New Found Glory, now and then

A few weeks ago I was listening to 104.5 in the car and heard an ad for the annual Winter Jam event in Philly including New Found Glory playing and the whole thing is free!  I knew we had to go.  Saturday ended up being a beautiful, sunny, and warm winter day for an outdoor concert so Sean, me and 4 close friends went together. I think I mainly went for nostalgic reasons.  New Found Glory was one of my favorite bands in high school and although I haven't kept up with their newer albums, I had SO much FUN!  They played a good variety of old and new songs including 2 of my favorite songs, Sincerely Me and Hit or Miss, from their self titled album from year 2000. The one I have many memories of driving around with my best friend singing along to every word.  It's been quite a while since I was in a crowd, crammed next to strangers, watching out for mosh pits and crowd surfers and...I loved it.  I pushed my way up to about 5 people from the front.  Here are some photos:

And a video that might make you sick because I was getting pushed around the whole time and 

crowd surfers were going over my head...

Now, a flashback:
I listened to a lot of punk rock back in the day and  on Dec 8, 2000, when I was 16 yrs old, my BF Carrie and I went to see NFG for the first time at a small Uniterian church in Maryland.  Since it was so far from Hershey, my mom drove us and asked the church if she could hang out somewhere during the show.  So, she goes and sits in the church library.  In walks a few guys and she starts talking to them... yep, you guessed it.  The guys in NFG.  So she makes conversation and tells them about me and my friend and how excited we were to see them play.  So, during the show they announced how far we traveled and how awesome that was.  At one point they asked the audience for requests and Jordan looked right at us and I screamed "The Glory of Love!" and they played it.  :)  Afterwards, we met all the band members, took photos with them, got autographs, etc.  Here are a couple photos from that night.  Please excuse our sweaty faces.  The top one is with the lead singer Jordan, the bottom is with the bass player Ian.  It's pretty cool that all 5 band members are the same today as this show12 years ago.

 From my "Concert Journal".  I was looking for my ticket stub but apparently we only got wristbands.

Great memories!  Old and new!  :)

Getting in Shape 2012

I have never been someone who likes to work out or exercise.  I've never considered myself athletic and the only sport I've ever participated in was field hockey for 2 years in middle school.  Even then, I was goalie so I didn't have to run as much!  


The older I get, the more I want to live a healthy lifestyle with a good diet and regular exercise.  I haven't really had time to make this a priority until now so my goal for 2012 is to go to the gym regularly.  (I just joined Planet Fitness on Jan 18.)  If I go 120 times in a year my insurance reimburses up to $150 a year.  I think that's a pretty good motivation!  I hope I can do it.