Music and MADNESS!

January 7 and I am just writing my first post of the New Year.

Well I guess that resolution that consists of procrastinating less is not happening. Ha! Really I do not make news years resolutions, I like to make life resolutions. I personally hate doing something because it is expected to be done at a certain time, also I hate failure. If too many people know, than too many people will know when you succeed and DEFINITELY when you FAIL.

So where was I? Oh yeah, life resolutions.

The last 6 months have been pretty hectic and I am the one to blame for it. Instead of crumbling into an emotional ball or mess when my Dad died, as expected, I decided to go psychotic and overachieve for the rest of the year.

I continued going on trips with the McMoms, I decided to take a course for my degree, I trained for and completed the Seattle Half Marathon, I took up Intense Cycling Endurance classes (I.C.E.), started weight training, and kept up with the kids routines. Preschool, gymnastics, creative moves, family game time and family dance time, basically connecting with them.

OK I am tired now.

During the holidays, a work Christmas party got cancelled, um, 15 minutes before it was supposed to start. This is the party for which I had a *DISCUSSION with the Man about his attire. We ended up going out for a nice dinner and movie, so CLICHE, but yet so fun at this time in our life. We decided then and there that we should *AHEM Do this more often!

You know, the word, RECONNECT.

So, January 6Th we had tickets for Tegan and Sara. OK I know about 5 songs, but I LOVE those 5 songs and I LOVE the Orpheum. It has been a LONG time since I have seen a concert, a new music concert, in a small venue of 3,000. I felt all 20-something again or more like we were SURROUNDED by 20-somethings.

The Orpheum is a BRILLIANT venue and I am not just talking about the immense chandelier, that always makes me wonder, HOW the HELL do they change those bulbs,
I imagine it is all like the movie Working Girl, where Tess (Melanie Griffiths) uses a switch and the chandelier lowers to some Baroque song. The Orpheum actually makes you feel like there is some smidgen of actual history in this city of Vancouver.

Tegan and Sara were sold out. We knew that the two extremely close, small seats, in the row in front of us, would soon be filled with some die-hard or serious T&S fans.

Who knew they would be two tipsy, overly exuberant, 6'6" women, who were literally on the edge of their seat, singing every word back and forth to each other, texting like madwomen, acting like teenage girls at a Jonas brothers concert, or so how I imagined one of those concerts playing out.

Here is where I love my Man. One look at him, I knew he was thinking the SAME thing, it's T&S, fun but not music to flail limbs and rock out your devil hands signs towards the band, which they were doing, and which NO ONE ELSE was doing. And everytime they would sing the words to each other, which was every song, I had to move my head to find some stage, did I forget to mention they had heads a big as WATERMELONS.

Big Women Big Heads.

It was hard to be upset because they KNEW all the words to EVERY song. This is the MILD version of the Amazonian women.

Regardless, the reconnect did happen because we soon realized that we both LOVE every song of Tegan and Sara, we both DIED of laughter at the BEST DISS by Astronautilas, and really, the girls in front, created more Inside Joke material for us than we could EVER hope for.

WATCH UNTIL ABOUT 2 MINUTES IN. AWESOME DISS.

It felt like my Man and I were young and dating again, well UNTIL we noticed the time was 10:30pm and the babysitter was 16, and it was a school day, and we still had to drive home to the burbs 20 minutes away, then drop the sitter off, and well, we had to leave, no encore, if there was one.

My Man did buy me a T-shirt, a small, a BOYS small.
Go Steady with Me!