Things are about to change

Well, it's officially almost time for school. College classes start on Monday, and it's already Thursday! I have been busy the past few weeks trying to get everything squared away. I have all of my books, and I was even able to purchase some software that I needed at the campus bookstore, how great is that?! I am so thankful for financial aid, because without it I would not be able to attend classes at all. My sister is 17 and she just went off to college last week...and here I am 10 years older, following right in her footsteps! Of course I did attend college right after high school myself, I just didn't put as much effort into it as I should have and therefore didn't manage to learn much or get very far. My textbooks might as well be written in a totally different language, because the information looks so foreign to me! But I have decided that this is something that I really need to do, so I'm putting my all into it! The only other thing that I could ask for right now is a better work schedule, I only work part-time but I have to work 2 different shifts. It's not very fun to have to work during the day and at night without a class schedule, let alone when you add a more strict daily schedule on top of that. I am fairly confident that everything will work out just fine, as long as I can put my nerves behind me!

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I cannot wait to wake up the sleeping man that's in bed right now. I am so lucky to have him in my life!

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Dallas Zoo Trip

Tool Live In San Antonio 7-24-09

I did not shoot any of these videos, I found them all on YouTube. I did take videos with my phone but they didn't turn out nearly as well ;)
This show was beyond amazing and the light show was a spectacular surprise!

Texas Ski Ranch

Such A Tragedy

i keep listening to "Man In The Mirror" over and over and i can't help but cry each time. Michael Jackson was such a wonderful and caring man, i just wish he would have gotten the respect and love that he deserved while here on this earth. i can't really seem to wrap my mind around this entirely yet. i've always been a fan, i just can't believe it. the man who inspired me to make a difference has been taken from us in this world. why?

Forty-Six & 2 Piano Cover

amped

well, in the middle of my currently crashing world, i get to go see TOOL in San Antonio soon. i am so freakin' amped! it was difficult to get the tickets, and i thought after the dallas show sold out that this show would do the same. if it did, i was one of the few who got through at the right time. :)
it's going to be a long trip, but i am going to do everything in my power to make sure it's a good one. see, last time i went to see TOOL it was in Oklahoma City and although it was a fabulous show, my stupidity ruined the trip. now i'm no longer "with" the man i'm going to the show with but no doubt it will be a fabulous and memorable experience. and this time i'm definitely not going to get drunk until after the show...i can't believe i did that last time! not very long now...sweet anticipation!

waiting on the edge

i got laid off from a decent job in February, on Friday the 13th actually, and i took the first job that i was offered after that. it is a very easy job, but there are a lot of drawbacks. so i decided to look for something else, and got a job working for Chevrolet. i put in my 2 weeks notice and i have a couple more days before my last day. this morning i got a call from the person who was going to be my manager and she told me that they had to shut down the Chrysler dealership all together, and that the higher-ups had put a freeze on Chevrolet's hiring. so i had the worst nite of my life last nite, and then this morning i get that call. i called my current boss and asked if they had someone to fill my spot yet and he said yes. 3 different people have pretty much screwed me over and have just said "i'm sorry." i'd like to think that saying all of these people screwed me over is an exaggeration, but it's not. my current job doesn't document hours or taxes properly, my supposed-to-be new job told me to put my 2 weeks in and then tells me that they can't hire me anymore. and then someone else hurt me beyond belief. i just don't understand why this is happening to me all at once. i guess when it rains it really does pour. at least i have a roof over my head and a car to get me where i need to go. and i have an updated resume, that helps things.

TOOL Tickets

TOOL tickets went on sale today for the July 25th show at Nokia Theatre through ticketmaster. they went on sale at 10:00 and i was online 45 minutes before just in case they went on sale a few minutes early. at 9:57 ticketmaster allowed me to search for tickets and almost instantly came back with "no tickets available". i repeated this process of trying to get tickets for over an hour after they went on sale with no luck. now it's been confirmed that the show is officially sold out. fucking great.
so you obviously can't get tickets online, and if you call on the phone they put you on hold and you're not able to purchase tickets when they go on sale. if you go to a retail location and there are more than 2 people in line they hand out random numbers. so i could be the very first person in line but the very last person in line gets my tickets. that's bullshit. and if the shows wouldn't sell out so damn fast it wouldn't be such a big deal; but this is TOOL we're talking about and i would do everything in my power to make sure i'm #1 in line.
so i called ticketmaster later in the day, after the show was confirmed to be sold out. i asked them just how exactly one is supposed to purchase tickets and got no answers. and it's not like you can get your tickets anywhere else...ticketmaster is the only option.
i am still planning to try and get tickets to one of the other shows as soon as they are released, but who knows if i'll happen to get that lucky.
this is the second time that this has happened because of ticketmaster. the last time TOOL came to town they did a show in Dallas and it was sold out in 3 seconds. 3 seconds! that's crazy! and someone that i spoke to at ticketmaster said that all of the tickets are not released at the same time. she said that they are released in groups. what the hell? i just cannot believe this, how can they do this? and to the fucking scalpers, quit buying up the fan's well-deserved tickets!