a couple days to make up for

yesterday, thursday was a pretty good day. i got up at a pretty good hour (10AM) and ran errands, exercised, tanned, talked to anthony forevvvver, and napped before tracy's party. good news: anthony has a car in san diego!!!! which means that the LA dmb shows are completely possible!!! woooo- hoooo!!!! i already have tickets for the san diego show on 7/29 but now i can go to the LA shows on 7/26 & 7/27 if i want to. yayyyyy!!!!
but back to thursday... tracy's party was a lot of fun. her friends, gabby, e-beth, jenna... all very nice people. marie was there in all of her bartending glory. the girl knows how to make a drink!!! i think she really impressed the under 21 crowd at the party.
i realized last night that i've known marie and tracy for a solid year now. i think if anyone had told me that i'd be this close to them now i would never have believed it... especially regarding marie. that girl talked so much dmb-related smack i'd never have guessed that she'd be attending not one but TWO dmb shows this tour. amazing the influence i have on people. reflecting back on the past year i think it's amazing the different number of people i've taken to dmb shows. darcy, geoff, melissa, micah, anthony (although he's a vetern fan), valerie, yusef... and by the end of this summer... tina, marie, jessica, and stacey. i am the queen of dmb promotions, and i'm not even getting paid. :)

during the party i talked (i.e. drunk dialed) to anthony about the roots opening for dmb, sarah about how our san diego trip is RIGHT AROND THE CORNER... and yusef about the latest drama in his life. sometimes i really feel like yusef and i are consistantly going through the exact situations. we hardly ever experience them at the same time, but at any given moment one of us is excited about a guy we've just met and the other one is completely depressed about a boy that's given us the boot. we're looking for LTRs in all the wrong places, and i for one am about to give up the chase entirely. yusef is a much stronger person than i am in many ways, but i think that many many years of disappointment has made me someone indifferent whereas yusef allows the sting to settle in and become a part of him. in other words, i'm getting worried about him. (do you hear me??? i worry about you!! ) :) but then i hear messages from people telling him how adorable he is and i think that maybe the good days will equal out the bad ones eventually.

today i slept almost until i had to be at work. got my usual throbbing headache as soon as i saw Mike and Joe, but thank god i'll only be there for a couple more weeks. they left by six and it was just me a tracy. a couple clay aiken singles and some beach boys dances later i was feeling a lot better. we raided the promo bin and i must say, i enjoyed the new annie lennox all the way home. very good cd.

just a mere 5 days before gavin degraw's magic is unleashed on the world. *sigh* for a fleeting moment he was my little secret that no one else could share. here's to august 8th and the 9.30club.

~courtney

"oh, this is the start of something good...
don't you agree?"
gavin degraw