Weekend in Review
Friday: Went with Sarah, David and Amanda to Not So Silent Night a rocking holiday concert line up with the artists: The Silversun Pickups, The Shins, The Raconteurs, Modest Mouse and the Killers performing between 20 minutes sets to an hour each. High points of my concert going experience included:
1. Each band that performed was excellent! My favorites being the Raconteurs and the Killers. The Raconteurs had a very jam session feel to their performance that seemed to channel a cross between Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin with a White Stripes sound….probably had to be there to get that mix.
The Killers were surprisingly fantastic; I admit I was worried about seeing them live since every time I’ve seen them on TV, they have sucked pretty solidly. This evening however, was incredible, with them producing a set that was spot on and rocked really hard. I am now a believer and will never doubt their greatness again.
2. Easiest venue to get to and park at.
3. Being as weak as I am right now, we were extremely lucky in that we got fantastic seating (we ended up sitting in the balcony to the left of the stage.) Giving us both a clear view of the stage and the crowd lamely moshing below.
4. We had our own mini soap opera-esque activity happening in our section, with lots of drinking, yelling and insane drunk girl dancing..lucky for me I got to watch 5 solid inches of a woman’s G-sting as it tried poorly to fit around the skin and jiggly body parts flopping out of it.
The highlight of our Soap: David actually asking a women sitting in front of him “Do you need some Midol?”… You can use your imagination as to what kind of reaction that produced (as I don’t know a single woman who doesn’t instinctively cringe at that comment) add copious amounts of alcohol to the women receiving it and it was a tense few moments. End result = crazy drunk girls left our section and we were able to fully enjoy the Killers.
5. For a completely sold out concert – I lucked out with no lines in the bathroom.
Saturday:
Had the house to myself; decided to hang out in bed all day recovering from the late night. During which I watched really bad Christmas movies on cable and played solitaire. I was invited to go out clubbing for a friend of a friends birthday party, and since I happen to be Myspace friends with a fantastic DJ named Donny (who added me to his VIP list for the club they were going to) I decided at the last minute to go there to celebrate. Actually went out and danced for a few songs, but ended that pretty quickly when the guys around me got waaaaaaay too grabbie!
In retrospect: I was really proud of myself for going to a place deliberately outside of my current comfort zone (with the whole not wanting human contact) but shrink pretty far by the time the 5th guy had come up to put his arm around me. I think for the fantastic move forward, it will be an extremely long time before I expose myself to that type of meat market atmosphere. Positives from the experience:
1. Actually left the house on my own impetus
2. That I went to my least favorite kind of place
3. Allowed a huge amount of contact before having to leave that place.
Baby steps, but steps nevertheless
Sunday:
Had the house to myself again for most of the day; and in a repeat of the day before, slept in and hung out in bed. Had an insane dream about ritualistic murders and blame falling asleep the night before with the True Crimes channel on. Definitely not a mistake I’m likely to make again.
Cleaned house, hung out with Sarah, David and Bella in the evening and watched more bad Christmas movies (I know, I know I need to step away from the overly sentimental sap…)
Plans this week:
- Playing pool with 3 of my absolute favorite engineers who are coming into town for a testing event I am hosting. I only get to see them at our meetings (3 times a year) so it will be fun catching up for during this bonus trip.
- Holiday Office Party – Friday night will be the office holiday party at this pretty great venue. I am most looking forward to the Air guitar competition that seems to happen every year when certain unnamed attendees get a little too much alcohol.
- Diesels last days have begun and the sadness countdown has started…. Sniffle
Overall Outlook: Feeling pretty good, so I am really really hopeful that I won’t be confined to bed at all this week (Fingers crossed)
1. Each band that performed was excellent! My favorites being the Raconteurs and the Killers. The Raconteurs had a very jam session feel to their performance that seemed to channel a cross between Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin with a White Stripes sound….probably had to be there to get that mix.
The Killers were surprisingly fantastic; I admit I was worried about seeing them live since every time I’ve seen them on TV, they have sucked pretty solidly. This evening however, was incredible, with them producing a set that was spot on and rocked really hard. I am now a believer and will never doubt their greatness again.
2. Easiest venue to get to and park at.
3. Being as weak as I am right now, we were extremely lucky in that we got fantastic seating (we ended up sitting in the balcony to the left of the stage.) Giving us both a clear view of the stage and the crowd lamely moshing below.
4. We had our own mini soap opera-esque activity happening in our section, with lots of drinking, yelling and insane drunk girl dancing..lucky for me I got to watch 5 solid inches of a woman’s G-sting as it tried poorly to fit around the skin and jiggly body parts flopping out of it.
The highlight of our Soap: David actually asking a women sitting in front of him “Do you need some Midol?”… You can use your imagination as to what kind of reaction that produced (as I don’t know a single woman who doesn’t instinctively cringe at that comment) add copious amounts of alcohol to the women receiving it and it was a tense few moments. End result = crazy drunk girls left our section and we were able to fully enjoy the Killers.
5. For a completely sold out concert – I lucked out with no lines in the bathroom.
Saturday:
Had the house to myself; decided to hang out in bed all day recovering from the late night. During which I watched really bad Christmas movies on cable and played solitaire. I was invited to go out clubbing for a friend of a friends birthday party, and since I happen to be Myspace friends with a fantastic DJ named Donny (who added me to his VIP list for the club they were going to) I decided at the last minute to go there to celebrate. Actually went out and danced for a few songs, but ended that pretty quickly when the guys around me got waaaaaaay too grabbie!
In retrospect: I was really proud of myself for going to a place deliberately outside of my current comfort zone (with the whole not wanting human contact) but shrink pretty far by the time the 5th guy had come up to put his arm around me. I think for the fantastic move forward, it will be an extremely long time before I expose myself to that type of meat market atmosphere. Positives from the experience:
1. Actually left the house on my own impetus
2. That I went to my least favorite kind of place
3. Allowed a huge amount of contact before having to leave that place.
Baby steps, but steps nevertheless
Sunday:
Had the house to myself again for most of the day; and in a repeat of the day before, slept in and hung out in bed. Had an insane dream about ritualistic murders and blame falling asleep the night before with the True Crimes channel on. Definitely not a mistake I’m likely to make again.
Cleaned house, hung out with Sarah, David and Bella in the evening and watched more bad Christmas movies (I know, I know I need to step away from the overly sentimental sap…)
Plans this week:
- Playing pool with 3 of my absolute favorite engineers who are coming into town for a testing event I am hosting. I only get to see them at our meetings (3 times a year) so it will be fun catching up for during this bonus trip.
- Holiday Office Party – Friday night will be the office holiday party at this pretty great venue. I am most looking forward to the Air guitar competition that seems to happen every year when certain unnamed attendees get a little too much alcohol.
- Diesels last days have begun and the sadness countdown has started…. Sniffle
Overall Outlook: Feeling pretty good, so I am really really hopeful that I won’t be confined to bed at all this week (Fingers crossed)
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