Aeroplane of the Conchs.

Oopsie Daisy!

I haven't blogged in two days! I went from blogging everyday to not blogging everyday... Oh well... 'tis okay... I can make up for it now...

On May 18th, 2009, I didn't really pick at my skin. No major damage was done.

On May 19th, 2009, a little nervous picking of my face, but more of the same -- No major damage was done.

May 18th was a good day:

Started off by eating breakfast at Wildflower Bread Company with my mom. We actually got a free $10 gift card because we were waiting for our food way too long. Did we really wait that long? My mom and I didn't even notice because we were having such a nice conversation and looking up fun facts on their WiFi via my iPod Touch. Haha. So we were floored beyond recognition when the food-runner guy brought us a gift card before we even got our food... It was a nice kind of 'floored' though... :)

I then went to work for 4 hours. Nice! Short day. I neither opened, nor closed... Muahahahaha! Then I proceeded to workout at my gym across the street to prevent any bloating and fatness later in the day (and to recover from last night's bit of ice cream). I really don't even know why I have ice cream sometimes, dairy makes me bloated. Grr.

Well, whatever. Anyway, I THEN went to get a haircut across town. Just a trim. Nothing major. I went to a beauty school because it is so much cheaper. Hallelujah.

Later that night... it got really windy and stormy for a few minutes. Thunder, lightning, and the sound of rushing wind hitting your windows is so dang awesome!!

During the storm and slightly before, I decided to spend the night at my boyfriend's since we would be going to the Flight of the Conchords concert the next day and I had the day off anyway. He picked me up in the midst of all the darkness on my neighborhood street (the houses directly across the street from us lost their power in the storm, but we didn't... so funny!).

My boytoy and I then went to go do his Flickr 365 photo before heading to his place and because he was running out of time (it was 10pm or something). He asked to borrow my tripod because e wanted a night time, long exposure, freeway shot. While taking some test photos, someone who lives near the freeway called the police on us because we were taking photos on the overpass above the freeway. I guess the person who tattled thought we were dropping buckets of acid on freeway drivers to injure them or something. Plus, they thought we were taking photos of whatever we were dropping. If we were dropping anything at all... it was nothing but phat, harmless pics yo! I helped my boyfriend figure out the right aperture and shutter speed to get some cool shots of the freeway cars below. See how they turned out... (there are more in the photostream).

Now onto May 19th:

Day of the Flight of the Conchords show... I will post more later today... :)

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Agh. I'm back.

I felt so motivated to post about the Flight of the Conchords concert/show in Phoenix, Arizona, but now I'm not feeling like it. Ha!

I shall simply bulletpoint about my day and the concert then.

• Woke up at my boyfriend's place
  
• Feeling bloated from whatever I ate the day/night before
• Hung out with my boyfriend... made fun of each other... etc.
• Still feeling bloated
• Went to eat at the mall with the boy
• Had a 'veggie-max' sub from Subway and green tea from Starbuck's
• My boyfriend had something from Hotdog on a Stick... I was tempted to get a veggie dog on a stick, but resisted... :)
• Still feeling bloated... :(
• Got an EXTRA hot chai from Starbuck's on an already sizzling hot day to remedy the bloat... it helped a little bit
• Took a shower, got ready for the concert, etc.
• Boyfriend's cousins came over... they're going to the show too!
• Eventually got to show one hour before doors opened
• One of those bike-carriage people took us to the nearest bathroom outside of the unopened venue (one of my boyfriend's cousins is rather large... that lady was strong to bike all of us)
• Then at the next corner the lady told us to get off the bike-carriage thing because there were police nearby and she overloaded the carriage...
• My boyfriend's cousin used the bathroom then decided we should eat a snack at Tom's Tavern. We got a bunch of fried veggies, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, and chicken wings (the chicken wings I did not partake in).
• I had been feeling slightly less bloated, but then that fried food made me feel bloated again...
  
• I felt huge... :(
• The concert was cool. Unsurprisingly, many funny things went down.
  
• Here's an article about a few of the show hijinks: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/view/13242173
• We met comedian Arj Barker after the show...
• We all took photos with him...
• Mine and my boyfriend's photos didn't save, but his cousin's photos did get saved...
  
• ...Weird.
  
• My boyfriend was all JAZZED about meeting the Flight of the Conchords after the show...
• We went and waited with 30 fans by the barricades near the tour buses...
• We overheard on the the security guards walkie-talkie's that the Conchords had left through another door...
  
• Security told us they wouldn't be coming out...
• My boyfriend and others were still determined that they were bluffing and continued to wait for them...
  
• We saw a Papa John's pizza delivery guy deliver pizza to a tour bus...
• One of the two tour buses soon fled the scene...
• Arj walked out and stood where the tour bus that fled had been parked...
• Security guard walks over to Arj and is like "Arj... your bus left... you should escape the way the Conchords escaped..." (that's what I'm assuming he said :)
  
• Arj looks all confused... then waves at the fans... and heads back inside the venue...
• A poor man in a wheel cheer kept barking at the crowd of waiting fans... he kept saying how he wanted to meet the 'movie stars'... he was energetic... he reminded me of Gary Coleman... I don't think he even needed a wheel chair... he kept standing up out of it... he told me he thought he had seen me on tv... Funny... I have been on tv before... but he wouldn't have seen it... it was back in 8th grade...
  
• Sigh
• Another poor guy who was deaf told my boyfriend's cousin if he gave him money he would pay him back via snail mail...
• The deaf poor guy got money from my boyfriend's cousin then walked away quickly...
  
• Deaf poor guy never did ask for my boyfriend's cousin's mailing address...
• We all laughed...
  
• Umm...
• Blah blah blah
• After an hour of waiting, and lots of random women photos via my boyfriend's women-fanatic cousin and his camera... we headed back to my boyfriend's place.
  

Eek. That's a lot of bulletpoints. I always end up lying when I say I'm not gonna post much. Woe is me. :/

Anywho...

I guess the Conchords never showed up at all. We had many theories about that tour bus that had fled the scene (more like slowly left, not fled as in speedracer). It probably went and picked them up somewhere else. Whatever. I didn't care. I wasn't heartbroken. I could tell my boyfriend was a bit though... he was quiet on the way home and looked to be in a mopey, dream-like state. Poor guy. I didn't make him drive me home once we got to his place... I bit the bullet and spent the night again. :)