The Quarter Life Chronicles

If you haven't noticed, I have been very busy lately.  Since last weekend up until today I have barely been home at all.  The only day this week that I came home straight from work and did not go back out was Thursday.  And I went to bed insanely early that day.

Right now I'm on a four day weekend from work.  Tomorrow I will be in NYC to attend a New Kids on the Block concert at Madison Square Garden.  Yesterday I spent the day (and night as I did not return home until about noon today) trolling around Poughkeepsie attending a Hanson concert and post partying it up at a friend's house.  I am now questioning my sanity and my friend's sanity.

If you don't live in the Mid Hudson Valley area...you are probably unaware that it rained yesterday.  Being that it's coming into November...it was one of those freezing cold rains.  The type of rain where...if you are stuck out in it you'd swear that you'll never be warm again.  The concert started at 8pm.  Doors opened at 7:30...my friend and I arrived at the venue at noon.  Yes, noon.  Prior to the concert there was to be a mile walk for charity and awareness for Poverty and AIDS in Africa which we planned to participate in...and my friend wanted to stalk...I mean, try to meet the band.

So we arrived at noon and waited three hours for the Walk to start.  We did the Walk...managed to meet the drummer (who resembles Animal from the Muppets) and then returned to the venue.  We got a bit of dinner and returned to stand in line...and that's when the rain started.  We had no umbrella.  No coats to protect us.  For awhile a fellow fan and her friend let us shelter under their umbrella but then we ended up getting shifted around and lost sight of one another.  And so for the next two hours we stood in the rain with no protection.  It was cold.  It was wet...and finally, right before I convinced myself that I was going to die of hypothermia and willed my Led Zeppelin box set to The Bookworm via text message...we were finally allowed in. 

The show was okay.  Not being a Hanson fan I really didn't know the songs minus a few from their newest album which my friend made me a copy of so I'd be prepared for the show.  They didn't play "Georgia" which I had been looking forward to...but it wasn't terrible.  Just would have been nicer had I been dry and warm rather than freezing cold and soaked to the bone.

After the show we headed to our mutual friend's house to spend the night instead of driving home when it was so late and we were tired.  It probably would have been better had we just headed home for various reasons...but we spent the night, barely got any sleep (at least I didn't since I was so physically uncomfortable on the sofa bed) and this morning we headed back home. 

Right now I'm physically and mentally exhausted.  I definitely did not have the best time of it, both at the concert and afterwards.  My friend and I had quite a few near fights.  We're fine now but I'm kind of keeping my distance at the moment...I'm also trying to sort my head around an incident that happened yesterday.  I'm trying to figure out the best course of action in regards to that. 

I don't think that my emotions can handle another weekend like that.  I'm glad for the trip to the city tomorrow.  Hopefully we'll get there early and get a chance to walk around the city a bit...let me take some pictures (which I didn't even bother with yesterday) and just have a good time at tomorrow night's show. 

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