Concerts in General

I have never really been a concert person as I never went to concerts. They were usually too expensive or out of town. So hence my concert expirence is nothing. In the last few years though I have become the avid concert goer, wether it was a small inimate setting, i.e to see my boys of Takeout at AKA or larger settings like an arena. This past Tuesday though was probably one of the best concert expirence I have had in a while.

Tuesday night Cowboys was hosting a "Free Concert" starring Randy Houser. It was free but you had to get tickets from either Carl Black's dealership or K92.3. Anyway I got tickets and was super excited!! I invited several people, and we headed towards Cowboys and got there around 6ish, even though the doors opened at 8. We wanted to be the first in line and get good spots. The doors open promtly open at 8 and we all filed in. If you have ever been to Cowboys you know how it is arranged. So the stage was roped off as thats were he was going to be preforming. Since it didn't start till 930 all the table were open as were all the bars ;) So we played a couple of games of pool, I totally rocked!! And then as it got closer to 930 we made our way toward the stage. So he came on stage and everyone on the dance floor was asked to sit on the floor so everyone there could see. So we sat, and lets just say it was way to crowded to sit all those people on the floor but somehow we did it. So it was an amazing concert and had a total blast. Randy Houser is AMAZING!!! And it was just him and one of his band members. He played lots of new songs, plus the faves of course. He also played songs that he helped to write. Like I bet you had no idea the he, Jamey Johnson, and another writer wrote the amazing Honkey Tonk Badonka Donk (sp?). Love the way he sings it!!! Got lots of photos and even some video, which I am surpised that it turned out so well as it was the first time I used the video setting on my camera.

I hope that the concerts I go to in the future are as fun as this one was!!

Season Finales

I am a dvr addict. I dvr EVERYTHING. From award programs to tv series. I love it but the one thing that I hate about tv series is the season finales. The way they end with cliffhangers sucks.

You fall in love/hate with the characters, and want to see them fall in love and make everything ok for them. Season finales don't let you do that. They make you wait to see if your fave characters are ok and the villians are stopped.

My series that I am addicted to are as follows (probably won't be all cause I have too many and might forget some):

Bones

Criminal Minds

NCIS

Castle

Paranormal State

Fringe

Warehouse 13

Sanctuary

Ghost Lab

True blood (don't jave HBO so have to wait for the Seasons to come out on DVD :( )

Those are just the ones I can think of right now. I jsut watched the Bones season finale, which totally sucked and am now watching the Criminal Minds season finale! I can not wait for fall to get here so my shows will be back on.

SMILES!!!

I love getting stuff in the mail, especially when I forgot that I ordered something and it comes in. Like what happened tonight when I got home from a LONG day at work. I was already not having a good week (will probably explain in future blogs...... maybe) and was just wanting it to be Friday so I could relax and have some 'me' time. So I come in all blah and walk into my room. There sitting on my bed was a box, a big white box.

At first I was like, "Did I leave this here?" and then "Who put that there?". I then saw the address and my face lit up like a kid in a candy store. I tore into the box estatically and was very happy with the contents. You are prbably wondering what was in the box that was sooo great.

Well first of all I have never really been a girly-girl. I perfer jeans to dresses and shorts to skirts. I have also been a very minimalist person when it comes to make-up. Hence why it is weird the I was overjoyed with this particular package.

It was a package from E.L.F.. E.L.F. stands for Eyes Lips Face E.L.F. is a online makeup company where everything they sell is a dollar. Of course they have a studio line which is $3-5 but everything else is a dollar. And everything is full size, so you get your moneys worth (or so I think, so far)

Lipstick, a dollar. Brushes, a dollar. Eyeshadow, a dollar. Nail poilsh, a dollar. And so on and so forth.

This package contained a summer beauty boost set (2 brushes, a full size mineral bronzer, a mineral booster, mineral lip gloss, 3 gold braclet, a bio-restorative day cream and a certificate for a body conturing treatment worth $500) that was $20, a couple of cream eyeshadows, a liquid eyeliner, and a lip stain. For a purchase of $20 (of course mine was more than that but you'll get the picture), I got 5 free full size nail polishes in the newest shades (super excited :) ).

They offer deals like this all the time, which means free stuff. I did a complete overhaul on all my makeup and it is all now E.L.F..

I am now a self declared E.L.F.-aholic, which coming from a girl who uses just the basics is a huge step. I still use the basics but every now and again I like to play it up and have a little fun with my makeup. I love all the products I have tried and haven't been disappointed yet. But don't take my word for it, check it out!! You might become a E.L.F.-aholic like me!

So unexpected packages (or packages I forgot about) are one of the tings that make me smile. That and bubble baths but that usually puts a smile on anyones face.

Tomorrow is Friday which means a day off, Woohoo. But it also means cleaning and laundry day. Plus I got to go to the post office and mail some books ( another thing that puts a smile on my face, book swapping clubs ROCK!!!) and then probably some grocery shopping, they got some great deals at work aka Publix. After that we shall see!!

Let's see how this goes!

Okay, first of all I have NEVER blogged before, this is a first for me. After consulting some people, ok just my cousin and she thought that this would be a good idea for me. So here I am. I guess I should let ya'll know a little bit about the blogger behind the blog.

~My name is Danielle.

~I am a college student going for my nursing degree.

~I am also the only girl out of 6 kids and I am the 2nd oldest.

~I am also the PROUD sister of a US Marine, who right now is somewhere, no idea where,becasue he is 'unable to diclose the location of the ship'.

~I am a southern girl. Now just cause I am from Florida does not make me southern. My family, who is from South Carolina, is what helps me become the southern gal that I am. You wanna talk about family meals with all the fixins with the whole humongous family, thats just a part of my southern life.

So just a snapshot of me. More will probably come out as a grow as a blogger. I am hopeful that this expirence will be a good one and that I will look forward to blogging in the future!!