Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about this here blog :) I have just been super busy. Lets see, last post...AUGUST! Insane, I know, seems like I just wrote that whole novel about summer being over and what not and here it is, the end of October!
Since my last update, I've done so much it's not even funny. School started, which by the way is going GREAT. Almost time for first semester midterms! :/ In the beginning of September, we made our way over to the Allentown Fair, 20 minutes away and do you believe I've never been there before this year? Anyway, AWESOME fair, Brad Paisley just happened to be there that night. No, I didn't get to see him, but I did get some souvenirs like pictures of the BRAD PAISLEYS TRAILERS :) Yeah I'm the only person that is probably fascinated by that kind of stuff.
September seemed to fly by, literally. I mean, it went slow, but fast, you know what I mean?
Next stop, October 1st, Bloomsburg, PA. This was really one of the most AMAZING nights of my life. Most of you hopefully know by now that I have an obsession with the band, Sugarland. Obsession meaning I have every single CD, a signed poster, a t-shirt, a keychain, background on computer is Sugarland, Twitter background also, and the other night, I got an email saying I won the Fan Club contest and I just got a signed autographed cover of "Gold and Green". :)
Anyway, October 1st was Sugarland's show at the Bloomsburg Fair, which I must add, 110% bigger, and more awesome than the Allentown Fair. Okay, back on task here. SUGARLAND CONCERT. We walked into the grandstands
around 7ish, went over to the merch stand, poster, keychain, t-shirt, and by the time that was done, up to our seats we go!Luckily, there was no opening act, so right around 7:30, Jenn and Kristian came out and their first song was "Love". Which....I absolutely LOVE
that song! The energy in it is just....wow. "Settlin" was after that. Then Jenn read the posters throughout the audience, which some of the things that come out of her mouth, are pretty freaking funny! Ha! The rest of the order went, "It Happens", "Baby Girl", "Want To", "Nightswimming/Joey", "Already Gone", and "Genevieve". Right after "Genevieve" they did their little guitar giveaway. A little girl got it, her face was just too cute though when Kristian handed it to her! Then came "All I Want To Do", "Everyday America", "Stay" (yes I did cry :)), "Who Says' You Can't Go Home", in the middle of that Jenn did the band introductions, then lastly came "Something More". For their encore came "So Long", which is a new song and I can't wait til it comes out :) and "Walking On Sunshine".
The whole show lasted til 9, which was fine for me, but some people felt the need to complain....ppsshh... :/ Then came the fun of trying to exit the fairgrounds.....
For one thing, Miss stupid here was wearing sandals, yes sandals, a short sleeved shirt, and a sweater, yeah, might have passed down here in Jersey, northern Pennsylvania, not so much. I will say this though, I was FINE during the
concert, ABSOLUTELY FINE! Maybe because I was at major freak out level or just because of all the people there (body heat), or BOTH! But as soon as we walked out of the grandstands, I began to feel the wind chill alright.
I remember walking out, holding my big stuffed dog, and trying to tweet from my phone to Sugarland saying how AMAZING the concert was; not the easiest thing to do when your holding a giant stuffed dog and your fingers are freezing. We decided to check out a few more things before we decided to hit the road, like some of the barns and such. Realistically we just wanted to get back to the car, we were both freezing. So after a few visits to a few of the barns (and of course to see the reindeer there too), we decided to head out towards the parking lot and try to find the car. Car wasn't too hard to find, my mom remembered what section it was in luckily. After all the excitement, I pretty much blacked out of reality.
Got into the car, I put on my"festive socks" that I brought along with me because I kinda had a feeling that after wearing sandals, my feet were gonna be cold. :) Okay, all fine and good, we pulled out of our row and onto the one street to the way out.
Well, we ended up behind one of the shuttles (which was just a tracker pulling a trailer with some seats). Lets just call the shuttle driver Bob, because Bob is going to be mentioned a lot. Well, traffic decided to stop moving, and from where we were, we couldn't see if the cars were pulling out in the row in front of where we were parked or not. So Bob decides to turn tracker off, and get out. Okay, that's all fine and good. After another half hour of sitting behind Bob's tracker, we saw that the row of traffic I was talking about, was in fact moving, along with the cars in front of Bob's tracker. And where are we, RIGHT BEHIND BOB!!! So while Bob is walking around in circles on his cell phone, my mom is in FREAK OUT MODE. Okay, another 10 minutes go by, Bob still hasn't moved tracker. Mom decides, "hey, maybe I can squeeze this little Hyundai between the tracker and this new VW SUV" Don't worry, no stupids pulled here. We squeezed through and got ahead of Bob's tracker :)
Traffic sadly is still stopped. 10:30 now. Bob decides to come and get back in his tracker. Mom decides to pull the "Oh now you ain't" move and keep inching up until he can't pull ahead of us. Well now that we are ahead of him, the traffic finally started moving at a somewhat good rate. We got up to where the "Welcome to the Bloomsburg Fair" sign is, and it hit us. "How the hell do we get back to 80?" Since mother here decided to follow the directions in that they have "blinking" on the highway, I felt no need to help because I figured she knew where she was going (not really but whatever) :/ *Note to self*: Lightstreet exit next year, not Buckhorn, Lightstreet.
Oh, and the picture here, I took it on my phone as soon as we got into the car, it's of the stuffed dog I've been talking about. Lets just say before the Sugarland concert, I decided to pass the time by playing a few games. I got even with that basketball game....FINALLY! :)
Annyyywaaayyyy, we pulled out to where the Po-Po were directing traffic, and there was the 80 sign there. Soooo, the dark 2 mile journey back up 42, onto 80 east. By this time, it's 10:40, and yeah, it hits me...I'm tired. :) And we still have another 2+ hour drive home. :)
So we stopped in a tiny little town just a few miles outside of Bloomsburg for a Mickey D's soda. Until we got back to the PA/NJ border, I pretty much just relived the night. Attempted to watch the videos I took on my camera, but the issues with the batteries...eehh, yeah, that was a fail. Talked to my friend via twitter for about a half hour, then pretty much stared at the mile markers and exit signs. 277, 282, 290, Oh Penna TurnPike finally!, 298, 301, Old exit 50, route 611, Delaware Water Gap, YES, finally, the bridge into NJ. So we go through this little town called Columbia, mom almost gets lost, but we got back onto Route 46 okay. Now here's the good story, the Belvidere Po-Po story. :)
Now all the locals know that Belvidere is Po-Po central. You go at 26 mph and you got yourself a ticket. Well, it's 12:45, and we're driving through Belvidere, and we're the only car on the road. Well there was us, and a cop. So we come up to the only stoplight in the town, we're going the speed limit, but, the light happens to turn yellow right before we go through it. We were going too fast to stop, but too slow to keep going. So it was just that moment where you had to decide, and we decided to go through it. Well, Mr. Officer that was sitting at the corner, decides to pull us over. Okay, you know the drill, cop comes up with the flashlight, "license and registration ma'am." He asks where we're coming from, and just lets us go, considering he saw me and assumed that I had school the next day.
Yeahh, so the next 15 minutes or so back down to P'burg were of laughs and jokes...considering that the light technically wasn't red yet. :) Well, 2:30 was when I got to bed that night/morning, and when I got up at 6:20, yeah that didn't go so well. All I
remember was my mom waking me up, me getting out of bed and falling on the floor about 2 or 3 times, walking down the hallway and mom saying "How do you feel?" with my reply "LIKE CRAP!" She told me to go back to bed, thus I slept til about 9:45 :)
Well, I know this blog was really supposed to be just "checking in", but I'm still not done! At least you know it's more than halfway over :) I tend to ramble on about Sugarland a lot.
Next couple of weeks flew by. I mean, it's almost Halloween already! But something AMAZING happened a week or so ago (I'm not bragging here, just stating my excitement :)) On the Sugarland Fan Club, there was a trivia contest going on that Shani (media/marketing for Sugarland) had announced on Twitter. So I log onto the Fan Club, and there was the contest posted, and I saw nothing besides what Shani had posted, on Twitter. So I quickly opened up a new tab and went to my mail. The question was "How many #1 singles has Sugarland had?" Well, I'm not that schmart, so of course I had to go look it up. :) Okay, 7, got it, posted everything I had to into the email, clicked send, and that was it pretty much. I thought to myself "The chances that I win this are one in a million, doubt it's gonna happen."
A week later I get an email from All Access Today sayingg....I WON! Amazing <3>
Now, as I sit here and finish typing this up, I'm realizing it took me most of October to finish it (true story, I didn't write this all in one day, I'm not THAT insane :)) Still need to get Taylor Swift's new CD :) Also excited for "Play On" to come out next week :) Oh, and BTW...I'm being Jenn Nettles for Halloween :) You'll all hear about that eventually. :)
So thanks for reading my novel. My English teacher would be proud. :)
~~Shelby~~
