But not as sore as Kiki, I know that for sure

So yesterday was the Lamb of God concert in Ohio that and I went to. It was my first heavy metal concert ever! Hehe, I am no longer a heavy metal concert virgin! Yays! It was a little bit of a roller coaster ride, and I discovered that when you're about five feet and MAYBE five inches tall, you should not be in the second row of a heavy metal concert....

Kiki and I were a little over five feet from the stage, standing in the row right behind the people against the railing. It wasn't so bad while the first band, Municipal Waste, played. Either no one knew who they were or no one liked them, or maybe a mix. I didn't know who they were, but they weren't that bad of a band either. Kiki and I started out standing shoulder to shoulder and there was some pushing and moshing of course, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. By the third band however, Kiki and I were turned towards each other and pressed up against each other tightly because of the press of people on all sides of us. The only time I'm ever that intimate with someone is when Brian and I have sexy time....

Anyways! Kiki had some huge fat guy behind her and a little behind me was some asshole that kept digging and pounding his elbow into my neck, back, and head whenever he tried to reach forward towards the band, Children of Bodom. I pushed and shoved back, but when you're crushed so close to everyone that you're not even standing and the press of bodies is what's keeping you right side up...it's kind of hard to get any kind of good leverage to shove a full grown man off your back. The stench of body odor (which I'm pretty sure was coming off the fat ass behind Kiki) started to get to be too much for me, and my chest was pressed in so tightly, I could barely breathe. The elbow asshole was shoving my head down into the bodies of other people, so I wasn't really getting much oxygen. Fed up with it all and starting to get nauseous and light-headed, I needed to get out. So yes, puny little ol' Kara had to grab the attention of a security guard watching the crowd and railing for crowd surfers and beg him to pull me out of the crowd. It took two security guards to wrestle me from that fucking crazy mess! TWO! And they're huge guys! That's how compacted I was in that mass of bodies.

The security guards set me on my feet and I walked round to the right side of the stage. There was a nice cool wall which I leaned against for a bit, loving the fact that I could smell fresh air and I no longer felt like I was getting the shit beat out of me. Once I was better, I continued to rock out, especially when Lamb of God was on and ESPECIALLY when they played my song, Redneck

I ended up having a better time in the back, further away from the stage where I could headbang (there was absolutely no room for that in the crowd btw) than I did near the stage. Sure, I didn't get to make eye contact with any of the band members of Lamb of God but ah well, Kiki managed to get me a guitar pick from Willie Adler. Apparently she almost had a drumstick from Chris Adler (my fav member) but some asshole ripped it out of her hands. I'm sure on her journal she'll explain her night, which ended up with her making her way to the front row and flirting with Willie all night We had a blast, and I was really glad she managed to get into the front row, they're pretty much her favorite band ever.

So now today I'm extremely sore, but like I said, Kiki's probably worse off. She had to be at work at 8 and didn't even bother going to bed last night. I didn't get home and in bed until around 4 in the morning. I got to sleep next to Brian for about a half hour before he had to get up for work But he's home now and he's promised to rub me down later.

Well, I hope you all are having a good time! ^^ I'm sorry I haven't been active lately, been busy with work and the promotion. I think by next week I'll officially be a front end supervisor! I still don't know for sure how much my raise is, but they even asked me if I'd like to work even more hours pretty soon, so I'll be getting more money, but alas, less time on DA. I'm going to try and get on more often now that we got the laptop fixed up, so I'll probably be able to keep up with messages, but my artwork is still going to be really slow in updates Sorry guys!!

Luvs you all!