another late night entry

its almost 4am...awesome. there was a pretty bad thunderstorm this morning that woke me up somewhere in the 7 o'clock hour and periodically woke me up until about 9:30am. today was the day me, anna, kate, susie & clare went to woodridge, IL to meet tom felton aka draco malfoy from harry potter (duh). oh my fricking god, the place was packed like a bitch. we were in the very back of the line in the very back of the building when we got there at 2:45. there had to be a good 1,000+ people there....it was insane. it was quite humid but thankfully it wasnt 95 degrees out like it has been for the past week. we waited there and some guy was walking around that worked for the theater saying that there was a 99.9% chance we werent going to be able to meet tom felton....thanks for being super optimistic dude....so we were all getting kinda of upset, but we stayed, because no one in their right mind is stupid enough to get out of that line and leave. and to all the people that i did see get out of line and leave, i have one thing to say to you........HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! we waited for 3 hours just to get into the doors, 5 minutes to get from the doors to the cashier, then 30 or so minutes to get from the cashier to tom <3 (once we were in the doors, we were gaurenteed to meet him!!) it was completely worth the wait. there were 2 more totally awesome things: #1. the 2 girls behind us were very nice. we were talking and whatnot and they ordered jimmy johns and had it delivered curbside to where we were standing in line!, super funny. #2. we found elizabeth mueller & kara hallgren! we let them come in line with us and they brought with them a guy from the Czech Republic whos visiting the USA (tayler met him when she was on a mission trip) he was really nice & funny & no one could really understand him. and apparently when i sprayed myself with anna's perfume he was standing behind me and leaned in and smelled me after i handed the spray bottle back lol...such a cutie. it was so great seeing them though & im so glad we did see them because they got to meet tom & they were so greatful :) we got through the doors, tried as hard as we could to get a glimpse of tom (all i could really see was his hair and the top of his forehead). we got to the cashier & paid for if we were getting an autograph or a picture ($25 each....fucking rip off) then we held our cameras up above our heads to get pictures of tom while he was signing and taking pictures with the other fans. we got closer and closer and our pictures got progressively better and finally we were like 5 feet from him!!! oh my god, he is so gorgeous! <3 his eyes are ice blue & i could seriously melt in them :D the foreign kid (who i called fez) went first, then me, anna, elizabeth, susie, clare then kate. i had been telling anna that when i got up by him, i would smell him to see if he smelled good and i was so engrossed in his beauty (sehr lame) that i completely forgot! but both nora & anna said he smelled good, so ill take their word for it :) i got up there after fez & tom said "hello lovely, how are you?" and all i could manage to say was "Hello" (wow, im a fucking moron) then, this might be my favorite part (aside from being called lovely by tom felton in his sexy british accent), we put our hands on each others backs and im pretty sure our hips touched as we got our picture taken together hahaha, loved it. after the picture he said, "thank you, sweetheart" and smiled *aweeee* then i went back and got my picture. in short, it was super fun & my hip touched tom felton's hip.....'twas a good day, indeed. after everyone got the picture print outs, we said bye to elizabeth, kara & fez (who were going to see HP7 in 3D) then the 5 of us went out to get food. we got back to the theater about 5 minutes before they started seating our theater. for the 3rd time in 10 days, i saw HP7:DH2 & cried....again. still super sad that its all over. ive said this many times, but im going to say it again, when lucius & narcissa are trying to call draco over to join them & voldemort near the end of the movie, ive never wanted to tackle the theater screen so bad in my life when they show draco.....omg, that blonde hair, all wavy & dirty.....so sexy. i literally cannot get enough of that 3 second clip <3 so that was my day. it was so much fun and im so glad my sister told us about tom being at the theater. it was totally worth the drive & totally worth spending $25 to take a picture with him. my contacts are starting to get fuzzy so im going to bed. gaze upon my awsomeness & my future husband <3

HP7DH2 & Amanda

I wound up not having to work yesterday so I got an invite to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 again with my friend Amanda, who I havent seen in almost a year. We got in for free which was pretty cool because her friend is really high up on the chain of command at the local theater. It was nice that we got in for free also because we saw the movie in 3D on the Ultrascreen & that costs about $15, so yeah, free is good :)  Once again, I cried. SO depressing that its all over, but I wont get into that again. If you want to read my rant, look at my previous post. Oh by the way, Draco's wavy hair at the end is still spectacularly sexy ;)  Speaking of spectacularly sexy, [this is way off topic but bear (bare?) with me], I walked outside yeasterday to start the car so I could drive my brother to school and I looked across the street and saw the very attractive, very tall hot church boy (as me and Anna like to call him) mowing the front grass with nothing but basketball shorts on. His dad is the pastor at a church near by and to my misfortune, the first and only thing I saw to myself when I see this wonderful sight is, "oh my Lord", hahaha oops. Anyway, that was way off topic. After the movie, we went back to my house and hung out there for a while. My aunt, uncle and two little cousins were over so I got to see them, which doesnt happen too often. Then me and Amanda went back out so we could pick up her bosses son from work in Countryside because the power went out. Then she dropped me back off at home. It was so great seeing her. I honestly dont remember the last time we hung out, and that is totally not cool. I hung out with the family a bit, ate some food, watched Who's Line Is It Anyway then went to bed early, and by early I mean around 1am lol. That was pretty much my day. Oh, and I found out what Sarah & Pat decided to name their son......Dominic Reid Hamilton, dear God thats a horrible name. They wanted something Gaelic, yet they chose something Italian? Way to go, dumbasses! Ok well, if I find it necessary to post anything else I will later. Right now Im going to watch MTV MARSunplgged online, since I missed it last night (BOOO!!!) Haha, ok then :)

saddest 2 days of my life

Thursday July 14, 2011: Saddest day of my life numero uno: Q101's final day on the air :'(

I was so depressed when I was listening to Q101 during Wednesday's Last Letter Game when Electra said, "we're trying to be nostalgic and not dwell on the fact that tomorrow is our last day as Q101 DJs." That really hit home for me. I was throughly saddened. Q101 is my favorite radio station and some doucher that used to work for/own part of the Tribune (he's part of the reason the Trib filed for bankruptcy) bought out Q101, 97.9 The Loop & some radio station in New York and he's turning them all into talk/news radio. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!?!?!? I honestly didnt know how to react. I've known for a few weeks that Q101 was going off, but the last air day was supposed to be August 1st not July 14th :/  Anyway, I spent all day Thursday listening to Q101. I woke up at 8:30am, listened to the rest of the Sherman & Tingle show, then listened to Electra & her final Last Letter Game -- she switched it up and did a LLG Artist Edition -- then i listened to Tim Virgin and some of Pogo. Unfortunately I missed the special Local.101 segment they aired but thats ok. Still, its really sad. The weird thing is that Sherman & Tingle said that Q101 was officially off the air starting on Friday the 15th at 10am and they didnt know what was going to on the station. But its Saturday and music is still playing like normal. The only thing thats different is that theres no DJs. Its just music & commercials; kind of like listening to satellite radio but on a FM station. Gosh, I really miss the DJs, especially Electra. She was honestly my favorite. I still follow Q101 & Electra on Twitter and I like Q101, Electra and Sherman & Tingle's Facebook pages so thats pretty much the only way I'll be able to keep up with those guys. Ughhhhh, so sad.

Friday July 15th, 2011: Saddest day of my life numero dos: the end of Harry Potter :'(

Well, I've been watching the Harry Potter movies since 2001 when The Sorcerer's Stone came out on VHS (haha, I dont even think DVDs were popular yet lol). My brother and I have all 7 books that we've gotten among the years from our aunts and uncles for Christmas. I've actually never read any of the books but I have yet to do so (of course I've seen all the movies so I know what happens). Anyway, I've been waiting so impatiently for the final movie to come out and yesterday was finally the day. Me and Anna were going to go see it at the midnight premiere but the tickets for seeing it in 2D sold out so we just decided to go see it opening day at 7pm. I bought a shirt from Hot Topic that says "BUTTERBEER: The Three Broomsticks" on it , bought Harry Potter glasses and drew Harry's scar on my forehead. Twas a fun time :)  We got to the theater an hour before the movie started and waited in line to go into the auditorium. We got in there and waited anxiously. The previews were kind of shitty except for the preview for the Dark Knight Rises, which looks totally fucking amazing, then the movie started. Anna started crying as soon as the Warner Brothers logo came up on the screen. I thought the beginning was a little slow at first, but then again I didnt feel like myself at the start of the movie, for some reason I was unusually bored and just wanted to go home, lol, it was really weird. The movie was absolutely amazing. There are some spoiler alerts coming up so if for some reason someone is actually reading this and you havent seen the movie yet....BEWARE! First of all, Ron and Hermionie finally kiss each other!! <3 And it wasnt just a peck on the cheek, it was a full on, romantic, "we've been waiting 10 years for this to happen" kiss :D That really made Anna happy, and I'm pretty sure she cried then too, but then again she cried through the whole movie hahaha, love her. I started bawling my eyes out when Fred, Remus & Tonks died (fuck that shit), I laughed and started crying out of joy when Mrs. Weasley killed Bellatrix after Bellatrix tried to kill Ginny....and what does Molly say to Bellatrix? "not my daughter, you BITCH!" FUCK YEAH MRS. WEASLEY!!!!!!! God, i love her :)  Hmmm, what else?....Uhhhh, damn, brain cramp. Oh, well if you havent already guessed, Draco was hot as fuck and I couldnt sit there thinking straight while he was on the screen ;)  Oh my frickin lanta, I was so sad when Snape died & when you find out that he really was on Harry's side the whole time!!! OMG, so heartbreaking when Harry was looking at Snape's memory in the pensieve and Snape walked into Harry's room right after Voldemort killed Lily and James :'(  He seriously loved her. Poor guy. Anyway, Neville Longbottom is honestly a new favorite character of  mine. He was so brave and he confessed his love for Luna <3  This movie was filled with so much last minute romance :)  Oh yeah and Lavender Brown died too :/  Which was pretty depressing & I think it was Hermionie that had the saddest facial expression. If you havent already figured out, Voldemort dies...duhhh, actually so does Harry, but I wont ruin too much (hahaha). The Malfoy family really hates being so tied up with Voldemort so they kinda just peace out after that lol. You dont really see much of them throughout the movie. I think you only see Draco like 3 or 4 times & Harry saves his life when Goyle set the room of requirement on fire...dumbass. So yeah, turns out the elder wand actually belongs to Harry!! Woah!, plot twist! Actually no, because if I read the books I would have known that haha. Draco disarmed Dumbledore in the 6th movie, but Snape killed him, then Voldemort took the wand from Dumbledore's grave & it wouldnt respond correctly to Voldemort's spells so he killed Snape because he knew that Snape killed Dumbledore which inturn would disarm Dumbledore; what Voldemort didnt know was that Draco disarmed him before Snape killed him and in part 1 of the 7th movie, Harry disarmed Draco (who disarmed Dumbledore) SOOOOO, the elder wand belongs to Harry because he disamred Draco who disarmed Dumbledore.....it all makes sense but they explain it in the movie. I'm sure my explaination is much more complicated than it needs to be haha. The other thing I really liked was that they put the epilouge at the end of the movie :)  19 years later: Harry & Ginny are married with a son named Albus Severus Potter, Ron & Hermionie are married with 2 kids I think (names unknown to movie-goers) Draco & Astoria (Greengrass) are married with a son (name unknown to movie-goers). By the way, Draco did not age very well hahaha. It was just really cute because it ended with Harry, Ron & Hermionie watching their kids leave on the Hogwarts Express <3 Oh my gosh, I'm literally getting choked up right now. I seriously cant believe its actually over. I cant believe there are no more Harry Potter movies. I really have nothing else in life to look forward to :/  I dont even think I want to see Breaking Dawn (thats a complete lie, but it makes me feel better to say that). Ughhhhhhhhh I fucking love those movies, I grew up with those movies & now, 10 years later, theyre over. The actors are all so grown up and beautiful and I'm so lucky I got to experience what future kids could only dream of <3 Ok so I'm pretty sure I'm going to end my rant on how my life is now over. To end on a good note, here are so lovely picture to gaze upon <3


Tom (Draco), Dan (Harry), Rupert (Ron) & Matt (Neville)


 Alan Rickman (Snape), Tom, Emma (Hermionie), Dan, Rupert & Matt


Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort), Dan, Emma, Rupert & Tom


AWWWW BABIES!!!! <3


ooooooh baby, puberty is a lovely thing <3


awww, when will there be a HP reunion? because I want to be at that party please :)

i remembered!

ok so as i said last night, i didnt realize that i forgot to mention jamboree so that post was not what i had intended on writing. anyway, what i wanted to post was about milwaukee's summerfest. that band i saw at jamboree, greek fire is so good that i started following them on twitter. im also friends with moon aka phil sneed on facebook. so ive been listening to them nonstop since jamboree. i then accidently stumbled upon the summerfest lineup and greek fire was in there. so i talked to anna and she said she would go see them with me. we drove 2 hours in my truck that has no air conditioning on what was probably the hottest day of the summer just to see a one hour performance then we drove back home.....that was the plan & it was totally worth it. so i bought the tickets the day they were playing which was saturday july 2, anna came over then it was off to wisconsin! we drove 2 hours, got a little lost when we were supposed to get off at the right exit, got there, parked, watched the previous performaer finish their set (which was horrible & scary) then we moved up to the second row to watch greek fire. it wasnt a pit, there were bleacher seat benches so at least we were able to sit down and wait for them to come on. they came out and no one was standing. then kinda one by one everyone was getting up. the energy these guys bring is insane! they really know how to connect with the crowd and make everyone feel like they are part of the show. johhny on drums, mark on bass, ryan on lead guitar & moon on vocals....all in all, an amazing & talented group of people. moon was walking around in the crowd and walking acrosee the benches, dancing with people, giving everyone high fives and really interacting with everyone. at one point, he was walking in front of the barracade giving everyone who had their hand out a high five so i hopped over the bench and stuck my hand out and got a high five from him hahaha, cleverness :) so they performed for an hour, and people really seemed to enjoy them. after their last song, which was "dreaming in deja vu" (which i happen to be listening to now) moon said that he would be over by the merchandise tent for about an hour & invited people to stop over and say hi, maybe get a picture & an autograph. so me and anna went over there. we waited for about 10 or 15 minutes and i got my summerfest ticket signed, talked to him a little about how much i loved them at jamboree & how when he was walking around the crowd, his microphone cord got wrapped around me and anna and how happy i was to drive up from chicago just to see them then anna took a picture of the 2 of us. in the end, it was totally worth the gas money to go there and back and it really was a fun time. i really hope to see them again in the future and mybe meet the rest of the band. theyre first cd is coming out on itunes next month, so im really excited about that. i really want to support these guys in every way i can because there are really doing so well for themselves thus far. i think after their set, more people walked away with a new band on their mind than they did when they first got there.


(via RKNPHOTO)


me & Moon after Greek Fire's performance :)

i lied

its 4:25am & i have to drive my brother to school at 12:30 which is on like 8 hours so ill post about summerfest tomorrow if i remember. bye bye for now.

what the hell?!

i just fucking realized that i never blogged after i went to jamboree!!!!! dammit, why am i so fucking slow?! ok, well jamboree was on saturday june 4 & today happens to be thursday july 7....a little late on this one lol. ok so jamboree was the shit. red jumpsuit apparatus was really good. surprisingly i wasnt completely bored & theyre new single "reap" is really good; already have it on my ipod. the next band up to perform was a band called greek fire....never heard of them. BUT i was pleasantly surprised & must say that aside from 30STM, i think they were my favorite set of the night :D they were so good!!!!! this is rare, but this is a band where i find every memeber attractive :) the lead singer (Phil "Moon" Sneed) and the lead guitarist (Ryan Phillips) are from story of the year (amazing) and they formed greek fire and i dont know, theyre just really good. i love everything about them. theyre songs are all really good, the energy they bring on stage is absolutely thrilling & lively, theyre performance is breath-taking & they really know how to have fun and interact with the crowd. i was blown away to say the least. actually, im listening to them right no won my ipod :) my favorite song by them as of right now is "break me down" yes, its absolutely amazing and i crank the car stereo when i turn it on. anyway, the next band up was anberlin & they were really great. so glad they played "feel good drag". next was AWOLNATION (or maybe AWOL came before anberlin? idk) anywho, yes, very good band. the only song i knew was "sail" but i really liked "soul wars". i also got my little sister into listening to them :) *success* after AWOLNATION was sum 41. never saw they live before but they were really good. lots of energy & responded really well to the crowd. the worst performance of the night goes to.......*drum roll*......ed kowalcik (sp?) from live. OH MY EFFING GAWDDDDDDDD me and anna wanted to fucking shoot ourselves!!!!!!!!! every damn song sounded the same and it felt like his set was never ending! :/ that would have been a good time for a bathroom break if we had had seats. oh well, we had to endure it. the first big headliner was pap roach. kate saw them when they opened for nickelsuck (aka nickelback) and said they were excellenc...and she was right :) mmmmm, jacoby shaddix <3 and the guitar player totally had a crush on me and anna ;) they really brought a lot of energy too. i was surprised that there was no moshing though. in all honesty, i thought that as soon as they came out everyone was going to push to the front and we would be squashed because we were in the very front against barracade, but we werent which was good :) papa roach was awesome and i really hope to see them live again some day. next main headliner was seether......fucking YAWN! gosh, next time guys, at least pack your enthusiasm when you hit the road. jeez. after every song the lead singer said :thank you" then walked off stage to get a drink of water. then they just walked off stage like nbd, good lord. long story short, the reason i went to jamboree was to see 30 seconds to mars. they were the main and final headliner. since this was one of their last shows in the US for quite some time (talking a break after this world tour) they were the big band that 3/4 of the crowd was there to see. THEY WERE AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i havent even gotten to the good part about their performance. anyway, lemme build up to it lol. so they came out to "escape" and then they played "NOTH" i dont remember the order but they also played "TIW", "ABL", "attack", "search&destroy", "CTTE", the chorus to "hurricane" on acoustic, and they closed it with "K+Q". so i got some super amazing pictures that might be a little too epic to put on this post, but maybe if youre good ill consider it ;)so i was practically 5 feet from jared leto and a few times i was about 5 feet from tomo. unfortunately i didnt get a chance to see shanimal because i was on tomo's side of the stage, its ok, i know he was there. haha. i saw him come out and watched him do the drum intro to "escapse, after that, i really couldnt see him. so they were just incredible and before they played "CTTE", jared called about 10 people up on stage to dance and jump around and whatnot. they i think after "CTTE" he did the chrous to "hurricane" on acoustic then it was time for "K+Q". as allMARS family members know, K+Q is your chance to get up on stage and sing/dance/jump/act a fuckin fool on stage with the guys. so jared is walking around pointing people out in the crowd to come up on stage for the song. he points out the guy standing next to me, the girl behind me and guy standing next to anna (dammit). they, because we Echelon are all fucking crazy, everyone deceided they needed to go up on stage and jared wasnt stopping anyone. the more the fucking merrier :) so people started hoisting themselves over other people and crowd surfing to the front and running up on stage hahaha. so i started jumping trying to throw myself over the barracde, but so many people were shoving and this was after jared told everyone to take 3 big steps forward lol so im obviously presed against the bar with no where to go. then i deceide to start screaming at the guard to get me out and i must have looked like i was in pain from the way he was looking at me hahaha, fucking natural born actor right here. the first guard kept shaking his head no like "no im not pulling you out" (thanks alot douche) so then i got another guard's attention and started pulling on the sleeve of his shirt to get his attention.....with a little convincing, a lot of screaming and most likely a painful look on my face, he pulled me over the bar (my ass crack was totally making an appearence) and i ran up on stage to jump and act like a crazy mofo with my all time favorite band in the world <3 :D yes, i was fucking on stage at my very first 30STM show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (even thought it really wasnt their show, but who fucking cares) i took a video of being up there and jared walking really close by me and of tomo standing 3 inches from me. again, i was shaken that i dont even think it crossed my mind to go over by shannon :/ its ok because when they were done i got a couple pictures of his drumset :) it was so exhilerating!!!!! i really cant even describe how an experience like that feels! <3 there was so much going through my brain. i honestly dont even remember if i was singing along to K+Q or not lol. anyway the last thing jared said was that he will never ever forget that night, dont worry, jay, neither will i :) luckily it wasnt hard to find anna sice she was right in the front. after i got some pictures, i found her and, no joke, started crying (dont worry, they were tears of joy) i was THAT happy :D i bought a MARS shirt and we walked out to where my mom was picking us up and when my mom asked what was wrong i started crying again because i still couldnt believe what had happened. im seriously so weird, but i love it. anyway, i cannot believe i forgot to mention jamboree! good fricking lord. well since i forgot to mention that concert, that made this post 10 fucking times longer than i wanted it to be. ill post a seperate one with what i really wanted to say hahaha. sicne you were so nice and read all the way until the end, ill post a picture that i took of jared leto standing right in front of me and anna on stage :) ENJOY! <3