Remember how i told you guys when i started this blog that im going to keep things real honest and open and interesting? that it would be something that if it wasnt my own blog i would still want to read it? well here goes. take it for what its worth/what you will. for some reason i just want to share this story with you all. Last night, I had a connecting flight from dallas to west palm beach. I found my seat, and opened my computer and started working on some garageband projects. this lady sat next to me and said “hmm composing are we?” i laughed and said yes. this struck up a conversation, and the lady turned out to be Ben Kweller’s mom. if you dont know who Ben Kweller is, check him out. anyways, we ended up having about an hours worth of conversation about ben, music, and my band. It was really inspiring, she told me i reminded her of her son. if i end up being half as successful and talented as ben kweller, id be happy. i saw she was reading a book about psychology, which is something that really interests me, and started talking to her about all of that jazz. it turns out she has a doctorate in psych, and has psychic abilities, and can look into past lives and future lives, and is also a medium. i was instantly blown away, ive always been really interested in that sort of thing, but have never really talked to anyone about it. she knew so much, and was just explaining things to me and opened my mind in ways i never thought were possible until we started talking. it was pretty unreal. i then wanted to see what it was all about, so i started giving her objects of mine. this is where things got real intense. i gave her my beanie, and she told me different things about my family, like siblings, and household pets, etc. she also told me to stay away from water, particularly surfing. i freaked out, because my senior year of high school i tried surfing one time, and almost drowned. i gave her my passport, and she said “why am i seeing bejing?” the last time i used my passport, we had a connecting flight in bejing to come home. i know i know, possible coincidence right? i then gave her my ipod. she started singing a song, “my girl is, my girl is,” in a really familiar melody. at the time i didnt know what she was talking about. ill explain that later. i then gave her a locket, that was my grandmothers. my mom gave it to me when i started touring, its like a guardian angel type locket. she held it in her hand, and started freaking out, but in a good way. she then started telling me all of this stuff about my grandma, things that theres no way she would have known about if she didnt have some kind of special ability. she asked who josie was. i freaked out, josie was my grandmothers nickname, and its how all of her friends and family referred to her. (her real name being josephine) its also the name of my favorite hey monday song that cass and i wrote. She then proceeded to talk about how josie is my guardian angel, and whenever i need help to ask her, and she will be there for me. it sounds strange but in certain situations, ive asked my grandma for help, and things somehow always work out. she then brought up a car and i thought it was really bizarre, because my grandma helped me buy my first car, which is still the car i drove now. she said that was a reference, but wasnt what she was talking about. i then remembered how about 3 weeks ago, i was driving somewhere with my little brother. the light turned green, but for some reason i stalled and waiting about 8 seconds to start driving. right as i started a car blew thro the red light at about 50 mph. if i would have gone when i normally start going for a green light, i would have been t-boned. she said “josie” was in the car with me, watching over my little brother and i. i was blown away. she told me george is also a guardian angel of mine, along with my grandmother. george was someone in my family tree from way back when. she said josie was there with me, on the plane watching over me, telling mrs kweller to tell me shes very happy and she loves me very much. she looked at my backpack, and theres a hey monday tag that says 23 on my backpack. she told me 2/3 are my lucky numbers, in any order. 2 has always been my favorite number, and i was born at 11:32 am. she told me she kept seeing brown, and there was something significant about that color. i didnt understand why at first, but then i realized rohan, who is a dude i would trust with my life, refers to himself as the brown dude, because, well, his skin is brown. haha. i gave her my right hand, and she said youre a lefty and do everything with your left hand, but one thing you do is right handed, and its significant to you. i do everything left handed, except i play guitar right handed. bizarre, i know. haha. i then gave her my left hand, and she said “i see D, a name, do you know a danielle?” i once again started freaking out. one of my best friends is a girl named dani i met a little over a year ago in LA. she told me to keep that girl close to my heart, cause shes a special person and a good person to have in my life. i thought that was pretty wild, because dani is a special person, really awesome friend that i can talk to her about anything and vice versa. she told me a few more things about different aspects of my life, and people in it, and the flight ended. we exchanged emails, and went our separate ways. i got in the car and told my parents all about it. soon enough everyone went to bed. i couldnt sleep; my mind was racing from all that had just gone on. i turned on my computer plugged in my speakers opened up itunes, and put my itunes on shuffle. the first song that randomly came on was “josie” by blink 182. i about shit myself. at that moment i remembered the melody that mrs kweller sang me, and the words she kept repeating “my girl is”. the melody she sang was in fact the melody line for josie, with almost identical words (my girl is/ my girlfriend.) if you listen to josie by blink, its about a made up perfect girl, a girl that looks after him and takes care of him. take it for what its worth, i just figured id share this cause its an insane story to me. :) just goes to show everything really does happen for a reason….