Very Tired

I cannot write tonight because I am so tired.

Please forgive me, but I'll leave you with this I am going to Oakland to see him.

Wedding Land Part 2

I got the church yesterday afternoon at 3:00pm, as planned, and I discovered that I was supposed to provide the accompaniment for the organist. Wha?!? The selected songs were given to me by the couple, and all I had was a make shift piece of paper with the melody printed out sort-of... uh oh. The organist decided that this was a perfect time to lecture me on being a soloist. I begged him to please make-do with this piece of paper that I had, and he refused. Panicked, I decided to practice the first song. The acoustics in the church made the singing better than usual, but I had the scariest seat in the house. This was my view:

It was great! Except, I was up above the alter, and I saw the entire congregation... yes, that was nerve racking. Plus, these people were friends... you want to do a good job for them.

Anyway, after we practiced the first song. He decided that I could sing the second song a cappella. Ugh! This man has played the organ for this church for almost 20 years, and has played 18 weddings in one year. You would think that his disgruntled self would muster up the creative piano-playing juice I know he has to invent a chord progression for a not so hard piece. Yeah, no. He wouldn't. Then! on top of that...the wedding planner said, "Can you play something to hide their walking?" He said, "sure." Then he proceeded to play the first verse and chorus of the song..that I was to follow singing a cappella. Jerk.

It turned out fine. I loved it and the whole event turned out to be really really beautiful. We went to the top of the Bank of America building for the reception. We saw the sun set behind the city, and it was something to write home about. I tell ya. It's nice to take a step back from all the "problems" in life, and take in the gorgeous surroundings. I do feel very blessed to live in such a beautiful place.

Then Pasha and I spent the morning with the Bride and Groom and the rest of the out of towners and wedding party this morning at a beautiful brunch. The whole weekend was truly spectacular, and I was so thrilled to be part of such an amazing wedding for two incredible people.

So, things with Pash are ok. He is going to the hanson concert with me tomorrow. This is going to be interesting. I pray pray pray that it will be ok, but if he hates it...he can always leave. Hanson is actually very good, and VERY talented. I think they are so amazing! I am very much looking forward to this spectacular evening.
I'll tell you all about it on Tuesday. I'll tell you more about Pash later. I'm feeling a little drained, and I want a nap.

Love is in the Air in San Francisco

Monday’s are starting to feel like a time warp because of the incredible fun that happens over the weekend! This weekend out turned out to be no exception, but this week is going to be overloaded with rehearsal.

When Pasha and I first met, our third date was San Francisco’s love parade. The love parade is basically an outside rave with 25 different floats each playing a different type of electronic music, and they parade down Market Street till they get to the Civic Center. Once at the Civic Center, they park their floats all around for the entire day until their perspective “after-parties.”

Pasha LOVES drum and base. My just-stepped-off-the-gap-poster-never-done-a-single-“bad-boy”-type-
of-thing-or-even-smoked-a-cigerette boyfriend can dance ALL NIGHT LONG to drum and base. He LOVES it. I completely understand the correlation between Dave Matthews and Seal to drum and base? He’s cute with an eclectic taste in music.

My favorite band is Hanson.

So, the Love Parade has never quite been my “thing,” but I go for him because I love him, and because of the company, it turns out to be a good time. Plus, the event is starting to become nostalgic because we have gone together for three years in a row.

The first year we went with Liz danced all day, and then Liz and I went to the Green Day concert with Ashley.

The second year, I went with just Pasha and I ended up loosing my brand new camera in cab. (That sucked).

This year I went with just Pasha, and I remembered to bring my camera (in a purse this time), but I LEFT THE BATTERY OUT OF THE CAMERA. One of these days I am going to loose my head!

The weather was absolutely gorgeous. I could not get over how warm it was in San Francisco. For some reason, the love parade is always on a day with excellent weather. I also forgot how many *T.A.P.’s I was going to see. I think I was so awe struck with Pasha the first two years that I completely forgot how many T.A.P’s I was going to see. I mean REALLY! Of course, all of the naked men running around were over the age of 55, and although it might be attractive to some, I was really disgusted. I mean all the women running around looked like models in their 20’s. WHY couldn’t the competition be fair?! I couldn’t even find ONE dude that compared to the eye candy he was obviously trying to avoid by focusing solely on me. I appreciate him trying because it was hard for me to divert my eyes.

This was just one event in the fun-filled weekend that included The Office Season 3, Mac and Cheese, Film in the Fog showing Creature of the Blue Lagoon, Wine and cheese, Liverpoolils, Downtown shopping, and Dinner at Chevy’s for Ash’s birthday.

*Please email me for clarification of T.A.P’s