Last Week Continued...

So to continue from last week’s blog…

Pierre had handed me the guitar pick and I set it in my pocket. After getting home and freaking out showing my friends and family the pick, I set it in my room. A couple days passed by and I hadn’t seen the pick in awhile. Eventually it dawned on me.. I had cleaned my room. I threw out all the garbage, including the tissue.

What I’m getting at is I threw out the guitar pick, that Pierre handed me himself… all because it was in a tissue. My heart sunk. I have a bin in my room that I toss light garbage in; tissues, cotton swabs, makeup removing wipes.

I was hopeful that by some chance I might have tossed the tissue into that bin. I was basically positive I didn’t because I had cleaned my entire room. I didn’t want to look for it  so I avoided it for days. Finally after about a week of my sadness I decided I’d give it one quick look and just move on. It was a really big deal for me because I haven’t been to many concerts and I certainly haven’t met/touched any famous people.  Especially a band I have been listening to for like 10 years. What would have been no big deal to most people was a huge deal to me. I looked and by the luck of life it was there. I then freaked out, ran around my house, put the pick in a plastic bag… taped it to my wall, and now I admire it daily. 

Pierre Bouvier (Singer of Simple Plan)

Worst moment of my life... that’s an exaggeration, but it was bad.

Last Friday I drove up to Ottawa in a blizzard and froze because the driver had on the air conditioning.. CRAZY. I went up there to see a concert with my best friend.  She had early entry so she was in the venue before I got there, holding spots in front row. Well, try getting to front row from the back row after arriving late and the concert had already started. Oh and through a crowd of insane and angry people.

Conveniently Simple Plan has a song called ‘Jump’. It works really well when the whole crowd is jumping and we bolt through everybody. So after two opening bands and the main band playing a few songs, Candace and I got to Jessica in front row!

It was a whole different show from the very front and there is a lot more energy. I have been in love with Simple Plan for years and seeing them live was unbelievable.

After an exciting energetic show, Pierre (the lead singer) was doing an acoustic song. He then jumped off the stage in front of the gate where we were standing. All the fans were pushing and screaming and freaking out, so I just kind of stood there not expecting anything. My hand wasn’t reaching out at all, but was over the gate… and all of a sudden... HE PUT THE GUITAR PICK IN MY HAND! RIGHT IN MY HAND! So then I started crying and freaking out, because he personally put the pick that he played acoustic songs with IN MY HAND!

So I put the guitar pick into some tissue, and shoved it in my pocket. I didn’t want to hold it too long because it had his sweat all over it and then…

Continued next week…