Where is the love?: big adventurous weekend

Monday, June 04, 2007

big adventurous weekend

Yes!!

My weekend was EXHAUSTING!!! But I had so much fun. I am dead tired. For once, I can only yell at myself, it was all social obligations. Lemme explain the rundown if I can. Friday I got about 4 hours sleep in the morning. Then I got up, showered, and went to pick up a rental van from Enterprise over by the Oakland airport. There was nowhere to leave my car so I had to park it at DHL across the street and pray no one would notice a lack of employee stickers and such. I finally went to pick up the van and Cathy's pal Maxwell from high school was working there, and it probably took twice as long to go through the red tape since we were catching up on old times. Anyway, I hit the road about 45 minutes later then expected. Traffic on the way to Lodi sucked awfully bad. I left San Leandro by 2pm, and didn't get to Lodi until about 4:30. Good lordy lord.
It took quite an effort to get Kimmie into the minivan, which is not her fault whatsoever. The hoyerlift couldn't extend lower enough to get her all the way into the van. We did solve this problem by having a strong neighbor physically pick her up out of the wheelchair and put her into the van. This is the method we used throughout the trip, and it's amazing that there are kind human beings out there who want to lend a hand. We finally headed out of Lodi by 5:45, and made it to San Jose by 7:30. Traffic was still kinda sluggish, plus I got kinda lost down there. Once we were parked I was able to talk a parking attendant and a random chunky asian dude to help Kimmie out of the van. A nice group of other women attending the Jordan Knight event were exiting the parking garage while we were, and helped push Kimmie up the steep driveway thing. Nice people are awesome.
So we get inside and start getting our boogie on there on the dance floor. Lots of 80s jams, for a good half hour to 45 minutes. Then what we've all been waiting for. Jordan Knight, in the flesh. Like literally 5 feet away. I almost puked. Lots of gyrations, the glances, the touches. *sigh* He did a one hour set, with lots of New Kids songs. It was so worth the time, money and lack of sleep for this. Pictures and video will be at the end of the blog. But man it was great!! We tried to get autographs from Jordan but he was staked out in the bathroom for 20 minutes, taking a giant dump apparently. At least that's myself and Kimmie's theory. (hahaha). He ended up taking a side door out to his waiting SUV to get to the hotel. So alas no luck. Kimmie even told the security guards her story. Her story is so courageous, let alone what we had to get through to get her there that night. You go girl.
So we left the venue and tried to ask security there to help us get Kimmie back in the van. They couldn't help. Three very nice valets there at the parking garage did help though. We were so lucky. I know Jesus was on our side that night, no doubt. It took me an extra 10-15 minutes to figure out how the heck to get to 880, since the streets in downtown San Jose are extremely insane. We got back to San Leandro by 12:15, and I picked up Noelle. For some reason, she wanted to drive. I thought she was on crack but she explained herself later on. We took a very necessary Starbucks run and headed on out to Lodi. When we got to Lodi, Kimmie was smart and called the fire dept to help her out of the van. They were nice guys and one of em was kinda cute. Kimmie was finally home safe and emotionally exhuasted by 2am. Noelle and I took off back to the bay area, and I'm so glad she was driving. She told me she had a premonition that I had fallen asleep behind the wheel and crashed that night. That's why she wanted to drive. I'd like to thank her for saving my life. I got home safely by 3:30 and decided to stay up since I'd have to get up in 1 1/2 hours anyway for work. What a night.
So on Saturday afternoon I didn't get to bed until 2pm. I woke up at 5pm when Cathy and TJ came over with pizza and booze. Amy showed up about an hour later, and we had an 80s/90s movie marathon. Smokey And The Bandit, Stay Tuned (starring John Ritter, Pam Dawber and Mr. Rooney from Ferris Bueller who played the dad on Beetlejuice), and Revenge Of The Nerds. I ended up not going to bed until way late. Note I had been up like 30 hours straight not counting my 3 hour nap. I'm not mad at anybody for coming over, since I had a freakin blast. I seem to get drunk quicker when I'm exhausted.
Sunday I woke up at 4:30am, so I could get to work before 6am when I go on air. After my airshift at KKIQ I hung out in Modesto with Sandi watching the first two Pirates Of The Carribean movies. Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp are hot!!! I had fun talking with her, Renee and Larkin, then I headed home. Had just enough time to do some halfass housework and make dinner before working here. I had one crazy weekend, but boy it was worth it.

Boo

Only a few sucky things. First of all I've eaten nothing but crap all weekend. Carls Jr twice on Friday night, pizza on Saturday night and pizza on Sunday afternoon. Right now I'm chillin with raw veggies. I should make it back to the gym Tues-Fri mornings this week. This should put me back on track. I'm hoping.
Kimmie and I were devastated that we didn't meet Jordan, but he'll be back in California soon enough. We still love him anyway.
I haven't been this exhausted in forever. I took a 2 hr doze here at work.. well half asleep anyway. It sure helped. I can't wait to crawl into bed by 8am this morning.

Okay here are the videos and pictures and stuff..

Jordan singing "I'll Be Loving You Forever"
Jordan Knight, I'll be loving you, 6/1 San Jose

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"Step By Step"
Jordan Knight, Step by Step live 6/1

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"Hangin Tough"
Jordan sings Hangin Tough remix

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Kimmie and I lookin sexy.