Through the eyes of a Mann...

Get it? Since my last name is Mann?! LAME JOKE. Anyways I would like to start the story off on August 15, 1989... the day I was born! ....... WAIT! Too far back??? Lets try again... The date was October 8, 2009. After a long night of homework and studying for midterms, I hadn't gotten much sleep. It was a very blah day outside and 6 AM came WAY TOOOO EARLY! After going to school for a test, I walked the mile and a half across UCA campus back to my car, then picked Jenn and Tiff up at my house, and we were off to Tulsa! (if you have never driven from Conway Arkansas to Tulsa Oklahoma, it is a trip I would NOT suggest! Its not that its the longest trip ever, since its only about 4 hours long, but there is NOTHING to see! its all fields and, as my dad would say, "those damn weird indian trees.")

This is where the trip gets interesting...

Hour 1: We are in the car... Jenn called shotgun on the way there... We are listening to a mix cd made just minutes before takeoff. Music ranging from Jay-Z (HOV! PUT CHA DIAMONDS UP!!!) to Fergie, to The Lonely Island. LIKE A BOSS! It was a little cloudy out, but still no rain, YET, but we were expecting it at any time.

Hour 2: We moved on to a more sophisticated music selection consisting of High School Musical and the Dixie Chicks. This is where the jamming REALLY began. Almost out of arkansas, almost halfway there.

Hour 3: I begin to wonder if everyone in Oklahoma either bails hay, or owns a casino for a living. Waiting to see the sign for Tallequah Oklahoma so we can make funny jokes about it being some chicks name... i might have said something about her having a sister named Cornbreadisha but I'm not sure, things were getting a little blurry at this point.

Hour 4: We make it to Tulsa! I forgot how confusing it was once we got into the city and was a little concerned about the heavy traffic. The GPS was set to take us directly to KHITZ though, our destination that seemed to be only "2 miles away" for about 30 miles... During this hour sometime is where we met the loverly BRITTANY! (and her friend who i have absolutely no idea who she is because i forgot. as you can tell said friend is not a very important part in my story so moving on...)

Hour 5: Jenn, Tiff, and I are standing outside the KHITZ station with our new friends, Brittany and Tiffany with a "Y" QUICK SHOUT OUT TO MY GIRLS WHAT WHAT!!! While waiting on the gentlemen, we exchanged many thats what she said jokes, mainly from me, we learned that Brittany was a Broken Arrow Whore but was one of the only girls in her school that wasn't preggers, Tiff and I wrote a song about grits and fried okra with Brittany's broken guitar, and I taught everyone "its not rape if you yell surprise first"...

Hour #@*^&#$(@% : things began to blur right about now. The red van pulled up about 34 seconds after I hacked a gigantic ball of something out of my throat. There they were, in all their black leather glory, Mike Andy Alex and Jay.... Brittany screamed. It was awkward and I hope they didn't hear it. She teenied, and its okay it happens to the best of us... After an awkward silence, some hugging, some hand hugging, some autographing and some other things i cannot mention on here, they had to go inside. THIS is one of my favorite parts. No not because they were temporarily leaving, but because of the statement I made to Alex. After reading Jennifer's shirt, Alex said "Gent with sticks?" in a rather confused voice. At this point I took it upon myself to yell into the door way that the shirt was supposed to be perverted and he should take it that way. The expression on his face was PRICELESS!!!!! Oh how I wish Tiffany would have gotten his expression oh her camera!!! When they came back outside I made Andy tell MIKEY that Arkansas was awesome. He kinda did that by saying "yeah Arkansas is awesome I love farm animals" I dont have any farm animals Andy, but I forgive you. I was wearing boots that day and I was taller than Mike, damn my luck right? While getting a picture with Alex, he offered to take the picture since he is taller than me, VERY gentlemanly right? Yeah well soon after that he DROPPED MY CAMERA and I caught it about an inch from the ground with my PINKY! The expression he made earlier when I was a perv was back on his face again. I said "you almost had to buy me a new camera!" then he called me a ninja, told me he would have taken me to wal-mart to buy a new one (which i kinda wish i wouldn't have been so ninja like now looking back on it...) and he and Tiffani reenacted the situation, which was quite comical. Everyone else was talking to the other guys and Alex was standing off to the side all alone with no company! Tiff with an I and I went and talked to him for a while. We got "nucks" for almost being 21 and he complimented me on my ninja skills once again. It was good times.

Hour !*(@$*: I was still confused as to what time it was, since it was pouring down rain I wasn't really concerned with the time, I was more concerned with the fact that I had standing water in my boots and my once amazing black silky jacket was quickly becoming what i then thought was an ice cube. We made new friends outside the Marquee with these girls we made a giant umbrella hut with. I caught my first glance of Jenette and some girl griped us out because I was trying to help some little girl stay dry. Remind me not to help anyone out ever again. She almost, but not quite, ruined my night.

CONCERT TIME! Esmee came out and I TEENIED when she was talking about Justin Timberlake (I still think someone should have stolen her blackberry and got his number but the flailing arm girl was in my way... ) THEN THE GENTS CAME OUT! We danced, we sang, we connected, i made messages on the dry erase board that they loved, especially the one that i made that said makin out... mike enjoyed that. I had another THATS WHAT SHE SAID moment during mikes speech when he said "i like that your starting off soft thats good" (I now have that as a ringtone thanks to Tiffany for recording it!!!) And the concert was just amazing in general. :)

MEET AND GREET TIME! After my ice cube silky jacked convinced me I needed a 60 dollar jacket I got to put the m&g I got to use!!! For the M&G I put the silky ice cube back on because i thought it would look better in the picture... it was colder than I remembered it being earlier when i took it off... I walked up to Andy first and apologized for being "damp and cold" So he said "its okay we will warm you up" and was like hugging me/rubbing my back. Again i had another teenie moment. Not only was it one of the most amazing hugs ever, i truly was cold and would have wanted anyone to hug me like that and rub my back. haha. Then it was up to my main man MIKE! He was hugging me and said wow you are cold and he also rubbed my back. at this point i need a change of underwear. im kidding! or am i?? hmm you may never know.... then i get to Jay, he does the hug and rub, which is the new name I made for it just now, and Alex was like "Hey ninja! I'm sorry again about almost destroying your posessions" it was neat-o. I got my picture with them, and Mike then asked me "so when we come back to Tulsa your coming right?! and i was like umm yes of course but you guys have to come to Arkansas sometime! Mike goes "ill think about it", he winked at me, then my heart melted. After another Mike hand hug, Tiff and I talked to Alex and got him to call the hogs... he sounded very confused like someone typed a question mark at the end of his TelePrompTer like "Woo Pig Sooie??" but it was cute none the less :)

We met Esmee, took our picture with her, hurried to the car, took my shoes off, turned the heat on FULL BLAST, found a quick trip, got some rooster booster, and blasted random music the entire way home so i could stay awake on the long boring drive in the POURING RAIN. it took about 5 hours to get home since we were in flash flood warnings and tornado warnings and such the entire way home. We got home at around 3:30 and i CRASHED.

Long story short... EPIC JOURNEY....

:D

i have a million other things i could talk about but this blog is already almost a novel. its a novel of my teenie moments, but a novel...

anywho here is a picture that reminds me of the fun time i had while in Tulsa. Enjoy the Epic Mike Face.