Thinking it is who you know…

I know, sorry, but no journey with Tiara today.  I wrote this post last week and forgot about it.  Because I am hosting another dinner for 15 people tonight, ( my mother in laws birthday) and am totally overwhelmed as usual, I decided to make my life easy and post this instead of dredging up old memories of Tiara and figuring out what to write about.  Instead you get to hear about our mother daughter concert experience. 

 I mentioned to you last Thursday, I was taking Trinity to the Victoria Justice concert at the Orange County Fair.  I really didn’t want to go but Trinity kept begging me to buy tickets and since the poor kid hardly ever gets to do “normal” stuff like other 10 year old’s, I begrudgingly agreed.  I decided to buy 4 tickets since they were only $22 and thought this would be a good opportunity to go with another mom and daughter team.  The seat sections were all sold out so I was stuck with the lawn, which I was a little nervous about.

My sister and niece accepted our invitation and off we went to the concert.  Because I live on such a rigid schedule with Tiara and hardly do anything without her it always takes me some time to adjust before I can enjoy myself.  The concert didn’t start until 8:15pm, which seemed really late to me, but apparently the OC Fair doesn’t function on my boring schedule wherein I am in my pajamas by 8pm.  We got to the fair by 7pm and walked around for a while.  Of course I saw everyone lined up for the concert when we were walking in and started getting really anxious, feeling like we too should line up.  My sister knew I was started to freak out about it, so I finally asked her “what time should we line up?  Just give me a time so I don’t have to worry.”  “Let’s go in at 7:45.”  “Ok, what if we get a horrible seat in the lawn area? ” I asked.  “Who cares?” she said.  “Ok, you are right, who cares?”  I calmed myself down, I can be so uptight and freaky at times.

Once inside, we found a great spot on the lawn and I really liked sitting up there.  Yes, you couldn’t see the stage that well, but there were big screens and you could stretch out and cross your legs.  I always like to sit with my legs crossed or up on my seat.  They are actually crossed as I sit on my desk chair writing this.

I then went and got everyone snacks, including a big Stella beer for myself.  The show started right on time with some cute kid as the opening act.  As soon as he opened his mouth, I looked over at my sister and started busting up laughing.  Is he serious?  Clearly, he was no Justin Bieber, but come on.  The second thought that popped into my head was “he must know someone in the music industry, because he is so not good.”  I was so surprised. I haven’t gone to a concert in years but the last concert I attended was The Frey and they were amazing.  I feel like every concert I went to as a kid was great, so I certainly wasn’t expecting the opening act for Victoria Justice to be kinda bad.  I feel bad even saying this, because he was really trying but his voice so wasn’t there.

Luckily, he only sang 15 minutes and then the promoter came out and got the audience all fired up.  He had all the girls jumping up and down screaming for Victoria Justice.  Even Trinity got so excited, I was loving watching her yell and cheer for her to come out.  All of the sudden, the white screen was back lit with the image of a girl posing.  So cheesy, but cute and then she magically appeared wearing black and white striped pants and a florescent green top.  I thought she looked cute besides she is drop dead gorgeous so who cares what she is wearing?  Well, apparently Trinity and my niece did because they were horrified at the outfit.  Trinity kept saying “Who dressed her?  Who told her to wear that?”  Clearly she has been hanging out with Tabitha too much, the resident fashion police at the Goff house.

And now to her voice and personality.  Well, let’s just say the opening act no longer looked so bad because her opening song which was the theme song to the show Victorious was so void of emotion and excitement the audience was barely yelling.  I felt like I was being lulled to sleep.  My sister who worked in the music industry for years was baffled. “What is going on here?”  “Don’t look at me, I don’t know why a teenager who has her own show can’t sing.  Maybe she should just stick to acting, I am not sure she is a real triple threat, singing, dancing and acting.  It actually didn’t matter that she couldn’t sing because the girls were having so much, they could have cared less.

So the funny part about the whole night was my expectations were totally off.  I assumed the actual concert would be great but the staying out late and sitting on the law would suck but it was exactly the opposite.  I loved sitting with the kids on the lawn and watching them dance and we weren’t even out that late because half way through Victoria Justice the girls started yawning and we told them the show was just about over so they decided they wanted to leave.  When I got home, Tiara was asleep and Lou looked totally worked and exhausted.  Pretty much how I look everyday when he gets home.  The night was a success and we all had fun.

Happy Monday and bear with me these last few weeks of August as life is getting really hard and it may become evident in my posts or lack of posts.  Considering a little vacation from blogging at the end of the month, but not sure if that will help me or take away my only therapy?  We will see……

xoxo tiffani