I'm a little more country than that :)

So I've decided after contemplating for a long time.....that I'm going to do a review, for every single concert I go to! Starting.....now!

Gary Allan and Easton Corbin at Joe's Bar in Chicago

So earlier this week we got tickets through Us99 in Chicago for free for this concert. We got to Joe's around 4 and stood in line for what always seems like forever for the doors to open. They finally let us inside and had to wait some more for them to let us into the concert area because they had to check off names of people that won tickets. I think this was a mostly free concert because the majority of the people there were in line with us getting their names checked off. So we get into the concert area and end up about 4th row ish. We waited there for another hour and a half for the show to start....First up was Easton Corbin, he was pretty good! He reminds me of a cross of George Strait and Luke Bryan, would totally see him again! After his set was Gary Allan! Dave and I said if he got too boring like he did previous times we've seen him, then we would leave. Well for some reason last night he was so rockin' and not boring at all!! I think he came more alive because he was playing in a smaller place rather than a festival or arena. We even got one of his picks too, it bounced off of Dave's shoulder and into his hand :) Had a great night!

Who likes when you come home to a party you know you're not invited to?

So a lot of things have gone on since I made the move out of my parents house to Dekalb, IL. I live with my boyfriend Dave and we couldn't be happier.....except the room mates have been driving us insane since I moved in. They are probably great people but they never took the chance to get to know me. Which probably resulted to them not hanging out with my boyfriend and I anymore. We got into an argument when I moved in that it wasn't announced that I was moving in but it really was. My boyfriend told them that if he met someone, that she might move down with him and asked if it was ok already. So he meets me and I follow him down here, they get mad. So we haven't really been talking to them much, and the longer we live with them it seems to get worse. Thank goodness we aren't renewing the lease this year. We did last year because we didn't want to move and save money. Well I guess saving money doesn't really make you happy sometimes. The apartment seems to be divided, like we own only our bedroom and bathroom. Other than that they have taken over the rest of the apartment. I barely use the kitchen besides a small spot in the refrigerator for my lunch stuff and sometimes the freezer. Lately the freezer has been so packed with junk that I can't put my lunch stuff in there anymore. We have a minfridge in our room, but is it too much to ask for a small spot just to put my frozen product in the freezer? I feel wierd using the living room. We barely go home now because we would just be confined to our bedroom if they are in the living room. Another issue is laundry....I have noticed that they like to do all thier laundry on sundays, if thier not home then it's mondays. So I try to schedule my laundry time around that, like doing small loads during the week. Sometimes I forget something in the dryer and if it's still in there sunday or monday, it ends up on the couch. Which is fine with me sometimes....one time we came home to find wet and dry laundry on the couch because they decided to take it out so they could do laundry.....that certainly hit a note with us.....We came home a couple time recently too where they had a bunch of friends over, like last night. They don't even tell us they are having people over and they don't even invite us. Dave says they are disrespecting us and I totally agree....why would people do that? They even vaccuum at 11:30 at night!!! So we've been trying to think of a way to get revenge on them before we move out. I'm not totally great at doing something like that but maybe do something so they get the point. Like have a party, start playing my guitar in the morning and wake them up.....need some ideas? When we aren't home, we are always at our friends house in Dekalb. They are great people and I don't think we will end up like our current room mates. We hopefilly will move in sometime this summer and trust me the sooner the better. I already feel like I live here at our friends how much time we've spent here!

Is there rehab for concert junkies?

As I said in my previous post, I enjoy going to concerts. It's a little more than just going to concerts for me, I love music. Country music in general. The past couple of years I've found myself going to way more country concerts than I have ever before. I try to go to one every chance I get if there is one out there. It's something I enjoy doing, hearing music live from the artists that I hear on my Ipod or radio. I like going to concerts with other people and meeting new people that share the same love of music. I call it my form of study also, to hear the songs some of these artists wrote and analyze them live. A lot of the artists I follow are up and coming and they almost always like to preview new songs live. Like for instance, every Jake Owen concert I go to he plays a new song. The last one I went to of his he played a lot of new songs because he is recording his new album right now. I have a lot of concerts coming up, one this next weekend and two possibly three in April. But May is a different story, almost every weekend is full....just need to find one for memorial day weekend :) June we are planning on going to Nashville for fanfair week and have at least two other concerts planned that month. I can't wait to go to all these concerts!!!!

Hello World, How've you been?

It's been a while since I've actually written a real blog, so here it goes.....I just recently deleted my previous blog that I had at another website for about 5 years. Thought I would start fresh and try not to look back on the past blogs I wrote on that one. There were a lot of deep, dark times that I would rather not remember right now. The reasoning for me finally blogging again is to try to get to know myself again. I know it sounds kind of crazy but I feel like I've kind of lost it, but I am happy with the way things are right now in my life. I have a great boyfriend who means the world to me, great parents, great friends, a good paying job and lots of activities to keep me happy like mostly concerts.
I would like to become more in sync with myself so I can start the whole songwriting process again. It's been over a year since I've written anything and if I don't do anything about it, I may lose it forever. It's just been that lately the inspiration isn't there and I really want it to be. I think it has something to do with my inspiration mostly coming from breakups and hard times in my life. So I have a problem kind of, no hard times in my life right now and there's no way me and my boyfriend are breaking up anytime soon! So what do I write about then? I have no idea. I could write love songs but they seem to be too corny and mushy when I write them. I could write songs about life but they always turn into songs of inspiration. Songs of inspiration are ok but it reminds me of going to church, which I admit I haven't been in years......I can't write songs about going out and getting drunk because I haven't really been full blown drunk. I've been tipsy and felt sick after drinking but never drank so much to the point where I have blacked out, woke up the next morning not remembering a thing kind of drunk. I never want to experience that either because I don't think it would turn out very good. So I really haven't a clue on what to write about right now......I hope I have a breakthrough sooner or later. Writing in any sense like this could help greatly, just have to keep going on it.