ITs not quite 8 in the morning and i woke up super early for a couple of great reason. today is saturday which means its officially my birthday week. **high kick & jazz hands** here is hoping that 23 is just as good as 22.

i have really good friends this year and i know that they won't pull out of our plans last minute leaving me wondering why i was friends with them at all. (stroik that means you will be at the wildbirds tonight). the last 3 birthdays i have had, really sucked, but this year on Aug 2nd i will be seeing all of my favorite band (for the second day in a row) on Warped tour. Hello The Academy is..., Cobra, the Sick Kids, Ludo, Mayday Parade, Katy Perry, and Gym Class. We are staying at a swanky hotel in downtown Chicago and then going to the trendiest club there is for girls like us Angels and Kings (owned by Peter Wentz).

but enough about that.

What is coming sooner. in 2 hours i leave to go back to the best zoo ever with all my moms. good times. more baby tigers. i don't think i can ever get sick of that.

then after a quick nap (i hope) i will be heading south to milwaukee to go to the last wildbirds show EVER. i am really distraught about this. Golden Daze is one of my top 5 favorite CD. Taylor Hanson and i agree that the wildbirds didn't give it a fair shake as a band and sometimes you have to play places like cheesefest. I wonder if Taylor will be there? he doesn't currently have a newborn. hmmm. and ike would go cause i don't think he has any paternal instincts. ha. Tonight also ends nicholas's reign as sexy rock and roller. the clock will strike midnight his car will turn into a pumpkin and we will just be a really skinny chain smoking boy with bad hygiene. what does it matter i ended our texting romance the day taylor told me "what his problem with them" was. seriously. i am not lying. after that i had nothing to text. ha.

gah. and if that wasn't enough to make me bright eyed and bushy tailed at 8 in the morning, last night was amazing. Lyons and i went to see Sing it Loud at the riverside ballroom in GREEN BAY! i know right, i was home in 10 mins. Anyway, they were opening for Motion City Soundtrack. it was the second time i saw MCS and i think their music is good but i don't know if i would pay money for the CD. Treaty of Paris also opened for Sing it Loud and MCS. they were alright too. lyons bought their CD but then again she will buy a silver shinny object that looks like a CD from anyone.

We sat through Treaty for Paris wondering if Sing it Loud had already played because lets face it, they are babies on the music scene. treaty for paris, the have been around a lot longer, and having them play first, we were like "damn it, we just paid $21 to watch bands we had no initial desire to see."

No sweat, they were playing 3rd. What? i know. I know i have said this before and i will say it again but Sing it louds song Bite your Lip truly moves me. haha. i really need to listen to their EP seriously. i bought it a couple weeks ago, pretty much for bite your lip, but i figured i would listen to the whole thing. purchasing the katy perry CD and going on a Mayday Parade kick halted those plans to learn the EP.

Mini ike, was doing his nervous tick all over the place. not that i have watched him all that much on stage but its hard to miss it. he tossles his hair, then frantically straightens it out, not all of it just the front part, then slightly slides a chunk into his mouth. Lyons and i started using that as our mini ike bat signal. it seemed to work, every time we stuck a chunk of hair in our mouths, mini ike would walk past on a gear run.

the set was amazing. i am starting to think that p-diddy needs to start making mini ike run laps and sing because yet again he was clearly winded on stage, having to play 3 extra songs.

the good part was after the show. before we could get a chance to leave where we were standing we met our first myspace fan girl. i know it was pretty bananas. lyons handles all the comments and messages so i had no idea who she was, but she knew who we were and was thrilled to finally meet us. weird. then as one of the treaty of paris kids tried (and succeeded) to sell annalee a CD, we found out that he too knew of our kooky little myspace. oh victory is ours. ha

not wanting to have another regret to add to our "i'll get a picture with metro station later" list of regrets i bullied annalee into pictures with our crushes in the band, specifically mini ike, cause i couldn't keep my mind off his little waste line. so we broke free of the fan girl and other friends we have met at shows to go to the merch booth, where one of the SiL kids said annalee couldn't have a EP, where she shot back with "don't you want to eat tomorrow?" then he proceeded to show us how skinny he was and told us he doesn't eat he just drinks protein shakes, flexed his tattooed arm, and gave her the EP.

off we went to find mini ike, who was standing by himself. aww. annalee jumped right in there starting some banter about being at the spill canvas show and i added that we saw them at summerfest and he just said "cool" in a really lack-luster way. you can't win them all. so we asked for the picture, i got in there close, he is insanely tall, i had my hands around his waste and annalee was fussing with the camera. its seemed like forever. she giggled and said "sorry, my camera takes a while" so we waited, arms around each other in a prom like pose.

"i could stand like this forever" *sniff his chest and imagine its our wedding photo**

so the photos got taken and he ran off into the back. see ya. then it was time to find the kid who looked like he is in mayday parade. but where did he go? he was just here? annalee had tears welling up in her eyes and after a good 10 mins of rooms scanning and security yelling we decided to pack it up and go home.

as we hit the parking lot annalee goes, "AMANDA! there he is! will you please go talk to him! stop! *wisper* nate! thats his name right???? ohhhh he is stopping to sign stuff!!" i made my way between where he was and where he needed to be and waited. he had a tin of cupcakes of something, who knows. and before he had time to pick up his cupcakes i was like "whoa kid, before you get ready to go can we grab a quick picture" annalee mustered up the guts to tell him that we saw them 3 times and i added they were the reason we came tonight. i am pretty sure that was when his heart exploded with love for us. he kept thanking us in complete amazement. not believing that they would have fans that would see them more than once that weren't home town fans. he told us we would have to message him on myspace and we would have to come to the headlining tour this september. done we are there. so after our photos i said have a good night and he ended with a "i love you" aimed that lyons and i. i saw lyons dry heave with excitement.

we went to get into the car then saw the MCS singer come out for pictures. i told annalee if she wanted to wait i would wait with her and snap the picture. mayday parade kids saw us coming back and his face lit up. this is a sure sign these guys will be huge. Flash back to blake from metro station wanting us to warm up on the bus wih him. curses! haha. we waited not too long, the sing it loud kid walked past us to go inside and eat but not with out shouting out another...I LOVE YOU!

Heres to you mom, boys in bands can love me. haha.

must get mentally prepared for the day now!