I am the last of the international playboys

This Friday, the most wonderful thing of all time happened to me. I went to a Morrissey concert! That's what Lawrence got me for mother's day this year, So Friday we made our way to The Palladium Ballroom at 7:30, which is what the concert time was supposed to be. The doors opened at 8, so we got to stand in line in a downpour for half an hour. We shared our golf umbrella with a polite fella named Nick. When we finally got in there, we found out that there is no seating at this venue. How crap is that?!? So we stood around for another half hour, when we got treated to the screaming stylings of Kristen Young. It was not great. After a half an hour of that, they took about 20-30 minutes to revamp the stage while they played strange old movie stuff on the curtain. But finally! It happened! I was so excited that I didn't even noticed when my toes went numb one third of the way into the show due to the fact that I was wearing 2 1/2 inch heels. For some reason, all the tall people decided to stand in front of me, but I still managed to see for the most part. There was a guy standing near me that started yelling "HOW SOON IS NOW!!" after about 2 songs and I really wanted to turn to him and call him a poser, but I refrained. Morrissey changed his shirt 2 or 3 times during the show because he was sweating a lot, and once he even took his shirt off on stage. We dutifully screamed like teenagers, even though he's really old. Towards the end of the show, he said, "My ass is leaving town in ten minutes. . .be on it." I though that was pretty funny. The venue had posted all over the freaking place that we weren't aloud to bring in cameras or take pictures, but people still were with their phones. One person was right up near the stage and when they held their phone up Morrissey looked right at the person and they started to lower the phone, but he nodded his head and struck a pose. He kept shaking the hands of the people in front and cracking jokes. At the end, the band threw out paper airplanes, guitar picks, and the drum sticks, but I didn't get anything (other than the t-shirt Lawrence bought me of course). Morrissey is a really good showman, and I still had the time of my life despite the very sore feet, the tall drunk people, and the volume being so loud the music almost wasn't recognizable. Seriously, I never realized that Morrissey's music had screaming guitar music. Note to the sound person: when the music is distorting, you have it too loud. But it was still amazing. I can't believe how great this year is, Pet Shop Boys, Morrissey, and next month Erasure!! How great is my life!

Also: something cute. There's one part of a song where he says, "This is the last song I will ever sing." And on the cd you hear a crowd screaming, and then he says, "No wait, I changed my mind again," and the crown goes, "ahhh" in a disappointed way, and we did that! The screaming and the ahh and everything. It was AWESOME!! WOO HOO MORRISSEY!!

Boy am I a sucker

As many of you know, I am the single adult rep for my ward at church. I work with the other ward single adult reps and the stake single adult rep to organize events. Well, sometimes a stake will have a single adult conference that everyone in North Texas is invited to. Well, the church leadership decided that they didn't like the conferences to be be all willy nilly like that, so they all agreed to rotate the responsibility between all the stakes and have one every spring and one every fall. Every stake is donating a certain amount to the endeavour so that each conference has a budget of $6000. They scheduled all the stake for the next 6 years. Well, somehow, we, the Denton stake ended up with the 2nd one, the one this fall. So we are trying to plan this gig, and as much as I don't want to do it, I guess I'm committed. So Sunday, Linda (the Stake rep, or in other words, the boss. Also known as Ethan's grandmother.) was wanting to assign the committees. She asked if anyone would volunteer to chair a committee. Well, I looked around the room, and I quickly realized that I would end up in charge of something, so I should probably volunteer for something I was at least somewhat comfortable with before I got stuck with something I would really hate. So I looked over the choices, and I volunteered to chair the food committee. So, in September I have to provide at least three square meals for 400-600 people. Plan menus, buy the food, prepare the food, serve the food. Yikes. So yeah. Who's the sucker? I am! I am!

sluggish yet peppy

Today I watched The Island, and man oh man did I love that movie. Great stuff! Tomorrow I'm supposed to receive season one of Ab Fab. I am so excited! Lest you think everything excites me, I also watched The Day After Tomorrow today, and man was that movie predictable and preachy. You see! I don't love EVERYTHING I watch! Oh yeah, I need to go put season one of Heroes in my queue. I really enjoy the word queue because it totally looks like it shouldn't be a real word. Not only does it have a q, it also has a long string of vowels to boot! Love it!

It's super dooper slow at work, and this week I'll only be working three days. That'll suck on payday, fer shore. I hope this doesn't keep up too long, cause a girl's gotta eat. My last paycheck was a little short and it just so happened that ALL of my bills came out of the one, so I'm am dead broke. My boss keeps telling me to get out of town this weekend and go do something since I'll have a four day weekend. He can't seem to accept the idea that I can't DO anything without money. Of course, on Saturday, I am flying down to Houston so that I can ride back here with Lawrence, but I don't think that's the kind of vacation my boss is thinking of.

I saw a preview for the Bratz movie. It was horrifying. It's live action. And now some stupid little pop song is stuck in my head. Not to mention that there are precious brain cells being taken up with the memory of that preview AND the song from the preview. I think I might need to drill a hole in my skull to get that shit outta there. Seriously.

I miss Lawrence. I also miss Ethan (believe it or not) but not as much as I miss Lawrence, because Ethan is much more high maintenance than Lawrence. And. I'm having allergies. It sucks ass.