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Tiger Jam XII

May 19, 2009 in Eddie, Vegas life, concerts, only me, pictures | 2 comments

Wow.

Just…wow.

Eddie has loved No Doubt forever. In particular, he loves Gwen Stefani. Ever since I’ve known him he’s talked about his undying love for her. lol It’s not a sexual thing, he just thinks she’s BEYOND AWESOME.

So when we found out that No Doubt would be the headliners for Tiger Woods’ annual benefit, we knew we would be going. So, last March, we got up very early and grabbed tickets as soon as they went on sale. Even doing it as soon as we did, we still wound up quite far back, in one of the side sections near the back of Mandalay Bay Events Center. Mandalay Bay’s arena is HUGE, so we were pretty far back. (all the photos I took are up on Flickr, if anyone wants to check ‘em out. I was able to get a couple good shots even from as far back as we were.) (I got a set, and Eddie got a set. They were both in the back side sections. We chose mine to keep since they were on row B and sold his row J seats on Craigslist.)

So, last Saturday we get dressed up and go to the show. Eddie played poker for about an hour or so while we waited for the show to start (he did really well…hit all his draws and basically any flop that he played a hand). According to the tickets, the show started at 8pm, so around then we started heading to the Events Center.

We get in there and get seated while The Sounds are playing. I’ve never heard of them before, but they put on a pretty good show and the lead singer has a really nice voice.

After The Sounds, Paramore came on. Now, talk about the lead singer having a good voice! Hayley or whatever is awesome. Her voice is crazy good, and she’s a very good showman. Their set was very good.

After a little bit, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers came out to read a little thing and introduce Tiger Woods. Well, everyone booed him so bad that he just abandoned his little index card and was like “Oh, forget it. Here’s Tiger Woods.”

I felt bad for him.

Tiger then came out just to thank everyone and to let us know that No Doubt would be coming up in a little bit.

No Doubt put on an AWESOME show. And it was so awesome to hear Eddie have such a great time. He knew the words to every song, screamed them all, and, well, screamed any chance he got.

We really needed a night like that. We had such an awesome time.

(And that was even before the best part.)

The band starts “Just a Girl.” They’re almost done with the song, when Gwen steps down off the main stage onto this little ledge thing, jumps down OFF the ledge, and RUNS down the side of the aisles…toward the back of the arena. Eddie, at this point, has pushed me and him both (we were only on the 2nd row, and on the aisle to begin with, so it wasn’t much pushing) down to the steps where we could, like, hit her hand while she ran past or something. She runs past our section, then COMES BACK and runs up into our section!!

This is her running past us to get up higher in our section:

She stood up there and sang the chorus of “Just a Girl” a few times, getting the crowd involved, etc. I stood near our seats and Eddie stood up there near her to get photos and grin like crazy. I was SO EXCITED for him. He just loves her so much. Some of the photos he took are blurry but I DO NOT CARE. lol

The best one:

I grabbed her while she ran past the first time, and when she ran past the second time.

Was so beyond totally awesome.

So then after a few more songs, the show was over.

We really needed a night like this. It was like the stars aligned to give us the perfect night. Eddie played online before we left and won, he played poker at the casino and destroyed it, we got to see No Doubt, AND Gwen came to OUR section to sing part of a song. I mean, really? Out of ALL the sections in the arena? AND when we sold one of the sets, we sold Eddie’s, not mine.

It was just a perfect night. Absolutely perfect.

What’s been going on

April 25, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, jewelry, mumble, pictures

Been doing a few things the past couple days, but just haven’t really felt lilke it was something that needed to be written about. THERE I GO AGAIN. lol

I made myself a light box to use to take pictures of my jewelry as well as other little things. Just followed a DIY thing I found online. I used a cardboard box we had left over from moving, cut the sides out, lined with tissue paper and voila! I do need to get a couple little lamps for the sides, because my one lamp just isn’t bright enough. I’ll post the pictures I take once I get the lamps.

I’ve also become VERY interested in chainmaille. I’ve been doing a ton of research (and by “research” I mean looking at a ton of photos on Flickr), asking questions, etc. I made an order of a TON of jumprings to get started with…they won’t be here for awhile because the place I ordered them from cut them to order and they’re in Canada. So it’ll be a bit. But I’m still excited.

Let’s see, what else…

Eddie and I discovered that our computers were running INSANELY hot, like almost 200° Fahrenheit. EEK! So we both took the sides off of our computers, but our video cards were still running pretty hot. So we downloaded RivaTuner and got that set up to control the video card fans, and it seems to be helping. We ordered some newer, more high powered fans for the cases. Those should be here next week, so hopefully that’ll take care of the problem.

But other than that, just been beading, watching TV, watching my poker videos and having poker sessions with Eddie.

A new year

January 2, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, jewelry, mumble, pictures | 1 comment

Some stuff has happened since I posted last. I’ll post them in sections.

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My grandma died. Which sucked. She died on December 4th (really December 3rd barely after midnight), and I immediately flew home to be with my family. It was my dad’s mom. She’d been in a nursing home for quite a while (almost 7 years), and lately her health had been deteriorating. She had been getting better, though, so we thought she might pull out of it. But, unfortunately, she didn’t.

She was beautiful.

my grandma

There’s a picture of me in a similar pose and my dad said he put it next to this photo and it was striking how much I looked like her. To be honest, I never really saw it, other than her eyes. I definitely got her eyes. But my dad’s a spitting image of her, and I’m a spitting image of him. So, obviously, I look like her. Which is just fine by me.

I called her Ma-Hon. Everyone (including the woman that did the funeral service) always looks at me and says “Excuse me?” lol

When I was just beginning to talk, one day I was sitting in the dining room and began calling for my father. He was sitting in the living room, and decided to ignore me to see what I would do. I went from calling out “Daddy…” to “Honey…”, which was what my mom called him. Then, being my goober of a father, decided to continue to sit there and see what I would say next. After getting zero attention with either “Daddy” or “Honey”, I began calling out “Daddy-Honey…”. After that, I went through a spell where I called EVERYONE “…-Honey”. Mommy-Honey, Daddy-Honey, Grandma-Honey, Grandpa-Honey. Eventually, Grandma-Honey and Grandpa-Honey were shortened to Ma-Hon and Pa-Hon. Pa-Hon died when I was about 3, so I don’t remember him, but I do know that my Ma-Hon loved that I made up a name just for her.

I miss you, my Ma-Hon.

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My dad was able to sell ALL of the bracelets that I have made. His customers buy them like crazy. Especially around Christmas, but even before Christmas he was able to sell them. I’m getting absolutely ZERO love from Etsy or eBay, so I’m just making bracelets and sending them to Daddy to sell. So that’s really cool…I’m enjoying making them, and enjoying making a little money on the side from them as well.

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My parents came out here to Vegas to spend Christmas with me and Eddie. Those people are crazy slot machine playing fools! They barely did anything but play slots at Green Valley Ranch (the casino nearest to our house). The loons. lol But the time we DID get to spend with them, we had a good time.

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Eddie has set a major goal for himself this year…100,000 hands a month, every month. He’s decided to really buckle down and try to get a ton of hands in. We’re on day 2 of it so far, and he’s doing really well.

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Happy new year, all. 2008 was pretty awesome, but here’s to an even better 2009!!