after killing myself by working 6 days a week for like a month straight it was finally time for a much needed escape.
july 19th
after working 12-7 i came home and began to gather my things. by about 11pm me and emily were on our way to indianapolis to hangout with sarah c finally. we drove for a million hours and got tired by finally made it to the hilton. we hung out on her (boys night out's) bus for a while and hugged and caught up. at like 5am we went up to this girl AJ's room in the hilton and crashed because the room as free...and the bed was so comfortable. i never wanted to get up.
july 20th
indianpolis warped tour. got there early and met up with sarah. sat around at her booth and met her friends ryan and nick from idaho. attempted to watch some bands. me and ryan roamed around together, we watched funeral for a friend because they are my new favorite warped tour band. watched some of the transplants.. the heat was intense that day. kept going back to the bus to grab beers because that of course was the only cold beverage. BBQ that night hung around with diaz and pj socializing.
july 21st
cleveland warped tour. i always go with high hopes of it being fun, but am always disappointed. we got there late of course and there was nowhere to park. watched some of funeral for a friend, saosin and my chem. got in a fight with security of course. wandered around most of the day talking to random cleveland people. bbq that night, wasnt really fun.
july 22nd
cincinnati warped tour. got some much needed sleep and showed up late as usual. sat around in the demolisten booth till they tore down. sat on the bus then went to catch the end of funeral for a friend with ryan. back to the bus and over to the waterpark till they closed it down. it was funny to see all the boys running to waterslides like children. after that was all came back to the bus and headed to the bbq with drinks in hand. hung around with our usual crew..diaz, stu, jesse johnson. got drunk and "weird" i was told. talked with the singer of relient k because we live close to eachother. i told him he was my soulmate and he gave me his number..then we stayed with julie in a hotel that night because it was free...and off turkey foot rd. amusing.
july 23rd
at this point i am so exhausted, but we cant stop now. luckily we didnt travel to chicago for warped tour but stayed close to home to go see action action and gatsbys american dream at the grog shop. amazing performance as usual. sat with dan leo at the bar as usual getting the life update. hung out outside after the show. got attacked by bobby, he basically was so excited to see me he picked me up but was so drunk we fell in a bush....and then continued to hump me..i was too tired to stick around much later after so i crashed.
july 24th
hot hot heat was playing at the odeon but i decided to save my money and not go...still too tired. later that night though i went to natalies with carla and emily. i drank steel reserve and chased it with a bacardi malt beverage hahahaha. then we went to the b-side but i hated it and sat outside most of the night talking to sarah c.
july 25th
i worked from 2:00-5:30, the most pointless shift ever. after that i got my stuff together and headed to emilys house. we layed around in her bed playing on webtender, trying to find good drinks to make.
july 26th
back to warped tour, in buffalo. we stopped about a million times on the way there. including a liquor store in erie that we mapquested and searched on yahoo to find. saw monika, kim and laura!! sat around at the demolisten booth...went on stage to catch funeral for a friend..of course. sat around in catering to avoid the rain...sat on the bus during the huge thunderstorm. then me and sarah made outfits out of garbage bags to cover us from the rain. went over to watch boys night out play, it was really fun, we danced around all of us. bus call was early so we stuck around for a bit then took off. we headed to the big rest stop dennys to full up on cherry cokes and grilled cheese. it was one of the best parts of the day...we drove as far as we could until the rain got too bad so we pulled over and napped for a bit.
july 27th
drove to work from emilys house from 2-5:30. came home and decided to meet up with emily at parmatown mall. we were there for about 15 minutes when my phone rang. it was a familiar 208 number that i had gotten a call from the day before. it was ryan...
http://myspace-729.vo.llnwd.net/00124/92/77/124987729_l.jpg he asked where i was and all that stuff...im like "oh im in hot topic" and i was like "where are you??" and hes like "oh ya were at the mall too" so im like "WHAT, are you in cleveland?" and of course they were...so im like "what mall are you at?" and hes like "some mall on...ridge rd?" so of course i freaked because thats too weird and random, so im like "what store are you by?" and he was like "claires" so i walk out of hot topic and turn the corner and there is my pretty friend from idaho. we were all shocked because this was the most random thing ever. we sat around in TGIFridays for a bit then headed over to ashley b's house. nothing was really going on there so we decided to go to 90s night last minute. me and ryan rode together while nick of course fell asleep in the backseat. we talked about music the whole time of course. got to 90s night and danced together and drank. hung out there until we got kicked out of course. every single time...headed back to ashleys house and had a drunken conversation with ryan about our life stories. then we passed out on the floor next to eachother.
july 28th
hung around ashleys till i had to go to work. 2-5:30. ryan, emily, christy and nick came to visit. we sat around in the dining room until i was done working. then we all went to emilys house. we went to a mexican restaurant that night and eat tons of free chips and salsa. we got a group of people together and went to bounce that night. i of course have no self control and got ridiculously trashed. then we went to our new gay friend drews house to hang out. we finally got back to emilys at 6am.
july 29th
drove home and went to work 2-5:30 again. then headed back to emilys house. we decided to go out to the bar drew works at that night called cloud 9. it was on w. 9th street and there was nowhere to park. after driving around forever we parked far away and walked over there. it was super nice and classy instead. i sipped on a martini in usual fashion. we hung out there until last call and eventually ended up at drews awesome apartment again. we made ryan and nick make us macaroni and cheese in there underwear. we sat around eating it out of the pot in the middle of the table. we passed out to watching serendipity.
july 30th
went back to emilys house where we lazied around most of the day and fell asleep on the couches. then we finally all got ready and decided to head to detroit that night. we stopped at taco bell then headed out. we went to this party that kiddie's friend was having. hung out with kiddie all night there then went to mike's house. went to sleep at like 3am because i wanted to be alive for the next day...
july 31st
in usual fashion, got to warped tour late. met up with sarah and sat around with her drunk ass outside because her bus broke down in canada, so she got a ride with strung out. walked around for a while, while kiddie said hi to everyone she knows haha. met up with julie then went to the stage to watch mae play. i was so tired i kept yawning during there set. sarah and emily left with woody and went to the magic stick. i hung around with jenny. then we went to watch the academy is play. we sat on the side of the stage, singing and dancing. it was probably one of the most fun parts of warped tour. when they were done i wandered around most of the night..i made diaz of course walk to my car with me so i could change. eventually ended up on funeral for a friends bus so i sat there with stu till bus call. i met up with kiddie and we left to go to woodys house. picked up emily from there, then dropped kiddie off and me and emily headed home. it was a million hours of driving. got home at like 6am and crashed.
aug 1st
dropped emily off at home and decided to go out to pittsburgh warped tour to pick julie up. she rode with mae all week. got there around 4pm. and of course as i am walking in 4 people i know are all in a row by the merch booths, it was kinda a weird thing. wandered around as usual. ran into laurren from baltimore who was sitting at the fight booth with matt...apparently matt remembered me as the grog shop monster. but he still gave me a beer. didnt really watch anyone. ended up watching some movie on mae's bus with julie and william beckett. he snooped through my sidekick most of the time. nothing else really exciting happened basically. bus call was early so me and julie headed out in search of food. we found a perkins and hung out there for like an hour till we headed home.
aug 2nd
slept my life away. then i went into work to pick up my paycheck..i ended up staying and working for 2 hours. after that i came home until it was time to go to 80s night. ryan called to check in and let me know they were in atlanta safely haha. i only stayed for like an hour at 80s night because it was so boring and no one was there that i knew. came home and passed out.
aug 3rd
worked 2-5:30 then came home. talked to horse for a while on the phone and made plans to hang out tomorrow in columbus...
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