so after a nice five hours of sleep and a shower i was set to go. I sat around while the girls slept waiting to get back to the palace. I was number six again. We sat around and signed memory books. Jason and the girls and i walked over to the mall and had smoothies and bagels. I wandered around a bit all by myself looking at the city.
The Buildings were fucking amazing. I just loved them all. they were all so beautiful. So i wandered back to the group, and we all sat around signing the books and stuff...and the day is a total blur again. About 2 or so we found out the ONE baracade around the OTHER side of the building was being set up.
So dor managed to organize about 100 people into line. We had a few people not listening and it got SUPER stressful. And someone our group knew in particular was being bitchy and cutting and so carolyn, she..god she gave me her spot. ill never be able to thank her enough for that. If it wasn't for that i would have never been able to of talked to tori. So we made it down one half of the building when some people being to walk up to the line. Dor is yelling at them 'get in line, dont jump in' then they start to walk faster and dor tells me to run. And its a stampeed on this really bad sidewalk. Ive never slammed into a baracade the way i did that day but i did. I just slammed into it along with 25 rows of other people. It was horrible, but i got the edge front of the baracade with dor next to me and carolyn behind me :]. A lot of people went up into a parking structure to watch from above. About half an hour later the bus showed up, and tori got off of it about 15 min later.
she walked over to the right of me and talked to the people along the back, including carolyn and others, and someone passed her a huge puppet which she seemed to love. She played with it a bit, and read a note attatched to it, and wrote down "cooling" on her hand. She seemed to really love the thing.
and then her eyes met mine. God i wonder if i can even remember it all. She looked into my eyes and went "oh hi! how are you!" and i just smiled and said hi, and then she just grabbed me and attacked me with a hug. She seemed to excited to see me. I handed her my large winnie the pooh bag and told her that there were a few letters from other people in it, and a portfolio and letter from me, and told her that the large silver box was a gift from me and david. I asked her if she remembered him but she totally ignored what i said and asked me if there was a letter from me. I told her yes. She asked me where it was and i told her it was in the black folder, and she asked me again if she could find it in there. And i told her yes. It was really weird. She was SO CONCERNED with getting my letter. It was scary. Then i kind of motioned her to come closer and i whispered in her ear a request for daniel and i told her what it meant to me and stuff. she pulled back from me and said "yes i can do that" and wrote it on her hand. She asked me which show would be best. I knew right there it wouldn't happen. I told her i would be at the rest and she told me she would do it. Then she kind of shook my hand a bit and moved on. I really wish i had told her to play it that night, cos i knew it wouldnt happen after that. Oh well :] It was really great. Oh yes! i also took a picture with her. but its gross.
so here is my theory on the picture. I handed the camera to Emi, and it was taking her a long time to take it. It kept looking like dor's head was in the way, she moved away at the last second. And i know tori and i were both watching dor's head. hahaha. i dunno. we both look pretty pissed in the picture. especially tori and i really didnt understand it since she was being SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO amazing to me.
and then i just watched her the rest of the time, i tried to take pictures but it was SO DAMN WINDY i knew they wouldnt come out. god just look at this wind action.
haha, but i took some anyhow. She seemed to zip from me down to jason who was on the other end. It seemed like she took the most time with him and i. i remember hearing her go "shag!". So yeah.
dor had a lot of things to talk to her about, one being the puzzle. Dor told her that she was ready to hear the favorite spots because mroe of the puzzle people were there and she pointed to me and i smiled and tori gave me a thumbsup motion. hahaha. it was funny. anyhow, she told us that she'd have to get back to her because tam had an opinion too :] It was a super amazing meet n greet, but i didnt like the way it ended. I felt like i needed to come back and talk to her about what i had told her about. Because the photo portfolio i gave her was really important to me and i asked her about a lot of stuff in it. But i knew i wasn't going to talk to her again. oddly enough i did get the closure i needed, but more on that at the very end of my journal. so um. here. enjoy more m&g pictures.
afterwards jason and kellie and i went to the mall for the 1 hour photo and had dinner at johnny rockets which was a lot of fun. The photo guys were like absolute geeks. I was totally playing around with them about what would happen if i died and stuff. they were such xfiles fans. anyhow
afterwards we walked back over to the palace and looked around for tickets.. i ended up buying three tickets that night. oy. I finally ended up with 3rd row with kellie. whoop. And i got to meet maggie and mel! that was so great. We like attacked maggie. i dont think she appreciated it. hahah but it was fun. Then i attacked mel, and we didnt actually talk a lot that night. once inside we all stood around and talked ignoring the UT. I had a really good talk with danica who had rainn and was nervous about that. but it was a damn nice chat :]
We made mel and tom try and figure out who this poster of an 80's band was but they werent too sure either. it was annoying.
the palace was freaky. I walked in and went "time warp - boulder" it looked EXACTLy like the macky. it was REALLY frightening. I wandered around a bit and found Kellie sitting in our seats. We overheard the security telling other people that they were gonna let the first 2 rows rush. im like, hello low stage suck me! hahaha
so the lights went down and the middle aisle was letting the first THREE rows rush. i asked the lady next to me 'excuse me' and she put her arms and feet out and wouldnt let me through. the ENTIRE show. Look lady i know you're pregnant, but fucking move? She sat down 90% of the show, letting me through wouldn't of hurt her. But she wouldnt let me out. You could tell her and her husband thought it was still a sit down show. Oops.
so it was a good show. it was a little dissapointing. I wasn't very into it. probably because of my seats. and everyone up front was tall and i could barely see her head and i was in the 3rd row. sick man.
Precious Things
Father Lucifer
Liquid Diamonds
Crucify
Past The Mission
Siren
Sister Janet (solo)
Winter (solo)
Cooling (solo)
Putting The Damage On
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Little Earthquakes
The Waitress
1st Encore:
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Raspberry Swirl
2nd Encore:
Honey
Jackie's Strength
this show was for me, the most uneventful of the shows. it was just blah for me. i couldnt really enjoy it. but i finally got to see her fall off of her bench. i dont even know what song it was. she got down so low she fell of and playe duntil joel came out and picked it back up. it was awesome. hee. and in sneeze, during the "hurt" part i love how she just yells out "FUCK". thats my story. heh.
after the show we all sat around across from the M&G and talked. When danica came out it was story time, and we spent a lot of time just waiting. It was really fun. and i was enjoying just sitting with everyone, as well as sitting around this alley that looked like a movie set with mel and maggie curled up in wooden green doors laid in a brick building. just weird.
while waiting kellie and i had to pee, and jessen had a bad scene with mayonaise for his chickwich. it broke in his pocket. so the three of us walked along the isolated streets of columbous into a doubletree for a bathroom. it was freaky. we walked through the lobby up to the top floor for the bathrooms. walked around a bit and went back out, and we never saw a single person. thats just not right man.
ok so this was a long day ok? bear with me.
next comes my favorite moments from the trip. I was shot gun again and we had 9 people squished in a mini van, and a three hour drive to indianapolis. I fell asleep at first, but woke up after about 20 min to william's booming "apple cinnamon dounuts" voice. What i had missed was a bottle of caton's tequila being passed around the car. hahaha. We stopped for snackies at some travelmart in plain city and it was like home of the mullet families. it was cracking up gina and emi immensley. I was munching on doritos and we were getting in the car and jason said merry christmas is this funny voice and i have never laughed so hard in my life. you'd have to be there - and be me or jason but it rocked. so once again all 9 of us piled in the car, with jason on the floor along the sliding door. hahaha. we stopped about a half an hour later in SPICELAND. Gina and i were so amused. It was kathy's kitchen man. We sat at the counter where the smokers relished in the fact that they could smoke indoors. haha. it was so white trash it was sick. We adopted a smuckers place card for the car and somehow i ended up in the backseat with jessen and kellie. haha. i only had a few shots of the tequila, but just enough to make me a little silly. The rest of the drive was super fun. More apple cinnamon stories, but hah. Gina was taking out small cities and towns with her hands on the top of the roof of the minivan. hahahahah. ok sorry.
when we got to indianapolis we got ASS lost. Until we saw tori's bus across the street. hahahaha. that was weird. We found the venue about 2 am and got numbered. then we said fuck it and all went to sleep and ditched the meet n greet. we woke up probably about 230 in the afternoon. it was totally worth the sleep.
day 4
