The Fray with Jack's Mannequin

Last night's concert was fun! What with an awesome buzz going on and freaking sweet light shows blowing my mind...the night was...carthartic. Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of the Fray, but they put on a fantastic show. And Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin is cute and emo and kind of a show off...everything I like. Superpages.com Center was a decent venue, I really didn't see anything that was so horrible. Afterwards, I watched Superbad by myself and went to bed, sorely missing Danish.

Picture from the Rough Riders game

I love these people. Even though I admit there were some similarities to the satirical description Carles gives in this blog entry about the typical girls' hang out rituals, I truly believe they've outgrown that partying stage. I think it happened gradually with Diana moving in with her boyfriend, Angie getting engaged, and Meagan buying a house. Whatever it is, I'm glad it's happened. I'm glad to have these people in my life.

Humpty Dumpty

Just kidding, that's mean. Yesterday morning, Danish had quite a fall on his bike ride with his cousin. He couldn't unclip his shoe from the pedal quick enough, so he lost balance and landed on a shoddy chain link fence where a metal prong punctured his hip! It's a small but deep hole surrounded by swelling and redness. It looks disgusting. We went to the doctor's to patch it up and get him a tetanus shot, but apparently it's still bleeding. He was lucky it got him in the hip rather than his side where it could have punctured a spleen or some other organ! The funny thing was he was so excited about his accident and the ongoings of yesterday. Maybe his life is so mundane and that was the most action he's had in a while. I don't know. But I'm glad he's alright.

Eric's mom is on her way back to Dallas today. Thankfully all her matters have been resolved! And I've decided to go to the Fray concert afterall. I wasn't able to sell my ticket. Meagan said she would go with me and I managed to buy a ticket for cheap on Craigslist (how come no one bought mine?!). Tonight, I'm going to another Rough Riders game with Angie, Diana, and Meagan and we'll be doing the whole free food and beer deal. I'm going to miss Danish over the weekend since he's going to an all-weekend bachelor party for Brad. Brad's wedding is next Saturday.

Tattoos

This was quite humorous. My favorite is the orange zone.

Prius marketing campaign

Toyota is planting Solar Flowers all across major cities in the U.S. It gives free power and Wi-Fi.


One comment read: It looks like a ploy to turn us all into the gay.

Everything's electro

But I still like the "indie" music that has become popular these days. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with how much good music is out there. Sometimes I wish I were made of all ears and had all the time in the world. One day, I'll blog about noteworthy music. I mean I was listening to Sally Shapiro, but the music's not really that noteworthy/bloggable whatever...it's easy-listening, decent. I like the music video, though. It's ridiculously cute.



Speaking of music videos, I hope Violent Still Life makes some dreamy-quality, indie music video with some vague message of autumn love/loss to promote their music, which comes out on iTunes in October. I think it will definitely help boost them into popularity. Not that they are doing it for popularity, just a fun project. That's nice to know, you know? They all have real jobs or what not.

I'm taking Eric's mom to the airport tomorrow morning. It's a coincidence I was recently thinking about how much I care for them and wanted to help them because these past two weeks I have been doing just that. It was stressful, but it's finished - I had to book a flight to Seattle for the poor lady to get some legal matters taken care of. It was a huge ordeal since she wanted to go with Eric but the airline tickets were a scam. Not only that, I had booked a flight for her last week but she had to cancel due to some unexpected circumstances. Did you know if you cancel a flight, it costs $180 in fees to reuse that credit? Then she asked if I was willing to drive her there, and I apologetically had to decline since it would have cost her even more in gas, hotel, and food expenditures. Finally my mom talked her into going on the trip by herself, so she's off tomorrow morning. She's so easily distraught, it breaks my heart. I pray God gives her peace and joy, and for her personal matters to smooth over nicely in Seattle.

I love this show