All This Time

STORY TIME!!!!!!!!!

Once Upon a time, there was a girl... and she wasn't a princess, or famous, or even really beautiful... just a plain ol' girl. Her husband signed the papers to join the military the first week of March... 2009, he left for bootcamp Dec 1st 2009... not long before he left for Boot, there was a song on the radio "All the Right Moves" it was their favorite. when he left, she didn't listen to the song for a few weeks, because she feared it would make his absence that much more prominent... about 3 weeks later she wrote him a letter with a few of the lyrics to the song, to brighten up his day. a week later she received a reply saying something to the likes of "I can't believe you sent me lyrics to that song! the same day i received your letter, i was JUST telling the guys earlier in the day that it was stuck in my head! it's like you're psychic"...
upon reading the letter, she decided she must download BOTH albums that the band had out... the newest one only having been released a month prior.She loved all their singles they had out, but had heard from friends that the album was just so-so.  it was instant LOVE, there was not a single song on either album that she didn't want to play on repeat for hours at a time, so she settled for playing nothing but those two albums for weeks. When she didn't have her Ipod in the car with her best friend and wanted to share her love, she told said best friend to download the song "all the right moves"... she refused... so our heroine proceeded to SCREAM at the top of her lungs the chorus of the song, about 20 minutes later she won the battle... the song was downloaded.

When her husband returned from his 13 week journey from Man to Marine, she feared he would not share her love of her new favorite band. She held off on his 10-day leave from pushing this band upon him. he soon left for his next journey to go from Marine to Bad-A Infantry Marine. Our Heroine drove 20 hours round trip every weekend to spend 1 1/2 days with her lover, on these weekends there was alot of driving... and also some with him in the vehicle as well, as it was a 30-40 minute drive from his training to the hotel, and then the driving around town... she cautiously turned on her new obsession, he didn't say anything. when common favorite was up, he was excited and turned it up... but that was about it. later at the hotel, they were getting ready to hop in the shower, She kept her i-home with her always, and they usually listened to John Mayer or Jack Johnson at shower time and sleepy time... she grabbed her ipod but was surprised when he yelled from the room "PUT ON THAT BAND!"... they'd been married long enough at this point, that just saying that was all the info she needed to know what "band" he was talking about. Soon, he knew almost as many words to the songs as she did. :)
fast forward to May
3 days before the Marine was told he was NOT going to be stationed in California, as previously told... they switched him and just a handful of others to no where else but Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii... The heroine was STOKED, although a little sad that disneyland would not be a hop skip and a jump away, and that weekend trips to her dad's, grandparent's and in-law's would no longer be a possibility. The Marine understood this before she did... so he was not so pleased... however that weekend in the hotel, he came out of the bathroom from cutting his hair and played the song Good Life... (which was actually just released about a week ago on the radio) he came out singing, but with the words changed to reflect us moving to hawaii... and then he sang quiet loudly... "PLEASE TELL ME-E-E-E-E WHAT THERE'S TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!!!"  (which has since become her motto for her life)

Fast forward to December

The Girl in our story has been alone for quite some time... her Hero has been sent off to war, he's safe at the moment, but very far far away from home. He calls her one day and asks if she has her ipod, cause he accidentally stumbled upon a sad song, that brought tears to his eyes... she is at a friends and does not have hers. he says he'll try again later but she convinced him that she'll look up the song online.. he can't remember the name of the band but says it starts with an O (he's always been bad with names, especially celebrities, and bands) she can't figure out what O band he is talking about... so he tells her to look up the song "Come Home" they've heard the song a billion times...and sang along... but didn't really ever LISTEN to the words. She got teary eyed while on the phone with him, and said their goodbyes.

A few weeks later she learned that this amazing band would be performing in Honolulu a few weeks after her birthday. Tickets weren't much, but without her soul mate and fellow band obsess-ee she was unsure she should go without him. as it got closer she found a friend who was willing to go, they agreed to wait until payday to buy their tickets. The morning of the concert, our heroine remembered that they had FORGOTTEN to buy their tickets... knowing for sure that they would be sold out by now (as this is clearly the best band EVER) she was sad but vowed to make it a good day. While driving  she mentioned to her friend that it was the day of the concert. Her friend got all excited and said to check her IPhone for tickets... by some miracle they were NOT sold out yet. So they bought their tickets and got ready for the most anticipated concert of the year. They arrived early... but were still pretty far back in line. her friend laid out the plan of throwing up elbows to get to the front row, Our girl agreed but secretly knew there was NO WAY they were going to get somewhat close to this, her favorite band. they entered the venue after an hour in line, and still an hour until showtime, they wiggled there way as close as possible... and then spotted something that if they climbed over it, they would be within 3 people of the stage... so they did (little did they know that security was preventing anyone from doing this... so it must have been by divine intervention that they made it without a word said to them) The opener started... and 30 minutes later was done...they all expected the band to be up shortly... especially when the announcer came out and ANNOUNCED them... but they still had to wait almost another hour.... by the time they finally came out... Our girl and her friend were very front row, and feeling the buzz of excitement. The band played amazingly, the Guitarist was literally RIGHT in front of them, the frontman came to their side multiple times, grabbed their hand, pointed the two of them out, the Guitarist (who along with the frontman were the best looking 2) winked at the girls, smiled right at them, made eye contact, flicked our girls friend a pic, and of course grabbed their hands as well...

They left the concert, our Girl having now instilled a new obsession in her friend... smelling of sweat and desire, they headed to Denny's to come off of this concert high. Her husband will be jealous, but it was a once in a lifetime experience that she is oh so glad happened.

Right before the concert started.

if you click this and make it bigger, you'll see it's the setlist

Meet Zach, he's the guitarist/violinist... he's amazing

umm, ya, we were CLOSE!!!

literally rocking out 4 inches from me!

totally grabbed my hand!

The Guitar Pic Steph got!

best picture of the night... if i do say so myself.

this is when Zach came over to grab our hands, i tried to get a picture but was a little occupied.

One song in particular that they played hit a little close to home... it is the title of this post, and i would say it's one of my favorites by them... but seriously EVERY SINGLE SONG of there's is a favorite... not even exaggerating a little.

Please ignore the girl singing along... it was not Steph, nor I... i was simply in aww his voice in this song... and pretty sure Steph may have been crying :) just kidding, but the song is super sweet... and i LOVE his voice towards the end.

All This Time- OneRepublic

Six on the second hand till new year's revolutions
There's just no question what this man should do
Take all the time lost, all the days that I cost
Take what I took and give it back to you

All this time we were waiting for each other
All this time I was waiting for you
We got all these words, can't waste them on another
So I'm straight in a straight line running back to you

I don't know what day it is, I had to check the paper
I don't know the city but it isn't home
You say I'm lucky to love something that loves me
But i'm torn  as I could be wherever I roam

All this time we were waiting for each other
All this time I was waiting for you
Got all these words, can't waste them on another
So I'm straight in a straight line running back to you, yeah

Oh, running back to you
Oh, running back to you
Yeah

Oh, I would travel so far
I would travel so far
To get back where you are

All this time we were waiting for each other
All this time I was waiting for you
Got all this love, can't waste it on another
So I'm straight in a straight line running back to you
Straight in a straight line running back to you
Straight in a straight line running back to you
Straight in a straight line running back to you