so since nicole blogged about today, i feel like i should too. not that this is a contest, but more like a challenge, just kidding. i dunno.. i feel like wasting time and not going to sleep maybe? or maybe i'm just retarded.. yea i think that's it.. as proved many times over today.

so i am quite happy about going to the mraz show and all the other cool stuff i got to do today, but there was a big bird shitting on me today.. particularly the directions bird. so anyways.. let's start at the beginning.

i'm running late as usual trying to get all this stuff coordinated for stuff i need to do for my sister. but i leave my house a little late to go to the star lounge with jason mraz that i won. i decided to bring nicole as my "guest" seeing as how she has never seen him before "up close and personal", i'm a shitty friend and tried to pass this off as a "birthday present" and she's probably the one of the few persons that i could get to come out at 1pm on a wednesday afternoon. luckily beth had to work and she is responsible like that or else she would have hurt me for not being able to go. but i rushed and sped as much as i could, endured a little bit of traffic but would have been okay if i DIDN'T GET LOST. this wasn't completely my fault, because i looked directions up on yahoo maps and it said to take the alameda exit off the 134. well guess what.. there IS NO ALAMEDA EXIT. i had actually gotten lost this very same way once before, but didn't actually realize i wasn't in the right place until the 134 was merging to the 101 and i had nowhere to go. so i panicked called a few people and finally got nicole to get me to the right place (which i still managed to get lost going to the wrong lobby one door down... dumbass).

so we were a little late, but they let us in right in time. due to my finicky-ness instead of squeezing in the back corner we sat up front on the floor. good stuff. so i was in the star lounge which was less lounge and more square room. but whatevs.. it was interesting.. jason sang three songs (that's it?! i wanted more!) but i guess everyone had somewhere to go. we got split into two groups and took group photos with him that they will email us later. they told people to kneel on the floor so i went to go kneel and i was the only person, well other than jason. so i'm smiling like an idiot at the camera and i see a few people pointing and laughing and afterwards i realize maybe he was making faces at me or something and i was completely oblivious being a camera whore. oh well.. we'll see eventually right? they hand out pre-signed headshot to "the winners only" (sheisty!!) and shove us out the door.

so as we're leaving we "happen" (hah) to get on the elevator with jason mraz and a bunch of either radio people or friends of business people.. whatever.. me and nicole were the only "lowly fans" so i turn and say "hey can you sign something for my friend?" except i don't think that whole sentence came out because as soon as i said "can you" and "sign" the whole elevator full of "cool industry folks" started jeering and making fun of me about "we were just waiting for someone to ask" and in fact you could feel that awkward silence where they didn't want to "talk shop" in front of us.. so i said "nevermind" really fast, turned around all embarassed and tried to "play it off" and be like "well i wouldn't want to dissapoint you" and tried to pretend to be enamored in the guy who was like "i'll sign it for you" as nicole stood there and pretended that she didn't know me. i should have said something snappy like "just because everyone doesn't have the same "perks" and "opportunities" as you, you should laugh at them. do you laugh at retards too?" and told them to shut the hell up.. but i'm not that quick and was probably too worried about looking stupid to try and make people mad. plus enclosed spaces and not so nice comments aren't really my thing. so yea.. it was great. nicole couldn't wait to get off that elevator as it proceeded to stop on every floor. i'm cool...

anyways.. nicole and i had lunch @ acapulco full of non-diet friendly food including fried ice cream for nicole and chocolate dessert for me (chili's is still the best). and we parted ways. nicole went shopping in glendale (we realized the last time she was there was when she broke her arm right before dcon 2002) hahah.. who cut up your meat again? anyways.... i went to my sister's office in LA to try to get some stuff done. i left at not too bad of a time to get to the concert 6:45pm - to get from west LA to downtown by 7:30. so i'm leaving, get on the 405 south towards the 10. for some reason .. either i can't read or listen.. i feel like i read and heard that i was supposed to get on the 10 towards santa monica. ALL of my common sense in me knows which direction i'm supposed to head.. but i head towards santa monica... well from west LA that's west and THE WRONG DIRECTION. i am amazed at how clear the traffic is and how the suckers on the other side are stuck until i hit malibu and the beach and realize.. i am in the wrong fuckin place... AGAIN. great. so i finally figure out where to turn around and yup.. now i'm the sucker stuck in traffic. in fact it took me 30 minutes to get back to where i had started off in the first place, where the 405 and the 10 meet. great.

so i plod along, get to the hall getting a little lost, but nothing too big. and finally make it in to the hall to see beth, maritza, norma, benji and nicole all waiting for my sorry ass. anyways.. i got to the bathroom because i drank way too much water while sitting in traffic and let them sort out who's sitting where (since i had 4 tickets in one section and 2 tickets (that i won from the radio) in another.) benji and norma decide to go on a "date" in the other section since they weren't huge mraz fans and didn't really care that the 2 tickets were further away. so everything seems to be fine until we walk in and oh guess what! the tickets that the radio station gave me were for the next night's concert although they had told me they were for the same night. or did i just assume? or is it that whole not listening thing. i didn't see any other the other radio station winners lurking around confused .. so hey.. it must JUST BE ME. argh. we tried to exchange the tickets, but no can do since they were free.. so i just ended up buying two more tickets to replace the wrong date ones. this was so not my night. norma and benji were nice enough to give me more money than we had originally agreed on for the "free tickets" (thanks guys!!) so it worked out okay.. except, now i feel bad for making them go to a concert and pay more than they wanted to, and i have two tickets for a thursday night concert and no one to go to it. hmm.. who's wants to go? i wish i could find someone who hasn't seen him before or won't be seeing him.. but whatever.. it's not a big deal. i kind of want to go, but i feel like i should stay home for once this week and hang out with my dad before he leaves and get stuff done before i leave. ack. i also don't want to be too "mrazed out" like seeing him three times in two days may be too much, although probably not because he is so amazing. BUT.. i also associate my cruddy day of humiliation, retardedness, getting lost, rushing, feeling stupid, traffic, stress, wanting to cry etc etc etc with today's events and concert, so that also makes me not want to go. i don't know.. i'm retarded.

afterwards we went to mel's diner in h-wood.. i didn't get lost (i was following nicole) and we just sat and talked and ate. it was fun. they all started planning their next outing "the movie in the cemetary" ew.. no thanks.

i may sound like i hated today, and for some parts i did... i started to get really down and super stressed out.. and when i was lost out in malibu i really just wanted to stay there and lie in the sand and smell the overcast on the beach.. but i had everyone's tickets :P but i did enjoy the concert and hanging out with good company.. they make me laugh. so it was good and mraz is so talented so that makes you forget about stuff for a few hours. it does suck that as he becomes bigger and bigger tickets are more expensive and seats are further away.. but what can you do. i had a good time tonight.. thanks everyone for the fun :) it was all because of you. (haha.. that's not a mraz song.. but still a great one!)

"thanks again freakies... you make me smile" - mraz