FAIRFAX, VA ~ 3/11/01

Today was the best day of my life. The day started when me, Krissy (semisilver) and her friend debbie arrived at the patriot center around 10 am. There was a small group of fans already gathered outside.. (hi Deb, Beth, Jen, Davie, Sara, and.. i forget your name! lol AHHHH) So we hung out for most of the afternoon.. telling mb20 stories and laughing and stuff. I'm not sure of the the exact time.. but sumtime before 3 that afternoon we walked down to where the buses were parked and lifehouse's bus came pulling in... the guys from lifehouse came right over and talked to us! I got my picture taken with the drummer and jason the lead singer and i shook jason's hand and told him that i loved his music and he said thank you! then all 3 of them signed a piece of paper for me. Then I asked jason if he liked touring with matchbox twenty and he said he loved it and that they were really great guys! Sometime between 3:30 and 4:00 a van came pulling in.. and i was like.. omg! kyle's in there... the van pulled up and kyle, his wife, and his daughter got out! his daughter is soooo cute!!!!! He walked over to the crowd.. which was getting bigger and bigger and started signing stuff. He had us all say hello to his wife and his daughter. we were standing there waiting for our turn.. and i was like.. debbie.. i want kyle's cigarette butt! lol so finally Kyle got to us.... me, krissy and debbie got our picture taken WITH kyle! YAY! Then he signed my cd liner. I was freaking out inside cuz i was thinking.. omg.. i am touching kyle cook! lol but i held myself together until he went on to the next people and then i turned around and walked away and started crying! Debbie walks up to me and hands me something and i look down and it's KYLE'S CIGARETTE BUTT! ::dies laughing:: i have kyle's cigarette butt.. hahahahah. I am obsessed! yay me! So then bout a half hour later or so... the mb20 tour bus pulled in! When i saw paul get out.. i was like.. omg.. this is it.. i am going to have a heart attack. LOL. the crowd was lined up against this little barrier thing.. and paul came over and started signing stuff.. he signed my cd cover and i was like.. paul can i take your picture? and he was like.. sure! so he smiled.. and the picture came out sooo cute! omg omg omg.. so next adam came out.. and adam had already signed my cd cover at the penn state show so i just said hi to him and took a picture of him.. Brian came out of the bus but he walked right inside.. cuz he had hurt his knee as a previous show (least that's what i had been told) So finally Rob steps off the bus with marisol.. they kissed and it was really cute.. then rob walked over and i was thinking.. ok girl.. hold yourself together til this is over... so rob starts working his way down the line.. getting closer and closer to me.. and finally he is in front of me.. (note: i had made rob a book.. it was a journal actually and i wrote a big paragraph in the begining about how much he means to me.. and how he inspires me and then i put a picture of myself and finally put in about 10 songs that i had written) So rob get's to me and i hand him my cd cover and he signs it and hands it back.. and he looks up at me and i hand him my book that i made him and i'm like.. rob.. this is for you.. and he's like.. for me?? and i'm like yeah.. so he takes it and sez.. thank you! and he turns to jason (the bodyguard) and is like "hold on to this for me" then he turns back to me and he smiles and sez.. what is your name? and i was like.. mandy.. and then i was like.. rob.. u are my biggest inspiration.. i love you so much.. and he said i was sweet.. then after that it was a blur.. but i think i took a picture of him and then i walked away. i walked over to where there were some trees and i started hyperventalating... and crying like u would not believe.. i cried for like 5 minutes and krissy came over and hugged me and asked me if i was ok.. and i'm like.. NO! I'M NOT OK!.. so finally i calmed down a bit.. but not much.. enough that i could talk.. so i called my mother and my best friend to tell them and every time i talked about it to someone.. i started crying again.. so i cried for like 20 minutes after that and finally we headed back up to where we had been waiting and i was still crying and the crowd was staring at me! and people were like.. r u ok? and asking me why i was crying and stuff and i told this one lady... "i can't explain it to you" and she was like.. oh ok.. i'm sorry.. lol.. people probably thought i was the biggest weirdo!.. but it was the best thing that had ever happened to me. So blah blah.. nothing really happened.. around 5:30 they let us in the venue.. and i was 2nd row back (it was allll standing room on the floor) Lifehouse came on at 7 and they were AMAZING. Jason Wade is incredibly beautiful.. and i love his music so much! They are reallly really good live! After they were done.. one of the crew guys was preparing the stage for everclear and he crumbled up this piece of paper and threw it down where the security guards were standing.. and i was thinking that it was probably the set list.. so i asked the security guard to get me the paper and he did! so i have a setlist from lifehouse! yay! Next came everclear and i would have enjoyed them a whole lot more had i not been getting crowd surfers dropped on me and stupid people being pushed into me.. i got pushed back to about the 6th row and i was sooo pissed off.. i was starting to become reallly violent which scared me.. i hit this one crowd surfer and i was like.. holy shit i need to get out of here.. so after everclear.. i had a security guy pull me out of the pit and i went and sat in the seats.. which really sux that a huge fan like me has to leave the floor becuz people don't know who to control themselves.. but oh well.. what are you gonna do... I still got lost in mb20 even standing off to the side of the stage. Matchbox was incredible as always.. I can truly not express how much i love them and their music... here's the list of the songs... in order.. i'm pretty sure of it! Crutch, Bent, Argue, GLT, 3am, LastB.G., the burn, long day, you won't be mine, rest stop, mad season, angry, real world, if you're gone, back 2 good , then encour was a cover called lonely weekends, push and b&w people. I cried during You won't be mine.. that song truly moves me so much.. especially cuz rob was playing the piano.. Where i was sitting/standing.. there was about 2 rows in front of me and then a ralling.. and marisol and adam's girlfriend were standing right in front of me! Adam and his girlfriend kept looking at each other and smiling and stuff. it was sooo cute! So then it had to end.. and we went back out to the buses after the show but jason said that mb20 would NOT be coming out that nite.. but lifehouse did come out so i gave jason (the lead singer) a hug and told him he was awesome and then we left... IT WAS INCREDIBLE!