Lady and Her Uke

I can not get this sad yet very beautiful song out of my head. Sorry to depress you, but this will be my outlet.

San Francisco - Ingrid Michaelson Cover

pretty cool stuff

For those of you who aren't aware, there is an Australian teen by the name of Jessica Watson trying to become the youngest sailor to sail around the world nonstop and unassisted. I was following her for the first week but completely dropped off. I just remembered it the other day. She has a blog set up for it so she can keep in touch with everyone. I thought it was pretty cool. Check out the blog here.

On a completely different note, I noticed today that I am a habitual non zipper of pants. I literally forget to zip my pants up every other time I go to the ladies' room. How sad is that? TMI? Anyways, I guess if I hung out with friends all day then I would at least have someone there to let me know I was a moron aka xyz aka I forgot to zip my pants up. Maybe I will just wear dresses/skirts every day for the rest of my life. Game plan...check.

iamsotiredbutatleastlifeisfun

I was pretty bummed out when I found out that I was going to be in Johnson City on the Monday of the Ingrid Michaelson show in Nashville (especially since I bought my ticket about 3 months ago and had been excited ever since), but I put on my big girl pants and got on with it. That was until I found out she was going to be in Asheville the next night. Asheville is literally only an hour away from Johnson City, so I voted yes to that concert. AND I am SO glad I DID (minus the 12:30 am arrival back to the hotel).

Why the Ingrid Michaelson concert was awesome besides the fact that it was Ingrid Michaelson, and she is awesome. And besides the fact that she plays my two fave instruments...piano and uke. Well...I will tell you why.

• Crowd involvement - She does a ton of crowd involvement which is oh so fun. For one song, we were split in two and had a singing (screaming) contest. The team names...Nipples and Balls. Balls = the best word ever in my book, and when she asked for names I almost screamed it out but didn't...she thought of it anyways. I laughed everytime she yelled it.
• All of her random/hilarious tangents. She's seriously really funny in a dry kind of way aka my favorite kind of way. Like when she asked the crowd to delete and please not upload any bad pictures of her, and then dove into a story about a girl who sent her a "good picture" but really it was a picture with like triple chins and the worst angle ever. She politely said thanks though.
  
• She skipped the walking off stage for the encore and instead just hid. And by hid I mean one of the guys was behind a set of drumsticks.
  
• Scrubs in opera. Let me clarify. TLC'S "SCRUBS." IN. OPERA.
• The fact that she closed with Far Away. Loves it.
• The man in front of me. No this has nothing to do with Ingrid, but this 50 year old man with ear plugs came and stood right in front of me with like a song into the concert. I could have easily been mad but the fact that he was constantly doing this ridiculous Carlton with no hands type move and randomly talking - or should I say screaming due to the ear plugs - to the girls beside me who never responded kept me pretty entertained. Plus, I still had a pretty clear shot of Ingrid.
  

I could go on and on and on...but I won't. Yea for two amazing concerts within the past few days. And yea for Regina Spektor in under two weeks. And yea for Denver in one month. YEA!

play hard

Why this weekend was awesome...Halloween, Friends, and Avett Bros (who I pretend are my friends, too).

Costume Party on Friday


I had the cube on maybe half of the night. A 2 ft cube does not fit easily through doors. FYI. I had about 6 bruises on my arms from the box, but it was comfortable at the time. I shouldn't have done all of those Chris Farley moves.


Avett Bros at the Ryman on Halloween

This concert was ridiculous. I mean...wow. The crowd was awesome. The bros were awesome, and they were the Three Amigos. Need I say more.

On our way to the show after a little pregame
action at Flying Saucer. So essited.

Three Amigos

Big Bang after the show. Brunch on Sunday with some of the college crew followed by a visit to McKay's and Grimey's...where I bought five records for a total of like 5 bucks...no joke. Check out the variety:

Carole King Tapestry (I needed a listening copy since my other one is framed)
Mary Poppins
Christmas Mix
The Best of The Guess Who
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (For the album cover. Check it out below. Awesome.)


Yea for life!