As you may know I’m beginning to get all of my finances caught up, catching up on the last of my bills, paying off my debt and starting to save up for my cousin’s upcoming nuptials and for STURGIS 2016!!
It was just a regular morning, I was in the middle of my daily email check and it was just BAM BAM BAM! One after the other!
THREE DAYS GRACE CONCERT IN NOVEMBER!
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD CONCERT IN SEPTEMBER!
CRAIG FERGUSON SHOW IN NOVEMBER!
This was the moment when I started running around waving my arms in the air. Three Days Grace? The love of my life. Picture me age 13 trying to be a rebellious angsty teenager cranking my music in my room and jumping on my bed! My first favorite band and they continue to hold that title in my heart to this day! When Adam left my heart did break, up was down, right was left, I was lost. Ironically enough listening to them again proved to be very therapeutic, their messages in their music was exactly what I needed to pull me out of my funk! Adam has since started another band Saint Asonia, which is nothing short of a masterpiece, so my recovery is coming along! Also I will say that Matt is doing a very good job so I think I’m going to make it out alive.
Hollywood Undead came to me a little later on, picture a 15-year-old Shannondoah trying to fit in with her big brother and listening to his half rap/hard rock intense mixture, seven voices completely different. It was quite refreshing actually, and instead of pretending to like it to hang out with my brother, turns out I really did enjoy it! My mother on the other hand… “Shannondoah! Did he actually just say that?! No! No! Not happening! Turn that crap off right now!” So Hollywood Undead is full of fun memories, me getting my license and playing all of their CD’s while I burnt my dad’s gas doing ‘Loser Laps’ around main street, or driving to the beach for endless hours or blaring it in the house and running out while my mother struggles with the CD player, not knowing how to use it… Oh good times.
And Craig. Craig Ferguson. We were together for quite some time, almost ten years actually. I remember I was just a young girl, a mere age of 13, I started watching him in the summer when I would sleep all day and stay up into the wee hours of the morning. It was an amazing summer, one that I will never forget, and once I would get home and everyone was getting ready for bed I would always sit down at 11:37PM and watch Craig. I thought he was the funniest man I had ever seen in my life. My brother would watch with me in the beginning, he enjoyed it as well but would always tease me about being obsessed with an old man. The whole family would tease me actually but I would always catch them watching it and laughing which made me feel much better knowing that they appreciated his weird Scottish humour as much as I did.
So there’s a little bit of background on pre teen Shannondoah and her obsessive personality.
Why yes Ticketmaster I’ll buy all of the tickets! Just let me get my handy-dandy credit card out here!
Then I came down to earth a little bit. I’m in the middle of paying off my debt, saving up for STURGIS, and a fast approaching wedding. I’d have to factor in traveling fees to get to these shows, food, t-shirts, ticket prices. Could I really do it? Could I really afford it?
Probably not.
Will I go?
Probably not.
Is it killing me?
Yes!
Maybe if I revert to my younger ways and eat all of my parents food for the next few months I can pay for all of these concerts and shows! Great idea!
I know they will be back eventually, and I will be able to see them again in my lifetime. I just have to think about the future, what do I want more? To see all of them now or go to Sturgis next year.
I don’t know.
Advice? Anyone?
I’ll let you know what I end up doing. Or I’ll just end up writing an emotional piece on being poor and left out after seeing all of my friends photos and videos online.
Be still my beating heart!
Cheers!
Shannondoah 