Last night Adam and I were treated by the Bollwitts, Rebecca and John were supposed to attend the Tori Amos concert at The Orpheum but due to Rebecca’s lovely sister celebrating her dirty thirty birthday they were unable to attend.

Happy Birthday Jenny!

Somehow the tickets ended up in our hands and excitement on my part does not even cut it. I hardly had time to let it sink in that we were going and we were out the door. Once, back in 1997 I had tickets to one of her concerts here and ended up going up North to see my parents instead; they had just moved to Prince George that must have had something to do with why I didn’t go and didn’t even sell the tickets, it is one of those memories that I hated because I just never thought I’d get to see her. [as known my headaches make me very picky with my concert choices]

Did I have a headache last night? YES. Did I care? NO. Do I have an after concert headache today? YES. Do I care? NO.

For years I have had to listen to other people’s stories of Tori and her piano bench and regurgitate it in many music conversations whilst admitting I had never really seen her live. That was hadn’t seen her live until last night.

I’d actually never been to a concert with a costume change. Adam said Paula Abdul changed outfits after every two songs. He saw her with Color Me Badd, it was his first concert he went with both his sisters, the Spellbound tour.

Don’t be jealous.

Tori puts on a performance that is so much more than you envision, so much more than you expect even though expectation on anything is silly. I could have sat there and listened to her piano playing alone, the fantastic lyrics and distinct and angelic voice is a bonus, throw in her stage performance, watching her play a piano and a keyboard at the same time, and you’ve got a concert to remember. It was worth the wait, thanks again, Mr. and Mrs. Bollwitt.

I know there are better photos on my phone but I have no idea how to get them off and emailing them to myself is not working. I think I need a memory card or something I am so technology illiterate I almost feel not nerdy enough and it hurts sometimes.

Because my back was out over the weekend and I wasn’t blogging there were two things of note that I did not get to make mention of, Rebecca aka Miss604 celebrated her four year blogging anniversary and changed her blog design and it looks all new and fresh. Congratulations Rebecca, I look forward to many more years of not only your blogging but continuing to get to know yourself and John, it has been a pleasure thus far.

On Sunday, Blogger Buddy and girlfriend Keira whom I met through Rebecca, celebrated a birthday and she is a pretty rad girl that Keira-Anne so I thought I’d mention it and wish her a Happy Belated Birthday!

Yesterday a trade was also completed, an over the border trade with an American, named Jennie Roth, I met her at Johnny America’s birthday party, although we weren’t able to stay long that night and it sucked because cool new people like Jennie were there. We exchanged a toque for a sock monkey pillow, because she saw it and thought of me, YES that is right a SOCK MONKEY PILLOW, check it, some people are so thoughtful it kills me.

Ps. Miss604 is having a Blogiversary Contest:

BLOG/POST about Miss604.com and you could WIN: TWO tickets to see the Vancouver Giants in action and TWO full-day passes (including rental) for Mount Seymour this season.

More details at Miss604.com. Having won her last contest I am staying out of this one but maybe I will see if Adam wants to enter.

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