Saturday, June 10, 2006

The Best weekend that wasn't

I know most people don'’t consider Tuesday and Wednesday to be the weekend, but it was for me this week. And it was AWESOME!! Remember me telling you about this chick? Well, she was playing at a club in Chi-town. So I called a couple friends from up there who I don'’t see nearly enough and who are almost always up for just about anything. The show was Tuesday night so therefore Tuesday became the kick-off to my weekend.

I actually had to work until noon Tuesday morning (not the best way to start a weekend, I know, but trust me it gets better) I left work and headed home to pack and then decided I needed to grab some lunch before hitting the road. I decided that lunch had to be Cafe Patachou. Usually Patachou is reserved for Sunday morning brunch with Will on the weekends that I'm home. They have the most AWESOME omelets. Also, their fruit salads contain no nasty cantaloupe or honeydew melon! I had never had lunch there before and the waitress convinced me to try their chicken salad. As is everything else there... AWESOME!

I finally got on the road and made pretty good time until I hit I90/94. Unfortunately I just don'’t know the city well enough to have been smart and jumped off on Lake Shore like my friend who was driving up from South Bend (he was easily an hour behind me, but managed to make there only 15 minutes after me!) Eventually the 3 of us arrived at Beana's house (she was the last one to get there) and we set out for the show.

We were all hungry so we stopped a little Mexican restaurant that was right across the street from the club. We were running low on time so we all inhaled our food and ran over to the club only to find out that there was an opening band that was going to be playing for 45 minutes. Since it was standing room only and we really had no desire to see the opening band, we went back to the restaurant to try their self proclaimed, "Best Margaritas in the Town."” YUM!!!

FINALLY, it was time to go see Missy. The show was at a place called Martyrs'. It was a cute little place, good for bands because it had a nice size stage. Missy came out and played for about an hour or so I think. She was absolutely adorable and she sounded really good. She played a lot of stuff that is on the album that I have, as well as some newer stuff that she said she was testing out before recording a new album. It was a really fun show. She seemed to be having a good time talking to and joking with the crowd. It was a really small venue so the crowd frequently talked back which was entertaining. When people in the crowd asked when the new album was coming out she didn'’t miss a beat in responding in a snide 13 year old girl voice, "“none of your business!" She then proceeded to tell us that she was testing songs out on us and instructed us not to clap if we don't like a song. She asked if there were any other Australians there and got quite a loud response. She then joked that Australians are about 4 times louder than any American so there probably weren'’t as many as it sounded like. My favorite comment came when she was tuning her guitar and pointed out that she was only telling us this story (I don'’t remember what the story was about) to fill time while she was tuning, but that she was "Having problems talking because my belly is so full of pizza. It's BLOODY good here, you have to try it." Of course everything was in an Australian accent which was adorable, though she did take a moment to point out that she loved the American accent because it is so "round."” She then slipped into a west coast surfer dude accent which we all found VERY amusing.

She neglected to play my favorite song, which I was NOT amused by, but all in all it was a really good show. I really liked some of the new stuff that she played which bodes well for the next album. At the end she said she would be over at the t-shirt booth if anyone wanted to come say hi. So Beana took a pic of me with her, but I cropped me out of it because it wasn'’t cute (and Will said my boobs looked huge in it so that freaked me out) But here'’s the picture. Whose proud of me for being able to crop things using Photoshop?!?! I AM!! Oh yeah! Also had to use the red-eye reduction tool on this shot too! GO ME!!!

After the show we headed back to Beana's house and had a little bit of time to chat with her and her roommate before we all had to crash. The next morning I was off to ... You guessed it... IKEA!!! I heart Ikea. I managed to pick up a few things we needed for the house and then it was off to lunch. Gino's Pizza!! Best pizza ever! YUUUUUUMMMMMY! I was even nice and brought some home for the boys. There was just one more stop that had to be made before heading home. Luckily it was right across the street from Gino'’s. Jamba Juice. Best smoothies I'’ve ever had but of course we don't have one at home, we have to settle for stupid Smoothie King.... So not the same. But I got my Mango-a-go-go smoothie with a free immunity boost and was on my way home.

So to recap... Awesome Patachou lunch, great time with friends, yummy margaritas, awesome concert, Ikea, Gino's, and Jamba Juice... Seriously... it was the best weekend that wasn't!