Busy Bee Me!

I'm proud of myself.
I'm finally getting shit done! Whoo!

Take a look at these things I got done!
Pattern Danica(<--- Rav link)
Yarn Paton's Classic Wool Merino in colorway New Denim and Worn Denim
Needles Size 8 metal needles of doom.
Started 11/28
Finished 12/21

There's really no reason that this took me forever to get through. It went super fast, but I got sick of it about half-way through. You've had that happen, right? Meh.

Pattern Socktopus(<-- Rav link)
Yarn Lion Brand Wool-Ease Worsted in colorway 104 Blush Heather + Scraps
Needles Size 5 dpns
Started 12/17
Finished 12/25

Made this for my little cousin Makenna for Christmas. I loved it. Super easy. The legs took a bit to do, though.

AND:
Pattern Helmet Liner(<-- Rav link)
Yarn Lion Brand Wool-Ease Worsted in colorway 152 Oxford Gray
Needles Size 6 dpns, size 8 circs, size 8 dpns
Started 12/13
Finished 12/28

This was a relatively quick knit. The ribbing took forever. Made it for a friend I work with to keep her face warm since she's constantly going in and out of the cold. Hope it helps her out a bit.

Not a whole lot else has been going on. Knitting group has been going really well. It's still mainly just a few of us, but I love everyone there, so it's all good. We've all gotten over any awkwardness now that we know each other better, and I'm having fun. Which is what I wanted. :]

Sunday I will be learning how to play Dungeons and Dragons. Hahaha! That's what I get for making friends with nerds all the time. I can't help it, though. I fit in so well! ;)

Hope everyone has a good holiday! I'll be cleaning and knitting. Whoo!

Bwahahaha!

I'm boring right now. I really don't have anything to talk aout. How lame!
I'm absorbed in knitting, but I haven't really made enough progress to really show for it. I'm almost done with the Danica scarf. Haha. Lame. I've been crazy about watching the Lifetime channel, too. I'm weird.

I think I'm off to knit/watch tv/clean for a bit. We may be going to see Twilight tonight. About damn time! Ugh. Hope everyone's enjoying their Saturday!

Christmas music is up! Lenka's All My Bells Are Ringing to be exact. ;) She's adorable. Listen!




1. Holiday Shopping in Stores or Online? Stores. Meh. I hate shopping online and avoid it whenever possible.

2. Holiday Parades or Football? I prefer movies. But every year it's a disagreement between the males and females over parades or football on the telly.

3. Holidays at Home or Visiting Others? We don't visit people, but I would love to be able to do that. To me it would make it that much better.

4. Holiday Parties or Family Gatherings? I can only pick one?!

Mmmmbopbopbop. Actual blog content!

I opted out for the silly version. O:

1. Said the night wind to the little lamb, gimme all your wool.
2. The first Noel, the angel did say, "Dude, have you seen a limo somewhere?".
3. You really don't want to pee in the air, Over the hills and everywhere.
4. It came upon the midnight clear, that I have no idea what that means.
5. Tell your boss to screw off and, Let your heart be light.
6. And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing while you ride the BART.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to resting now that I'm home from work, tomorrow my plans include cleaning and knitting and Sunday, I want to go to knitting group!

Bwahaha.

Ok. Pictures first.

Busted Knuckles:
Mittens:
Now details:
Busted knuckles. Just one of the joys of working in a box factory. It's a combination of tons of tiny cuts as well as a burn from my hand rubbing up against the boxes to begin with. Ew. It hurts. And makes knitting ouchy. But I don't care. I'm an addict. Suck it up. ;)

Mittens:
Pattern Basic Pattern for Children's Mittens(<--- Rav link)
Yarn Lion Brand Wool-ease Worsted Weight in colorway 234 Pines
Needles Size 8 metal needles of crappiness
Started 12/15
Finished 12/18

I made these for the charity tree that they have every year at the mall. I always try to make something to send along to the kids. I made the girl a pink fun fur scarf and made these gloves for the boy we picked. It's so much fun. I love doing that every year. Makes me feel really good.

That's it for now. I don't have anything interesting to talk about for now. I scarfed down one too many chicken nuggets and now my tummy's all wonky. Hope you all had a great week and are looking forward to your weekend!

"And life barrels on..."

"And life barrels on like a runaway train
Where the passengers change
They don't change anything
You get off, someone else can get on...
And all of these bastards have taken his place
He's forgotten but not yet gone..."

~ Ben Folds

Ya, he's amazing. Great lyrics on all his songs. Great inspiration.
That's all I have for now.
Tomorrow : Jacked-up knuckles and MITTENS. Whoo!

RIP, Fred. :(

May fishy heaven have plenty of WARM water for you. :(

I'm all sad panda because my parents killed him off by not wanting to turn on the heater.
So his water was 10 degrees when I woke up. And he was le dead.

I was putting in a broken heart, but stupid Blogger won't let me. So -insert broken heart emote here-.

I don't care what you think

Just as long as it's about me.
Harhar.

PP they work!
SWAP GOODNESS!

The overall package! Not included in the below pictures are the CD of the bonus songs from the soundtrack that I missed out on and a DVD with RPattz and spoiler goodies on it!
Vamp teeth gummies! Aren't they cute?
I got some crayonz and some metallic silly putty that made me think of a sparkly Edward. Haha!
The sexy bag. It's uber cute, isn't it? I love it. And I use it a lot. I needed a smaller bag to use, so it's perfect!
It's a poopy picture. But these are the stitch markers that she made for me. :] They're darling, jsyk.
COFFEE. And the M&M's in the colors for the swap. From M&M world. Jealous. And they're all already gone! Haha.
Yarn = 100% Merino Twist in the colorway Rumpelstiltskin. Love, no?
I'm too lazy to look at the tag right now since it's in the other room.
So I'll try to look it up for next time. Meh.




1. My Future ...looks dim but I'm hoping it will look better.

2. I Treasure...things for all the wrong reasons.

3. A Creature...should be given love no matter what.

4. The Picture...I painted of how I wanted life to be will never come true.


On a more serious note...
And feel totally free to skip over this. I just needed to get it out of my system.
I'm putting it in white so if you read it, you really wanted to. Haha.
So don't blame me for my emo. Kthnxbai.


I won't be the fuck-up that you have both convinced yourself that I am.
I will be the person that I want to be and I don't give a damn what you think.
I've done nothing but try to earn your love. And I've finally realized that I don't have to.
I shouldn't have to earn the love of those that raised me.
I will work as hard as I can to prove to myself - NOT YOU - that I can.
And to live a better life then you could have ever helped me have.
Just know that once you're done burning the bridge, there's no going back.
You won't be missed.
Just wait and see.





Acoustic Christmas next round!

Meh

1. Friends are usually overrated.

2. My health; it's deteriorating.

3. I'm ready for some time off of work again.

4. Night Magic is one of my favorite perfumes or aftershaves or smells.

5. The oldest ornament I have is my "babies first" one.

6. Take some coffee and caramel baleys, mix it all together and you have a splendid drink.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to knitting before work, tomorrow my plans include digging up some yarn for a trade and Sunday, I want to sleep, but will be going to a family dinner thing with Wolf!

Crappy picture, but I'm feeling too emo to care. Right now the thing measures to 44". Less than 20 more to go and I can block the sucker! My buddy will love this for sure!

I've been in a knitting lull lately. It goes away as soon as I start knitting. But it takes a lot for me to pick up the damn needles and get going. I think it's probably because I've gone from hardly knitting to knitting about 3 times a week minimum with the knitting group. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just more then I'm used to. But that's good because I'm being far more productive now! I mean look at that scarf! Were it not for the group, it would probably only be at 10" right now. Amazing, eh? And since my gift list grew a bit since I decided to love a bit on some coworkers, it's a really good thing that I'm in knitting group. Lawl. I'm lame.

I've come to the realization that I don't know what people's appeal to me is.
I'm really a horrible person.
But everyone says that I'm fun.
I'm a bitch. I have no trouble admitting that. I have no shame. I don't even have enough shame to care, really. I'm how I am. I can place that on a screwed up childhood, but isn't that what everyone does? And I'm too far gone to really care to change.
I just don't get it though. I'm really not a nice person. But everyone thinks I am. No matter what I do or what I say. And I don't like that.
Is it just that no one sees the real me? Or that they're just too off to notice?
Meh. I don't really care. I just don't get it...

Anywho, I just got done with a New Moon swap (haha, I'm a Twilighter for sure now) and I got the package that was absolutely amazing from my partner! I haven't switched the picture from my phone to my computer yet, but I'll do that in time for my next post. I promise. And maybe by then she'll have received her package and I can post up information on the bag I knitted for her. Yay!

Hope everyone has a good Friday! I'm off to ruin the rest of the night! :]

PeeEss
New song. Listen to it. HoneyHoney=farking amazing~ Saw them at the Acoustic Christmas. I'll post up deets on that asap, too.

Beyonce annoys the hell out of me.

~One Word To Start A Sentence Or Statement~
~Fill In The Blanks~

1. Going to the gym is something I need to do.

2. Working can be fun but it's super tiring.

3. Feeling helpless with bills and money issues is making me depressed.

4. Having knitting time helps me to relax. And I love socializing at knitting group.

Whoo! More random shit.

Wendi from the knitting group will be going with me to The Acoustic Christmas concert in town on Sunday. I won the tickets at the Hand Born event and I needed someone to go with, and she's fun and I figured she'd like to go! And she doesn't have to work on Sunday which made it that much easier! -waves- Hi Wendi! :)

I'm off now to get my swap package together so I can ship it out!
After my partner receives the package, I'll post pictures up here. Because I'm thrilled with how the purse came out! It's so Twilight-y. It makes me giggle! Lol.

Hope everyone enjoys the start of their weekend!

Knitting~ +random blog-filling banter

First, let's bring out the knitting.
Pattern = Danica
It's an xmas present for a friend if all goes well. We'll see. First time doing entrelac. SUPER EASY, people. Srsly. I'm quite a bit farther along then this now. But I felt bad for never posting about any knitting again. I made a purse, but it's for a swap and I don't want my partner to sneak a peak, so I'll be posting up those pictures after she gets her package. Whoo!

Now for the banter!

First up

1. Snow never shows up here.

2. I'm looking forward to knitting in the morning.

3. I have never is the best drinking game ever!

4. One of my favorite old tv shows is Are You Afraid of the Dark. There was a shitload of amazing ones when I grew up, though. Salute Your Shorts, Rocko's Modern Life...

5. I'm done with caring.

6. The most enjoyable thing around the holidays is curling up in blankets and drinking cocoa. And SWEATSHIRTS.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working, tomorrow my plans include shipping out my swap package and Sunday, I want to ditch out on church!




And now a stupid random survey that I stole from Cookie.

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Nope.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
With or without tears? Tears are hard for me now.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
I've been told I have doctor scratch. So not much.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Honey everything.

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Lawl.

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
Nope. I don't even want to be me right now. Haha!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Sarcasm is so below me.

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
I have everything but my wisdom teeth.

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
I want to, but heights = major pants shitting. Ew.

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
Cinnamon life. And those strawberry wheat things.

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
When I have shoes that tie, yea.

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
Not really.

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Cold Stone cake batter. Mmmmm. Anyone want to buy me some? ;)

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
Hair.

15. RED OR PINK?
Pffffffffffink.

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Everything?

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
No bills and having friends.

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO DO THIS?
No. Please don't.

19. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Invisible ones.

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
A hawt cocoa Hershey's kiss.

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
FAMILY GUY <3

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
The poop colored one.

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?
Clean clothes. And things baking.

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Wolf. Called on my lunch break.

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
The person I ganked it from is entertaining.

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Any as long as it's in person. Hate tv sports.

27. HAIR COLOR?
Natural : light brown. Dyed : brightish red on top, dark brown on bottom

28. EYE COLOR?
Hazel.

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Negative.

30. FAVORITE FOOD?
Jesus.

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Nothing scarier then a happy ending, guys.

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I think.

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Blue with moneys and snowmen.

34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Winter. Der.

35. HUGS OR KISSES?
Both.

36. FAVORITE DESSERT?
Like I can decide?

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
No one.

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Everyone.

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
None. Just knitting. Wtf.

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Laptop = no mouse pad.

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
Some stupid shit.

42. FAVORITE SOUND?
Hahahahaha!

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Who?

Haha, just kidding! Beatles.

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
D.C.

Or Mexico. Whichever one.

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
Maybe. We'll have to see.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

6x6 / Hand Born Swag <3

The rules:
--Go to your sixth picture folder and pick the sixth picture
--Pray you remember the details
--Tag five others

I mainly use photobucket, so off I go.

And I got this one!
It's Rocky. Snoozin it up. We thought it was too damn cute since he was laying his head on the pillow. He's ridiculous like that.

Now for my swag! :)
Pretty notecards with art on the front! I didn't grab the guy's business card, so I don't know if he has a webpage or not. Poopie. :(
I got these glorious journals from Recover Your Thoughts. The left one is mine and the one on the right is for Wolf. Whoo! I love them. They're made from old books and even have a few pages from the old books mixed with the blank journal pages. Makes me feel creative! :)
A Relax Pax! I snagged it up for my dad because of his bad back and because it's golf! And he'll love it because it's microwavable and freezable!I grabbed this from Charming Co. I grabbed it for Misty since Rocky tore up the one she has now. He loves to chew up the ones with the straps. And I bought this from the same stand:
Dog treat mix! You just add the water, honey and an apple and then bake them. And you got a cute little cookie cutter as well! My dogs will lurve it!
Not an Airplane. I had to buy this. The lead singer was playing and singing outside of one of the shops. And he was fun and had a really good voice. And it was only 5 bucks. So I had to get it!
And this is one of my favorite finds (the other faves were the journals, for sure!). It's a picture of birds decoupaged onto a glass bubble and placed on a leather cord. I lurve lurve lurve it! :) It's from Chebang! All their stuff was really cool!

Some other stands that I liked but didn't see anything to buy/didn't have enough was dittyPop,

OrySaChi, Rain's Embellishments (fooking amazing skull earrings!), MAMACOW (nothing in the shop right now...), Original Bliss (The recycled magazine earrings are friggin awesome!), and the AMAZING My Wood Rose! They take wood shavings and make them into roses and then airbrush the colors onto the shavings. So they have a ton of different colors. They were really nice and I loved the idea.

So that's pretty much everything! Haha. :) Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! I'm actually looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. This 5 day weekend has made me into a slob! Lol.
I'll try and share knitting updates asap!

Destash your homes! +book meme

Ok, I've been sucked in. I'm a packrat. We all know this.
So I'm going to try and do this. I'll be posting up a list of everything that I throw away/donate so I can keep track of my progress. I'd urge anyone else to do this that would be interested in doing so.

We went to the Hand Born event today. I'll post pictures of the swag I snagged up next time. Whoo!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. ((I'm marking these in red since Blogger lacks a u button))
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A.S. Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

So 13/100 read. Haha. That doesn't mean I don't read. I just don't normally read these books.
At least it's still better then 6!

Best f*cking quote ever!

Really. I love this quote.

God is either dead, or he despises us.

'Tis an excerpt from The Feast of Love.
Which frankly I thought was an amazing book.
Not usually the type of book that I can get all into.
But it drew me in because it shows the different faces of love.
Through many different people in many different situations. Get it?
Haha.

Anyways, we just finished watching the movie. Which wasn't nearly as stellar as the book.
But that was to be expected. :]

I'm insanely grateful that I wound up not being laid off along with the 30 people that they did let go at my work. It really sucked and made me sad to see my friends have to go, but there's not much I can do about it right now. And everyone knows I need the monies.
So yea. Very stressful day.

Now I'm off to rest up a bit for knitting group. Whoo~

Friday Fill-ins! :]
1. The last band I saw live was Noah and the Whale / Datarock / Matt Costa.
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is pretending to be a vegetarian.
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is not going to happen.
4. Thoughts of being happy again fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear nice clothes.
6. Bagpipes are amazing.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working, tomorrow my plans include going to Turlock to house sit and maybe watch football and Sunday, I want to sleep!

I Canz Be Hobo?! +Detour for WENDY!

Really. I think I'd like to bum around. Not work and just travel and do crafts and have a good time.
I think that would suit me.

Wendy from my knitting group apparently decided to snoop and read my blog and made a comment about me never sharing our super pictures from Detour! So I'm going to post those up now for her. Hahaha! :] 30 pictures coming your way!

PRE DETOUR

These were pictures taken the Friday before the Detour Festival.

ON THE CAR TRIP:
This was just on the way. I love pictures of the road. Don't ask why. Reminds me of Lord of the Rings.
"The road goes ever on and on..." :] /nerdiness

Grungy picture of me. Haha! We were still a little out of it and running on pure adrenaline from the excitement of the Festival.

Miss driver Jenn-a-benn!

The road-trip essentials for us. Music, GPS and cigs. And crotches. Haha.

I epically fail at taking pictures like this. We tried 15 times before I even got this one in. Ha!

I adore this picture. Don't ask why. Just accept the fact!

Heading into the horrid grapevine of doom!

I took a shitload of just random scenery along the grapevine. It looked mighty pretty, let me tell you!

ARRIVED AT LA:
Jenn was dorking around the hotel room while we were waiting to go steal Gmo!


We picked up Gmo and gave him the Wonder Woman art that Andrea had made for him. He looooved it! :]

We then went out for Japanese food which made Jose really jealous since he couldn't be there. It was super yum. Jenn and I got the bento box.

Cute, no? We then decided that since the night was young we should go to a bar. Then that quickly changed to going to a night club. So Gmo's friend recommended Circus Disco since I only had jeans and t's.

Behold the splendor of male gogo dancers! Haha. They were awesome. We drank and had good fun and got out on the floor and shook our asses. Couldn't have been better. We stole Gmo to our hotel and he stayed there with us until the next morning when we had the festival!

AT DETOUR

These are the worth-while pictures that we snagged up from the festival! Yay! :]

DRIVING THERE:
Jenn-a-benn!
Gmo!

RANDOM:
A pic that Gmo shot of Jenn and I having a smoke while checking out the Datarock CD I snagged after hearing them play. They are love.
And this was Jenn in front of the autograph/Virgin Records booth I believe.

NOAH AND THE WHALE:

They're fairly well-known for their song 5 Years Time. Which I found them when this was one of the 3 only songs that they had on their myspace page. I knew them back in the day. Haha. But my favorites are now Rocks and Daggers, Mary, and Do What You Do. They're amazing. You should check them out.
He was our favorite. :]
The hard-core lead singer.
Jenn and I got a shot with them at their autograph section where they narked on me for the spelling of my name, stating that Americans ruin everything. Haha. They're fun!

MATT COSTA/NAHEED:

He's frankly amazing. He writes songs that you can really understand and relate to. And he's just all-in-all a fun guy! I'd never heard of him before, but Jenn had introduced me to his music when I found out Noah and the Whale would be playing there and it was official that I would be going with her. He's frequently in the background on my blog. Haha!

He's been ending all of his performances with a gorgeous acoustic version of a song that no one knows because it's not on his cds yet. It's really beautiful though. It's called "Will I Lie In Your Arms" I think. There's youtube videos with it. Give it a listen!
"Gave up love and got venom back" le sigh~
Matt Costa and Naheed from LA Ink with some random guy and his box. :] They were so fun! Jenn gave Naheed her necklace that she'd made (the bird one) because she'd liked it. So they're all buddies now. And Matt bought everyone pizza because it was taking so long to get to signing for everyone because he was actually talking to everyone and not just signing. It was great.
Jenn with them.
Me with them.

So all-in-all it was a fucking amazing time. I wouldn't change anything about it.
And if you care to, Matt Costa, Noah and the Whale, and Datarock are all awesome, so check them out.
I believe we plan to go next year, even if we don't know anyone who's playing. It was just too damn fun!

So there you go Wendy! :] Hope you liked!