Poison and Cinderella are coming to Grand Forks

I'm all kinds of excited. Poison and Cinderella are coming to Grand Forks on August 27th. A girl I work with at good ol' Taco Bell can get tickets in Rows 1-8 standing room only for 26 bucks. I so want to go to this show and the group of people that would be going would just be a total blast. I was so excited about that I just had to hurry and tell the world about it.

It makes me remember my childhood. These are the bands we used to listen to in my aunt's car while we drug main because that is what the cool kids did. These are the bands we used to waste our quarters in the Pizza Hut jukebox every Tuesday night when our extended family got together for dinner. That and Billy Ray Cyrus "Don't Break My Heart'...to hear my dad sing that song would break your heart. Not because he sings well, just because he is such a dork and has a blast doing it.

Those were the days that no matter how bad things were I was able to make the best of them. I had the I don't care what the world thinks of me routine down pat. I kept people out so they wouldn't know my vulnerabilities and wouldn't be able to use them against me.

Then there was junior high and the small group of friends that knew as much as I would let them know about me and hoped that the next week they weren't mad at me for something and decide to use it against me. For the most part I picked some of the most loyal girls in Lander to call my friends.

Then came High School graduation and those girls all went off on there separate ways. I receive an email from one every once in a while. I see one whenever I am able to make it back home and there happens to be some big community event other than that I have lost contact with all the rest of them. I guess we weren't as close as we thought we were. Or I am just terrible at keeping in touch.

Then came college and my introduction to the wonderful class of beverages called alcohol. This is when the walls started crumbling down. Get a few drinks in this girl and she would tell the world anything you wanted to know about her self or others. Very few good friends came from my consumption of alcohol and the ones that are dear to me have also gone their separate ways now and I don't hear much from them either.

So here I am this vulnerable girl in a new town, full of new people longing to rebuild those walls that were so carefully constructed once before. They are hard to get back up once they have fallen to the ground and especially when you are trying to keep a whole town out. Or the majority of the town that you come into contact with, at times I even wish I could build the wall to keep Jennifer out. But, she knows me for the most part too well and just by the look in my eyes she can tell something is wrong. I guess that is what happens when you share a bedroom with someone for 15 years.

Now that I have let this little community into the world of creeksta a little more, I think I will go to bed. Crazy what the possiblity of going to a concert will make you remember or think of.

I wish Nathan were here...