Concerts and a busy week!

Howdy!

Well, all of our concerts with The National are over :o(

Friday's concert in Cincinnati was pretty packed, as it's their home town and they had TONS of family and friends there. What was great about the concert was that they played a VERY long set and a lot of their older tunes. What was awful was the crowd. There were some pretty rude dudes who stood right in front of me - so we moved. But it seemed that everywhere I stood, someone would come right in front of me! I guess it's no surprise to anyone that I have problems seeing at concerts - thanks to my mother's lack of height, I'm doomed to see the band as floating heads, if I see them at all.

The drive home was also pretty awful - we were both very tired, so our eyes had some problems staying open! Kurt started out, but I ended up driving most of the way. And, since I'm an amblyope, my eyes have issues staying straight when I'm really tired. I swear I was driving home cross eyed!

SO...due to the floating head affects that I do NOT enjoy at concerts, Kurt and I decided to get to the concert on Saturday (here in Columbus-our last one...sniff sniff) earlier so that we could get a spot down front. Luckily, we did. We had to stand through 1 good opening act (Talkdemonic - a nifty violin and drums duet), and 1 HORRIBLE opening act. Follow my advice - do not buy any albums by "Shapes and Sizes" - they really aren't very good.

But it was ALL worth it - being right up front with the singer and guitarists 3 feet away was pretty gosh darn amazing. They played a shorter set Saturday night, but they still closed with one my favorite songs - About Today. It's about the ending of a relationship - the lyrics for this tune are pretty sparse, but they paint a great, albeit depressing, story.

And, of course, there is always something to complain about at a concert ;o) Don't get me wrong - I LIVE to go to concerts. But there's always something...
Saturday night's joie de nuit was a bunch of frat boys. Smelly-like-rotten-socks frat boys. Now, let's get this straight right away, The National's music is pretty mature, not conducive to moshing. But apparently they disagree with that statement because they were slamming their stinky, sweaty, smelly-like-rotten-socks bodies into Kurt all night. Yay.

We had a tickets to go to tonight's concert in Cleveland but decided that getting back at 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning on a week night probably wasn't a good idea...especially since we have a lot to do this week.

Speaking of a lot to do...it's hard to believe that on Friday, we're moving out and Saturday we'll be moving to Chicago! It's been easy to say "Oh, we'll have time to do that before we leave, we've got a couple of months." Then it turned into 6 weeks, then 4 weeks, then 2, now it's only 4 days away! Yipee!

We are SOOOOOOO excited to get the move finished. We looked into having movers take care of everything, but it was (Yikes) $2500.00 - $3200.00 dollars. NO WAY!
So, my parents (God bless them) are going to help us!

What's really great is that Kurt is taking the week after the move off. We'll be able to take our time unpacking and get to know the city better. We'll probably do some sight seeing and scope out all the good restaurants!

Well...I should get going. I need to hit the hay so I can get up bright and early and get to work!

Take care!