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My kitchen is finished, and I've more or less moved in. Wanna see some pictures?

Can you see my lovely appliances? A full size oven! The world's coolest fridge! A microwave that doesn't take the whole countertop! I love them all!

I love my faucet. All I have to do is touch the neck, and the thing turns on and off.

And I've got more than twice as much counter space as I used to.

Close up of my countertop. I love the way they turned out.

After the headaches of getting the thing finished, thank god I love it.

Here's hoping third times a charm. I can't make my pictures imbed, and I love to post my pictures.

Tail end of my vacation- here's the cabin we rented, the view from my bedroom, and the mountain views from the front porch.


While we were here we visited Biltmore Estates, one of the Vanderbuilt family homes. I think I would look pretty spiffy here.


But on to the newer news- I'm remodeling my kitchen! I'm very excited but there are so many decisions to make my head is going to explode. Wanna see the samples I've got sitting in my kitchen. We can start with cupboard doors- the first one is the style I want and one of the colors I'm thinking about. The second one the wrong style, but one of the other colors I like.


I'm looking at cork flooring. At first I thought cork would be too dark but I love this one. It kind of looks like stone.


Counter tops- I'm thinking recycled glass. These are my three favorites.


Here's everything all together-

What do you think?

I spent the day looking at appliances. I can bore you with those pictures later if you'd like.


And Miss Aneas- where are your vacation pictures?

Second concert down, none to go. Adam has left the midwest, on his way to the south, the west coast, and then overseas. Maybe I should figure out how to go to the show in Hawaii.

The second show was as good as the first. I never thought it would happen- Indianapolis was just THAT spectacular. And while I wouldn't say that Peoria was better, it was still fantastic.

Once again, Ali was pretty good. I still couldn't understand what she was saying most of the time, but she was high energy and enthusiastic and the audience was pretty receptive.

So here's my story. Prepare for a picspam. I know I'm posting a lot of them, but it could have been worse, OK? I could have attached all 155 of them.

Between sets I got to look around some. The first thing I noticed was the security.

Good thing nobody got rowdy.

The next thing I noticed was the variety of fans. The last guy? 78 years old and dancing up a storm.

The crowd was a blast. Here's a picture of the dance party going on. And there was, of course, another Balcony Guy. I got videos this time. The song he's dancing to is Beat It (hard to hear in video link)Click the picture to link to the video.

The show itself was a incredible. Adam was in a great mood. Very playful with the band and the dancers. There were cute boys at the front of the stage too. "I love seeing the boys in glitter and leather." The opening medley was great, and he sounded fantastic on Ring of Fire.

Fever was hot.

Look how pretty he looked during Whataya Want from Me. The whole acoustic section was Adam as the love doctor. "People look in all the wrong places for love. Like picking people up in a bar. That's no way to find true love. I mean, it could happen, but what are the odds?"

Sure Fire Winners was as good as I've heard him do it. The high notes were out of this world.

Encore was Twentieth Century Boy- an old T-Rex classic. The audience went beserk and Adam loved it. And loved a bench up too. The audience was so loud, chanting his name, screaming until my ear drums vibrated.

Adam seemed to enjoy every minute of it. We all know how charismatic he is, and he talks about how energized he is by his audience. It's fascinating to watch it in person. He was practically vibrating with joy by the end of the night. He was glowing. And I know that sounds weird to say, but there you have it. If happiness is visible, you could see it radiating off of him. The audience loved him, he loved us, and everybody was happy.

There was a huge crowd out by the buses. Tommy and Monte signed autographs too. Sorry. I couldn't get a picture of Monte too.

And then Adam came out. He was friendly, worked both sides of the line, and then went between the buses to sign for the people standing in the street. There was a man in his 50's standing behind me talking to his wife. She talked about Adam's gorgeous voice, and he talked about how interesting he was to just listen to when he talks. His wife teased him about having a man-crush. One of the roadie types was talking to a cute young woman, and I heard him say that Adam is just as nice as he seems- that he had seldom seen him anything but calm. It started to rain before Adam was done signing, but the long haired bus driver just popped open an umbrella and they kept going.


Finally- here's the bus pulling out. The lights are on and the leg you see is Sasha's, who had her iPod in her ears and was dancing in her seat. That left me laughing as I walked back to the hotel.

Last night Adam Lambert came to my town- go Indianapolis! Did you know he was born here? I heard a guy yell at him last night- "Adam! You're a hoosier (nickname for people from Indiana) whether or you like it or not! Adam laughed and a said "Yes, I am. It's in the blood."

aneas wants a detailed recap, so that's what this is. If you were hoping for a shorter version feel free to skim. I like it when aneas likes me, so a long version it is. With pictures. And maybe a video link or two.

This concert was on the campus of Butler University, a small university in Indianapolis, less than 2 miles from my house. The theatre is small-ish (around 2200 people) with a nice stage and fabulous acoustics. It was incredible.

Warm-up act was Allison Iraheta. She was fairly good but would be better if you could understand what she' singing. She sounded a little hoarse, but people were enjoying her and the cheers were loud.

Intermission between Allison and Adam turned into a dance party. I was in a box seat on the first level up, and one of the guys in the box in front of me was quite the dancer. He had the whole theater cheering for him and by the end he almost had his shirt off and was writhing off the railing over the floor. My picture is a bit blurry- but here he is-


Here's the picture projected on the screen during intermission-

I thought the screams for Allison were loud, but when the FYE remix was finishing and people could see Adam at the top of the stairs, I thought my ear drums were going to shatter. It was incredible. Here he is dancing with Terrance during Voodo -

He looked and sounded fabulous, and was clearly having a lot of fun. He was grinning the whole night. Here are some other pictures I really like.


Did I say that he sounded incredible? Listen to this-
and this



I went out by the buses after the show (I wasn't stalking, really. My car was parked about 100 feet away). Adam came out and signed. He was grinning and looked happy, but it was hard to get a good picture of his face what with all the people and the baseball cap and everything. Tommy and Monte both came out to sign as well. No pictures of Tommy, a couple good ones of Monte if you're interested. Brother Neal was out- ignoring the fans at first but eventually he started laughing and posed for pictures with several people. Given how much he hates to have people interested in him just because his brother is famous, he was pretty nice to everyone.

The audience was a wide range of really young to not so young, gay couples, straight couples, everything you can think of. I met several people who commented on how diverse his fans are. The general consensus from people I talked to who had gone to multiple shows, and on some of the fan boards that I looked in on, was that this was the best show most of them had seen. A couple of band members and dancers tweeted the same thing. I had so much fun, I can't even tell you.

ETA- because I spell like Adam.