She's Got Whatever It Is

Ah, Sunday again, really?

I did FINALLY post on my teaching blog this morning, haven't done that since February. I'm going to try to post there once a week or so. Nothing too crazy.

My weekend has been lovely. It began on Friday night with dinner at Il Casale with Eric's parents. I never thought I'd find heaven in an old firehouse turned restaurant, but it turns out I did.

Yesterday Caroline and Chris gave Eric and I our wedding presents. Present #1 was tickets to the Zac Brown Band in concert. Even though Zac Brown Band is relatively new, I love all of the songs on their first cd so I was SO excited to go to this concert. Also, Zac Brown's song "Whatever It Is" is the background music for Eric and my wedding highlight video. We tailgated with the 4 of us, and Eric's cousin and friends who also had tickets.

Caroline and I grilled up some salmon while the boys had steak tips and burgers.





Tailgating is sometimes more fun than the concert itself. Though I do love concerts.





Tailgating events included eating, drinking, an intense game of flip cup, and an equally intense fight over goldfish crackers between Caroline and Eric's cousin, Chris. Hehe.



We got into the concert right as Zac Brown Band arrived on stage. Normally I would say I am a lyrics person. However, I LOVE the music (and the lyrics) of Zac Brown Band's songs, especially the crazy violin solos.











I've been to a relatively large number of concerts in my life (maybe 25-30? just a guess- I've seen Tim McGraw probably 12 times alone so maybe it's more like 40), however last night was the most "eventful" concert I've been to so far.

It all started when we first got in, I was standing up (because it's a concert and I hadn't really found my seat yet). The girl behind me taps me and was like "can you sit down?" and I was like um okay. Eric started arguing with her but I was just like whatever, I don't know this song anyway I'll just sit down. However, it turns out she wanted us to sit THE WHOLE CONCERT. Um no, who sits at a concert?

So we stand up after a song or two and you can hear her going "down in front" (ps. we were not actually in front as you can tell, we were just in front of the section, everyone in the front section was standing up!). We continue to ignore her. I was saying in general I usually stand for a concert, maybe sit down for 3 songs at the most that I maybe don't know just to take a break. There was no way I was sitting through even one song with this girl behind me. That's my passive aggressive way of dealing with terrible people.

About halfway through the concert, she decides to go ask the security guard to tell us to sit down. He was like "um no, this is a concert, they can stand if they want." Caroline tried to reason with the girl also, but she clearly didn't get it. She was like, "I'm being nice!" Um no, nice would be to stand your lazy butt up. Fortunately, the security guard and people on both sides of us (who were also standing up) agreed with us. It's called a concert. If you want to sit on your butt, go home and watch CMT.

Eric told me later that she was discussing with her boyfriend or husband (who really wanted nothing to do with picking a fight with someone who looks like Eric) what she was "going to do about it" and said she was a teacher (therefore couldn't punch us... just imagine getting punched for standing up at a concert!). It actually scares me that someone that miserable is teaching the youth of our state. No wonder kids hate school when they have a teacher who can't even stand up for a concert either because she's that lazy (scary) or that boring/not fun (also scary). I am seriously wondering what she teaches because I know so many wonderful people who want their own classrooms and can't find a job, and yet this girl has a job. More scary.

Anyway, overall I thought the concert was really good. They interacted with the crowd and it was fun to see all of their instruments going crazy on stage. I think it would be awesome to see them again in a few years when they have another CD out with popular songs on it, because there were a lot of songs that no one knew and I think that's why people wanted to sit and we ended up having that issue in the first place (well, that an we had a really psycho person behind us).

Want to know what present #2 from Caroline was?

One of her famous SCRAPBOOKS! She is literally SO talented in the scrapbooking department. I enjoy doing it, but I have no follow through at all and Caroline managed to make an amazing scrapbook for me in a month!

























That's not all the pages, but isn't it amazing?! You can read more about it on Caroline's blog.

When I graduated college, my roommate of all 4 years made me a crazy awesome scrapbook of college, and now I have one of my wedding. I feel so lucky to have a sister who is so talented and WILLING to spend the time to make me such an amazing wedding present. I hate back all I've ever said about weddings, I love them. I'm even going to one this Saturday and I have no complaints, I'm excited! Speaking of which, anyone have any advice for things to do in the Berkshires? I've never been.