Norwegia At The Ballpark

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My friend Linda is a Norwegian native who I met her 8 years ago when she was an exchange student at my high school senior year! She's been in town for like 2 weeks but Tuesday night was the first (and only, whomp) chance we'd have to get together. The original plans were to go out to dinner but they changed to a Padres game with Caroline at the last minute! 

My first beautiful crazy life (or whatever it's called) edit on IG!

I took her to a game back in 2006 when she was an exchange student and sat in the nosebleeds...pretty much the worst seats the stadium had to offer. Thanks "high school senior without a job" budget!

This time around we sat in my regular season seats and one of the first things she said was  that "we're pretty much on the field!" Movin' on up :] She was surprised that we were so close to the players in the bullpen too! 

We skipped the traditional hot dog & beer because she made it clear that she does not want a hot dog or like beer! I wanted pizza, so we walked half way around the stadium to grab my food hoping she'd see something that she'd want but instead followed suit with a slice as well! She works at a pizza place back in Norwegia and although it wasn't as great as hers...it was good. I'm gonna have to head over to Norway eventually because Filippi's is the best we've got to offer and I love a good pizza!

Once we had food and drinks, we sat down and enjoyed the game. Linda snapped tons of pictures, Caroline got her a ball, and the Padres were kind of playing suckball. We headed to bar in the Western Metal Supply Building in the 6th, ran into Poppa V., had a Cactus Cooler shooter, learned about the kind of drinks she orders in Norway (I don't know what it was called officially but it sounded like alkaseltzerfuckshit) and grabbed her a Kamikaze for the rest of the game.

Total baseball taboo...we missed the 7th inning stretch because we were chatting it up at the bar. Whoops. We made it back end of the game, the Padres almost made a comeback in the bottom of the 9th but no dice on a win, so the stupid Phillies took the series.

As always, there was traffic after the game so we cruised to Bub's to have a drink...

Caroline and I asked her questions about Norway, what the bar scene was like, did she go out dancing a lot, etc. She asked how many bars we've been to downtown and Caroline and I tried to count...but couldn't nail down a number. We guessed 15-20. Then it was time to head back home. Whomp.

Linda's IG recap of the game!

Linda is actually headed back to the land of vikings today so I'm glad I got to hang out with her for a few hours while she was here and got to share my love of baseball with her again <3 Hopefully she enjoyed herself :]  

As always [every Friday at least]...this post was brought to you by Sarah over at Venus Trapped in Mars with her Fan friday link up!

All of my link-ups for fan Friday have been the same lame thing about me attending ball games (not that lame though because baseball rocks!) so I'm gonna try and change it up next week!

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Weekend Update: ACS Relay For Life & The Fair

I don’t really have a fun/witty intro to this weekend update so let’s just get started…

Friday: Stayed home, cleaned, and chilled. Caught up on my DVR-ed shows…

SYTYCD- My favorite is Mackenzie. Saw her rock it in the background during auditions but I was nervous she wasn’t gonna make it because they didn’t feature her at all through the Vegas audition show interviews! Glad everyone loved her! [And now I love this girl even more…just went to find a picture of her to post on here and her SYTYCD bio says she’s from Temecula, CA which is like 20 minutes North of where I’m from!] I’m not a fan of Cyrus’ ex-girlfriend Jasmine. Cyrus was a fan favorite from last year and she is totally trying to ruin his cred by saying things changed once he got on the show and that he left her. She's a good dancer, but not liking her personality. It seems like she’s riding on his coat tails. Love love LOVE the tappers, animators, and ballroom dancers!  

Ellen- She’s been on a re-run kick which I will assume is because she’s vacationing/filming new episodes. I was 3 episodes behind so It served as background noise while I cleaned.

Pretty Little Liars- AHHH! I don’t even know what to think of this show! Is Ali alive or dead? Who is A? Who is red coat? Who was the lady in black at Wilden's funeral? Why are Ashley’s shoes muddy?! Was Spencer’s letter from UPenn legit? Yay for Ryan from Step Up Revolution getting on the show!

 

Saturday: Worked with my mom during the day. Ran home and showered then took off to Nate’s Butt Farm for the Relay For Life. Hung out, ate food, danced, napped, tried to read, luminaria, walked my 12-1 am shift, slept for 3 hrs, ate breakfast, closing ceremonies. The growth of our even is incredible. I walked the 1^st year they had it up here back in 2011 and we had like 5 teams and “only” raised a few thousand dollars. 2013 we had 20 teams and like 200 registered participants. Valley Center is a small town but we managed to raise $72,000+ for this event…so incredible! Something else that was incredible were 2 men that walked together for all 24 hours with minimal food and restroom breaks. They each walked like 53 miles! Hopefully I’ll be able to attempt something similar next year!

Luminaria

It was cold and dark during my shift! 

Sunday: Relay ended at about 9 am, got home around 10 and took a quick nap before heading to the beach and then a night at our local county fair. So much fried food. We had the bacon wrapped pickle (yum!), krispy kreme chicken sandwich (yum!), fried oreos (yum!), fried cookie dough (too sweet), waffle dog (meh), fried avocado (bland. needed a dipping sauce.), and cinnamon rolls (always yum!). My body was heart attack central so I tried to minimize my impeding death by washing down the fatty goodness with water instead of soda. I think it worked…only gained 1 lb and no heart burn! I won myself a couple prizes…a cute little giraffe and a gorilla that looked stoned. Hahaha. Did the guess the speed of your throw thing kind of just to see how fast I threw…52 mph, which isn’t bad since I haven’t played ball or thrown since mid December! [Sorry for the lack of fair pics!]

I came home, played on my phone a little and then went to bed!        

Back Home

My last game at Petco Park was 31days ago. I went back home yesterday!

:]

A Dodgers series guarantees a great time…mostly a hostile atmosphere between the teams and fans! I finally got to see the Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig and the dude has a freaking rocket for an arm...that might burn out in about 5 years if he keeps throwing from right field to 3rd base without hitting his cutoff!

The Padres had some super sweet plays too!

I jumped up so fast to cheer for Amarista that I got crazy light headed and had to grab onto the seat in front of me so I didn’t fall over.   

Didn’t take many pictures tonight, so I took a screenshot from Carolines instagram video.

Most importantly, THE PADRES WON! This puts us in 3rd place, 2.5 games out of 1st!

Fan Friday with Venus. Check it. 

Weekend Update: DALE!

What. A. Weekend. It was so much fun :]

Friday: I headed up to Anaheim to watch some Yankees baseball and hang out with Holley. The game was a stinker because the Yanks lost and Angels stadium no longer carries my favorite… a yard of margarita. I had to settle for the tiny ones from the bar. Watched a sweet post game fireworks show, I love fireworks!

Shout out to my super oily nose!

I'm sad we lost. She's happy they won. 

So pretty! 

After the game we headed to The OC, had some drinks, and played some ping pong. Also ran into a guy named Steve. He lived every baseball fan’s dream and went to all 162 game of the Yankees 2011 season. Scored a copy of his book. I can’t wait to read it!  

 

Saturday: Game 2. Got to the game early and “tailgated” except not really because there’s no booze allowed in the parking lot of the stadium. I poured my vodka sprite into my Rubio’s cup from lunch and got a lot of buzzed. Watch a horse cop (booze surveillance) get his panties in a bunch because the parking security told him he’s in the way of the cars and needs to move. “We’re doing official police business. I’m not just a guy with a badge and a gun who thinks he can do whatever he wants…” Yankees lost this second game, met up with friends that were in town for the game.   

More margaritas!

Our sweet seats we "upgraded" to :]

Headed to The OC again and our ping pong plans were postponed due to the UFC fight. Man that is a brutal sport. Didn't end up playing ping pong since the table was stashed away for the fight. Played some pool, but I had to cut the night short because I wasn't feeling well…migraine and tiredness are not a good mix.

Sunday: Woke up early and headed back to San Diego to catch my dad before he left to wish him a happy Father’s day but I missed him. Spent the morning shopping for a gift for him and somehow went from buying a card with Padres tickets for the following Sunday, to a digital camera, to a new grill. How did that happen?!! Lol.

Took off at night to meet up with Caroline and Chelsea for the Ke$ha/Pitbull show…which was interesting to say the least. Got there about an hour before show time and the tailgate lot was essentially empty. It was fun people watching Ke$ha’s crazy fans. Lots of glitter, eye shadow, lack of clothes, fur coats, and guyliner…among other nonsense...but to each their own. The opening band/crew was a bunch of Australian kids that were pretty much in training for Thunder From Down Under. Chelsea was the first to spot some baseball players…Casey Kelly who we've met before and Yonder Alonso from the Padres.

#tresamigos <3

Casey Kelly! Padres pitcher.

YONDER ALONSO! Padres 1st baseman.

The best way to describe Ke$ha’s show was a combination between a shit show and a tranny orgy. I didn’t realize how totally vulgar and inappropriate some of her music is. It was kind of sucky because there were kids in the audience. Didn't get very good pictures because I just had my phone, but they wouldn't do either show justice.

L-R: Bunny Rabbit, Ke$ha, Rooster.

CONFETTI CANNONS!

 Our reason for being there was Pitbull. LOVE his music. It is so fun to dance to. This was definitely one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. I didn’t sit once throughout his entire set. DALE! Ugh So much fun. I wish last night never ended.

LOVE HIM!

This Monday morning decided to bring me down from this weekend's could 9…woke up to a screw in my tire, which I just got only about a week ago. Blegh. Got it patched on my way to work...but still lame. 

Bring on the week!

Yankees baseball!

At about high noon, I peace out from work and hit the road to Orange County for a couple of nights. It will be a much deserved getaway after working my butt off in school, moving, and at work. I'll get to spend some time with my friend Holley while we catch the Yankees play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...of California of the Western United States of the Northern Hemisphere of planet Earth. 

For those that don't know, I am a Yankees fan. Yep. I am indeed. It'd be hard to figure out since I only blog about the Padres...a team I have season tickets for but my heart truly belongs to the Bronx bombers. Living in San Diego, 3,000 miles away from the Yankees, people are surprised to learn that I'm a Yankees fan and the first thing they ask is if I'm from New York. Nope. See, it all started in 1998 when I was a wee lass of 10 years old and my favorite team, the San Diego Padres had made it to the World Series. Finally! Well, we got our butts kicked by this marvelous team from the big city, New York! I was hooked. A team that could sweep the best I knew (hey, gimme a break...I was 10) was A-OK in my book. I jumped on the bandwagon and have been riding it ever since, 15 years strong! Check out this '98 Yankees team. How can you NOT love them?!!

Sorry for the short quick blurb today...super busy day so if I want to check out by 12, I've gotta start working!

Music I love, 6/13/13 Edition

Thursdayyyyyyy! I've been looking forward to you :] Why? Because it's almost Friday and on Friday I get to skip town for a couple of nights to Orange County to hang out with a friend and watch some Yankees baseball :] and then the Pitbull concert Sunday! Finally. 

So I've blogged about this one time before, but there is SO much music on the radio that I am loving right now, I had to share...

ARIANA GRANDE- THE WAY FEAT. MAC MILLER

I love Disney and Nickelodeon shows, including Victorious. Cat was my favorite character on the show! I'll totally admit to recording Ariana's new show Sam & Cat :] Anyways, when I first heard this song I totally thought it was Mariah Carey. Legit sounds like her. Obv. a little younger, but there are similarities. Love the awkward Mac Miller in this too.

MARIAH CAREY- BEAUTIFUL FEAT. MIGUEL

Speaking of Mariah...this song is gold. I love it. Mariah is a legend and besides that award show jump that might have caused damage to a fan...Miguel can do no wrong. I fell in love after seeing him in concert a few months back. Now thatyou've listened to the two, tell me Mariah and Ariana don't sound alike. I dare you.

ROBIN THICKE- BLURRED LINES FEAT. T.I. & PHARRELL

I really don't know what to say about this song other that it is fun. And 3 beautiful men have collaborated to give is a great summer song!

PITBULL- FEEL THIS MOMENT FEAT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA

Mr. Worldwide! I had to throw him in here A) because I love this song...but more importnantly B) I love Pitbull and I'm seeing him with Caroline and Chelsea this weekend! Whe I was younger and used to go out dancing regularly, I'd wear heels that killed my feet. I'd take breaks to sit and give my feet some rest...every time a Pitbull song would get played I'd hop up and run (in that way that girls whose heels are hurting them do) to my friends and dance for the song. Once it was over, I'd peace out and sit again...until the next Pitbull song. Excited for Sunday!

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE-CRUISE FEAT. NELLY

FGL is the duo that people are obsessing over right now in regards to country music. I kind of get it, they've got good music. But I don't see the hotness that everyone else does. Meh. Love the original Cruise but I do have to say I'm happy for them to be on Top 40 radio thanks to the help of Nelly. 

That's it for now :] What do you think? Do I have good music obsessions right now? Anything you think I should hear? Let me know!

Music I Love, 3/7/13 Edition

[Update...so I totally just went in to erase the period in my title, and it changed my published date. This is totally killing my OCD, but whatev's.]

Happy Thursday! It's almost Friday which means it's almostttt the weekend! Which I so desperately need. 

There is so much music on the radio that I am obsessed with that I decided I must share it with my readers :] Shout out to my newest followers: Rachel (remember her from the Valentine's Day swap?!! She's stuck around!) and my newest one...Lauren over at Pink On the Cheek! Kayyyyyy was pimping out Lauren's "Hello Box" where you're paired up with a blogger and get to know them and hopefully become bff's! I'm paired up with a girl [to be blogged about in the future!] who is recently engaged. Hopefully I charm my way into her bridal party! Haha.

Anyways...back to music:

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - THRIFT SHOP FEAT. WANZ

I don't know what it is about this song, but I am alllll about it. It makes me so happy and I always want to dance!

ALICIA KEYS - NOT EVEN THE KING

I. Love. Her. LOVE. I love her piano skills. I love her amazing voice. I love everything about her. I'm going to her concert next week! Wooo! So excited because I've never seen her live. I bought her latest CD, and love all the music on it, but Not Even The King and  When It's All Over are my two favorites. There's no official video but below is Not Even The King on David Letterman. I love the message of the song. The relationships we have with each other are priceless, materialistic things are worthless, not even someone as rich the king can buy the happiness we've got. Click that When It's All Over link...good song, but my favorite part is when she features her baby at the end <3 

MIRANDA LAMBERT - MAMA'S BROKEN HEART

I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but I'm not too fond of Miranda or Blake as country artists. I feel like they're too hollywood for me. [Says the girl who is obsessed with LA! I'm an odd one.] I don't know what I don't like about them, I just know I don't LOVE them. With that said, I love this song. I think one comment that convinced me of it was a KSON DJ saying this song would probably be sung in a cabaret. Which I'm currently obsessed with...hahaha.

KACEY MUSGRAVES - MERRY GO 'ROUND

I don't know much about this girl, but what I do know is she helped write Miranda's song up above, and I was intrigued by Merry Go 'Round the second I listened to it. This song is too true about how we get stuck in ruts and just go with it. Not doing anything to shake up our lives and move on to bigger and better things. Hope this girl makes it big time! She's on her way!

Let's pick up the mood and close out with this song...

BRUNO MARS - LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN

Another song that makes me happy. I don't think I've every really listened to the song, but the beat and hook are so catchy [as with any Bruno Mars song] that it makes me want to dance. Tickets for his concert go on sale Friday! I can't wait to buy them!

Weekend Update: All Sorts Of Blah

Mondayyyy. You have arrived. Meh. This weekend had so much potential, but ended up being a little lackluster.

Thursday: Yep, we’re starting with Thursday. I worked all day and then headed to a Relay For Life meeting. This will be my 3^rd year doing it, and it’s crazy how big the event has grown in our little town. 1^st year was 2011 and we had like 5 teams, 2^nd year totally blew up and we had like 18 teams or something AND raised like $40,000 for the American Cancer Society. The event is still 2 weeks away and according to the website, we have 20 teams and have about $39,000+ raised. Super cool! My team captain is my best friend’s mom so I got to the meeting a little early and raided her fridge like the good old days. We talked about what is gonna happen at the relay and what our team has planned…should be an awesome event.

 

This walk is for the AmericanCancer Society , an organization that raises money to fight ALL cancer. The Relay For Life is a 24 hr walk where teams participate and each team must have at least 1 person walking at all times. Ideally, there should be 20 people walking the course at any given time. Even at 3:00 am! I've kind of sucked at raising money, so I’m pitching it to my readers :] If you've got an extra $5, $10, $20, or even $100…throw it my way! It will be greatly appreciated!

Friday: Remember how I was super excited for Tim? He kind of did not impress. We left town a little late, encountered traffic, missed our exit, more traffic, tailgate, strongggg honey jack & coke, found an InCahoots group that brings speakers and line dances in the tailgate lot before the show, completely missed Love & Theft, caught Brantley Gilbert’s last 2 songs, searched through the masses for friends, didn't find them, and mostly chilled through Tim's set. My problem with Tim was he played a lot of new music I didn't know. I guess that’s my own fault for not being a true fan. Loved the last 20 minutes of his set which was where he played everything I knew! Chilled in the parking lot and waited for traffic to die down, saw a chick dance on the roof of a car and secretly wished she fell…no luck. Mexican food. Sleep.

Chelsea with the photobomb.

3 amigos <3

Let's take a second to appreciate the growth of my hair! Left is 2 summers ago (I think?),
baby piggy tails, right was at Tim Friday night.

Saturday: Worked in the morning, 3.5 hour nap, unpacked my bedroom stuff, hung art I've collected in the last year, caught up on SYTYCD, sleeeeeeep.

Yankees Stadium

Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate autographed lyric posters. 

1 more off the 100 things to do before you die list! #33.

Sunday: Did laundry & ran errands with my mom. Purchased bedroom curtains. Bought cinder blocks to put on the corners of my bed frame to raise it. Got the idea from pinterest! I bought the wrong size, had to make another trip to HD and buy the right size which raised my bed about 10 inches. Now I’m kind of scared I’ll fall off! Pictures soon once my room is completely done!

Wasn't a boring weekend, but nothing too exciting.

Tim McGraw!

Tonight is Tim McGraw! So excited. He's one of my favorites...and totally hot! Keeping with Sarah's fan friday, let's talk about the last time I saw Tim...last summer at Angels stadium :]

I've been there plenty of times in the last 10-ish years because I'm a Yankees fan and that's as close as my team gets to San Diego, but I've never seen a concert there!

I had really been wanting to go to this show but A) face value tickets sold out asap B) no one I knew wanted to spend the 3rd party resale prices C) the drive is a hop, skip, and a jump away plus some 100 miles, give or take D) I was also holding out because Tim was giving out homes to wounded military members and are you ready for this...the godson of one of the ladies who works in my office was gifted a home! I was hoping she'd be able to score me a ticket...but no luck. I guess I just wasn't meant to go. UNTIL a buddy sent out a mass text that the first one to reply would score his extra ticket since a friend of his bailed. My phone sits right on my desk at work so I jumped at the opportunity and beat out the rest! A couple of days later we hit the road due North and arrived at Angels stadium...wayyyy early. We tailgated a little, I drank some beer, made a flag out of cans, and they caught one of the best shows of my life. 

The stage sat out on short center field/ 2nd base and there were just masses of people there. The dreamy Jake Owen opened the show...and one of the things that I love about him is he plays barefoot! Then Grace Potter took the stage and was cool, but she probably should have played before Jake since a lot of people don't know many of her songs and she kind of killed the mood after Jake had already pumped up the crowd. Then the main event...Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw! Kenny played a bunch of his songs and then Tim took the stage and played all of his greats! 1st time hearing "Truck Yeah!" and I loved it! Minus the "lil wayne bumpin in my headphones" lyrics. Not a fan of Wayne. Surprise appearance by Ashton Kutcher, a duet by Kenny and Tim, and then a group song with Jake, Grace, Kenny, and Tim! Not many details about what they sang because it was almost a year ago and I don't remember all of them, but trust me when I well you...it was an amazing concert that was kicked up 1000% because it was at Angels stadium! 

Check out the pics:

My ride. Go Yankees!

'merica!

As far as we were...these seats were still awesome!

BEER! Blegh.

TIM!

If I remember correctly...I made a friend in the bathroom, lol.

Thinking back...I saved my camera for Tim since he was my favorite of everyone and because of that, I missed out on pictures of everyone else. Oh well. Still a legit show :]

This was my second show at a ball park, the first was Dierks Bentley at Petco Park a couple of summers ago and I think I like this theme. Not sure when my next one will be, but I definitely like having my two favorites, country music and baseball in one! I think Kenny is doing another stadium tour this summer so if he's in your hood, I totally recommend going!

I can't wait until tonighttttt! Should be amazingggg!