Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Is this thing on?

Hello?
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Testing... 1,2...

I haven't posted anything in almost 2 years. I had the urge to start blogging again, a few months ago, but I didn't want blogspot anymore, and Wordpress looked too hard to deal with, so that fizzled. I guess I'm stuck with blogspot... for now. Yikes. I'm still alive, though. I think?! Yeah, I am. A piece of my heart is gone, though. Post-Bowie life sucks, man. It just does. I still can't friggin' believe it. Life just feel less colorful. His music still lives on and always will, but... it just... sucks. One minute his new album comes out and he's celebrating his 69th birthday, and you're sitting on the couch watching a Bowie-athon on Vh1 Classic talking about how epic he is and how he's clearly an alien and how he's gonna live forever because he just is, because he is the almighty Bowie... and then 2 days later, he dies. WHAT?! My world crumbled and what I felt was a different kind of pain. Different from when Heath died, different from when Michael Jackson died, etc. Saying I was gutted, heartbroken, shocked... would be an absolute understatement. The world just kinda stopped for a little bit. I didn't sleep that night. I was a mess. I listened to Bowie all night and it was hard. "Blackstar" makes so much sense after the night of January 10th. It's brilliant, I've listened to it 3 times, but it is just so hard to listen to... I've tucked that one away, for now. Seeing everyone's love for Bowie was incredible, though. My Twitter/Facebook/Instagram feeds were filled with pretty much nothing but Bowie. It was magical, it was beautiful and it was rad. I also enjoyed seeing people who I knew were never fans of Bowie spew out their "love and respect" for Bowie. Okay, cool. But we won't get into that. We were all united and connected through Bowie and it ruled. There were Bowie tributes everywhere; Radio, internet radio, and on tv. I really, really wish that SiriusXM would've kept the Bowie station (or made him one on a different channel)... I still can't believe he didn't already have a Channel dedicated to him. I mean, the Grateful Dead has one, Bruce Springsteen has one, Willie Nelson has one, Jimmy Buffett has one... Billy friggin' Joel and Pit-fucking-Bull have one... but Bowie doesn't have one? Bollocks! It's bollocks, I say!

Too many deaths. Make it stop. At least for a while. Sheesh.

So that's the most recent thing. Well, and something else, but I don't even think I really want to get into that. A person could call it a break up, or a person could call it a dissolution of conversating, since everything was done by phone. 2 years of texting, phone calls and FaceTiming... and we lived in the SAME state, about 4-ish hours away. We just weren't right for each other, and it became more and more apparent as the final months went by. 2 years was too long for that kind of thing. I think we were better off being friends. Anyway, never again. I just wanna be left alone for a while. I still think I'm better off being single. 

Let's see... I've seen some really great shows over the last 2 years, and some not-so-good shows. The last show I mentioned on here was Michael Schenker, I believe? Joan Jett, Tesla, Foreigner, Def Leppard (with Tesla opening) and Cheap Trick were ALL amazing!!! That Def Leppard show was amazing. It was one of the best I've ever seen!!! I/we couldn't see shit, though, because the seating arrangement was terrible. One of the downsides to seeing a show at the Paso Robles Mid-State Fair. Yikes. We went to 2 Scorpions shows last year, and they were both disappointing, but I won't really go into that. The set list/order stunk, it was cheesy, one of the members were a complete mess on and off the stage (gee, I wonder who it was?!) and the vibe was just... we weren't feeling it. I don't know what was going on, but those weren't their best shows. Buuuut the Inglewood show had an amazing VIP room/party thing AND I met Jeff Scott Soto real quick after the show. That made the whole thing worth it. I also worked a lot of concerts over the last two years, and only a handful of those were worth a damn lol.

We got a new kitty, named Stoney aka Stoney Pony! We got him a few months after my blogging hiatus lol. I love him so much. He's a badass, adorable mess and I am here for it. I AM HERE FOR IT!! So, now we have 3 cats lol. Bubba and Mikey have a new friend!
We also lost our doggie a few months ago... yeah. We had to put her down. It was heartbreaking and devastating.. just absolutely terrible. It was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. I still hear her bark from time to time and her infamous *shrug/whatever the fuck* noise that she used to make, LMAO! She was a good dog. She was the best dog.
Stoney Pony
Penny Lane

Instagram pretty much rules me. I was a little late to the party, but better late than never, right? I think I like it better than Facebook and Twitter. I post random stuff, but apparently people like it. I've also become obsessed with those little Funko Vinyl Pop figure things. Geez. It all started with a Daryl Dixon figure and it just started growing... not as much as my PEZ collection. Have I ever posted about my PEZ collection? Well, maybe I should/will. It's not in the thousands, but it's big enough for me, haha! My vinyl collection has also grown! I finally have a working vinyl player (I received one last year for my birthday), so I've had a reason to actually buy more vinyl, because the records won't be sitting around collecting dust... WOO!
Speaking of records, the new latest Def Leppard and Matt Nathanson albums completely rule me. Omg. They're just the best. Matt Nathanson's albums just keep getting better and better. He just gets it. Matty N is my spirit animal. Mmhmm. And Def Leppard's album... holy shit. That's the best album they've put out in YEARS. Holy shit. It's just sooooooo good. It's brilliant. It still gives me goosebumps. "Dangerous" is the perfect pop-rock song. "Man Enough" is funky. "Let's Go" sounds like the distant cousin of "Pour Some Sugar On Me". "Sea of Love" is fucking fabulous. The whole album is fabulous. If you don't own it, you should go buy it. 
Adult coloring books/apps also rule me. I've always loved coloring. I love colors. I have six coloring apps on my phone, and I think I've colored almost 900 pages since last year... no shame. Coloring is awesome and it's a great stress reliever. 

My brother's in Japan. He left last June. He's livin' the dream, y'all. He's living the dream!! And his girlfriend is super cute! And I'm 100% jealous that he went to Tokyo Disney and will be going there again soon, as a late birthday present! 
Speaking of birthdays, my birthday is in 12 days. I will be 30, in 12 days. Fuckin' A. 30 is the new 20, yeah? I'd like a do-over of 20, anyway... so I guess, yay? No? I don't know? I received a birthday present in the mail a few days ago, and my friend told me to open it early... I GOT A TAMBOURINE!!! EDDIE VEDDER, I'M COMING FOR YOUUUUU!!! I now have a Ukulele AND a tambourine. Dude, let's go on tour together. Call me. I'm available. Let's do this.

I also received another present last night, and another one today, but I'm saving those for my birthday... no more early ones! I still don't know what my birthday plans are, yet, but I do know that a colorful feather boa and a fuzzy yellow hat will be involved!
Moi :)

I'm pretty sure more things have happened since February 2014, but my memory is starting to stink... getting old is for the birds, y'all.  >__<



P.S. - I'm on Team Keanu.

**EDIT** DUDES. Epic brain fart, for the lose. Two important things happened since I last blogged... Joan Jett AND Cheap Trick were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!! Well, Cheap Trick isn't officially in, YET... but they will be in a few months!! Joan Jett and Cheap Trick should've been in YEARS ago, as well as the countless other bands/artists who continue to get snubbed year after year... so I think it's a bit of a joke. BUT I still think it's amazing that Cheap Trick is finally getting inducted, because I LOVE CHEAP TRICK SO MUCH!!! They are painfully underrated. Painfully. They deserve a lot more credit than they get. They are one of the greatest pop-rock/power pop/rock bands EVER. And also, Tom Petersson is a babe. A babe, babe, babe. Yup, true story.