Vet trips, reunions, Gaga, and jury duty OH MY! (Part 02)

Me with Jodi

Saturday was a day of catching up with a dear friend.  My friend Jodi moved away to GA about a few years ago and then recently moved back to NC with her mother.  Jodi came over with her son Kirian and we spent the whole day just catching up with each other.  I wanted to get a few things together for her as she had lost a good deal of her belongings in January in an apartment fire.  So Jodi sat on a chair in my dining room as I proceeded to organize and clean every drawer and cabinet in my pulling out random items that I could do without and that she would be able to use.

Sirius with Kirian

After filing a box with goodies for her we headed into the living room to relax and catch up while Kirian explored the area.  Sirius was so good and patient with him.  We've always had a crafty/cooking/baking side with each other so we decided to watch Matha's Halloween Ideas and Martha's Thanksgiving Favorites.  Jodi stuck around long enough for Paul to get home so she could say hi to him and so he could meet Kirian and then she headed back to her moms.

Sunday was by far the best day of my down time.  Paul and I went with our friends Aaron and Chester as well as Chester's Niece and a friend of her's to see Lady Gaga!  We had to be at RBC center in Raleigh at 8PM so we made our way there a little early.  The traffic to get into the parking lot was ridiculous as well as the line to enter the center. However the costumes of fans in the line was amazing, spooky, and down right scary.  We got to our seats with plenty of time to spare.

The concert started with an opening act by Precious Little Weapons.  Sadly they're a group that I could do without seeing ever again.  The lead singer was a strange, supposedly bisexual, guy who came on stage wearing a wife beater, women's tight pants, and a pair of glittery high heeled boots.  Just about every other word was just a little too profane, even for my taste, and at in the middle of the act he stripped down completely on stage and changed outfits, bending away from the crowd as to hide his junk.  At the end of the performance the lead singer invited the fans to come to their section of the stadium where they would be selling their CD, signing it, taking pictures and performing sexual favors.

After a brief intermission the real show began.  Lady gaga put on an amazing show starting with "Dance in the dark" and changing her outfit just as much as Cher use to!  Throughout the show she had new outfit after new outfit.  Sometimes her outfit changes were nothing more then removing her headdress but it was still amazing.  One outfit that really stuck out was one that had moving aspects on the head and chest of the dress to look as if it were breathing itself.  She paused a few times and spoke with the audience which showed a very personal side of her.  She joked with one fan near the stage when she loved a mask he had made and said that she would love to steal it and how she could go to jail for that.  She jokingly said "This just in, Lady Gaga attacks little monster for fashion item"!

Lady Gaga also spoke of a speech she would be giving the next day for a repeal against "don't ask don't tell" in Maine.  She continued with just bout every song in her two current albums as well as a new song called "You and I" from her forthcoming album "Born this way".  At the end of the concert she id a encore performance of "Bad romance" which was as wonderful as any of the other songs.

Lady Gaga giving her speech to repeal
"Don't Ask Don't Tell"

The next day I got a chance to see her speech online.  As amazing as her concert was I found this speech just as breath taking.  I think a person on twitter said it best when he said something along the lines of how it was amazing how a pop star can take a stand and fight for our rights when someone who fought for our votes wont.  If you'd like to see the speech, titled "The prime rib of America", which is a tongue in cheek nod to her meet dress she wore at the VMAs a week prior you can click here to see the speech which was posted on CNN.

Travel Day! New music and Batman sighting!

     So today was travel day for me which means I travel either from my assignment to home or vice versa.  The travel should have taken a total of nine hours however today it took me almost 12 hours due to traffic problems. I left my house at 9:00AM and should have arrived at my hotel shortly arround 6:00PM.  Sadly after three unexplainable traffic jams and only two fifteen minute breaks off the road to refill gas, grab lunch, and pick up a package I ended up back at my hotel at almost 9:00PM!  I'm exhausted!  But like I said I wanna give this blog thing another swing so here we go!

    I got the chance to sample two new albums on my iPod. 

Sarah McLachlan Laws of Illusion

     Sarah Mclauchlan's new album "Laws of Illusion" like every other album showcased her vocals in a magnificent way!  Just about every song soothed my road rage as I was stuck in traffic.  As much as I love her though every time I hear her sing I am taken back to when I worked at Starbucks and her music was playing on our music system daily.  Finally one f my associates came in the back room one morning to change the music when she was playing and looked at me and said "You know I really love Sarah but I just don't feel like killing myself this morning!"

Lady Gaga The Remix

     Lady Gaga's new album "The Remix" is a compilation of remixes of select songs from both "The Fame" & "The Fame Monster".  I liked the aspect of this album as it had different songs instead of five to nine remixes of the same song.  My favorite by far was "Poker Face [LLG vs GLG Radio Mix]".  I actually ended up playing that one over and over and ended up transferring it to my Blackberry so I could make a ringer out of it!  Yeah yeah I have a Gaga ringer, get over it!

     

     During the numerous traffic jams I got stuck in I ended up spotting a trailer that I just had to get a pic of so slowly but surely I positioned myself behind the trailer so that the next time traffic came to a halt I could quickly snap a pic!  So traffic slowed down and voila BATMAN SIGHTING!  I quickly forwarded the pic to a few friends I knew I would get a kick out of.  

"When you need a screw fast"

     I wasn't going to include this but since I'm talking about funny vehicles spotted in traffic I might as well.  This van was spotted on my travel day heading home.  Its for a company that sells different fasteners (screws bolts and what not).  The funniest part was the caption on the truck which read "When you need a screw fast!" but the word screw was replaced with a pic of an actual screw.

     So now here I am back in home sweet hotel after a long day of travel.  Tomorrow hopes to be a reboot in my workout and diet regimen but more on that tomorrow!