him to sign my shirt, and I got a picture with him, and I got a video of him saying happy birthday to Mrs. Carie because she really wanted to go to the show for her birthday, but her husband took her out to dinner instead (haha). Then the lead singer of Ruth came out there and we talked to him. Then another guy from Ruth came over there and I got a picture with him and he was said that we should be tigers so I got a picture with him looking like a tiger lol. Then they were walking away and we all shouted bye and stuff, but then they came back and the singer guy was like "Hey, if we bring our trailer over here will you guys write in the dirt on the back of it?" So of course we said we would so they backed their trailer up to the gate and we wrote all over it. Then another guy from Ruth came out there (Jon Foreman was still there, he stayed out there for like 30 minutes) and I got all of them to sign my shoe because I didn't have anything else for them to sign. They were really cool. They stayed out there for a really long time too. The singer said that Relient k wasn't going to come out tonight so we really hoped that he was wrong.
So after they left and Jon Foreman left, this other guy starts walking out and we all yelled at him to come over here. I think he was either a stage guy for Ruth, or Ruth's manager. I'm not sure. But we asked him if he could go tell Relient K to come out here and he said that they weren't coming out tonight. We asked him why and he said they were "sleeping" because they were really tired. I don't really believe him because I don't think they would be sleeping already at 11 O'Clock. Maybe they were, but idk. Cecelia was actually pretty mad at them, but I told her not to be. We knew that we would have to leave pretty soon so we asked him if we could give him my stuff and he could give it to Relient K. This guy had a really stern look on his face the whole time we were talking to him. He asked me what I had for them and I showed him all of it, and then I made the penguin sing and go crazy like it does and it made him smile haha. Cecelia asked him if he would promise not to eat the candy we got and he was like, I don't know, sour patch kids are my favorite. We really wanted him to give my stuff to Relient K so Cecelia was like "look man, she spent all her money on them and she really wants them to get her stuff" He said, "you spent all your money on that??" So I told him that I did and I don't have a job so I don't have alot of money and that's all I could afford. So he said that he would give it to them. I asked him if he could take it and then let us watch him take it into their bus and he said that he would do that, but he just stood there with his arms crossed. Cecelia was like "well, are you gonna take it or what?" And he said he would, but he still had his arms crossed. So she finally had to pretty much shove it at him haha but he finally took it and we saw him take it into their bus.
A few minutes later Mr. Alfonso came over there and said that we needed to leave, but we wanted to see if that guy could get Relient K to come out. Mr. Alfonso said we could wait 10 minutes and that's it. So we were waiting, and then 2 trucks pulled out in front of Relient K's bus so we couldn't see if anyone was going out or into it, so we didn't know what was going on. 10 minutes passed, and no Relient K. So just as we were about to leave Chad and Jerome from switchfoot came out there so We got to wait 5 more minutes so we could get our pictures with them and stuff. When Gerry got her picture with Chad she was like "Dude! we gotta hurry! I'm so grounded right now!! We were supposed to leave an hour ago but you're worth it" And Chad said "You were supposed to leave an hour ago??? Whoa! then you better hurry up! I wouldn't want you to get grounded" So her and Cecelia and me got our pictures with him (I totally forgot to ask him to sign my shirt) So then Jerome came over there and Cecelia said we needed to hurry before Savannah and Gerry got grounded and Jerome said "Oh no!!! don't get grounded!!! Let's make this quick hurry hurry!!" So we all got our pictures with Jerome and Chad and I got Jerome to sign my shirt.
So then we had to leave without meeting Relient K, but at least I KNOW that my things got to them lol. Cecelia was really ticked off about it. She was so mad at them. She's was talking about how Switchfoot and Ruth came over there, and they didn't look tired at all, why couldn't Relient K just come over there for a few minutes!! I told her not to be too mad, because they probably have a good reason for not coming out, but she still is pretty mad at them. I'm a little dissapointed, but I'm not gonna let it bother me too much. Anyway, after we dropped off Savannah and Gerry at their house, and we were heading back to the Alfonso's house, I realized that I didn't have my Relient K shirt that I spend $20 on!!! That made me really mad. I looked in my bag and all in the car and I couldn't find it, so it was either left on the road by their tour buses, or the Touchet's have it. I'm gonna call them here in a minute and see if they do. I really hope they do. I really don't think I would just leave it out there, Unless it fell out of my bag or something, so I'm really hoping that Savannah and Gerry have it.
So over all, we had a pretty amazing time last night, except the fact that Relient K was "SLEEPING" Hopefully I'll get to go to a show on their next tour and we'll be able to stay late and meet them.
I got 17 videos (6 switchfoot, 2 ruth, 9 Relient K) and 282 pictures. Alot of the pictures are blurry because we were pretty far away. I'm gonna upload them tomorrow when I get to my house. I'm gonna upload all the videos, and I'm probably gonna do 2 albums on facebook which is 120 pictures, and maybe 40-50 on myspace, so if you really LOVE pictures, then add me on facebook :)
Friday, November 2, 2007
My last post was kinda depressing
But I'm over whatever it was that was bugging me. I don't know what the deal was with that little pitty party I was having...that was stupid.
Anyway, Tomorrow is pretty much gonna be the best day of my life. I get to see my 2 favorite bands playing together in one place!!!! OHHH MYY GOODNESS!!!! I think I might just freak out. I'm so excited I can't stand it. I hope my camera doesn't decide to quit working on me again like it did at the last RK concert I went to. That day was pretty tragic for me lol. I don't think that's gonna happen though, because I bought a new camera. Yep, that's right, I saved my money to buy a new camera just because I have to have a camera tomorrow. I wouldn't have gotten a new one otherwise. So, even though I did get Relient K same pretty lame gifts, it's because I didn't have any money because I spent it on the camera just for them :D haha And I gotta buy a t-shirt and some buttons, so that's spending money on them...so I pretty much went broke for my favorite band. Oh well, they're worth it :D
I have a ton of stuff to do today. I gotta put all the letters together in a folder thing for Dave, I gotta pack all my stuff because my parents just left this morning to go to Delaware to visit my Uncle who's pretty much having a mid-life crisis. So I gotta pack my stuff because I'm spending the night with my grandparents tonight, I'm spending the night with the Alfonsos tomorrow night after the amazing concert, and I'm spending the night with my other grandma Sunday night and she's taking me to co-op on Monday so I gotta bring my school stuff too. I also have to bring my stuff for Relient K and all the things I need to make the concert awesome, like my camera, and money for t-shirts and stuff. And I need to clean my room and wash my hair today somewhere between now and 5:30. OH, AND I have to find some time to practice an hour of piano. I should practice more but I just don't have time. Wow. I got a lot to do.
I'm leaving tonight around 5:30 because there's a youth party thing at someone's house I have to go to, then tomorrow I won't be on the computer because I'll be at my grandparents house and they have a SUPER SLOW internet connection. It takes like 2 years to bring up one website. I'm gonna try to have my other grandma take me to my house on Sunday so I can upload pictures and videos and stuff from the concert. I'll also have to blog about it. I'm gonna try to write a blog about it after the concert at the Alfonsos house if Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso don't care if we stay up that late on a Saturday night when we have church the next morning. But, if I don't I'll do it at my house on Sunday afternoon. If my grandma doesn't want me to take me to my house on Sunday, then I'll have to blog about it at her house (she has a good internet connection) and then upload pictures/videos on Monday because I have to do them on my computer with the kodak easy share stuff. So, hopefully I'll be able to come to my house on Sunday because I really want to upload all the amazing pictures I'll have as soon as possible.
Okay, that was a pretty long blog for just saying what i'm doing this weekend. Now I have to go and finish the thing for Dave (the other book is already done) which involves alot of cutting and glueing and all that stuff, then I have to go pack and all the wonderful things involved with that. :)
I just wasted a ton of time learning Sadie Hawkins Dance instead of doing the other stuff...haha
Anyway, Tomorrow is pretty much gonna be the best day of my life. I get to see my 2 favorite bands playing together in one place!!!! OHHH MYY GOODNESS!!!! I think I might just freak out. I'm so excited I can't stand it. I hope my camera doesn't decide to quit working on me again like it did at the last RK concert I went to. That day was pretty tragic for me lol. I don't think that's gonna happen though, because I bought a new camera. Yep, that's right, I saved my money to buy a new camera just because I have to have a camera tomorrow. I wouldn't have gotten a new one otherwise. So, even though I did get Relient K same pretty lame gifts, it's because I didn't have any money because I spent it on the camera just for them :D haha And I gotta buy a t-shirt and some buttons, so that's spending money on them...so I pretty much went broke for my favorite band. Oh well, they're worth it :D
I have a ton of stuff to do today. I gotta put all the letters together in a folder thing for Dave, I gotta pack all my stuff because my parents just left this morning to go to Delaware to visit my Uncle who's pretty much having a mid-life crisis. So I gotta pack my stuff because I'm spending the night with my grandparents tonight, I'm spending the night with the Alfonsos tomorrow night after the amazing concert, and I'm spending the night with my other grandma Sunday night and she's taking me to co-op on Monday so I gotta bring my school stuff too. I also have to bring my stuff for Relient K and all the things I need to make the concert awesome, like my camera, and money for t-shirts and stuff. And I need to clean my room and wash my hair today somewhere between now and 5:30. OH, AND I have to find some time to practice an hour of piano. I should practice more but I just don't have time. Wow. I got a lot to do.
I'm leaving tonight around 5:30 because there's a youth party thing at someone's house I have to go to, then tomorrow I won't be on the computer because I'll be at my grandparents house and they have a SUPER SLOW internet connection. It takes like 2 years to bring up one website. I'm gonna try to have my other grandma take me to my house on Sunday so I can upload pictures and videos and stuff from the concert. I'll also have to blog about it. I'm gonna try to write a blog about it after the concert at the Alfonsos house if Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso don't care if we stay up that late on a Saturday night when we have church the next morning. But, if I don't I'll do it at my house on Sunday afternoon. If my grandma doesn't want me to take me to my house on Sunday, then I'll have to blog about it at her house (she has a good internet connection) and then upload pictures/videos on Monday because I have to do them on my computer with the kodak easy share stuff. So, hopefully I'll be able to come to my house on Sunday because I really want to upload all the amazing pictures I'll have as soon as possible.
Okay, that was a pretty long blog for just saying what i'm doing this weekend. Now I have to go and finish the thing for Dave (the other book is already done) which involves alot of cutting and glueing and all that stuff, then I have to go pack and all the wonderful things involved with that. :)
I just wasted a ton of time learning Sadie Hawkins Dance instead of doing the other stuff...haha
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I wish I was born in the 80s
But, I wasn't. I was born in lame-o 1993.
I'm a huge Relient K fan, and I've only been to 1 show. That's it. ONE. I've only been to one show because I'm 14 and didn't start going to concerts until last year. I can't drive, so I can't drive myself to shows, my parents don't like concerts so the only time I get to go is when I go with this one family (the Alfonsos), and if it's within an hour from me because my parents don't like some other family to drive me farther than that. That's GAY.
I'm going to a Relient K concert on Saturday. What am I getting them as a gift? A stupid book I made, some candy and a penguin. I wanted to get them all something super fantastic but I can't because...I'm 14. I don't have a job. Since I don't have a job, I don't have any money to buy any super fantastic gifts so I can only get them some candy that was 5 bucks and a stupid 10 dollar penguin...and a crappy book I made myself. That's also GAY.
When I go to an eleventyseven concert, I get to hang out with the guys before and after the show and it's really awesome. Now, I know that Relient K and Eleventyseven concerts are completely different...but if I were older I would have been going to Relient K concerts for a long time and I would have met them a few times and they might know who I am, and it would have been awesome.
I would have been able to stay afterwards at the RK show I went to this summer because it was in a wal-mart parking lot, and there was only a couple hundred people there. I would have gotten to meet ALL of them...but what happened? My friend's brother (who took me there) was bored and wanted to leave right when it was over. I had to go with him because I can't drive (I'm 14). Guess what? It wasn't really over when we left. After they were done, they came back up bc people were cheering and they started playing Sadie Hawkins Dance. SADIE HAWKINS DANCE!!! A classic RK song...the song that made me love them and I couldn't stay and watch it because I had to leave with my friends brother because he was bored. So, as we were walking to the car, I was hearing the sound of that oh so amazing song...fading...away.
So now, I'm going to a concert on Saturday, and there's probably going to be a TON of people there, so there's really only a slight chance that I'll get to meet even ONE of the amazing members of my favorite band.
I know, I'm just jealous of the very few people that actually get to hang out with Relient K at concerts. Jealousy is a sin. I need to stop. It's just really hard. UGH. What is my problem?? Why am I so upset about this? I have no clue.
I'm a huge Relient K fan, and I've only been to 1 show. That's it. ONE. I've only been to one show because I'm 14 and didn't start going to concerts until last year. I can't drive, so I can't drive myself to shows, my parents don't like concerts so the only time I get to go is when I go with this one family (the Alfonsos), and if it's within an hour from me because my parents don't like some other family to drive me farther than that. That's GAY.
I'm going to a Relient K concert on Saturday. What am I getting them as a gift? A stupid book I made, some candy and a penguin. I wanted to get them all something super fantastic but I can't because...I'm 14. I don't have a job. Since I don't have a job, I don't have any money to buy any super fantastic gifts so I can only get them some candy that was 5 bucks and a stupid 10 dollar penguin...and a crappy book I made myself. That's also GAY.
When I go to an eleventyseven concert, I get to hang out with the guys before and after the show and it's really awesome. Now, I know that Relient K and Eleventyseven concerts are completely different...but if I were older I would have been going to Relient K concerts for a long time and I would have met them a few times and they might know who I am, and it would have been awesome.
I would have been able to stay afterwards at the RK show I went to this summer because it was in a wal-mart parking lot, and there was only a couple hundred people there. I would have gotten to meet ALL of them...but what happened? My friend's brother (who took me there) was bored and wanted to leave right when it was over. I had to go with him because I can't drive (I'm 14). Guess what? It wasn't really over when we left. After they were done, they came back up bc people were cheering and they started playing Sadie Hawkins Dance. SADIE HAWKINS DANCE!!! A classic RK song...the song that made me love them and I couldn't stay and watch it because I had to leave with my friends brother because he was bored. So, as we were walking to the car, I was hearing the sound of that oh so amazing song...fading...away.
So now, I'm going to a concert on Saturday, and there's probably going to be a TON of people there, so there's really only a slight chance that I'll get to meet even ONE of the amazing members of my favorite band.
I know, I'm just jealous of the very few people that actually get to hang out with Relient K at concerts. Jealousy is a sin. I need to stop. It's just really hard. UGH. What is my problem?? Why am I so upset about this? I have no clue.
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