ApproximatelyInfinite

a long time ago, in november, i was lusting after a pair of ann taylor black leather riding boots, which i got for my birthday. basically, they're my favorite things ever (i tried to go back and find my original post of them, and i found it, but the pictures are just Xs). anyway, they also came in a brown leather/suede mix, but at the time they were too expensive. by the time they were marked down, they didn't have my size anymore (i need extended calf :rolleyes:). but today, my mom called me from the store (she works at ann taylor), and said some lady was RETURNING the brown boots in my size and calf width! and the best part? they were no longer $300. they were $2.33 :freak:. so, she also bought me another pair of brown suede boots at the same price, but they have a big heel that i'd have to get used to :P. anyway, i know that was long, but i'm just quite happy that i bought two pairs of boots that were originally $300 each for a total of $4.66. i had to share :P.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwienj_GZps]YouTube - Lovers in Japan, Coldplay, Hartford 5/23/09[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFfnRjdb3I]YouTube - The Scientist, Coldplay, Hartford 5/23/09[/ame] ok, those are all of mine :D

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9GCw0OjRI]YouTube - Glass of Water, Coldplay, Hartford 5/23/09[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJdlkXYV1s]YouTube - Viva la Vida, Coldplay, Hartford 5/23/09[/ame] :dance: two more coming, i think.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahMsuIcRprg]YouTube - Clocks, Coldplay, Hartford, CT 5/23/09[/ame] clocks! yes, we are REALLY loud :embarassed:. others are coming slowly...i think my internet connection is slower today.

poor chris and his arm! :sad: though i kind of hope some video of it surfaces, like when he knocked himself in the eye with the drumstick :P. this boy is accident prone on this tour! :lol:

all my videos are FINALLY uploading...they'll probably be all done by later tonight! PS: erica, that guy pic with the butterflies is AMAZING! :stunned:

thanks, christa!! can't wait for more (if you have them...especially the cute group ones to remember it by :D), and videos too! i'll have more videos tomorrow, once i sort through them more. i just find them a bit embarrassing, since we're all so loud :P

sounds great, anna! :D i had more than goosebumps! :P

first video of mine! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1r5xUrUiUg]YouTube - Life In Technicolor, Hartford CT, 5/23/09[/ame] again, apologies for the shaking, screaming, and singing. we were all a bit...excited, to say the least :P

no worries, christa! we know you're busy, but i can't wait to see your pictures :D

i'm really short, and i still own an maxi dress from last year :P. its straps make it a bit more upscale, and i REALLY need to hem it an inch or two, but i didn't think it made me look too too short. i just loooove long dresses in general, i think they're so much more elegant , even when they're made out of cotton jersey :D

i bought a blue set at the concert last night! :dance: however, the blue set is MUCH larger than my old multi-set :thinking:. now i know how chris gets his on...they come in sizes! i always wondered, since my old set was so small i could barely get them on, and i have tiny hands :P despite the fact that these are much easier to get on and off and appear to me more pliable (which makes me think that they'll split and unravel less), i like the fit of the smaller ones better on my skinny arms :P. i'm going to do some serious super-glue maintenance on my old set now :D.

haha, i got sweated on in newark! and at the time, i thought it was the most wonderful thing ever :lol:. my god, we're freaks :wacky:

i assume they're lawn, since you're probably leaving around now and people are probably already in line down there. but DAMN! if it was humanly possible, i would join you, but my dad would freak, my voice would die, my bank account would not allow it, and my car would hate me (i make that drive to the hershey area a lot, since i go to school around there) and blah blah. :bigcry:

SARAH, GET YOUR BUTT BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN :angry: :lol:

ok, everyone, here's my selection of best pictures :D http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016244&id=1083570023&l=edcce28834 i'll hack away at videos slowly, i hope to have some up by today. i'm eagerly awaiting everyone else's! and i can't wait to steal more cute group pictures too :D

when i post the videos, you're going to have to excuse A) the shaking, and B) all of our singing and fangirly screaming :P. it's actually embarrassing, how loud we were all singing and how much we squeed :lol:. luckily, by the end of the night, i had almost no voice left, so you can't hear me so much :sneaky:

cris, they probably won't be put up for another 45 mins or so...i'm still sorting through over 200 of them :P. i wish i had a better concert camera, though...it's fabulous for other things, but it's really hit or miss with coldplay. then again, i suppose it makes up for somewhat crappy concert photos with HD, spectacular-sounding videos, which is next on the agenda :D

i think i burst a lung last night. the pain from a lost voice isn't in my throat, it's like in my chest :lol:. i'm sorting through pictures now...some aren't so good, so i'm only going to post a selection of the best ones (selection meaning like 60, since i'm putting them on facebook :P). the other girls have more cute group shots of us than i do, which i'm looking forward to stealing.

:lol: glad someone saw this! turns out they were just playing old live recordings...the boys were in the air/on the road at the time :P. still, at the time we thought it was them, because we distinctly heard chris's voice. BTW, the reason that we didn't tweet pics is because twitpic doesn't allow you to text pics to twitter: you have to EMAIL them to twitter, and none of us have email phones :sad:. i should have sent more to FB with coldplay in them, but it's just too exciting to bother with phones while there :P i just looked through the new program, and all the nice little handwritten notes about how much they love us fans made me tear up. it's time for bed, i think :lol:.

ok, i need to write a report before i crash while it's still fresh in my mind. it's probably not going to be that eloquent, but i can revise it later. we all got there at pretty much the same time, and we WERE allowed to park there (the guy on the phone LIED to me :P), so we parked close to the lines and waited around from about 3:15ish to 6:30. i had fun in line though :wacky:. despite the rain, it didn't feel like that long at all. we discussed signs and nervousness and made a few new signs in case we weren't allowed to bring the big ones in :D (but we were in the end). they started taunting us by getting all ready to scan tickets behind the gate like 45 minutes before it was actually time, so we all had our tickets and our bags open and were ready to run (and were all-around freaking out :P) way before we had to be. finally they opened the gates (all the employees were nice and jokingly taunting us) and we RAN inside. but the pit-goers had to wait in ANOTHER line to get wristbands, and THAT was all-around chaos. these drunk girls in line refused to line up and just kept pushing at the front with the employees yelling at them and everyone else getting annoyed. granted, the entire system for wristband-giving was ridiculous and stupidly organized, but eventually people cooperated and we were allowed to *walk* in. WE ALL GOT THE PRIMO SPOTS, right in guy's corner, where the ramp meets the stage. basically, we all freaked and jumped around and caused a general scene (pretty much all night :P). i thought both opening acts were really good, and time passed rather quickly while waiting for coldplay. we took a lot of pictures and did a lot of squeeing :P. and then...THEY CAME ON. i thought life in technicolor was made about 50 times more epic by the sparkler torches they had...i need to get me one of those. it goes without saying that the show was EPIC, and the guys definitely noticed us :lol:. i saw guy reading our various signs at the beginning. he didn't have a ton of reaction for the most part and actually seemed a bit frightened by us, but he did give a big smirk at christa's PHIL IS HOT sign! and chris...he saw our sign early on, read it, and then went "OH ! :lol:!" very obviously :P. guy started to appreciate us more in our corner once he realized we were hardcore fans that new every note and every word and weren't just drunks or whatever. i would wave at him compulsively every time he looked down at us, and once he gave me (or my general direction, which included sarah, christa, and pris) a big smile. other than that, he grinned a lot at us and smirked :P. i think noelia or someone said they thought jonny winked at us at the end, but i missed it if it happened. we basically sang like banshees and were all-around fangirls all night. i think i exploded a tonsil, and i think i have permanently lost my hearing in my left-ear :P. chris was in an ESPECIALLY good mood for some reason and talked to the audience a lot, sang a little jokey song about all the guys when they were on the C stage (will is the most likely member of coldplay to be in a horror film, guy is the most likely member of coldplay to be in a porno "but without the questionable bits" :lol:), smiled all the time, danced around fabulously, etc etc :dead:. he was making a lot of apologies about the last hartford show (i wasn't at it...ironcially, i was at the bakery at the time :P), saying how bad they thought it was, and i think they were really trying to make up for it tonight. they were probably in the best form and highest spirits i've ever seen them in at one of my shows. at the end, the final bow, guy looked right at us and gave a sort of head-nod with a cheeky smile, like he was saying "ladies :D," and we all freaked. then will walked by and gave us a HUGE grin and a thumbs up...:dead:. we were obviously the biggest freaks there, and they obviously noticed :D. no setlist or pick action, but sarah got a big yellow balloon! and we obviously got tons of butterflies, and our free CDs! we decided not to stage-door stalk at the end, seeing as A) they probably did a runner, since they have a faraway show tomorrow, B) we lolligagged with bathrooms and merchandise, and C) we had no idea where the stage door etc was :P. but we hung out in the parking lot tailgaiting until the traffic cleared, and it was wonderful :nice:. i loved everyone in our group; it was so much fun to go with people who get the obsession and you don't have to worry about acting like a fangirl or being too loud or singing off-key. pictures and videos tomorrow from me...i think i got a few decent photos, but my camera isn't a big fan of concerts :dozey:. i also have a fair few videos, but i like to get entire songs, and LIJ is fragmented, i didn't get all of GOW (stupid record button being so close to the zoom and so easy to press), and my battery died during the scientist. anyway, I LOVE YOU ALL, and i can't wait to start sharing pictures and videos tomorrow :D

i already sold my ticket, i'm sorry :sad:. SARAH, HAVE YOU GUYS NOT LEFT LI YET?! i see you're online and i'm getting worried :P

off to *try* to sleep :dance: i'll try to tweet important info tomorrow and send one or two crappy pictures to facebook!

thanks, noelia! we'll be in touch!! tell me when you leave, if you hit major traffic (damn memorial day weekend), and when you're about 1 hr 15 mins away :D. if there are questions about parking, we'll be in touch via phone once we're both in hartford...plan A is try to get into the venue parking lot, plan B is what i sent christa if plan A doesn't work and she/you all agree (don't want to make it too public here so they're not swamped by parked cars!) OMFG, see you tomorrow! :dance: :bomb: :bigcry:

same with me, i don't think i'll be too avid a tweeter, since i'll be more concentrated on the show itself and pics/vids. noelia, if you talk to christa soon, tell her to check her PMs...i have a new plan and i think it's good as long as you all agree...mainly, it involves more secure parking, but a walk of 0.68 miles. sarah's FLYING to long island? i thought she lived there? :P i need to print directions and do camera work too...but i'm also in the midst of a really good book, and my room is a wreck :lol:. anyway, i'd love a yes or no on the new parking plan from christa before yall leave LI tomorrow. i think it's our best bet if we can't get into the venue lot that early. (sorrrrrry for being paranoidddddd :P)