Balancing Acts 2

I went to the doctor guys and my due date is May 25th. I am gonna have a little gemini baby, just like my mama. Whose birthday is the day after my due date. Lmfao, don't have to buy her a present this year.

My, uhm, female doctor is this cute little asian man. He likes to joke a lot and I don't understand most of what he says, when he pulled out the foot and a half long thing connected to the ultrasound machine and put some jelly shit on it...well, I got all wide-eyed and asked him where the hell he thought he was putting that; he laughed. tmi? sorry. I just thought it'd make light of the situation.

My baby looks like a seamonkey but that was to be expected since I am 12 weeks pregnant. 2nd trimester in 2 weeks. My boyfriend is being all cute and makes me lie my head in his lap so he can rub my belly while we watch T.V. I told him I wanna wait until after the baby is born to talk about marriage and he seems a little offended I don't want to marry him just yet but is taking it surprisingly well. He got me a ring. He talked to my grandma and got her wedding ring and had it dipped to make it white gold, because he knows I think its lovely. I love it.

My father, who hated my boyfriend simply because he was my boyfriend, now sings Michael Jackson songs with him while they drink beers together in the kitchen. (My boyfriend doesn't really like beer, he does it to bond with my dad. I guess that is cute...) Whatever.

My entire bedroom has been gutted and a crib will go where my comnputer desk once sat until next year, when I suppose I am getting married and moving into my boyfriend's house with our child.

And I would like to thank you all again for your support. When I find the cords to my scanner, I will show you the sonogram picture.

Oh and my names I picked out, I'd like opinions! Don't be afraid to tell me how you really feel.
Girl: Anna Alice
(my great-grandmother's name)
Boy: Logan Matthew or Christopher
(Matthew because its my brothers middle name, Steve hates it; he chose Christopher which I am not exactly fond of. We both chose Logan)


Also, Elle...I am extremely jealous. I mean, if I weren't pregnant, I'd threaten you. However, I can't make good on any of it. You lucky, lucky woman.

And Jonny, don't be amazed I am having a baby and pretty much engaged and you're eating pop-tarts because I am sitting on my ass all day, and also eating pop-tarts (the whole damn box). I really ain't all that grown-up. It is something I have to work on. I have six months, wish me luck.

OH AND LANES! I totally forgot to tell you. You're no longer the only Jew I know. My boyfriend is a Jew. He loves to tell people that when we go out to a restaurant and he pretends to be outraged at the bill. Its totally dumb and kind of embarassing when he questions the waitress but I love him with all my heart so I put up with it.

He's a silly man and a very nice Jewish boy.

Right, first things first: Sari. That was easily the most adorable post I ever read and i think you shoud print it out stick it in a drawer and show it to your baby one day when it isnt a baby anymore and no im npot joking. i am a bit drunk but really, i think you are going to be such a fantastic mother and it also sounds like your baby is going to ave a lovely lovely family that care about him or her and what more does he or she need?

Also, one of my favourite kids in my class is called Logan (i know im not meant to have favourites but shhh), my best friend is called Alice, my brother has just married Anna and my other brother is called Matthew and i dont know any christophers but the others are all good! Hurray!

Okay next. Its 1 o clock am and I'm sitting in a hotel room with my aunts laptop. My whole family are drunk (but not as drunk as the Americans it seems) and I've been awake for.... moe than 48 hours? s that right? OMG. I am FUCKED so i hope this makes sense,

yes i DIDhug billie, and OMG i think i might a complete idiot of myself cause i CRIED OMG and i cant even bring myslelf to think about it cause its too awful, its all a total blur i just know i was embarrassing and they were fucking LOVELY.
I’m still in a state of total disbelief. The concert was fucking awesome, Billie Joe was probably the funniest I have ever seen him. cut a guys hair on stage, told a little kid it was ok to be scared cause he was petrfied, then offered him some of his Xanax, at which point I considered offering a proposal of marriage.

Acoustic encore was absolutely gorgeous and made me cry (I was actually fine during LNOE FP, but then WMUWSE started and I was like, fuck.), Sam got stuck in GD traffic coming tog et me and John (Sam's dad). He took a route around it but apparently every mummy and daddy coming to collect their offspring from the nice punk concert did the same. So we were waiting fucking ages and I was freaking out because I managed to convince myself that I was about to miss Nathan’s wedding for the sake of going to a concert and that I was the worst sister in the world, ever. Anyway me and John were walking round the arena and there’s a huge crowd of people and I felt totally sick because I didn’t even want to TRY and meet them and I knew I had to leave and I was feeling really, really emotional but then a bunch of people started screaming and John said we should just go and see if they were there because then I could ‘say hello’... haha, like you do. So we went into the crowd and pushed our way to the fence barrier thing and the tour bus was there and I still thought it was totally pointless, but then Mike and Tre were coming out of the building and I almost died of shock, OMG. My hands are actually shaking writing this!

everyone was waving things to sign in their faces but I hadn’t brought anything to sign and I was justl like, fuck off with your CD inlays, I can’t even SEE them, ARGH, it was really stressful cause everyone was sort of grabbing for them and asking them questions (mainly where BJ was) and they said he wasn’t coming out but I didn’t catch what their reason was. I pretty much didn’t hear a single word they said,tbh, it was too loud and I was just totally in awe of them, I just remember snapshots, some girl took a picture of them and the flash was blinding and Tre went FUCK! and then they were laughing, I also remember a girl screaming questions at him and Mike telling her to chill but in a nice way. he was gorgeous. ’I totally stood there staring at them saying nothing with a dumb grin on my face, then when they started to move on I reached out my hand and grabbed for Tre (No, I have no shame, haha) and he sort of half turned round, then I still didn’t fucking say anything (I knooooow, its awful) but then John said “You were bloody fantastic mate!” LOL and Tre smiled and high-fived him!

when theyd gone i started talking to this lady in her 40s who was actually the biggest BJ fan I’ve ever met in my life (she had his name tattooed on her arm, I mean, OMG! Haha) but she was lovely and she basically told me that BJ HAD to come out and convinced me and John to give it 5 mins and if he hadn’t appeared we had to give up, but I swear we were way longer than 5mins and then a bunch of people came out and one of them had dark hair and I felt like I was going to faint, but it wasn’t him ( lol... he doesn’t even HAVE dark hair now... clearly I wasn’t thinking things through) Then I was thinking that if I react like that, I’m not actually going to be able to deal with this at all, then suddenly he WAS coming out with a bunch of other people and me and the mad lady were in state of absolute shock and holding on to each other for support! I couldn’t tell you if Jason was there FP, im not very tall and people were pushing and i couldn’t even tell who was there and who wasn’t, but there was at least 5 or 6 people with him. Anyway, he came over and as he was moving down the line towards us I was frantically trying to think of what I was going to say to him and I honestly don’t remember what I DID say, but the John told me afterwards (its weird, i swear to god, it didn’t settle in my memory at all, i have a complete blank of 2 or 3 minutes... I didn’t even know that could happen! And I have a psychology degree!) that I said the set was incredible (this was a shockingly respectable thing to say, considering, I’m mega proud of myself! Unless John’s making that up to be kind and in fact i told him he had nice eyes or something, HA) and he said thanks, and i think then he asked if wed had a good time, well, i remember telling him i loved it but i may have volunteered that info without question, haha, and then i told him that his music had got me through shitty times ( How many emo teens have said this to him?! I am cringing that i said this now) and he smiled then crazy lady gave him her pen and put Jonhs ticket in his hand, (LOL, its a good job other human beings help me to function, god damn) and as he was signing it he was like RIGHT NEXT to me and his hair was in his eyes and I just totally couldn’t believe it was actually Billie and i got all shaky and THIS is when I started crying, and it was one of those things where you know if you try to speak you'll actually lose it so I couldn’t say anything at all, then as he passed it back to me he HUGGED me (i actually don’t remember him initiating the hug, it might have been me, but im assuming it was him because i don’t think i was feeling brave enough to even touch him at that moment ) and sort of laughed in this really really cute modest way and his hand patted my back and I was totally done for, and THEN he went “take care alright?’ OH MY GOD. I’m pretty sure he thought I was mentally unstable but it was COMPLETELY worth it.

Afterwards John had to literally steer me out of the parking lot CAR PARK jesus and we found Sam and I promptly burst into tears in the passenger seat. He kept asking me what happened and I couldn’t speak, haha. I babbled inanely all the way to Manchester (poor Sam, he has put up with a lot), our flight was delayed, which was lucky cause i think we might have missed it otherwise, got on the plane, didn’t sleep at all, couldn’t concentrate on the movie, it was the longest 8 hrs ever. I hhave pretty much just had Billie Joe on replay since it happened

Jon, in answer to your questions, im ariad i cant score him out of 10 on his kissing skills and no Liz, i didn't drag him away and have my way with him, haha... oh the diffrences between real life and fanfiction! I can tell you what he smelled like thogh, he smelled nice and fresh and of cosmetics, like shampoo, or hair gel, i’m not sure which. nd I remember thinking he had nice fingernails, which made me think of you Jon and of our theories about guys fingrnails being the clue to their sexuality, haha. Also, he looked older close up, but in a nice way. Like he totally seemed loads older than me, and sometimes I forget that he’s not far off of 40 and consider him to be young. He had sexy lines around his eyes. OMG. I. NEED. TO. STOP.

He was just lovely lovely lovely and he could have been freaked by me being weepy and walked away and he didn’t, he was just absoultely perfect and even though I am totally humiliated by my lack of ability to be cool I love that he pretended I was anyway.

Anyway, my brother’s wedding was nice and my other brother did this really emotional and funny speech about advice our dad gave him at his own wedding that also almost killed me and yep, liam was there and I was so freaking tired that I think I came off quite cool and aloof (in total contrast to night before!), which was good. I did tell him my green day story from beginning to end though and i don’t think i can tell it AND remain cool, so y’know. gahh. he is still hot but it isn’t like I actually have any emotional space for him at all right now, it’s taken right up. He hugged me and I was like, this is NOTHING compared to Billie Joe’s hug, you totally fail at turning to me to mush. Guys should really just spontaneously become unattractive when they split up with you though, it would generally make life so much easier.

right, im goig to go and try and last another hald hour or so then turn in. they started playng gd a while ago and ihad to leave the room and my neice has already told me to stop happy crying because its boring, LOL. what the hell is wrong with me people?!?! Uhhh. i love you guys and will get online some time tomorrow, if im not about to fall asleep for the remaining four days of my trip. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

lmao, aww, Elle! I have laughed and said aww about a thousand times reading your account of meeting Green Day. OMG, Billie Joe up close. By the way, I think it's perfectly alright that you cried and were barely able to speak. It's so hard to see your idols in front of you and be expected to function. First off, I agree, Mike is totally gorgeous in person. That man has aged well! And I'm SO proud of you for just sorting of grabbing on to Tre like that. He loves it, rawr And bless John for being ready with words and helpful guidance--he is kind.

And OMG, you were HUGGED by Billie Joe! He probably thought you were completely adorable and wanted to embrace you. And on to another important question: How did he FEEL? Haha, I want some details. What was he wearing? A towel? Less than nothing? Omg, it's 4:30 in the morning and I am barely awake but I'm so excited I can't stand it!

The show sounds so amazing, too! And I'm glad your brother's wedding was nice. I will most definitely pop back into the thread a thousand times today just to share my flailing and to ask more questions. Gah, I'm so happy for you Ellie May! xxx

lmao i love that someone touching billie j was all it took for me and Lizzola to start checking GSB like loons again.

elle, your adorable. id like to congratulate you on using tears to get hugs from sexy rock stars. this is almost as good as when you cried to that policeman that piulled us over in america and he let you off. seriouly tho im dead happy for you, you fucking deserved it.

sari, it sounds like youre doing all the right things, im so proud of you. i love all your ideas for names. is Logan Irish? if so, even better oh and dont underestimate my ability to eat a whole box of poptarts. i swear theres crack in the sticky shit in the middle. anwyay were all here if you need us and if youve got any random pregnancy questions try me out! im surprisingly good with vaginas.

ahhh, all this exciting news is even making me feel emotional and we all know how hard i am. im having a crap week and actually thinking of comin home for a wee while, i think i need old friends, decent beer, a roast dinner and a hug from my mum.

time for bed, night night lovely girls xxxx

btw, May 25th is MY birthday!!!! rock on geminis! xxxx

Okay. Firstly. Sari gets internet hugs for being lovely and adorable and cute and just being the best damn mother-to-be in the whole wide world. You must get the picture up on here asap and you should totally print off that post like ZR said and show it to your baby in 20 years time or something. And your boyfriend is adorable for getting your grandma's ring dipped to make it white gold. That's dead lovely that.

Secondly, my nan's called Alice and my bro is a Christopher, so don't worry ZR, between me and you we've got alllll names covered.

Thirdly - you just RANDOMLY grabbed Tre? That's ridiculous but I kind of want to high five you. OMG I can't believe you hugged Billie. That's ridiculous and amazing at the same time. I love it. It is majorly lucky you've got people to look after you during these sorts of moments. I think officially they call them carers, but whatever.

With regards to the blank, I have had entire conversations with Mika that I don't remember and Kel has had to inform me of all details after the event. It does happen. I think it's cos you're in some sort of nirvana and your mind is just totally wiped. I think fate decides that the moment is too awesome for you to hold fully in your memory because if you did hold it there it would burn up your brain or something.

LOL @ your neice telling you to stop happy crying, that's awesome.

Pffffft Jason should have had a red carpet. Fuck it, they're gonna tour again right? I'm gonna see them in the arse end of nowhere. Won't get any chance in London, but in somewhere like Newcastle or something... I dunno if they'll play there but I'm TOTALLY gonna wait for them to arrive and then leave at the end of the day.

Actually I'm planning to get pulled up for drums next time, so perhaps it'll all fall into place.

How big was the venue where you saw them? We had 19000 people, which was a bit...meh. But still awesome. But I'd rather it'd have been at the hundred club. So called because you can only fit a hundred people in there. Or better yet, the 12 bar.


Jonny, you have no idea how much it amuses me that you're 'surprisingly good with vaginas'.

Shit week, don't worry, FP send internet hugs. *hugsssssss*

fkdsafjasdfiuaew ELLLEEEEEEE. I am squeeing so hard, hahaha. Your life is amazing. I'm sure Billie thought you were adorable and WANTED to whisk you away, you know, fanfiction style, but there were totally too many people around EEEEE, so awesome!

Sari, you are adorable and I love you dearly I have to say Logan is my favorite name out of those. I actually know both a boy and a girl Logan - the girl is nice, the boy's kind of an asshat but I like his name. XD Also it makes me happy your boyfriend is Jewish, as I've been telling my family I'm going to marry a Jewish boy for a while (long story, hahah). KEEP BEING AWESOME. I guess I really don't have to tell you that, I'm pretty sure you will.

Flaming Phalanges!:

Jonny, you have no idea how much it amuses me that you're 'surprisingly good with vaginas'.

Shit week, don't worry, FP send internet hugs. *hugsssssss*

thanks for my hugs chickywicky xxxx and im happy to amuse you!

god hasnt elle been back on yet? im waiting for a response to liz's extrememly important line of questioning. what the hell did he FEEEL like elle? (haha, i love you liz.). and post the fucking picture. honestly anyone would think ytou had more interesitng things to do than hang out on the net.

im quite drunk.

What the hell is she doing? It's Thursday and all this shtick happened on Monday. Unacceptable! We need more details and we need them now!!


She's probably still happy crying. Pffffft.

Elle I hope you plan to never shower, I mean COME ON. You've got Billie DNA all over you. you could take his DNA and make lots of little Billie clones. MWAHAHAHAH and then keep them all to yourself.

....... maybe not? But that's fucking amazing! I envy you and i'm so happy for you and congrats! And I'm glad you didn't make an idiot of yourself. I would have just shied away and been like... "ermmmmm. i want yo babies."

And Sari! AH those names sound so cute. I had a kid in my group at camp last year named Logan and he was one of the best kids in the group, so fucking adorable. I think that's my favorite name of them all since it's not as common as Christopher and I have thang for uncommon names.

I just wanna do a group hug with all you guys. Mainly for Billie DNA and Sari's cuteness and braveness and maybe her strength wil rub off me and inspire me to do some great things like I can see Sari doing

The Fool On The Hill:

Elle I hope you plan to never shower, I mean COME ON. You've got Billie DNA all over you. you could take his DNA and make lots of little Billie clones. MWAHAHAHAH and then keep them all to yourself.

....... maybe not? But that's fucking amazing! I envy you and i'm so happy for you and congrats! And I'm glad you didn't make an idiot of yourself. I would have just shied away and been like... "ermmmmm. i want yo babies."

Can I just say that I love you guys? I cannot believe that after the ridiculously detailed and lengthy post I wrote you about Monday night, you are still pressing me for further details. LOL.

Billie clones, hmm. Creepy yet appealing, we could have one each? I'll hand my shirt in to the nearest forensics lab asap, El Sadly, I did have to shower. I was fucking gross after the gig, then sat on a plane for 8hrs stewing in my own filth. It's not how I pictured attending my brother's wedding, haha, so I did have to wash straight away!

What did he feel like? Haha, I don't want to big-up our exchange beyond its reality, you guys, we did not stand holding each other for a significant amount of time (sadly! I probably would have died on the spot though) He was wearing a leather jacket, and it felt kind of cold, so maybe he had just put it on. When he hugged me I totally did not react (out of complete shock), so I didn't actually put my arms around him, also because I was holding my ticket and the crazy lady's pen in one of my hands. I did put my other hand on his upper arm though, I'm not sure I can describe how it felt... it felt like an arm inside a jacket, haha! His hair did touch my face though and it felt tickly. Guys, reliving this is making me all fluttery all over again, seriously. I think I need therapy to get past the experience, argh.

FP, of COURSE they will tour again! And I'd defo recommend a smaller venue, I think Sheffield was the smallest on the UK tour, it's 13,000 (i know this because BJ told us!). They didn't play Newcastle this time, but I've been to that arena a bunch of times, me and Jon saw American Idiot there and I think it's slightly smaller than Sheff.

Talking of Jon, Jon! WTF? Are you for real coming back home? Because I cannot take any more excitment! I'm sorry if you're texting me, my phone doesn't seem to be picking anything up over here, it's a piece of fucking shit and I apologise.

And I'm not still happy crying, I have pulled myself together a little now! It is quite emotional being here though, I don't think that has helped! I did seriously not shut up about Green Day for almost all of Tuesday, and in Nate's speech at the wedding dinner, he said ''I'd like to save my little sister some time' then told the whole wedding party that I met Billie Joe Armstrong and that I'm on a mission to talk everyone's ear off about it. Following that, about 4 old people came and asked me who the hell Billie Joe Armstrong was. Still, it pissed on his bonfire, I think most our friends were more excited for me than they were for him, LOL.

And omg, my brother has a fucking insane next door neighbour. I was convinced he was on drugs but I think he's just mad now. I woke up to him laughing hysterically in the backyard, at about 6am, in response to nothing in particular. My neice then leaned out the window and, in a loud and accusing voice, shouted 'Whats wrong with that man?!?!'. So, I'm a little afraid now.

Oh, and ....



He wrote Billie, then I think wrote Joe on top of it (?!). I don't care if it's illegible, as it has a kiss underneath. OMG I AM IN LOVE AND NOT EVEN JOKING. DON'T TELL SAM.

Heeeeeeere's Jonny!:

elle, your adorable. id like to congratulate you on using tears to get hugs from sexy rock stars. this is almost as good as when you cried to that policeman that piulled us over in america and he let you off. seriouly tho im dead happy for you, you fucking deserved it.

I did not USE tears, how dare you suggest such a thing. I'm fairly sure the tears were the reason I got a hug though, I'm under no illusion that he chose to hug me because he sensed the deep connection of our twin souls.

I did totally use tears on the cop though, that was a case of impeccable acting on my behalf.

OMGGGGGGGGGGG ZR BUT LAST TIME, LAST TIME THEY DID BRIXTON AND HAMMERSMITH THEN WHEN THEY CAME BACK THEY DID MILTON FUCKING KEYNES. THAT'S 60000 AND RIDICULOUSLY MORE THAN BRIXTON, HAMMERSMITH AND THE O2 PUT TOGETHER.

Sheff is loads closer to me than London anyway, and rockstars never hang about in London. I might go to that one next time. If there is a next time. Which there better be.

They have to come back though. For real. AAR have been over here 4 times since their new album came out, and I think they'll be coming back again in a few months. Why can't Billie be more like Tyson in frequency AND height?

The kiss is amazing. I always love it when hot people sign things and put a kiss under it. It makes it feel like they're in love with you. And then they give someone else a kiss too and then you runaway and cry.

LOL @ your brother raining on your parade. And LOL @ old people asking who BJ is.

You'll be pleased to know that he's put more effort into signing your ticket than he put into signing Chris' copy of Kerplunk. He just put BJ for that, although maybe that's cos Tre took up almost all the page by scrawling TRE COOL across it. Whatever.

Sooo, Billie felt like a leather jacket. I can totally appreciate that. And at least he smelled good. I'm STILL excited and I didn't even touch him, haha

I was so excited about Billie Joe-ness that I didn't weigh in on baby names. I love the name Logan Christopher. It's just cute and it seems right...even though it's not my baby!

Sounds like everyone is doing well, not least of all Elle who is floating on cloud 9 somewhere above northern California

ahaaa, cute signature. bless him. feck mucker, how am i gonna beat this when i see this show in december? the only way to win this game of oneupmanship is full on grabbing the guy at the stage door, throwing him to the floor and shoving my tongue down his throat. helloooo restraining order!

and yeah ive been texting you like a badman but i get that i dont matter now you have famous friends.

im not sure what im doing yet but ill let you know.