BASh!!!!

Ok, so I totally wasn't planning on going to the Big Ass Show this year, but then the day of the show I get a phone call at work and my friend Jake had scored some VIP passes to go!! How does a girl turn that down?!?! So I took half the day off and we totally went wild at the show. We were a little late getting there, but we made it in time to catch Airborne Toxic Event (THEY'RE AMAZING!!!!), Alkaline Trio, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Unwritten Law and.... THE OFFSPRING!!!! The whole thing was amazing, because we had these VIP badges on lanyards that got us pretty much everywhere. You never quite know how respect feels until a cranky old parking lot attendant looks at your VIP badge and says "very good sir, pull into that lot closest to the stage". Since we had the VIP badges we got to go down into the mosh pit, which is totally the best place to be at a show like that. I, being a somewhat ditzy girl sometimes, wore my flip flops so now there are some VERY gnarly and awesome looking bruises on my feet from being stepped on numerous times. We were deep in the front of the pit for The Offspring and were so close that if Dexter had spit, we totally would've been able to be spit on by DEXTER FROM THE OFFSPRING!! I was lucky enough to be in the pit with my friend Jake who's like 6 feet tall and solidly built so he did the decent thing and made sure to toss the crowd surfers away who kept falling on my head (the people around us had no concept of how to keep somebody up and surfing, so I had about 5 people fall smack on my head and neck). Another awesome thing that happened was that somehow Jake became the go-to guy to throw the emo kids up on the crowd to surf. Once on 90 lb emo girl sees that you can do it, then they all want you to toss them up there. He was a good sport about it though and just kept tossing them up there. All in all, it was a totally amazing experience and definately worth the bruises and shin splints :D

random ramblings from the crazy chick

So, I've totally been shirking my blogging duties lately, but I have a really good excuse....uhm, well a passable excuse at least :D

I've been juggling work and three different church callings for awhile now, and it's sorta been taking it out of me, but the good news is that I've got a decent summer break coming up. :) So for now I'll just take a second and throw out some random sound bites about my life.

~I've been working with the Special Needs Mutual as the young womens instructor since February or so, and it's been one of the coolest and most fulfilling jobs I've ever had. The kids that I work with are incredibly awesome, and I've come to appreciate them as my true celestial friends. We just put on our yearly play on May 15th, and I've never been so proud as when I was watching my kids strut their stuff onstage. The 40's never did look so fantastic! :D Our mutual takes a break between June and August and while I'm looking forward to a little free time, I'm gonna miss my kids like crazy.

~Girls camp is still coming up waaaaayyyy too fast. It seems like just yesterday they called me and all of a sudden we're leaving for camp in two weeks!! It's been fun getting stuff ready and getting the girls excited to go, but it's also been some tiring work. It's awesome though, how when I feel like I'm never gonna get everything done that I have to get done, all of a sudden something will come up and everything will fall into place. The power of prayer is truly wonderful.

~The kitties are still good, they're just doing the same old same old. Life is always exciting for a cat you know.

~Work is good. We've been crazy busy quite often lately, which is a really great thing in this economy. We're losing one of our best workers at the beginning of june, but she's being replaced by a pretty awesome chick, so it looks like things are gonna work out.

~I totally scored some decent seats to the Def Leppard/Poison/Cheap Trick show coming up in August, so I've got something to look forward too :D :D :D

And with that high note, I believe I'll wrap up these random ramblings and go take a nap.
Later!