#so basically this is that concert the did in Jersey the weekend the album came out

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taylor swift - hope you see this

i’ve heard of taylor swift being completely active on tumblr for all the years that i’ve been a fan. i will say i noticed her first when she came out with love story(just re-released!)(blasting it right now) and white horse. but i didn’t completely become a fan until speak now. i remember sitting on the floor i was 19 years old (i think - i’m now 29) looking for music that i can relate to, because 19 year old me was going through it. i’ve always been connected to lyrically beautiful songs and still till this day always looking for new music. discovering taylor swift is a moment i will never forget and hold close and dear to my heart. i would say i am a huge fan. i always buy her albums to support her even though i do not own a cd player anymore. when 1989 came out i used my last 100$ to buy the taylor swift bundle to enter a chance to win tickets to her concerts. i got a bag, guitar pics, pictures and bunch of other things.  i bought her cardigan sweater this year along with the grey reputation pullover sweater with all her look what you made me do video characters on it. i treasure that thing. ii requested the repuation sweater with the zippers on the elbows for christmas that year and got it. i just finally recently got my cowboy like me sweatshirt. wearing it this weekend when i go upstate. fits the scenery for sure.i never won those win free tickets but i didn’t care. my first concert i ever attended was red. it was one of the best concert i’ve ever been too. thats when she introduced ed-sheeran to me. It was at the prudential center in new jersey. i live in new york. i travelled all the way to PA for her reputation tour because when she was playing near new york i was already attending a foo fighters concert that weekend in boston, so my boyfriend drove me all the way to Pennsylvania just so i could see her. she has gotten me through so many heart breaks. i jam out to all her music almost everyday. i dont think ill ever get sick of it. when lover came out, i had just recently lost my dad october 2018. He died from non hodgkins lymphoma.. taylor swift has never moved me the way she did on that album. Soon you’ll get better. i wasn’t expecting to hear a song like that going through each song, and all of a sudden i heard “you like the nicer nurses” and i was in a pool of tears. holy orange bottles .. really broke me in half. my dad always like the nicer nurses, and he always did make a joke out of the whole situation. he didnt really come to terms with dying until a month before his death. we played the rolling stones next to his ear as he passed. if he loved anything other than his family it was the rolling stones. i needed that song. i was very much still grieving (still am). i could go on and on about all the songs taylor swift wrote that felt like she wrote it just for me. “all too well” - i mean who hasnt broken out in tears with that one? i wasn’t even heartbroken yet before i could really relate to my favorite song she has ever written. “clean” was something everyone needs in their life. white horse was my go to when my high school boyfriend kept cheating on me, and begging for me back. i used to watch the video almost everyday. every song taylor has written, has touched my soul. i could go on and on but basically i just wrote this hoping my favorite person on earth sees this and knows how much i appreciate her and her music, and because me being 29 years old, i feel like i always want to express it but i’m just not brave enough for all the people that follow me see the kid in me every time i talk about taylor swift. let me just say everyone who knows me or doesnt know me - know that i am a huge freaking fan. i love you taylor swift.. thank you for the two new albums this year and now FEARLESS remastered. freaking love you

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okay thank you all for bearing with me this week 💕 i’m going to do a little summary of my adventures & the nct 127 concert after the cut (don’t want to take up too much blog space with this stuff since this is technically a pentagon blog). i should be pretty much back on track on monday, since i’m going to be traveling again this weekend.

if you don’t want to read below the cut: i’ve driven 24+ hrs for the sake of kpop and have 13 more to go, the concert was awesome AND i got offered the job that i’ve wanted.

yes, you read that right 24+ hours of driving. i moved to wisconsin about six months ago, but my best friend still lives in pennsylvania (where i’m from). so yes, i could have gone to the nct concert in chicago, but i drove all the way to pa (13 hours) so that i could take my friend to the concert in new jersey (which was another 4 hour drive). FRIENDSHIP.

she & i got to newark like 30 minutes before the concert started, got to the prudential center like 3 minutes before the concert started, and stood outside for like 10 minutes waiting for the freaking mobile tickets to load on my phone. cricket wireless sucks lmao but lesson learned: always load up your tickets at the hotel BEFORE you get to the venue.

thankfully we didn’t miss anything because they started about 10 minutes after 8pm. we had pretty good seats too, directly across from the stage and not too far back. i think they were technically p3 seats? i don’t remember.

the boys opened with cherry bomb, and each member got a little introductory dance break throughout the song. i don’t remember the rest of the song order, but they had a fantastic set list. there was a portion of the concert that was ballads & more mellow songs, and i nearly cried when they sang “no longer.” it’s not one i listen to very often, but i’ve never witnessed such heartfelt, vulnerable vocals live. it was so powerful and doyoung & taeil just simply amazed me with their talent (the other boys too, of course, but the two of them particularly stood out to me with the raw strength of their live vocals). 

they also premiered three new songs from their upcoming album and i’m so stoked for the new music to come out next month!! “jet lag,” “highway to heaven,” and “superhuman.” it was so cute - after “jet lag,” they paused to talk a little, and haechan said something to the audience to the extent of “that was so nice, didn’t it almost feel like we went on a date together?” and all of the other guys were like SDLKFJINIO STOP IT HAECHAN. 

after two hours, they wrapped up and said “we have just two songs left!” but of course everyone knows there’s going to be an encore. still, i saw people leaving after the boys left the stage, which was crazy to me. because once the boys came back, they premiered “highway to heaven” and “superhuman,” and i think they did some other songs too? WAIT after they did “superhuman” the oldest members went to get changed again while the younger members talked with us about the album. then the younger members changed while the older members did a contest to see who we thought was the coolest member lmao basically the whole encore added an extra 45-50 minutes of content. SO DON’T MISS IT.

anyway, the concert was incredible and nct 127 is so so talented and they all did such a good job with their english, too. they clearly put in a lot of work for this concert and i appreciate their dedication so much. 💕

after the concert my friend and i drove through the sketchiest part of newark to try to go to ihop, but ended up not eating there because it seemed so unsafe lmao probably the most stressful part of the trip.

yesterday after we left our hotel, we made a short trip to NYC even though we tell ourselves every single time that we’re not going to go into the city again. BUT there’s a kpop store and i wanted albums mwahaha (and also i needed more face powder from innisfree). i purchased the new stray kids & the new pentagon albums, and i’ll probably post some photos/videos of genie:us later. i’m so in love with it lol

got back to my house last night, and i have to drive another 3 hours today to get my friend back to her home. then i’m going to spend some quality time with my parents tomorrow, and on sunday my boyfriend, dog, and I are all piling into the car and making the 13 hour drive back to wisconsin. 

WAIT AND I FORGOT THE BIGGEST NEWS

I GOT THE JOB

AHHHHHH

there’s this healthcare software company that i applied to work for back in november. they had a technical writer position open (basically someone who writes documentation, nothing creative). i applied and got rejected after a phone interview. okay, whatever.

end of january, i decide to try applying again. i had added some freelance writing experience to my resume and i hoped that might help my chances. this time i was invited on-site for an interview. i think that happened towards the end of february? they said “we’ll let you know one way or the other in two weeks.”

two weeks passes, then another week, and another week. i kept getting in touch with my hr contact about it and she said over and over “i’m so sorry, we don’t have an answer yet but i’ll let you know as soon as we do.” okay, cool. i’ll be patient.

in the mean time, i took a job doing copy writing for a small marketing company. the healthcare software company finally got back to me at the beginning of april, saying that it’s a no this time. 

then last week, my roommate (my bf and i live with one of our friends) said he’s basically being forced to move to dubai for work, which means he can’t help us out with rent anymore, which means that my copy writing job will no longer be sustainable. i freaked out because now i have less than a month to get something figured out before he moves.

so i emailed my hr rep at the healthcare software company, saying ‘hey you considered me for a quality assurance position too, is there any chance that could work out since the writing position is a no go?’

and she got back to me this past monday saying ‘oh hey we actually just got approval to bring on more writers and we were talking about offering you the job. can i call you to chat about the details?’

UH YES OF COURSE YOU CAN

she offered me the technical writing job that afternoon, and i accepted wednesday morning. i’ll be making more than enough to support me and my bf (who can’t work right now due to a yet-to-be-diagnosed mystery illness - that sounds sassy but i swear it’s not, he’s actually very sick). i can actually afford rent and food for both of us and it’s like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.

i don’t start until the beginning of june, but i am so so so excited. i can’t believe that i can actually make a living wage doing something with writing. 

this ended up being way longer than i intended, and i don’t expect any of you to actually read this brain dump. i just wanted to share all of the fantastic things that are happening right now 💕