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Seriously. Inforoo has some of the best people in the world. I wasn't expecting the love I got back from you guys when I posted in the Grrrr thread. Thank you all so much. Finding this site has been one of the best things to happen in my life. So my yay for today is for my friends for being the best. I try not to complain and tend to hold things in a lot but it's good to know there are people that'll hear me whine when I need to. I love you all. <3
Also, yay for me getting my health back in order. Not sure if you guys know but when I moved to AZ a few years back I lost 85 lbs. When I moved back to Mississippi however, the weight came flooding back. From a mixture of me feeling like a failure for moving back (although I had a good reason), my mom's cooking, and me being obsessive that I wasn't good enough anyway so why not let myself go. It's been about a year and a half now and I feel the best I've felt in a long time. I'm a pretty big health nut when I want to be so yay for me setting goals and keeping them. Baby steps.
I'm determined to be in the best shape of my life before I hit.....ugh.....that age that's approaching.....it starts with a 3...but I'm not going to talk about it now.
This time I'm more focused on being healthy instead of having the perfect body. It's funny looking back...I'd gone from a size 45 to 38 and I was still depressed about how I wasn't losing it all fast enough. Come on old Token, get it together! Oh well, you live and you learn right? I should really post this in the get fit thread.....
Thank you guys for being my friends, on and off the forum. I can't wait to hug every single one of you again (and some for the first time).
Seriously. Inforoo has some of the best people in the world. I wasn't expecting the love I got back from you guys when I posted in the Grrrr thread. Thank you all so much. Finding this site has been one of the best things to happen in my life. So my yay for today is for my friends for being the best. I try not to complain and tend to hold things in a lot but it's good to know there are people that'll hear me whine when I need to. I love you all. <3
Also, yay for me getting my health back in order. Not sure if you guys know but when I moved to AZ a few years back I lost 85 lbs. When I moved back to Mississippi however, the weight came flooding back. From a mixture of me feeling like a failure for moving back (although I had a good reason), my mom's cooking, and me being obsessive that I wasn't good enough anyway so why not let myself go. It's been about a year and a half now and I feel the best I've felt in a long time. I'm a pretty big health nut when I want to be so yay for me setting goals and keeping them. Baby steps.
I'm determined to be in the best shape of my life before I hit.....ugh.....that age that's approaching.....it starts with a 3...but I'm not going to talk about it now.
This time I'm more focused on being healthy instead of having the perfect body. It's funny looking back...I'd gone from a size 45 to 38 and I was still depressed about how I wasn't losing it all fast enough. Come on old Token, get it together! Oh well, you live and you learn right? I should really post this in the get fit thread.....
Thank you guys for being my friends, on and off the forum. I can't wait to hug every single one of you again (and some for the first time).
Aww we love you Token You will get big hugs from me when I see you. You should also post in the fitness thread. There are many of us just supporting each other and it always helps to share with those goals, achievements and failures. I have more failures lately, but I'm working on it!
This should probably be in some sort of Groop camping thread but its SUPER YAY for me!! Starting yesterday I convinced everyone in my group to do Groop camping, found a group (that seems WONDERFUL and fun out of Chicago), and have officially joined a Groop needing more members! YAYYYYYYYY!! First year doing Groop camping and I couldn't be more excited to not have to go through the yearly anxiety of arrival time vs camping spot this year!! WORTH THE $35 ALONE!! This might make this years 13hr roadtrip down the best one EVER!
Got tickets and camping for Brand New & Modest Mouse at Ommegang! That shit sold out in under a half hour.
Just saw this post from Ommegang on FB: "Everyone, the Modest Mouse/Brand New show on May 24 sold out in 10 minutes this morning."
Nimble fingers!
Wow. That's crazy. I was talking about how fast Brand New's previous tour sold out with my boyfriend's roommate this morning and he just didn't believe me. Refused to believe that this one would sell out before the day was over. Hope he got his tickets. 'Cause I already sold my 2 extra's to my friends.
I've literally giggled out loud in excitement several times since yesterday. I just read someone's review of their VIP Tool experience and it pushed my excitement level into giggling territory
In the Q&A session with Adam Jones, he gives a mini class over how Tool writes music, his guitar playing philosophies, time signatures, etc. He then plays Jambi live, right there in front of you before proceeding to pass around his guitar while fielding just about any question from the audience. Then it's picture and autograph time. Going to bring in my poster from their 2006 show in The Woodlands with Isis, it was my first Tool show. It's been framed and hanging over my couch for years now, adding Adam's signature will be a welcome addition.
You also get to check out some of the original props/models used in Tool's music videos.
Trying to think of a good to question to ask him. At this point, leaning towards, "Have you considered crowdsourcing funding for a new live blu-ray?" Supposedly the reason the shows they filmed in 2002 were never released is because the band wasn't happy with how they turned out. I believe they've stated they haven't done another one is due to funding issues/disagreements with record/production companies. If Tool is finally done with their contract after this album, hopefully they can try and release a live blu-ray independently.
I'm very excited that my boyfriend is moving out of communist china and into an apartment that let's you control the heat. Also, he'll have a much more awesome roommate (cactus friend) and there's room for me to have a little space of my own.
OMG we'll be upgrading to a Queen size bed too. This move has so many positives. But the bed thing is honestly the best one.
So after going to Forecastle 2012, on top of Roo, Mountain Jam, and a bunch of other shit the year before - I was flat broke. I had planned on going to Nashville for a few days, hanging around until MikeD's pool party. Instead, I went straight home from Louisville the Tuesday after Forecastle. I had very little money and very little savings left, and it was almost to the point I couldn't pay my bills anymore. I had spent over $10k going to festivals between Roo 2010 and Newport 2012. I ended up selling my tickets to Moog 2012, because going to Asheville would have meant not being able to pay my bills. My miserable bitch of a mother also told me if I went to Asheville, my stuff would have been packed up once I returned to Connecticut.
Thanks to Heather's help, I've turned my life around. And it's unfortunate that I fought her so much at the beginning (late 2012, early 2013), because in the long run this is really doing a lot for my own benefit. I had just become so used to doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted to do it, it was bankrupting me and I was about to lose everything at the same time.
In the last year and change, I've been paying off my car loan at a really fast pace, rather than just throwing the minimum or just above it. I should have it fully paid off in the summer, I hope - at least six months if not a year ahead of schedule. I've had enough money to go back to school, and pay it off without needing to take out loans. I still plan on going to festivals, shows, and traveling. And I have several thousand dollars in savings, working to buy my own house with Heather sometime in late 2015. (Both of us really need to get the hell out of our current living situations, so this whole saving up thing is for the best anyway.)
You might be wondering? What am I doing, to be still going out and have some fun while being able to pay my bills and hold on to thousands in addition. Heather taught me to become more selective, and to get the better value out of things. I can still do the things I like to do, but just be smart about what I'm doing.
Festivals - I've been sticking to festivals in the Northeast. Going to places where I don't need to fly to the place, and take little to no time off from work. My main festival has become Newport Folk, which is close enough to home that I don't need a hotel room. Freefest, near DC, is pretty cheap to pull off as well. Sure it takes like 7 hours one way to drive there, but I can go to a fest and not pay an arm and a leg to do it. Festivals where they offer day tickets, I've now considered just going for my favorite day instead of the whole weekend.
Shows - For a while, I had been going to several a month. Like one every other weekend, if not every weekend. There was a few times where I had done three shows in a weekend. Now I'm down to one or two a month. If I'm on the fence about it, I don't do it. If it's during the week, I don't do it (with a few exceptions, like Arcade Fire.) There's some big names with pricey tickets, I won't do it. If I've seen them fairly recently, I won't back back again to see them so soon.
Other stuff - I've cut back on the number of times I've gone out to eat and the number of times I've gone out to the bar to get some beers. When I am out, I've done stuff like skip appetizers or have one less beer or say no to desserts. I've cut back on the amount of albums I bought or downloaded. Learned how to become a bit more thrifty in doing what I do. I've let some expensive subscriptions to things run out, not renew it. Little things add up.
I can say for the first time in a few years, I could actually afford to go to Roo this year. I could go to Forecastle this year. They look really good. But, I will be staying home. I bought tickets for Mtn. Oasis this year, and will most likely be selling them. For once in my life, I actually have real life adult goals I'm working towards - and succeeding at it. Sometime in the next year or two, I'll have a place of my own I can call home - one in a brutally expensive part of the country. I'll have a better (paying and enjoyable) job, rather than being a wage slave and a grunt in a warehouse which more resembles a prison. And yet, I won't have quit anything I really enjoy doing. Hell, I plan on going to Forecastle for my 30th birthday next summer. And I can easily afford that then.
And I have a pretty amazing girlfriend who is helping me out.
I can say for the first time in a few years, I could actually afford to go to Roo this year. I could go to Forecastle this year. They look really good. But, I will be staying home. I bought tickets for Mtn. Oasis this year, and will most likely be selling them. For once in my life, I actually have real life adult goals I'm working towards - and succeeding at it. Sometime in the next year or two, I'll have a place of my own I can call home - one in a brutally expensive part of the country. I'll have a better (paying and enjoyable) job, rather than being a wage slave and a grunt in a warehouse which more resembles a prison. And yet, I won't have quit anything I really enjoy doing. Hell, I plan on going to Forecastle for my 30th birthday next summer. And I can easily afford that then.
And I have a pretty amazing girlfriend who is helping me out.
How much you want for them? Nevermind all that other meaningful and practical stuff you said I'll take your MOEMS tix off of ya.
(seriously, though, good for you, LD. Being responsible and having fun actually go well together. I've learned this myself too, sometimes the hard way)
1) I'm going to Forecastle. Ticket purchased, Hotel booked. BOOM!
2) I got the externship for Bonnaroo this year! WOOOOOO!!!!
3) My dryer died on me a while ago, I've been hang drying since beginning of the year. But I scored a fully functioning dryer for free from my neighbor who upgraded! FREAKING SWEEEEET!!!
It's been a good week. Things are finally turning around for Miss Monica!
Emoney serves more of a purpose than any of you, especially Nate, whose incessant, garbled ramblings are so mindless and pointless that I get depressed just seeing them.
Post by NothingButFlowers on Mar 10, 2014 17:44:45 GMT -5
I just got a non-promotion. It's more work for the same money, which sounds bad, but the added work is stuff I like doing, and it shows that my boss thinks I can handle it, so I'm calling it a yay.
Just found out that I can get academic credit for the Roo externship this summer.... 9 credit hours actually. Which means I'm graduating at the end of this year!!!!
Yup. That's the equivalent of 3 classes. 3 classes in 10 days. How crazy is that!?! And for being at Bonnaroo! Someone, somewhere is really coming through for me lately!
WOOHOO! Initial Vivid Live lineup out today, featuring:
The Pixies (4 shows) Giorgio Moroder DJ set + Australian Chamber Orchestra "electro-orchestral tribute" The Presets feat. Australian Chamber Orchestra
All at the Opera House AFAIK. And people wonder why this is quickly becoming my new favourite festival. Full lineup announced on... oh hey, my birthday. Happy birthday to me!