On Monday, my mother and I saw a commercial to announce that Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson are coming to Birmingham. We were both like we want to go to that sooooooo bad!! They are my two favorite singers! I have loved Reba's music since I was little and have liked Kelly since Miss Independent and LOVED her since her breakaway album. The fact that they are coming together has me bouncing off the walls!
I don't have any money to spare and neither does my mom. James had to have 2 surgeries back to back last month and we are still trying to catch up on the bills because he was out of work so long. I want to go so bad that I started calculating the money we had to see if I could possibly find an extra $100. Of course, as anyone who struggles financially knows, there is no wiggle room in a very tight budget. I knew we didn’t have it so I started trying to think of ways to get money another way. I tried everyday to win them on the radio but of course every time I called I got the busy signal. I tried to think of ways to make money fast. I looked for anything I had around here I could sell. My husband, who knew how much I really wanted to go, was even willing to give me one of his video games. When I bulked at this one he said something along the lines of,” I know how much you really want to go and you never ever do or buy anything for yourself. You always sacrifice your wants for me or the family and you don’t think twice about it. Its time you have something for yourself." Now of course I bawled at that but unfortunately the games weren't worth enough to pay for the tickets.
So I decided my last resort was to ask my dad (my mother and father were never married and I don't ask my dad for money or anything hardly ever. The last time I asked him for something was when our car had a flat tire and we didn’t have any money to get it fixed. I hate asking him for money because we don’t see each other often and it feels like I am using him. He wasn't around a lot when I was a kid but in recent years he's been great and my kids and I love him to death but we just don't get to see him a lot because we live a good distance apart. But as I said I REALLY wanted to go to this concert. So I asked if he would give me the money for my birthday (October 3rd). I was sooooooooo excited when he said he would! Excited may be an understatement.
So I had the money and I was going to be able to get the tickets! Now I had to go wait in line to get them. Mom and I thought it was a good possibility that there were going to be a lot of people in line for tickets because Reba hasn’t been to Birmingham in 10 years. So she suggested I go up there about 4or5am but I didn’t want to wait that long so I got there (accompanied by the best hubby in the world) at like 3:30am. James thought I was crazy for wanting to go that early and his predictions came true when we got there and no one was in line. We were there for like an hour and a half before the first people got there. I was first in line. The sad thing was when the tickets went on sale at 10am there were only four people there! But I don’t care because I got front row tickets!!! I expected to get okay maybe even good tickets but I never guessed I would get front row!
Now all I got to do is wait for these 61 days to pass. Oh, how slow time goes by when you are waiting for something.
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