2013 Recap - Concerts

List of the concerts/bands I saw this year:

• 2/1/13 - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
• 3/1/13 - Passion Pit
• 3/1/13 - Passion Pit DJ Set (they never showed up but we saw Youth Lagoon there)
• 3/9/13 - Cotton Jones
• 3/23/13 - Imagine Dragons, Atlas Genius
• 4/3/13 - Cold War Kids
• 4/13/13 - Sublime with Rome, Air Dubai
• 5/2/13 - Alex Clare
• 5/19/13 - Gold Fields, The Neighbourhood, Atlas Genius, Capital Cities, Airborne Toxic Event, Jimmy Eat World, Of Monsters and Men, AWOLNATION, Silversun Pickups, C2C
• 5/20/13 - Vampire Weekend, Of Monsters and Men
• 5/24/13 - Capital Cities, Gold Fields
• 5/30/13 - The Neighbourhood
• 5/31/13 - Atlas Genius
• 6/2/13 - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Alabama Shakes
• 6/17/13 - A Silent Film
• 6/22/13 - The Mowglis, Trampled by Turtles, My Body Sings Electric, Hunter Hunted, Dada Life
• 7/31/13 - My Morning Jacket, WILCO, Bob Dylan
• 8/17/13 - Blitzen Trapper, Cold War Kids
• 8/29/13 - One Republic, Sara Barrellies
• 9/9/13 - Ra Ra Riot, Caveman
• 9/14/13 - Lumineers, Family of the Year
• 10/9/13 - Bronze Radio Return
• 10/16/13 - Anberlin
• 10/20/13 - Atlas Genius
• 10/23/13 - The 1975

My 25th Birthday

11/6/13 I'm always terrible at recording special and significant days, so I decided to write in this blog for the time being. This post will likely be posted late. Or maybe I'll just update it as things happen (because I recently learned such a thing was possible).

Right now I'm half-way through my birthday and it's already been amazing and since I don't know when I'll get around to writing in my actual journal, I'm going to blog some of the highlights, because this is definitely my best birthday yet.

Things I was looking forward to by turning 25:

• Saving hundreds on car insurance: Literally, I saved almost two hundred dollars on my auto insurance by turning 25 and having one of my speeding tickets finally off my record from 3 years ago. There's a hilarious commercial that helps illustrate this, and my 25th birthday happens to fall on a Hump Day. So I am quite happier than the camel in this commercial:
• Being able to rent a car without extra fees: I will celebrating this on a trip to New York next week. I always hated paying extra for car rentals and I'm quite ecstatic about this. 

Silly moments from last night:

• Last minute decision to go to a Spurs/Nuggets game with Heather. Go Spurs!!! (they won!)
• My friend Brian had called me in order to give me his phone number, but I accidentally saved his name under the number of the guy who I picked up the bball tickets from. I had sent this guy a text inviting him to my birthday karaoke party tonight and we ended up having a conversation, which I thought was bizarre because Brian was at dinner with my other friend. It wasn't until we were trying to meet up with them after the game that I realized I had the wrong number saved the whole time. Awkward!!!

This is the first birthday that I think I'm truly celebrating to its fullest extent. I did a good amount of planning. I'm having two parties so that I can celebrate on my actual birthday but also on the weekend when it's more likely that people can come out (but interestingly enough, I'm having a higher turnout for the mid-week shenanigans). I got a bunch of my freebies and am taking advantage of that. Then I also am going out and getting free stuff from the places I go. I can use my "birthday card" but had a sad realization today when I drove to work that I couldn't use my birthday as an excuse to get a good parking spot. That was disappointing when I still had to go through the same trouble. 

I feel so overwhelmed with all of my birthday shout-outs already. I feel so loved and I seriously love all the people I know. SO MUCH LOVE! 

Alright... I'm going to be leaving work soon to go to a dentist appt so I'll continue this a little later! 12:30pm