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I recently attended the wedding of the first of my 3 college roommates to get married.

For those of you who don’t know, I lived with boys. And one of my long-time girlfriends. She informed me that I need to get on that engagement thing because my other male former-roommate is now engaged. Just us two single ladies left.

Anywho … FLASHBACK to 2005

[clockwise starting on the left: Danielle, me, Joe and Nick]

This was from Nick’s 22nd birthday party — the first party we had in our new apartment as roomies. He and Joe were at the ISU game earlier that day and Nick got SUPER burnt. I’d like to point out that I have pink hair in this photo. And I apologize for the mesh cutoff sleeve shirt I have on — I was in a band at that point and was seriously into finding my own “metal” style. AND I have no clue whot he girl behind Joe is but she seriously looks like Robin Scherbatsky.

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Moving on

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So this is 2007, the year we all graduated college. This is one of my favorite roomie pix! Thanks, Danielle for digging this up.

[Danielle, me, Nick and Joe]

Yeah. This was at the Bali Satay House, which, sadly, no longer exists. We used to go see our friends’ bands play there. And my boss informs me that they apparently had incredible food.

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Fast forward 4.5 years: 2011

[photo by McClanahan Studio — from left to right — Joe, me, Nick and Danielle]

This was November and Nick got married. Joe was his best man. Danielle and I were the queens of the dance floor. I’m amazed at how much we’ve changed in four years.

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WOW this august has proven to be a rockin’ one. Megadeth/Slayer/Testament last Saturday and on Monday, Aug. 30th, I’m going to FINALLY get to see the Murderdolls — one of my absolute favorite bands ever. This is beyond exciting because I didn’t think I’d EVER get the chance to see the ‘dolls. They released an album in 2002 (way back when I graduated from high school!) and have been put on the back burner since 2004 when they quit touring as Joey Jordison (the guitarist) is the drummer for Slipknot and they were kind of a big deal then.

Side note: I just blogged about FDQ last Thursday, and that’s a related band.

I did get a chance to see Wednesday 13, the frontman for the Murderdolls, back in 2005 at a tiny lil bar in Cedar Falls. I was about a foot away from him the whole time — he played stuff from his new album and some Frankenstein Drag Queens songs.  He even shot me with his fake plastic gun (guys, that was kind of amazing).

Anyway … it was awesome seeing him, but it wasn’t QUITE as awesome as it would be to see the Murderdolls live.

WELL, my dream has finally come true.

The band reunited this year — at least frontman Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison — and they’ve put together a new album with some new members. They’ve scheduled a tour, but it starts overseas and ends nowhere near here. I’m pretty sure they’re on Ozzfest, which isn’t something I’m interested in.

I was on twitter yesterday, and one of my friends re-tweeted something about a Des Moines show on Monday from the Murderdolls twitter account.  I managed to snag tickets to what I’m guessing will be a sold-out show. So, on Monday, I’m going to be rocking out at the House of Bricks with the Murderdolls … and I can barely contain my excitement!

eeeeeek! Seriously. I’m like a 12-year-old-girl going to a Miley Cyrus concert.

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