Raging Idiots Concert: The best night of my life.

My first Raging Idiots concert was a complete success(Until I met Bobby). The band consists of National Country Radio DJ Bobby Bones and his Producer Eddie. If you're lucky depending on where they're going, they'll bring along some guests.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the band, they don't make any profit from any of their shows, it is all donated towards a charity of their choice.

After witnessing that we were apart of a $22,000 donation to a pet shelter I realized that may have been the best $20 I could've ever spent.

Not only does it make you feel good to be apart of a making a difference in other lives but you get to enjoy some good music and lot's of laughter. I mean what more can you ask for?

So, while I am there I wish it was my birthday and that I was the one being called on stage like this lucky woman but it was amazing to see him sing to her.

If you're wondering why the night was awesome until I met Bobby, here's why!

I've been listening to his show for about a year and a half now. The first time I heard him I was completely hooked. I was heartbroken when they said they were going off the air for 2 weeks when they decided to make the move to Nashville. I've wanted to call in to the show so many times but kept saying that I will just wait, one day I'll get to talk to them.

When I heard the Raging Idiots were coming to Austin I was ecstatic. I knew that I needed to go meet them. I tweet them from time to time but I doubt they remember who I am. I know they all tweet so many people on a day to day basis.

So in the weeks leading up to the show I kept wondering who will come with them. Besides Cruz, and their guest performers Maggie Rose and Intern Kiano, would Amy, and Lunchbox come?

The day finally comes and we are headed from College Station to Austin to this concert. My boyfriend doesn't listen to the show unless he hears me listening to it but he never just turns it on. So keep in mind he wasn't too thrilled I was dragging him to the show. Normally I would've asked my girlfriends to take a roadtrip with me but I knew they already had plans that weekend. So Blake had to take one for the team and do something he really didn't want to do.

But, it worked out perfect because Graham Central Station is literally like 5 miles from his dad and step-mom's house.

We get to Graham Central Station right at 9:30 and I'm freaking out thinking they've already started and we walk through the door and I can hear them announcing the Raging Idiots. So, I grab my boyfriends arm and drag him towards the stage.

We get some drinks and I'm standing there saying " I can't believe I am here! I can't believe I am seeing Bobby Bones singing LIVE!" My boyfriend just keeps laughing and I can see him loosening up because of course the Raging Idiots are playing some great songs.

Anyway, the concert goes on. It's the best experiencing of my life. I'm standing there singing, laughing, taking pictures, videos and just seriously not believing that I am there witnessing Bobby Bones, my favorite radio DJ ever!!!

When the concert is over they decide to let everyone go get pictures and autographs in the room next door. As the swarm of ants(I mean people) head over, we decide to just get some drinks and hang out until that chaos of a line goes down.

My boyfriends smokes so he asks if we can go outside to smoke. We head out over to the little smoking area designated in the back of the country bar. We are back there for just a bit and right when we walk back in THERE GOES BOBBY BONES!
CRAP!
That was my time to grab him, ask for a selfie, and you know... just be a crazy fan of his.

So, since I missed my chance we go back inside the bar, grab a seat and just talk while enjoying our drinks(and people watching of course).

We wait for about an hour and decide to get into the line to take pictures because it has died down drastically.

As we are getting closer I keep telling myself, I am going to tell Bobby this, and that and ask Cruz for a selfie and give Bobby the chicken wing instead of a handshake and so on!

We get right to the bottom of the steps and there's two girls in front of me who are taking selfies and pictures of Bobby and trying to get a picture of them with Bobby in the background. The cop standing next to us tells them No pictures and that we can only take the picture that KASE 101 is taking of everyone.

WELL CRAP!

There goes my selfie!

We get up there and I'm eyeing Cruz. Mainly because I told him he was cute on twitter recently and I can't help but wonder if he recognizes me. AWKKWARDDDDD! LOL

I walk up to Bobby and I'm so excited to tell him so many things and the only thing that comes out of my mouth was a simple HI!. That's it. Just HI!

They take our picture and I hand my paper to Eddie and tell him and Maggie how awesome they are. Kiano say's thank you for coming, and still all I've said were TWO FREAKING THINGS!
WHAT. THE. CRAP!

My boyfriend had said hello and introduced himself to everyone, shook hands and so forth and here I was one of their biggest fans of the show and all I could manage was a Hi.

So needless to say meeting Bobby Bones was everything I could've imagined and more(Just wish I could've said more than 5 words). Eddie was super cool too. Maggie was just as beautiful in person than online and I still can't believe that I got to hear her sing!

I was sad that I didn't get to meet Amy, Lunchbox, Nada, Phone girl Sydney and Ray... but I am still hoping to make it out to Nashville one day to visit the show.

These people are not only real about what they say, the things they believe in but also what they are apart of and so forth. They are the perfect role models for others! I'm so glad that I found the Bobby Bones show. My mornings definitely wouldn't be the same

Shopping tips and pointers

Did you know that most places you sign up for their email list you can get money off.

For instance,

Charlotte Russe- Sign up for the email list and you get a coupon for 10% off. Also, right now they have shoes on sale for Buy One Get One for $15.
Their shorts are also on sale for Buy One Get One for $10.

Body Central has it where you sign up for their email list and you get a 15% off coupon. They also have it to where if you sign up for their texting club you get a text about once a week and it's usually a $10 off a $40 purchase.

Wet Seal has a sale going on on their Tops, Shorts, and Sandals....buy any one of those and get the other item HALF OFF!

Francesca's is having a 30% off on all of their handbags ONLINE ONLY, TODAY ONLY. Their handbags are SOOO SOO SOO cute. They range anywhere from $40-$70 so 30% off is a good deal.

Last but most CERTAINLY not least...

RUE 21.

Their email club is quite possibly the BEST. I get the best coupons literally for something like every other week. I LOVE IT. They are coupons like get $20 off $40, get $30 off a $70 purchase and so forth. You also can go sometimes and get RUE BUCKS which are like the best thing ever invented.

Seriously,

if you haven't done something like this then what are you waiting for.

I shop so much that I NEED to use coupons on things so that I am not constantly paying full price for things.

These are just a few places that I like to shop at but I am sure that you are a reader of this blog and those are not the places that you like to shop at, go check the stores that you look at online and I can guarantee you that you will have coupons there as well.


GO SIGN UP!!!

Writing my first book

Writing a book is very intimidating. It's almost like I feel like I am being defeated. I don't like it.

Taking the first step is the issue.

I can't seem to figure out where to start.

I know what I want to write about, and I know what I want is a good book as my first.

But, I am feeling defeated and I haven't even started.

I'm not liking this.

I probably need to just suck it up and just start writing.

Heck, who knows where I'll end up with it.

I was watching the first Sex and the City the other day. (You know, the one where Big miscommunicatingly left Carrie at the alter.) Anyway, Carrie was doing research for her next book that she was going to write, and it made me think that maybe I need to do research.

Crap.

Research.

Who on earth wants to do that?

But the way I see it, I'm never going to get anywhere with this book if I don't suck it up and just start writing.

Then, I will have let intimidation win.

And I am not about to let that happen.

Being 25 is not like being 21.

Even though I've been 25 for a whole 7 months now, it never really hits me until I have to do things like pay bills, make adult like decisions, act like an adult, dress like an adult, be mature and all that kind of stuff. So technically I act 25 all the time I just like to try and not remember that I am getting old.

However,

I feel all of 25 when I go out and try and act like I am 21 again.

But the issue with my recent decision in going out was not that I drank like I was 21 but that I stayed out late like I was 18.

That alone causes 2 full days of recovering.

Going out with groups of people and planning it for weeks is NEVER as fun as the random times that just a few of us decide to go out, have a few drinks and dance our butts off!

4 hours out on the town was a freaking adventure.

& a lot more memories, of course.

From riding 3 deep in the front seat but no one in the back, and dancing for a whole hour without stopping....


I am thankful for my friends, our randomness and being able to go out and have a blast without getting completely inebriated.

How to NOT burn Cinnamon Rolls

Okay, Here's the deal....

I've recently become slightly more domesticated(Thanks to my new crock pot that Blake got me for Christmas. Pretty sure he was trying to say something.)

Anyway,
By domesticated I mean, that I am no longer on strike from cooking.

(I was on strike because I cooked a meal for the whole neighborhood(total sarcasm) and NO ONE ate it. They(the guys) came home from their games and went to bed or outside to drink and totally disregarded the food. Ugh. BOYS!)

SO...

I started out by cooking a charro beans recipe that my sister gave to me. They turned out AWESOME!

The next day I cooked Blake breakfast(in bed) for his birthday.

I completely forgot that I had bought cinnamon rolls so during the week when I found them I thought, "Cool, I can make these sometime soon."

I decided to make them Sunday morning since we had slept in a little and it would be a nice little snack until we decided to get up and maybe get lunch or something.

The rules on how to cook them are pretty simple.

Preheat the oven.
Place rolls on pan.
Cook for 25-29 minutes.
Place icing on top.

BUT, what I didn't know was that I needed to put them in a certain pan.

I put them on the normal cookie sheet instead of in a small round pan.

Needless to say, they came out extra brown, & extra crispy.

GROSS!


Thinking about going back on strike from the whole domesticated thing. Cooking is just NOT for me. Have you ever met a Mexican woman that can't cook?

Well, HERE I AM PEOPLE!

HERE. I. AM!



Here's to not catching the house on fire! :)

The IRS should stand for It's Really Stupid

WHY DOES THE IRS HAVE TO BE SUCH ASSHOLES???!!!!!

I called the IRS this morning to make a payment, first I listen to the awful automated system, I enter all of the info it tells me and then I chose my option, (which was) "to pay the bill in full." Then it tells me, due to a high call volume they cannot assist me and that I should call back another time or on the next business day.

Uhm, NO!

First off, don't trick me into choosing that option if you're not even going to help me, then when you tell me you cannot assist me, I call BULL-SHIT!

If I was an idiot and believed that, I would walk away letting you get away with not handling my call, but then when I call back in a few days, you jerks would say I have late fees, or that my payment will not be received on time then there will be late fees, whichever, you will try and pin it back on me yet when I called your automated system says it cannot help me due to high call volume.

I understand that the deadline to file taxes is a week away, but, if your call volume is so high I suggest you get more people to answer the phones during the busier times. DUH!

But, it's a good thing I am smart and decide to call back and choose another option that I feel will get me through. And it does. NOT LIKE IT HELPED ANYWAY!!!

I answer all of the questions the (RUDE) lady asked me, then when she asked who I was I tell her my name.

"Ma,am you are not the person who is associated with this social security number."

WELL NO SHIT! The person on the account is a male and I'm not a male, AM I?

I didn't say that, but I wanted to.

Anyway, the convo goes like this:
Me: "No ma'am, I am not."
The (RUDE) lady: "Well, who is it then?"
Me: My Boyfriend(At this time I am thinking, freaking boyfriend should be my husband, then I would be able to talk to whoever the hell I wanted being his wife and all, but LET'S NOT GET ON THAT SUBJECT!)
The (RUDE) lady: Well, is he not available?
Me: Nope.(Hence, why I am calling and he is not,  duh)... AGAIN, I did not say that, but I wanted to.
The (RUDE) lady: Well he needs to be available to talk to me.

I respond with "Ugh, okay. Bye" and just hang up.

Okay here's the deal...

Yes, it was rude of me to just be like "Ugh, okay" and then hang up. But, two wrongs make a right, right? I needed to be rude because the whole time I wasn't rude, and she was and I wanted to say so much more but I didn't.

Look lady, my boyfriend works, outside, hot or cold... he doesn't have time to call and deal with you rude people. I work at a desk, where a phone happens to be something I am on all day so calling you isn't a big deal, especially when I am able to answer all of the questions correctly. I get you people worry about fraud and blah, blah, blah, but LOOK, it isn't like I am calling about a tax return, I am calling about making a PAYMENT to you people. You'd think you'd be more willing to take my money and help me out.

I am now aware of a few more things,

1. The IRS is stupid. JUST. PLAIN. STUPID.

2. Customer service is NOT meant for everyone, and that lady on the other line is lucky that I didn't write her tax id number down because I'd report her rude self to her boss in a heartbeat.

3. I'm annoyed at the fact that that rude lady has a job when there are actually people out there who WANT to work and who I am pretty certain would be so much nicer than she is, however, she is the one answering the phone and we just have to suck it up and deal with it.

4. It's a good thing they don't let me run things, I'd whip all of these people in to shape. The attitude adjustments would be FIRST ON MY LIST.


WHO IS HER BOSS?

BARACK?

Someone get me his phone number!

Maybe Someday: Colleen Hoover

Wow! Just wow. Speechless. Which doesn't occur often. But I'm writing this a few hours after finishing because I was just speechless. That was the third Colleen Hoover book that I've read and I feel like once again I've walked away with my heart feeling so much different. With my life having changed forever. Colleen's books are so  life-changing.... So lessons-learned. I love them! They're remarkable! I don't even want to get into the story line but the fact that love has a funny way of teaching you something, you can't help who you fall in love with and never let go of that "maybe someday!" 

Go. Read. It. Now. 

You won't regret it. 

Sneak Peak: Forever You

In case you're not on goodreads.com(which a lot of people aren't.), and in case you don't stalk an authors social media page(like I do), again,  a lot of people don't, here is a link to Forver You, the 5th book of the jade series.


Forever You Sneak Peak

There isn't a release date yet, but I can guarantee you that we are all impatiently waiting :)