From the beginning she's always reminded of someone else I have always admired since I was literally 12 years old. Drum roll please....Stacie Orrico. (And yes,I'm still looking forward to the day whenever Stacie does decide to release a new album). She originally started out as a Christian artist who later switched over to secular. Deep down, I'm hoping she makes the switch back. Nowadays,we need as many positive role models that we can get. But getting to my point, I thought it was pretty cool to see a recent post Stacie had put out on her facebook. (Ok maybe not so recent, it was around July or August I think. She has definitely become MIA). Anyways, Stacie gave a shoutout to Tori about how awesome it is to see a young talented women in the industry and how she's making such a huge impact on the world, basically she congratulated her and to keep it up. I love that. Although, Stacie does in fact have her own sound, I admire them both as women and artists:)
I wasn't planning on writing this much about last night, but it really was refreshing for me. Even more so this morning when I reposted one of the concert pics. When we lived in Orange County, Cal; we were crazy involved in church over at Free Chapel. Which is crazy because the one in Gainesville,Ga is HUGE. There was always something going on, but I just wasn't as involved there. It's still just as amazing as the Oc one.But somehow I grew soo much more than I could have ever imagined, in every aspect. That place is honestly why Dylan and I fell in love with Jesus all over again, and also again with each other. It's what brought us back together,which we honestly didn't see happening. When we first started going to the church in Irvine, it's definitely not big compared to the Ga campus. But I loved that. I loved that it was more intimate. Well, honestly not at first. You would always run into the same faces at church, keep in touch more, basically people knew when you weren't at church, you would help keep each other accountable. My husband would go to the men's bible studies weekly, youth groups, vice versa for me,plus the choir. We basically lived there, no joke. It honestly has always felt like home from day one.And I miss that almost every single day. Now I'm sort of rambling and going off topic, but one of our really good friends Jeff, (more like family)commented on my pic. Basically giving a shoutout to the piano player in the background. Once I saw his name and face again I knew he had looked familiar last night during the show. He's the piano player from the church band in Irvine!! I really freaked out (and still am),lol. Both him and his wife would be running around everywhere at church as well, bible studies, dinners, youth, you name it. I find it so cool I just had to share. Seeing young people, do what they love but also staying true to their maker, it blows me away.
Ok getting back on track to finish this little bit :)
So I seriously did want to meet Tori last night! Considering we were hanging next to the sound check guys we could have, had we gotten there a bit sooner. And then one of their girlfriends came and stood next to me before the show and was in that fan mode of 'starstruck' since Tori had hugged her. It was pretty amusing. But I can't talk, I fell into the fan hype as well.Even after the show I convinced D we should try to sneak around backstage. I have to remind my husband, I might be 26 in a half...BUT in reality i'm still this little kid who trys to venture off exploring and well,eventually by the end of the adventure...I'm mad at myself for going thru all that trouble. But I don't think that will ever go away. At least I hope it doesn't:) In doing so there were a few other girls trying to do the same. We all decided to sneak behind a staircase waiting for someone to come out of the backstage door. Lets just say we were pretty darn close, in fact really close! And well it resulted in security standing by the door and we were stuck underneath the stairs for over half an hour until thy were gone. Still the back stage door was locked so unfortunately,mission failed.And then eventully we took another route and we had to come up with a cover story, fast. For the record, i'm not admitting that we got caught, hahaa. However...heck had I known our buddy was part of the band, we probably could have saved us all from the unnecessary hard work. But it was still worth trying on our own! As silly as it was..this is why I have a passion for this stuff, for writing, for music, for creativity. You can just get lost in it, reflect, express and feel so rejuvenated and better yet, inspired. I don't know if I'm suppose to just have a blog and occasionally share my thoughts about the universe, my life, and the people in it whom I love. Or if i'm suppose to be pouring out more, giving it my all. At this point, it's always been a passion and very thankful it's still there. So i'm just going to run with it and let my creator decide.
&Thank you again Tori Kelly for the encouragement! ♥
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