Reo Speedwagon @ MindSay

I lied. I am finishing up my REO pictures today and then will move onto the Packers' game. Needless to say, living in the Wausau area is way better than living in the Wisconsin Rapids area due to the amount of entertainment opportunities. Don't get me wrong, I love watching military bands as much as the next guy, but you can listen the same Sousa march only so many times.

I am now anxiously counting down the days until October 28th! I have two tickets in hand to see David Crosby and Graham Nash at the Grand!

Here are more of my pictures from REO Speedwagon. There will probably be a total of four or five parts to my pictures from them, but that is unknown for sure.

It has been such a long day. Today started five days of staff inservice for Newman Catholic. We started with a Catholic mass and then had a meeting for about five hours. I really am surprised that the church didn't cave in or anything. I think the last time I was in a church and not working there was 2004 when my great grandma died, but that was a Lutheran church -- nothing like Catholic. I don't understand why a Catholic mass is so much up and down. Stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, kneel, sit down, stand up, kneel, sit down, stand up, leave. Too much work!

I totally skipped the month of May. A lot has been going on in my neck of the woods. I have been able to pop on a few times here and there to check out what my peoples have been up to, but really have not had the time to do an actual entry. Here is my usual little bulleted summary of stuff in no particular order of happenings.

• Ben and I broke up. We are still great friends and see each other everyday. He is probably moving to Arizona because he can make nearly almost triple what he does here.
• helendaysauce had her baby!
• My cell phone is on the verge of dying. Evidently a lot of moisture got into it and fucked it up hardcore. I didn't know what to do, so Ben and I went to the Alltel in Merrill seeing as there are no Alltels in Wausau. The dick working asked me "Are you sure this is an Alltel phone?". Uh, yeah...I wouldn't be bringing it to you if it wasn't. It is now working, but hit and miss. Of course, I don't have insurance on it and I have over a year left in my contract.
• It is Woodchuck season again!
• I finally went to the doctor for my anxiety and depression. The doctor put me on Fluoxetine and I am to call him in two weeks to let him know how it is going. So far I am not feeling any different except I am now sleeping through the night.
• Going on two months of overtime at work and people are really getting sick of it; not the pay, but working the long hours and not getting a thank you. Four ten hour days for sure; an occassional fifth ten hour day or a half day is thrown in there.
• My brother graduated from college.
• I have been looking for different fulltime employment since about Thanksgiving and haven't had much luck. Not really expecting much out there now with the current state of the economy.
• I was off of work at the video store for medical reasons and went back in the begining of May to let the manager know I was able to come back to work. He told me that because he didn't know when I was going to be coming back, he hired a bunch of people and now he didn't even have the hours to give them. Is it that hard to give me a call and be like, "Hey Sara, this is Shaun. I was wondering if you had a possible timeline for when you would be coming back. I am looking to be hiring more people and wanted to make sure you were coming back before I started interviewing."
• My brother's band Flash Back has been playing at a bar in Rapids on a regular basis and now is going to be playing there every third Saturday of the month.
• Will be seeing Seether and REO Speedwagon this summer at the fair.
• Had pink-eye. I was really hoping it was just allergies, but of course it couldn't be. Plus, I have never had goopy eyes with allergies, so I knew it was a long shot. The whole week prior to my pink-eye, five out of the seven kids in my classroom had the whole pink-eye like symptoms; none of their doctors would confirm it, but they were treating it with drops just to be on the safe side. Yeah, try to tell me none of them had pink-eye and I ended up with it -- in BOTH eyes.
• I really want to see NKOTB when they tour this summer.
• Brought my bike up from my parents' place. I haven't ridden it much yet. I really need to ride from the apartment to work to see how long it is going to take me to ride to work.
• Might be heading back to the Twin Cities this summer and head back to IKEA and go to the Hard Rock Cafe. I will call ahead and make sure that they have the Lillberg couch before I go.

Ok, so yesterday I went to, you guessed it, Styx, Foreigner, and REO Speedwagon. A most excellent concert indeed. Foreigner opened, with REO Speedwagon next, and Styx closing. Foreigner was definately awesome, I'd think one of the best parts of the show was when Jukebox Hero started playing. Mmm mmm mm that was tasty. Speedwagon was awesome too. Although I don't know many of their songs, it was awesome. Styx was also truly amazing. Just wanted to let everyone know how awesome the concert was, and that I am now going to bed. Good night!

Matt

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