Rocktober

This month is definitely rocktober! (It's also Zactober *Hanson fans unite!*)

But yeah... friggin' ROCKTOBER!!!!

It's only 12 days in, but this month has totally rocked my socks. It's kinda making me forget about Shittember. Ha.

Hockey season is in full swing! My Sharks are undefeated! 5-0-0. Tomas Hertl is a friggin' beast. Seriously. The kid is a beast. A few nights ago, the Sharks beat the Rangers 9-2... 4 out of those 9 goals were scored by Hertl. Goals 3, 4, 5, and 6. Holy shiz balls. The Sharks need to keep this up... and win the cup. It's time, boys. It's time. Bring that sucker hoooooome!!!!!!!

The month of October means that it's Fair time, here in Fresno. My family (sans my brother) and I went to the Big Fresno Fair on October 4th, to see Tesla play at the Paul Paul Theater. Tesla absolutely ruled (totally badass!) We explored a bit of the fair prior to the show (and a bit after the show)... we played on the huge pirate ship!!! Yes, I love pirate ships. And pirates. Arrrrrrrggggg.

No shame.

We also stumbled upon this. The best booth at the fair, in my opinion.

A BOB MARLEY BOOTH!!!!
Well, it was a "Reggae Shop"... but 98% of it was Bob Marley stuff. Hell yes. ♥
I went back after the concert and got a shirt. It was so hard to pick just one.

After Tesla, we walked around a bit more. We found a dinosaur exhibit. Another hell yes!
I even touched a snake. Yeah. 

More epicness. My Mother and I got to work the Bon Jovi concert! They put us on the floor. Facing the stage. Can I get a MASSIVE hell yes?!?!?! Yeah, I friggin' love my job. The sporting events... maybe not so much. But the concerts. Even if we never get the floor again... lol. It was awesome. Beyond awesome. 

The new Pearl Jam album, "Lightning Bolt" comes out on Tuesday (October 15th). I can't wait for that. I seriously cannot wait any longer. I'm about to explode. The new AFI album drops soon, too. I can't wait for that, either.

Back to Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam Twenty premiered on VH1 Classic and Palladia tonight. I own it on DVD, but I still set the DVR. I'm actually watching it right now. I seriously cry every time I watch this. Not because it's sad... it isn't sad. I just love Pearl Jam. I honestly cannot find the words to express how much I love that band. 

Holy blog views, Batman!

I love Batman. 

But that's not the main focus of this blog post.

Heh.

The main focus of this blog post, is the number of page view this blog has gotten so far. As well as my other blog (the music one). Yesterday, this blog hit 2,000 page views. Now, I know this probably isn't a lot... but it's a lot to me. I mean, this blog isn't even a year old yet. I've only done 54 blog entries (yes, I am a lazy blogger... I'm going to try and change that. I promise.) this post being blog entry #55... and between those 54 posts, I've gotten 2,044 views. I've gotten 44 more views since last night around 10:30pm, when I posted my last entry. It's insane. And very, very, cool.

When I started blogging, I didn't think anyone would actually read what I had to say. Maybe a few friends and a few family members... because, well, they're my friends and family members. Clearly, a lot of other people have been reading this thing, and I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to read my words. My random, babbling, fan-girling self thanks you! ♥ 

I promise to give you more honest, random, babbling, fangirl -inspired blog entries. 

Nowwww to my music blog. That blog is... uhhh... was (?) supposed to be my main blog. I started that one first and that one has more entries posted. 75 posts. Yeah, I am a TOTAL lazy blogger when it comes to that one. Sheesh. I promise to change that, too. I promise. Anyway, that blog has 6,244 views... so far.

I never thought in a million years that the music blog would ever take off. I don't know why... I'm just like that. This blog gives me high anxiety sometimes. It really does. 

Anyway, back in August, I did an entry for a local tribute band, who covers a certain classic rock band. I thought about posting the link on their fb page... but yeah, I didn't do it. Welll... someone either in their camp or in the group stumbled across my blog entry and posted the link to their fb page last night... one member even LEFT a comment on my blog... as well as an anonymous comment. A long comment, which I fully enjoyed, btw. Since that happened, I've gotten 58 more views for that particular entry... and the views just keep coming. It's crazy. It really is. I think the total for that entry is damn near 80 in total? Seeing my blog posted somewhere other than my own fb page or Twitter page is crazy. It's super rad... but crazy. I think I need to have more faith in my writing. Yeah, I need to change that, too. October is the month for change, is it not? Change of season... changing of leaf colors... change of weather? Yeah, ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Bowie. 

Octoberrrrrr!!!!!!

October is my favorite month ♥

Hockey. 

Halloween.

Hoodies.

Yep... this year, I will have all 3 of my lovely H's. Yipeeee!!!! I'm feelin' it man, I'm feelin' it. Let's get it on.

Hockey. Today was opening night. The first official day of the season!! My Sharks don't play until Thursday (2 more days, babyyy!) My fave east coast team, the Washington Capitals played tonight, though. They lost. 6-4 against the Chicago Blackhawks. I had my first 3 hockey strokes tonight. Mmhmm! 

Yep. Awesome texts like this, start in October.

I surround myself with good people. ♥

Halloween. 30 more days, ya'll!! Yeeeeeeee!!!!! I freak out over almost every Halloween display I see. I love it. I love it all. Not so much the candy, but the decorations! Yes, the decorations!! And the movies. The moooooovies!!! 

Hoodies. I've had the pleasure of wearing both of my AFI and SJ Sharks hoodies over the past 2 weeks. We've had strange weather. The nights/mornings are cold and the days are hot. Pretty soon, it will be hoodie weather all day long. Can I get another "Yee"?! Yeeeeeeee!!!!!

Yeah, I just love October. 

September did almost nothing for me. It was good to half of my friends... but crappy to the other half of them. It was more crappy than good for me. I will not focus on the crappy stuff. Just the good stuff.

*September (well, the middle of it) brought me "Sleepy Hollow" on FOX. "Sleepy Hollow" is my new favorite show (or my new current fave show). It totally freaking is. It is fabulous. It is gross. It is crazy. It's funny. It is fabulous... wait, I already said that. Ha! Yeah, I'm pretty much obsessed. I know I stated in a blog post last year, that Johnny Depp was the ONLY "Ichabod Crane" in my eyes... no. Tom friggin' Mison for the ABSOLUTE win. He's perfect. 

THIS is the perfect explanation... overview... synopsis (?) of this wonderful show. It was written by my non-related twin (I swear to the heavens above that Tracey and I are the SAME person) Go here: Sleepy Hollow

I'm reposting her blog post because this was almost the SAME thing that I was going to write on here. Almost. Because, you know, Tracey and I are the SAME person. *Insert Twilight Zone music here* But yeah, I highly recommend "Sleepy Hollow". It's sexy. Rawr. Rawwwwrr!!!

*Paychecks. Need I say more? Didn't think so. They weren't much, but it's a start, y'all.

* Random acts of EPIC kindness from 2 strangers who aren't exactly strangers. I mean, we've never met in person (but we will the next time a certain band tours, dammit!! QUOTE ME!) It all started back in June when I started posting on a certain app app. Not an app... but an app app. (Ha!) Things went crazy in July (I would actually almost like to thank the person/people responsible for the craziness) and about 50 or so people migrated to various places (social networking) to chat about daily life/talk about a certain band that we all love, and pretty much whatever. But it is so much more than that. We are a little family. A support unit. We are all different... yet, we are all the same. Whether it be similar interests, similar tastes in music, similar quirks, similar personalities... whatever. I really think we were all brought together for a much bigger reason. Anyway, I could probably write an entire blog post about these lovelies, but let's get to the epic kindness.

Ash offered to pick me up (from the bay area) on her way to SoCal to see Hanson perform for 3 nights. That probably would've hindered her route and made her lose time on the road. She was not going to charge me a damn thing. I only had to pay for my tickets and food. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to swing that :(

Then maybe a week or so later (?) Lexi had a spare ticket to the L.A. show (her sister could no longer go)... so she offered it to me... free of charge. FREE OF CHARGE. I was halfway there, I was livin' on prayer. I couldn't go. It killed me for a while, but I was happy for my all of my Cali sistas on their epic adventures! I was there in spirit. These ladies didn't have to go the extra mile... but they DID. These people are good people. Damn good people. And not just these 2 lovely ladies... there are about 50-ish or so people in our fanson family, and every single one of them are epically amazing people. Seriously. I wish we all lived in the same state (and um, country? One of these lovelies lives in Lebanon, there's one in the U.K., and I believe two are in Australia). We would have beyond epic times together!!! A lot of  the "misfits" have met up with each other over the course of the current "Anthem tour" and more are going to meet up as the tour continues... but one day, we will ALL meet up and it will be friggin' fantastic. I'm happy just knowing that these amazing people exist. Damn, that was really mushy, wasn't it? Sorry. Not sorry. ♥ I could boast some more, but like I said, that's another blog post.

*Pre-season hockey. Such a tease... but it does the trick. 

That was pretty much the only goodness of September... from what I can remember.

VIVA OCTOBER!!!!!!