Dreamtime

 October 17, 2014- Luke Bryan Show

I was transported to the holodeck early one morning as I was watching a Luke Bryan video. The setting that I was now in was the front yard of my old apartment. Standing nearby were about 40 people; a few of them looked like former classmates. Cars had been cleared from the area in front of us and approximately 80 more people were standing in the street.

   There was a stage on the sidewalk and part of the grass across the street. Luke Bryan was moving around and singing on it; he was doing a cover version of Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue”. I was thrilled to see him but was also thinking that it was unusual that he had chosen to perform that tune.

   After the song, Luke said that he would be back as soon as he was done judging a pie contest. This was being held up at the community center. That was also pretty strange. I wish that I could have gone to see this but we were told that we all had to stay there.

   This mini-concert and the contest was being filmed for a special on CMT channel. I heard a girl telling her friend this. I also found out that this event was part of a contest. The grand prize winner would have Luke perform in his or her neighborhood and up to 10 friends/family members could be there. The rest of the crowd were contest winners too.

   The very lucky person turned out to live in the middle apartment of the unit next door. This time, I did not live at our old place. The woman that did came outside during the break. Her 2 cute doggies, a spaniel/collie mix and a terrier mix, were with her. I went over to them and pet the doggies and talked to their owner for a little while.

   I did wonder why they didn’t just have the concert in the field behind the location that it was taking place. That would have made much more sense than blocking off the street and having people move their cars. I’ve been to other concerts, including Duran Duran, in that field. Even though this was a somewhat odd spot for such an event, I was thrilled to be there.

   About 25 minutes later, and announcer/host said that Luke would be returning in 5-6 minutes. The girls nearby me were very excited about this. Michelle had her camera with her and showed me some of the pictures that she had taken of him so far. They all were nice.

   We were happy when Luke was back on the stage. He performed 4 songs- “I Don’t Want This Night to End”, “Play It Again”, “That’s My Kind of Night” and “Country Girl (Shake it for Me)” He put on a good show, as always. I was wishing that I had gone to his concert at MSG this year in reality.

    The grand prize winner, a girl in her mid-20s, got to go onto the stage with Luke afterwards. He talked with her and gave her a hug. I was a little jealous of her.

   My appearance was in my late 20s as were my classmates for this storyline. I was glad that my alien friend had programmed it for me. I have only been to a few country music events in the holodeck.

   I was back in my room a minute later watching Luke in “Roller Coaster”. They have been showing that video way too much lately.

August 26, 2015- DD Presale Ticket Day and Buffy

   I am so relieved that the tickets for the MSG show went on sale today. I found out about this yesterday in an email. I was so freakin’ anxious about it, worrying about all that could go wrong, including the computer not working.

   I won’t have to miss out on a day at the Open to purchase a ticket as I feared might be the case. Even the regular sale starts before next week- this Friday. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are sold out by then.

   I have been beating myself up a little about not grabbing the seat that was first selected for me. It was in the row M of the center 100 section. My annoying bad side wanted to be in the left section. There were no seats available there though. By the time I did another search, I could only get row E of the center 200 section.

   I am happy that I was able to get this ticket even though I am disappointed that I didn’t get closer. The price difference between the 2 sections was high, like around $90.00 with the fees. Maybe it is better that I got the cheaper seat.

   Honestly, you will be able to see JT just as well from a center section as you will from the left so why did you feel the need to further look into being there? This is just oh so absurd. I am picturing all his obsessed devoted fans snatching up the tickets in that area very quickly. Maybe I will get to be close to him on September 14 but that is highly unlikely.

    I kind of slipped up when talking to my brother about this ticket purchase. All along I had been mentioning that I was doing this for Jenny. At one point I did say something like I guess that I will have a good view from this seat. I had to add “if I were going to this show with Jenny”.

    He thinks that I want to wait for them to be in the regular Garden. Well, naturally I will want to go to that show as well but that won’t be until at least early spring of next year. That is just so far away; I could not pass up on the opportunity to see them this fall.

   On Facebook, I shared a post of a beautiful cocker spaniel who reminded me of our Buffy. Seeing this made me feel a little sad though, especially after I read something about Buffy’s illness in my old journal. I hadn’t remembered that we first found out that she was dying in June of 2009; that was a year and 5 months before we had her put to sleep.

   The poor girl had so many problems- liver, pancreas, and heart. She was so brave though. Even though the vet told us that we took good care of her, we always say that we should have done more for her. I have gone on and on about this so much throughout the years in my journals but I can’t help it.

   I wish that that guy had been Buffy’s vet all along. I am so mad at the female vet for not giving us good advice regarding the steroid allergy meds. She promised that she would tell us when the levels in her blood were too high so that we could take her off of them if so. But she let things get so bad and by that time it was too late.

   Losing our Buffy much too soon- she was 12 and probably could have live another 2-3 years if not for her horrible illness. Our not brushing her teeth fucked up her heart. I only did so a little over the years. She had a teeth cleaning and a special bath to help her allergy condition in July of 2009.

   She was suffering a lot that last year and a half. It is so sad seeing how frail she looks in photos and videos of her from then.

   I wish that I had been able to figure out how to use the video mode of my camera much sooner so I would have some clips of her before she got very sickly looking. I got that camera in December of 2008. It wasn’t until a couple of days before her death that I saw that it wasn’t as hard as I thought that it would be to work the video recorder on it.

   I am definitely much more emotional and heartbroken about this than I am about any of my DD fiascos, including the encore one. Buffy meant more to me than this music group ever could.