Chella me.

Year of the Yes.  All my sister had to do was take one solid look in my eyes and say, "Coachella?" and I was weak in the knees.  Yes.  Tickets were put on layaway and life once again became the adventure it was meant to be.  Where would we stay?  Which bands to see? So many options... Yet, with a cool head and an excited heart, I sign up not knowing any of the answers. The dichotomy in me rages like the ocean- planner against adventurer- yet the believer in me knows both will be satisfied when the sun rises that glorious day in mid-April. 

Newsflash: Everything is sold out.  Festival tickets, car camping, tent camping, dignity... So, we improvise. Car camping costs $75 online but these soulless scalpers are selling them for $600! Yuppie scum probably won't even be attending, just jacking the prices up in an effort to make a quick $500 and go buy a lap dance and snort cocaine off a hooker's ass. Hopefully they catch pink eye and their car gets towed.  

Isn't the spirit of the festival (and any festival, for that matter) enjoyment of life, music, art, self-expression, people and experience?  Isn't the whole damn point to escape Capital America, fall in love with yourself, all the while forgetting who you are, and have your life forever changed by complete strangers? 

This will be my first year attending the world-famous Coachella Festival, and I am going to experience the immense amount of love and respect for all the aforementioned items that take center-stage (if you will pardon the pun).  I am going to broaden my social horizons, find new musical expressions to take me to another place of understanding, and to find new ways to express myself.  I am going to party with my favorite people and bond on a new level.  I am going  to appreciate what God has created and see it all painted around me.  I am going to be grateful. I am going to share.  I am going to learn. 

In 78 long days- which I will live hard and fill with greatness- I will be standing next to 4 of the most incredible individuals I have ever been blessed enough to know- Lindsey, Chris, Danielle & Ian- and with these people, who share my heart, I will meet 51,000 incredible souls and forever be changed for the better. I cannot wait to dance til I'm sore, sing til I'm mute, love til it's sunrise, feel everything, regret nothing, see through new eyes, hear through new ears, break everything to rebuild stronger and just LIVE. I am a fortunate girl, I am a happy girl, and I couldn't have a heart more full than this. 

To all you scalpers, haters, negative people and people who can't be happy for others- I pity you.  Join us in our happiness and learn to love and live again.  You are missing life, and life is missing you. 

Cheers. xx.a