Annie Clements Music

sorry mom/new obsessions…

Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by annie in Notebook

So my mom told me she had found my on-line journal and I was mortified. I had really only signed up for this to chat back and forth with my cousin when we were both working day jobs at Law offices in New Orleans and logged some pretty inappropriate entries. So mom, if you’re reading this, sorry for the entry about the German ex-boyfriend. It’s inappropriate…

Anyways, there sure is a lot to catch up on. I had a great 2007 with Sugarland. The Kenny Chesney Flip Flop Summer Tour seems like it was a million years ago. We played several stadiums to sold out crowds numbering in the 50,000’s. Crazy. Catering on his tour wasn’t as good this year though which was kind of a drag but it meant that I lost some weight on that tour. Bonus.

Thad, Brandon and I decided to run a 1/2 marathon with Team In Training and raised over $15,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Most of our donations came from the generous Sugarland fanbase. We also got help from our fan-friends Hannah, Lexy and Stef, who launched our internet campaign and helped us achieve our goal. Awesome! It was really hard work, but very rewarding.

Despite the fact that I was running 25 miles a week, I think I actually managed to gain weight during this period due to the delicious catering that accompanied us on the CMT headlining tour. It’s become apparent to me that I’m rather obsessed with good catering and devote many journal entries to the subject. Mmmm… catering…

I have a few new obsessions that I will share and would enjoy talking about with like-minded folks.

Obsession #1- The TV show “Lost”.

This could be the best TV show ever made. I watch it every Thursday. I was even lucky enough to attend my cousin Lauren’s “Lost” club when I was in New Orleans on a Thursday last month. If anyone has any information or insight into the terrific show, including helpful internet links, please share it with me.

Obsession #2 – Grape Cluster Swag Lamps from the 60’s and 70’s

So, I’ve gotten addicted to eBay and have been searching tirelessly for these crazy Grape Cluster Swag Lamps from the 60’s and 70’s. If you enter “grape lamp” in an eBay search you should be able to find them… if there are any left that is… I’ve got bids on 4 or 5 of them currently and I’m hoping to win at least 2. These lamps are so beautifully hideous. They’re just my style. I’ve got a couple in my groovy record lounge/yoga studio on the upstairs landing but you can really never have too many. If ANYONE comes across one of these lamps for a reasonable price in a vintage store or at a GoodWill, PLEASE buy it and let me know and I will pay you back. This is VERY important folks…

Obsession #3 – Fig Scented candles

It turns out that my favorite candle scent is Fig. Yes fig. All of my favorite candles are some combination of Fig and Olive or Fig and Lemongrass, etc… I just realized this about 2 weeks ago and I’m freaking out. I’m now on a quest to procure many fig candles. I do most of my shopping at TJMaxx and very rarely come across the Stella Mare candle in Green Fig scent. I think it’s a very popular candle as they’re almost always out of it or only have one left. So I’m issuing this challenge to die-hard Sugarland fans:

About a year ago, the fan-club released a video interviewing the band. In this video we asked that fans give us Napoleon Dynamite’s “Happy Hands” signal in the audience to let us in the band know that you had watched our fan video and thought we were cool. This has resulted in many women and men frantically jumping up and down in the audience waving their happy hands without concern of the scorn they may receive from other audience members and we really appreciate it. So to you I say this: If you’re tired of jumping up and down, flapping around, why not bring me a fig candle instead? If you’re hard-core enough to have read this sentence at the bottom of a lengthy journal entry in a journal I never write in that only my cousin (and apparently my mom) was ever meant to read, that’s pretty bad-ass and I’d like to shake your hand (and also get a fig candle.)

Well I guess that about wraps it up. We’re leaving in about 2 weeks for Australia and I hope to force myself to write about that experience here as I’m sure it will be amazing…