Once again it's been awhile since I've posted guys, and I apologize for that but it's been hectic here in Music City. Last weekend my grandma and grandpa drove down for family weekend and it was great to see them. We had dinner that Thursday evening and Friday is when the real fun began. I had to cover the volleyball game for the school newspaper, so my grandparents came out to support Belmont and I sat on "press row." After a long 5 sets, we went back to my dorm. My grandpa built me a bookcase so I needed to get that into my room and then of course my grandma and her friends made me food so that needed to get put away. My grandpa also helped me un-loft my bed. If y'all read my last post, you know what happened that night and I'll give you a hint, Kliff Kingsbury :) So that was Friday night.
After we finished our mini-project, we headed off to the Lakes' house. Pastor Lake and his wife Kristen are family friends and live near Nashville. My grandparents were staying with them, and I was invited to spend the weekend with them. It truly was a fun weekend. Saturday we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and roamed around downtown Nashville for a bit. Kris also took us to the Nashville Symphony house where we listened to some excellent music. We went back to their house and truly I cannot remember what we did...oh wait we did get Pizza Hut for dinner. I know all of my Chicago friends and family are shaking their heads because to us, Pizza Hut really isn't pizza. But that's the closest thing to real pizza down here and it was 7:30 at night and we were hungry. So we ate and watched some college football, and I think that's it.
Sunday we went to church, which was actually quite nice. Then we went to lunch at this place called The Chop House and my god do they have good food. I got the chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and mac n' cheese and dear lord was it amazing. It was almost as good as a home cooked meal. But when you eat food at the Caf all day, any food outside of it is close to home cooked. Afterwards the women went to Wal Mart so I could get a few things before heading back to school. That afternoon, Kris and my grandma brought me back. It was kinda hard to say goodbye to my grandparents, but thankfully I'll see them next weekend!
This past week wasn't too bad, except I'm sick. Again. I've had a cold all week and it's been terrible. Thankfully I get better every day, but as I type this, my congestion level is still high. I took another midterm for my Foundations of Journalism class. I didn't do too bad on part one, and I am waiting for the results of part two. But really school wise its been kind of boring around here.
I'm trying to think if anything else happened this week that's noteworthy...I really do need to start blogging more often so I remember.
Oh but wait, I just remembered something! Sometime this week, I think it was Monday, I went down to Mail Services to retrieve a package from my mom. But when I got there, I was told that there were TWO packages for me and I got super excited because it means people are thinking about me and I get free stuff which is always good! :) I waited to open them when I got back to my room so I pretty much ran to my room to figure out who sent the mystery package. Much to my surprise, my Savers family sent it! They gave me my old tagging gun, some buttons, a pencil, some uniforms so I can go mess with the Goodwill employees....They also included notes, lots and lots of little notes. We have these white tags at Savers that are used to make bags, and so they wrote on them and put them all in a ringlet thing.
I will say now and with no shame that I cried as I went through this package. I can't remember if I've mentioned this before but the Saint Charles Savers closed last month and it's just really heartbreaking. My co-workers are like my family and I love them all, well most of them ;) But the fact that they sent me this package means so much to me, like I can't describe how excited I was to go through it.
So that's about it. I come home in 6 days which I am super pumped for. I'm really excited to finally catch up on all of my TV shows, but most of all to see my family and friends AND to sleep in my bed. And to finally get a home cooked meal. Now I'm going to go try and not have a heart attack as I watch this Texas Tech game. Seriously I want to punch Davis Webb in the face!!!
OHMYGOSH I totally forgot the purpose of this post until I saw the title which made me realize why I started this in the first place. Sooooooo Tuesday night I got to cross an item off of my bucket list. I saw Rascal Flatts at the Grand Ole Opry! Literally I have wanted to see them play there for like ever and Tuesday night it happened and it was just as magical as I had envisioned. I was probably one of the youngest people there, seeing as how 98.9% of people there were 65 and older and tourists, my god were there tourists swarming everywhere. It was crazy. But the show was awesome. There were some opening acts like Bill Anderson (I think that's his name), Connie Smith, Marty Stuart, Jackie Lee, Easton Corbin, and Brett Eldredge who I am also in love with. Then at 8:45 the moment I waited years for finally happened. Rascal Flatts came on stage and performed Payback to start the show off. They then joked around especially about Joe Don because the night before his wife had their third baby! But they performed a few of their hits like My Wish and then had an acapella jam with their entire band which was stellar. Then Gary was like well thanks y'all for coming and then was like wait just kidding we're gonna do one more song. So there was this girl in the front row who had Down Syndrome and Gary shook her hand and talked with her. She asked them to sing Stand, and they did. Like without any problem, the band just started playing and they performed it. If you haven't heard the song, go YouTube it right now. This song is pure perfection. It definitely helped me change my life and get out of a rough patch I was going through. But I just think it's amazing that they would just listen to her and sing it and they're just gifts from God. Seriously Gary's voice is what I imagine Heaven will be like. But it truly was a fantastic evening. I'm counting down the days until I can see them again!
So this is truly it guys, I promise. Until next time, keep it real folks!
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