Not Your Average Jane

Egads a New Year!!! Is it 2004 already? What happened to 2003? It was here and then it was gone.... Well, Happy Belated New Year then everyone.... Personally I'm still recovering from New Year's Eve. Not the drunk hang over type recovering, as I only had half a glass of champagne, but more the fact I didn't get to bed till after 3 in the morning and my body's not used to that schedule anymore... I'm getting old, don't ya know? I'm in bed by 1 usually.... :0) But anyway New Year's Eve.... Oh, my.... It was a freaking blast! My friend Becca was supposed to come up here from Corpus but she got sick and couldn't, so I went to the Firehouse by myself. Not a huge deal as my few friends here in town don't like going to bars like that, they prefer more of the club type places or their own living rooms.... Sillies.... NEway, NYE rocked my socks off! Brandon Ryder, Randy Rogers and Bleu Edmondson all played there and it was soooo incredibly great! First time I've seen Bleu play since last summer, second time I've seen Randy Rogers, and first I've seen Brandon Ryder.... Brandon did 2 hours or so of playing then Randy and band (including the ever adorable Brady Black) and just after midnight Bleu and the boys took the stage... Coby got to do the count down, but he did it in such a Coby like fashion, very dramatic faces and pauses for effect. Then Bleu started to play and I swore I was over him in the first 5 minutes he played, and then he smiled.... Darn that man! He's just got the worlds most devilish smile where it looks like hes planning some form of mischief and he wants you to join him and then hes just having so much fun on stage on top of that, how can you not love that? :0) He did one of my faves, Soul Shine and as an encore he did one of my other faves, A Good Thing.... Too bad he didn't do either of my others, 2 Penny Vengeance or Live Oak Lullaby, but maybe next time.... I haven't hear him do Soul Shine since the summer of 2002, or so I think.... Anyway Randy and Brandon got up on stage with him for a song or two and Randy kept coming back and just laying his head on either Bleu or John Mike's or Coby's shoulders.... At one point he even kissed Bleu on the cheek it was soooo cute... Bleu kept yelling at the audience sing along if you know the words and came back for like 4 encore songs.... He was like I can stay here as long as yall want me.... That was just sweet! At one point during the very last encore song he got down in the audience (what was left of us at 2 am) and was standing next to me just watching his band, that was pretty cool too... :0)
There were some really rude people there too who kept pushing and shoving and jumping around, I got elbowed in the boobs more times than I can count, but I wound up talking to some really sweet lady up front and another girl and her boyfriend, so it was all good.... Oh, I forgot to mention, Randy during his set was talking to a couple of people up on the balcony and it turns out there was a couple who had been married 43 years... 43 years, man, thats a long time.... Neway everyone applauded them and then he launched into Blow up doll and someone brought out a blow up doll that got tossed around.... All in all a good time.... So I got home about 3ish.... and barely managed to wash my face and change clothes b4 falling into bed...
Ok, so someone asked what my resolutions were for this year... I had 3, but I'm down to one....
1. Don't curse (broke it about 12:15 when Bleu said something about are yall having a good fucking time.... I yelled back Fuck yea!), now been amended to don't curse so much.....
2. Eat Healtier (not going to jeapordize myself and say lose weight, just eat healthier)
3. Can't remember #3, but I'm sure I broke it too...... :0)
So yeah thats about it for now.... Laters!!!!

posted by Ali @ 2:09 PM