20220613_i13k Hanson at Pustervik in Gothenburg, Sweden. I LATER MET IKE & ZAC! & caught a terrible cold. I wonder from whom. :) *bats eyelashes*

I was obsessed with Hanson (UM, ESPECIALLY TEH TAY) in 1997-1998, and kept "Middle of nowhere" in my music library over the years (of course), but had barely heard any of their other stuff. :| This was the first time I saw them live, and their first gig in Gothenburg. I enjoyed the shit out of the gig, and they seemed to like the city, sooooooo...! :D

And it was my first gig at this venue. Think it has a capacity of just 700-900 people! :D Cozy!

I had been made aware that there was a fanclub who was having a meet & greet before the show. I wasn't in it, as a) I had only found out about the gig a few days earlier and b) I would have fucking died.

But I (and others) hung around by the tour bus afterwards for some reason. :B Eventually the guys passed from the stage door to the bus. TAY PASSED ME AT A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.5 M AND TOLD THE CROWD...

"I'll be back, just give me a minute."

:O

But (SPOILER) he didn't return.

HOWEVER! Ike and Zac came back out for a little meet & greet! I complimented them on the gig and told them I'll def try to see them if they play here again. And a random fellow fan named Victoria (sp) kindly took pics of us!

I'm toying with the idea of joining that fanclub before the next gig, but... I dunno, man... Dying right in front of Tay? It would be awkward? *thud* *diez* *is ded*

...

Fun facts about the disease that followed!

- I stood in a crowd for several hours.

- In the last couple of years, my little immune system had seen fewer cold viruses than it usually does. I guess.

- I stood in the cold wind by the tour bus for a couple of hours.

- I got home so late that I only had time to sleep for 2-3 hours. I should have fucking slept at my workplace, which was closer... :|

- On June 14, I worked for 10 hours.

- On the night of June 15, I got enough sleep! Phew! I felt normal now!

- On the night of June 16, I had to get online for a thing in the middle of the night, and had trouble returning to sleep afterwards. Could feel my throat getting sore.

- On June 16, I felt cold and I got a bit dizzy in the afternoon. In the evening I told my boss I'd be off sick the next day due to my shitty general condition.

- I went back to work on June 21. Prematurely, it turned out... I could only speak in a whisper (which should be avoided, according to some medical site). If I tried to speak above a whisper, I sounded like Chewbacca with his voice breaking. :O

- I had a bad cough that kept me awake at night, driving me insane. I tried a prescription-free cough medicine (50 mg of noscapine). It was shit.

- I still had a few precious codeine pills (30 mg) prescribed by the dentist. I finally took one on the evening of June 22, and wasn't kept awake by the cough! JUST SAYIN! BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY! :D (The pills don't make me high or sleepy, btw.)

- On June 23, I could speak above a whisper.

- Was still a bit coughy when I traveled to Gotska Sandön on June 26, but felt healthy otherwise. On the final day (July 3) I got dizzy... Presumably benign positional vertigo as a lingering goodbye present from the cold. :p

- Get a load o' this: The aforementioned sick leave was the first time in my working life I had called in sick before the beginning of the workday, EXCEPT for two colds I had during the pandemic. (The restrictions were lifted here on 9-Feb-2022.) But my energy level was normal during those colds (although my throat was sore af during one of them, so I probably shouldn't and wouldn't have gone to my talky, stressful, semi-physical job even without a pandemic).

- I had called in sick before the beginning of school days because of colds and the like. I had gone home early from my McDong job 3-4 times because of debilitating period cramps. (Nothing has made me sicker than fucking cramps.) But... outside of the pandemic, I had never before missed work because of a cold. Yeah. o_O

- I can't fucking handle sleep deprivation in my old age.

- I'm too old for this shit. And also going to 5 gigs* in 4 cities** in 2 weeks during the summer of 2023. Then I'll have 3 quiet days before blasting off to Iceland. :B I'll be careful af.

* Robbie, Bruce, and Elton!

** Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, and Stockholm!

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