Weekend Update
So it was a pretty busy weekend for me. Date Friday night, concert on Saturday, K over for dinner on Sunday. A lot going on, I must say. Thankfully I only had to go to the Hampton's office for a few hours this morning and then left at noon, got home a little after 1, and have been relaxing ever since. Rest is good, I have to admit. So here's how it went down...
I already went into detail on the date, so nothing new to add there.
Saturday I got the dog a bath and a nail trim so that he wouldn't stink like hell when K came over. After I picked him up we proceeded to nap all afternoon, which felt good. I woke up at about 3 or so and headed out to Long Beach to hang out with Seth and Shari before the show. We got some dinner, Shari left to hang out with her friends and Seth and I split a six pack before the concert. We drove the 10 minutes for Shari's place to the Jones Beach theater and met up with Randy and his friend Heather, and then with Seth's brother, Andrew. Headed into the show after Hoobastank played a song or two, and they were OK. I really liked their first album, but I'm so sick of hearing that damn song, "The Reason." Its so damn overplayed and overwrought. They played for about 45 minutes and made way for Velvet Revolver.
I shall just say this, and maybe a little more about Velvet Revolver, but they kicked ass! They rocked and they rocked hard. They played for a good hour and a half, and played mostly stuff off their album. They threw in two tunes off of Stone Temple Pilot's first CD and two songs off of Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction. Throw in a cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and it was a damn fine show. The crowd really went wild when, during one of the two encores, Slash came out on stage and put on his leather top hat. They kicked ass, plain and simple. Great show, end of story, period.
I spent a good chunk of Sunday doing absolutely nothing, except relaxing. Had to run and errand or two for work and for my mom, then just came home and watched TV until K came over at 5. It was a little weird, the first meeting of the family and the new lady friend (the topic of boyfriend/girlfriend still has not come up). My mom made a fantastic meal complete with chocolate cream pie for dessert. We ate, talked and had a good time, I thought. I think K really enjoyed herself, which is good. After dinner we all sat down and watched Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
I don't know if anyone caught last night's episode, but it was filmed in my home town. The fire house that they showed a bunch of times is less than a mile from my house. It was kind of cool to see my town on TV like that, and in such a positive light. The house they built for that guy was amazing, thats for sure. And of course he deserved it, as it was a pretty bad sob story that was his life. The guy is a county cop, and has three boys under the age of five, and his wife died of cancer 7 months ago. She wanted him to keep the little house they built, but it was too small, and they were going to expand on it, until she got sick. So they basically tore the whole thing down and built a new one from scratch and it looked amazing. I've been meaning to drive by the house, but haven't gotten around to it. I know its on a dead end street, and after filming was complete there were signs and barricades up saying residents only. Maybe in a week or so when the hype dies down I'll take a spin down there and check it out. It was cool.
Anyway, I shall be spending the rest of my afternoon relaxing, and currently I'm watching "Assault of Precinct 13." Back to it.
Comments
I watched it! I only caught the end - where they brought the family back to see the new house. I noticed that he (gag, gag) had an accent that made me think he was from NJ or somewhere up there. Funny that it was in your town, because there was one show that was done in my town a couple months ago too!
Posted by: Jenniy | May 17, 2005 10:54 AM