We both smile and say hey…
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Ready for the biggest mess of fumbled words, where I’m partly ranting, partly figuring things out, and always rambling? Of course you are.
So yea yesterday was…weird. If it wasn’t SO incredibly weird- this show would have SUCKED to the highest extent.
We get there around 1, Jeremy Camp came on around 2 so that was fine.
Anyways- yea so Rachel, Rebekah and I meet up, and that was fun, as always. We walk around a lot and bump in to Paul and Jeff filming some stuff. It was so funny cause like…they didn’t want to stop- so it was the slightest “hello” lol. Good stuff.
I finally decided to go talk to Toby Mac’s bassist, and I’m so happy I did. He’s the nicest guy EVER! Got a picture with him, talked a bit- then ran into him later on, talked a lot then…he’s so amazing…I will definitely say hello whenever I see him again! I’ve seen him like…10 times at every show I go to, so I finally gave in and went to talk lol.
I try to find out about the M&G, because we were told to go to merch. No one there had a CLUE…surprise, surprise.
Then I finally found Avery. She always knows what she’s doing, which is a lovely change. But yea- so she told me that it’d be after the show…I knew the guys bussed in, so that was nice.
Didn’t really watch the guys set. I listened to it, I hung around the back a bit- just wasn’t really feeling the idea of going up for some reason. I actually rather enjoyed being way back, and just…people watching more or less.
Left around He Reigns to go back to the M&G area, knowing nothing about that would run smoothly, so I should get there early. Toby’s signing was still going on, so they cut that off, and made a newsboys line. Drama there, but oh well.
So they tell BC’ers to go to the front to do the M&G. I was so fed up by that point. It’s like after every show- I get irked about how horridly the BC stuff was handled, and yet I expect it to be different lol. Ah well. So yea- my mom decided to go in the M&G which was amusing!
I met up with Breeze during the M&G. I felt bad- my computer hasn’t been my friend lately- and I never wrote her number down- I had NO idea how to contact her, but I knew we’ d meet up at the M&G. So that was alright I guess. Paul, her son, is far too adorable though! I was expecting him to be a bit older for some reason- so I was kinda¬ sure if that was really her or not- but figured it had to be.
Anyways- yea so the M&G starts. Dunny was first, nice as always. Next was Phil. Yea- Phil and I were quite… scattered. I swear this was the WEIRDEST show ever. I just function bad with him when there’s 20 people around just staring, you know? So like, this time was more of a “yeeepppp&so…how are you?” “great, you?” Then like- we’d start to get into conversation, and he was pulled away. So he left for a second- then Pete came over. Pete and I talked longer than anyone else. I felt the need to gush over The Letter to him. So yea…he was happy- and super nice. Paul and Jeff came over.
So Phil comes back over. We both started to talk…and I dunno. Maybe it was obvious where I’ve been the past two weeks, if so, maybe that’s why he seemed so odd. The setting was too lame to even think- between having 20 people there right together, and then having Steve pushing people out, a signing about to happen. I kid you not. This was a 5 minute M&G…at best.
So yea- Rachel, Rebekah, and I talk about the lameness of what had occurred- like a 5 minute M&G…so we did that, then I went over to try to talk to Breeze a bit. I was just so…out of it yesterday. Between being sick, not eating, being dead hot outside, and just being fed up, I imagine I wasn’t the greatest to be around. I apologize for that lol. But yea- we say goodbye and all that good stuff. Then I go to wait on Rachel and Rebekah from the signing to get our classic group picture and say goodbye.
They went through the line, and Rebekah wanted a pic with Phil. Well, that was just such a sin to do in the M&G line, so Phil said he ’d do it afterwards. (note:Phil was the nice one here (but when is Phil NOT the nice one?!)- the people running the signing were downright rude)
So we wait for a bit, then go over there. Talk for a few seconds. Phil likes Rocky Votolato&which pretty much makes him my hero 3 times over :-p But seriously- besides Rebekah, I don’t know anyone who likes him!
Sooooo we leave him, and watch them go off. Talk a bit more, and soon realize that NO ONE is there really (this drew in like 60,000 ppl, so being the last ones there is kinda pathetic lol), we decide to leave. They had VIP parking, which was by the guys bus. And by this point, we were all like “I REALLY don’t want to walk by that! This is awkward” Like…yea- there’s just NO way of explaining it. You had to be there. Like I said earlier- things were SO weird. The guys were great…but…it was just super super weird. I was left with a very odd feeling. But we walk by to get to their car (and our car was just a bit beyond theirs), so a good distance from the bus we stop, hug, say goodbye, and start to part ways, then Phil steps off the bus. I looked over, and he motioned to go over there.
That entire situation was odd as well. I feel as though things are left very much unsaid, and it bothers me. I don’t know what the things are, or even who’s ‘things’ they are, mine or his- but yea. But yea- we talk for a few minutes. Nothing in particular, really. Our shallow bits are lame, but it’s not in anyone’s control. Just how things work out. I mean, yea they’re fun, no doubt there…but I find them to be kinda awkward.
So all in all- yesterday was neither good or bad. It was just…very weird.
I think I was just a little emotional screwball all day. I must say though, it’s quite nice to know that I’ve reached a point where ‘fake happiness’ has no effect on me. I used to get happy at/after shows, regardless- and I was like…floating off in space all day lol. Yay for finally grasping the concept of consistency? Except it’s slightly reversed from how I’d like it lol.
But yes. random quotes?
BC guy to my mom: Trying to sneak in, huh?!
Mom: yepp. *keeps walking* (lol the guy didnt try to stop her. I like him though- he’s been around the last 3 M&Gs…he’s nice. I think he knew my mom was my mom, so knew she wasn’t just a TOTALLY random person, and it was a small M&G so he let it slide :-p )
Phil: Case has a solo album?! I saw him the other day, and he didn’t tell me this!
Me: oh…well…it’s kind of old.
Rachel (or Rebekah- I wasn’t around): ‘Ashley’s gonna go ring some necks’. (Hahaha&probably my favorite. I was told about this on the way home, so I found it highly amusing.)
Phil: Can I have one?! Is this for me? It’s not yours, right?
Me: Yea I have two…because Case is weird like that (I mainly just like the “Case is weird like that” part lol)
Me: Do you like Rocky Votolato? He sounds a lot like him.
Phil: oh yea, definitely.
Me: *gasps* you really do rock.
Dunny: Hey- what do I sign?
Mom: oh, we don’t have anything to sign. We’ve got enough of those.
Dunny: ohhh…haha, so just a picture? great! (I adore how…blunt my mother was)
pics? indeed.
Yay for big grin pictures? indeed. I’m actually tan, and I still look dead. Gotta love being anemic, and not doing anything about it *rolls eyes*
The rest are here.