NYC Giiiiirls...and a Waffle House jacket.

The day had finally arrived.  It was my last time to sip the sweet nectar from The Juice Box.  The last Joe Show I would be attending.  I was excited, but not freaking out like I was about the Boston show.  I was also going to be meeting a lot more of my girls for this show, so I KNEW it was going to be a blast.  We left around 10:30am and because the GPS was being quite a bitch, we made it to the Highline around 11:15.  We were going to loop around, but we saw two little NorCal hunnies walking down the street, so I hopped out to go stand with them.  Jess and our buddy Christine went to find parking.  Now I have met Linda, but never met her sister Jen and their friend Jayne, so I was super pumped.  I practically ran to them and I hear Jen say, “is that Kerri!?!” YESSSS IT WASSSS!!! We gave each other big hugs and then they informed me we were first in line for what I dubbed, “The Misfit Line.”  God forbid we block the Western Beef entrance with our crazy asses.  It was okay though, because there were still only 30 people in front of us.  We were feeling good!  It was COLD out in NYC, because we had no sun on our block.  Total fuck our life moment.  All in the name of the Mac.  Jess and Christine came back and we were all chatting it up with security and he became our little buddy.  He hated his life, because he was cold and I could totally see how we could be annoying.  Sucks to be him.

How we started the day!

Jess asked if I had the signs and I let out a sigh and said, “no…they are in the trunk.”  Typical.  Christine and I were to take a little walk back to the parking garage down the street.  This is where we ran into Sarah (“Afro”) and chatted it up for a few minutes.  I instantly fell in love with her.  She was hilarious and just fantastic.  Finally security felt he needed to be a kill joy and tell us to keep moving.  Fine.  We walked to the garage, got my signs and Christine changed from flats to boots.  It was going to be a long, cold day, flats weren’t cutting it.  We realized the man watching over the cars probably thought we were robbing everyone, so we made our way back to our line.  We were still the only misfits on the other side of Western Beef and having the time of our lives.  A while later a sick PingPong came to meet us in line, such a trooper.  We shared more laughs and waited as the clock ticked on.  Some time past and we were welcomed by another Sara and her two friends, although they were sent to the back of the line, they kept popping up to hang with us every now and then.  A while later, we welcomed 2 members of The Honey Dips to our line, Kelly and Mandy.  Our chemistry was great and we were all getting along and making each other laugh like only Blockheads can.  The only person we were waiting on was Jen, the other brain behind the epic Waffle House jacket.

Just some Misfits.

The Misfits (minus 1) & our little buddy.

Me and SaraIggy!!!

Christine and myself

The Joe lovahs! 

Eventually Jen had arrived…Waffle House jacket and present bag in hand.  YIPPEE!  The bag was GORGEOUS!  I don’t know how she does it, but she is one of the most creative people I have ever met.  I am thrilled she is just as wacky as me to do these insane gifts.   We ordered pizza and got our grub on in the middle of the sidewalk, it was delicious.  I think it was the most fun I’ve ever had waiting in line.  Everyone had jokes and I am pretty sure Jess was happy to have a break from me.  After the Boston show, I know she is a good friend, because I was straight looney.  To have other people to talk to I know she felt a little better, because she wasn’t the only one I was screaming at.

At around 3:30, Joe started to tweet.  Typical.  I had my phone out and began to tweet.  I sent him a tweet of the bag with the jacket and left it alone.  All of a sudden Jess says to me, “Kerri, he got you.”  My stomach dropped.  Eeeeek!!! Racing for my phone I check what to see what he said to me.  

This is what I got...

He said he’d get the jacket, even if he had to get it from the stage! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!!? All my girls erupted into a fit of giggling, yelling and just down right ape shit loons.  I have to say I was beaming the rest of the day.  Come hell or high water I was on a mission to get him that jacket from Jess, Jen and I.  After all that excitement, I needed to go to the bathroom.  I enlisted Christine to come with me.  As we were walking down the line towards a diner to use the potty, I had a lot of people ask if I was MacPack410.  It was really weird to be noticed by a twitter name or even noticed at all.  It was so weird and crazy.  I was like a pseudo celebrity and I started to enjoy it a bit.  Soon it became the running joke of the weekend.  The hours crept along and we were all just having a blast with each other.  It was weird how all of our personalities and senses of humor came together and blended so well.  We loved our little circle and couldn’t wait to get inside.

Finally…it was time.

Sweet mother of God it was time.  I was going to see my last Joe Show.  I was excited, but extremely sad.  We walked in calmly, skipping coat check this time (step on my coat if you wish) and I ended up 3rd person from the stage on the right side this time.  YESSS!!!  I looked around and ALL my girls were around me.  Didn’t matter if they were ahead of me or behind me in line, we ALL ended up together, except the two Jen As because they don’t do the GA thing.  I missed them though.  I twitpic-ed me and the bag and told Joe to come and get it!  I was so excited.  I was really going to be able to pass it to him.

Me and the bag of goodies! Thanks Jen for being just as wacky as I am!

That moment passed when we saw Johnny.  Our section flipped the hell out! I loooove that man, he is hilariously delicious.  Then another man who puts my panties in a twist, Mr. Jordan Knight popped up and took his seat in VIP.  Of course my girls and I tried to get a fist pump going for J-Train, but it didn’t really catch on.  Bummer.  I had a beer courtesy of Mandy (I still owe you one!) and was prepared to wait.  We chit chatted, finished the beer and then we saw the band come out.  Whaaaaat?!?! So soon!?! EEEEK!!!

I have to say I LOOOOVE the EP live.  Every song just comes to life and you can really envision how Joe wanted it to sound.  I also have to put out there the New York crowd was WAY more hype than Boston.  I’m not just saying that, because I am a New Yorker, but there was just something in that room that was electric (boogey woogey woogey….yeahhhh I am lame).  I have a new appreciation for the EP and even the songs I have listened to so many times my family knows them.  It was truly an amazing show, bravo Joe.  Bravo.

Finally the first break in songs was upon us.  This was my moment to show him I was there and did in fact have the bag with me.  I raised that bag over my head, shit was heavy too, and made sure he saw it.  He did!  He asked if that was the bag, I screamed yes and he told me to “hold on to it…latahh…we’ll get to it latahh.”  In true fashion, Jess screams “WELL YOU FUCKED HER UP!”  No denying it, he did!  Okay, later. Ahhh yes.  I know the moment.  So the show continued on.  Now, already seeing “I’m Waiting” performed live, I thought I was prepared.  HA!  Think again.  I was just as fucked up as the first time I saw it.  However, there was a twist to the ending of the song that night.  I knew he would be throwing his shirt out again.  Thissssss motha fucka stopped dead in front of where I was, smirked and lightly tossed it into the crowd!  I knew it was mine at that moment.  I kept my eyes on that sweaty mess of a tank top and taking out Kelly’s eye…I got it.  Wanting no one to snatch it, I stuffed it in my shirt with my chesticles.  Hey!  My pants were a little tight, it wouldn’t have fit down there!  Everyone screamed for me, Linda took a picture and I was on cloud 9.  Yes, I did smell the shirt.  It was clean, however sweaty as all hell and I loved every minute of it.

Me and my prize.

Creep status coming out, so I mosey on.  He did his quick change and came out in an “I love NY” shirt on.  Sweeeeet!!! Loved it.  He sang some more tunes and I knew my moment was coming.  Jess ended up having a moment when Joe was talking about The Jersey Shore and all you hear is Jess scream, “THE JUICEBOX!!!!“ and he looked at her and agreed.  Then went on a rant about it.  See Jess, his eye sex DOES mess you up!  

Finally, the second talk break.

Just writing this I am getting emotional, so bear with me.  I held up the bag again and he saw it.  He asked me, “Oh we’re gonna do this now?”  Wellllll Joe, I don’t know you tell me.   I was shaking as he took the bag.  First, he took out a little hat we picked up for Griffin.  It was a true Mac hat and freaking precious.  This man puts it on and poses with it, which is EXACTLY what Jen and I said he was going to do!  All Peter Pan like and shit.  ADORABLE!!! At this point, I feel the tears starting to form.  Is this man REALLY taking the time out of his concert to show off the gifts me and my girls got him?  *sigh*  Then “the moment we’ve all been waiting for!”  He brings out the Waffle House jacket, rips open the buttons and puts it on.  I may have gotten a little zing in the nether regions when he ripped the buttons open so fast, MEEEEEOOOWWW!!!  It was a tad big, but like my mom always says, “what if you want to wear it with a sweatshirt?!?” I was beaming like a kid in a candy store and begging myself not to cry.  He asked how the crowd liked it, of course they all cheer and then he makes the comment about it being insulated.  It was a really nice jacket! We weren’t playing around.  We were nervous it was going to look cheesy, but it came out REALLY nice.  Donnie WILL be jealous!  Moving on.  He came over looking me dead in the eye and asked what it said on the back.  Scattered, Smothered and Covered…no chunked.  No chunked.  He said it was sweet and he thanked me.  He also mentioned he was going to wear it for the next song, BUT he took it off.  HELLO! It was insulated and we know the man sweats like non other.  What opened the river of tears was that he placed the jacket over his stool, took a step back, looked at it with a smile and turned to me and blew me a kiss as the music for “Stay the Same“ began to play.  It was the sweetest moment of my life.  Yes I am crying right now.  My girl Sarah just held out her hand and I cried on her shoulder.  I am not talking little glistening tears, I mean full on floods coming out of my eyes.  I couldn’t stop.  I NEVER cried like that at a show before and I just couldn’t stop.  I looked back at my friends behind me and THEY were all crying too!  What a support system.  I was crying through all of “Stay the Same” and at one point Joe looked down at me and winked.  Well, if I wasn’t crying already!  I eventually calmed down and rocked my ass off the rest of the show.

Opening the bag!

Putting on Griffin's hat...oyyy.

Joe in his new jacket.

Talking to me...*sigh*

You know he SO wears this to make waffles now.

Best.Moment.EVER.

The jacket.

The end result.

It was the time of my life and I wouldn’t have wanted to stand next to anyone else, but my girls.  It was my night and no one could have brought me off of cloud 15 (yeah, cloud 9 is too low).  I was proud of Joe more than anything, even with some slight technical problems, it was an amazing show and he is an amazing man.  I can never thank him enough for that little moment.  It still amazes me to this day that he stopped the show to open our gifts.  I will love him forever.

Joe if you should ever read this (God help me)…thank you.  I love you.

*Thank you all who got pictures and video!!! I love you too!*

How it all went down.  Jen pulled through again and got it all on video.

Sara caught these next two videos from right over my shoulder! Thank you girl!
Seeing the bag for the 1st time...*sigh* & Jess' reaction!

Again...the moment we've all been waiting for from my level.