(Guess I should explain the title first before I get into the exciting part x3)
I'm going to Oregon for Thanksgiving break, and I won't be back for about a week. I'll tell about it when I get back, but I know already that we're looking at the school I'm going to go to, looking at the house we've been after for about a year now - We're about 95% sure we'll actually get it in January now. A lady wants to rent our house for a year.
...I'm still not too thrilled about leaving my friends behind, but Oregon is so pretty, and I'll be able to be FREE to sit outside on our beautiful deck at nighttime and listen to music.

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Speaking of music:

I finally saw the Trans-Siberian Orchestra last night.

They. Were. AMAZING. <33

And even better, our sister-in-law's friend (she's a school principal and her friend is head of the computer/yearbook staff)
managed to get us some of the best seats: In the center of the mid-section, looking straight at the stage and being able to see every one of the lights and pyrotechnics.
(He actually found some front-row seats halfway through the show, but my mom was too comfortable - and too into the show - to want to move.
Plus I'll admit, it was my choice too. I normally prefer to see band members up-close, but at a show that had as many blindingly amazing and room-filling lights as the TSO...I was quite content with being able to see it all.)

It was just as incredible as I thought it would be...and for the songs that I didn't know they were playing: I was even more blown away.

I won't give away too much, I'll just say this: The TSO has a gift for taking instruments like electric guitars, electric violins and keyboards and combine them with normal stringed instruments to make them sound amazing.
Plus their singers have the most powerful and inspiring voices I've ever heard. They even had choruses singing in the background of the electric instuments.
I love the way the band members look, too: They have the typical rockers' manes and habit of spazzing out on-stage while playing their instruments: and they do so wearing formal suits and coats. (I loved the headbanging violinists. xD)
Combine all of that with one heck of a light-show, and you've got the awesomeness of the TSO.

And, apparently, the band leader (and best guitarist), Al Pitrelli, jumped off of the stage in a previous performance and tore his ACL.
He was sitting down the whole time...yet he didn't miss a single note.
(he's still my favorite, along with guitarist Angus Clark. They had a hilarious guitar-duel at one point, and their personalities are just addicting. xD)


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So anyways, see you in a week.
Feel free to haunt me if I don't upload some artwork by then. I plan on drawing over break, touching up some doodles that I actually want to upload...and I have a Karl pic that I'm actually proud of and am dying to upload, outline, color, all that jazz.


See ya. *waves*