Wandering Aimlessly

Warning: Long. (don't want to forget anything <.g>)

Well, it came and went, and now I'm sad. Now, almost everything is over. Let me start with Thursday, which was I-4 night. S tried his darndest to get me out of work early. J was the closer, and they arranged it so that I could bank out at 7:30 and leave when I was done (about 8, instead of 9 when I was scheduled until), which was a totally nice thing of them to do. By the time I got home, showered, grabbed a quick bite to eat and drove the 45 minutes to Longwood... they were on their last song. Sadness!! I missed my last I-4 concert. =( We chatted with Jared and Scott a bit, and they both felt bad that we'd driven 45 minutes to miss them, but oh well. What are ya gonna do, right?

On Friday, Carolyn and I went out towards the airport to meet Georgia Tonya at her hotel. We went to Chick-Fil-A (which I am SO going to miss in Illinois) for lunch, and then went to the outlet mall for some shopping for that night. I got two shirts at Papaya. <.g> When we got home, I went to MGM with Jessica to get Gina a birthday present and chat with people at work, and then came home to get ready. Carolyn and I met Tonya and her friends and Jen and Danielle at Margaritaville for drinks beforehand, and then headed over to the Groove with T got there.

The Groove

I honestly didn't think NSYNC would be there. On the radio, they kept saying there was no guarantee, no guarantee. So I'm dancing on this mid-level stairs area with the TVs behind it, and they had the red carpet shown on the TVs. Some people were arriving who I didn't recognize, and people were cheering for them. All of a sudden I saw this curly head bobbing behind them, and I had my teenie moment and started jumping up and down going "JC's here! JC's here!" Luckily, no one but my party could hear me above the music. <.giggle> JC, Joey, Chris (yes, the mohawk rumor is true) and Justin showed up, along with a TON of other people I'm not going to try to remember now. They were all up on the second level, as expected, but it was just a balcony, basically, so if they came forward, we could see them. I felt like I was at a zoo, or something, straining to see the animals, but whatever. All in good fun. Joey stayed over on the other side most of the night, dancing with folks. JC kept coming towards the railing to dance, and he was grinding on some girl at one point, but mostly more by himself. I only saw Chris once, but I was keeping an eye out for JC the whole night. Near the end, Justin came out and danced through three rounds of "Hot in Here," which was the song of the weekend. It got played five times at the Groove, and then at each of the other events as well. At the Groove, people (Taye Diggs... YUM) started stripping. Heehee. That was fun.

Skills Challenge

We got like no sleep before the Skills Challenge. We arrived, found our seats (5th row behind the basket... not bad at all <.g>), where Alicia found us. Hi, Alicia!! *waves* It's exciting to meet people I've read about/talked to. I'm sad they only let us have disposable cameras, because of course the people in my pictures are teeny-tiny, even though they were *right there*. Ah well.

woops, gotta go to work. I'll finish this later.

(8/7/02, 8:36 pm) Okay, now is later. Way later. I hope I can remember stuff.

So. JC looked good. Real good. He was a poop, though, and spent most of the event on the bench. Justin spent most of the event off on our end by himself shooting baskets rather than participating. I think Chris left early. Ah well. The Joey Clone from the Roxy really is "someone," as he was there with NSYNC. <.shrug> Someone (one of the guys? A fan?) had brought a blow-up astronaut with Lance's face. That provided many a cute moment, as Justin had frequent conversations with "Lance," providing commentary and whatnot (not for our ears, but he just sat on the bench with his arm around "Lance" and you could tell he was talking, nodding his head, etc). Very cute. What else? JC participated in Human Bowling, which was funny. He was all nervous-like, and gave us a few dazzling smiles. The poor Daze were soooo behind. The final event ended in Joey and JC going head-to-head in the obstacle course, and JC just didn't cut it. Joey yelled something about beating JC's skinny ass, and something else about how he (Joey) actually eats. Funny stuff.

After the Challenge, Carolyn, Amy and I headed over to Gina's for Gina's 22nd and Jeremy's... dunno what year... birthdays. It was just C, Amy, Joaquin, Gina, Jeremy and I. And we had a good time. A good time. Lol. That's all I have to say 'bout that. <.g>

The Basketball Game
Poor JC. That's all I have to say. Poor, poor JC. The boy could not make a basket. He tried and tried and tried, but no luck. Chris was doing commentary and giving him a bit of a hard time, but it was cute. Justin was MVP, of course, and even though the Daze lost, it was a good, solid effort. And if JC had made just one of those baskets, they'd have won. Lol. But no hard feelings. <.g> Nelly performed during halftime, and of course, it was "Hot in Here." Chris had to go over to the Daze side where JC and Justin were sitting on the floor and squeeze himself in between them so they could all sit side-by-side and watch. Too adorable. What else? Oh, someone from the Knights was razzing Justin, and Chris was all "I know you're on my team, but you picked the wrong guy to mess with." Actually, Chris was being Mr. Defensive of everyone. When someone joked that Joey never sings, Chris came to Joey's defense, too. It was sweet. In the end, the Knights (Joey and Chris's team) won 157-156 over the Daze (JC and Justin's team). But in reality, it was an excellent game, since after the Skills Challenge, the Daze were down 45-10. So technically the Daze won the game, but lost the overall weekend. Whatever. They (or at least Justin) scored more points overall in the game than the Knights did. <.g>

After the game, we heard that NSYNC might be at Planet Hollywood. Well, our idea of that was that the top floor or two would be VIP, and the main floor would be regularly open. Ha. We didn't know it was a whole private CFTC party. Tonya, Heather and I arrived to find hundreds of people lined up waiting for celebrities to show up. We'd really just hoped to eat, but whatever. So of course, we joined the crowd. It was a looooong wait (two and a half hours by the time Justin arrived), but I got some fairly decent pictures of Joey, Trevor from O-Town, JC (although he wasn't looking at me), Chris, Carlton (Alfonzo, whatever), what're-their-names from Boyz II Men, Pat O'Brien, Brian McKnight... it was exciting, and Heather was HYSTERICAL. She is a total teenie, but somehow in an un-annoying way. She called to Trevor that she loves him and he's on her wall, and since he was no more than two feet from us, he obviously heard her. Lol.

So that was our CFTC excitement. If I can make our scanner work, I'll put up some pictures.