'I'd Give My All To Have Just One More Night With You"

After a few stressful days of working, doing tons of homework and not really sleeping, I was on my late night flight to Texas. I met Marie, her husband Paul and their 18m old Chanel when I landed in Austin at about 10AM Thursday morning. We headed back to their apartment to relax for about an hour then it was off to take Chanel to the grandparents and head out on our 3 1/2 hour drive to Dallas. When we got to Dallas we quickly got a hotel room, made a wal-mart run and then Marie and I were off to fulfill a dream of ours we had been chasing since those days in the halls of Orem High School. We were seeing MARIAH CAREY in concert!!!! I can still remember when we first knew we would be great friends. We were walking down the halls in between classes and Marie started singing a Mariah song and I asked if she was a Mariah fan and she said yes and wondered if I was too. Of course I said yes, and then we both proceeded to freak out and talk about how much we loved her and make a vow that if we ever see her in concert we HAVE to do it together and we will do anything to make it happen. Well somehow we made it happen!!! Probably because we are amazing and so is Mariah. Anyway we drove over to the Nokia theatre, changed in the car and headed inside to stand in the merch line for like an hour. At least there was a crazy girl in line that was super faded to watch yell and be obnoxious. (already? really, the show hasn't even started and you're already drunk?! um OK, settle down.) We finally got our tee shirts and then headed to find our seats. It was awhile before anything happened on stage. Then when it did it was some trio of R 'n B singing guys that were half way decent, but lost all respect from me when the middle one ripped his shirt off for no reason halfway through the set. Cool, I don't really care that you have super ripped abs, don't freakin rip your shirt off during a slow song, you're not Usher. (It's semi acceptable when he does it. I have to admit, I really love Usher, his older music mostly. And it kind of made me happy to see him perform at the All Star game, though those songs blew) After they got off stage it was literally like two hour until Mariah came on. It was fine though, we had quite the entertainment by the pimp and three ho's a few rows ahead of us. Seriously, there was an old man of about 60 ish with three 19 year old girls, one of them was all over him most of the time, and Marie and I as well as all the row behind us and the rest of our row could not stop watching this disgusting scene. At one point we even saw the dude give each of the girls a white pill. WTF cool, let's take ecstasy at the MC concert, are you kidding me?! It was weird. We all kept commenting about the situation to each other throughout the show. Most of us saying - seriously, did that just happen?; gross, He's not even a good looking old guy!; I'm gonna throw up - and a lot of other things. The one girl was completely cracked out and I was just waiting for her to fall over or something. After the longest waiting at a concert I have ever experienced and more Michael Jackson music than I was planning on hearing that day, (I love MJ and have most of his albums, but when I'm waiting for MARIAH!! I'm sorry I'm going to get sick of him) Mariah came out and saved the day. She performed so incredibly well and every second was amazing! I know I am biased because I am unhealthily in love with her, but she really has the best voice I have ever heard in my life and it is exactly the same live as it is on her Cd's. She played a lot of good songs, but I was a little saddened that she didn't play more of her 90's stuff. Her best music is form 1990-1997. She did play "My All", "Always Be My Baby" and "We Belong Together" which are some of my very favorites though. After the show Marie and I left elated and couldn't even believe that we just made our 16 year old dreams come true. OK I've been wanting to see her live since I was 8, but Marie and I made our vow when we met at 16. The next morning we woke up and drove back to Austin in time for Marie's doctors appointment which took forever. She's pregnant again and had to do check up and test stuff, I don't really know, I just sat in the lobby studying my sociology textbook. When that was finished we headed to the airport and I was headed home. I got back to Seattle at about midnight and went to bed so I could wake up and finish writing my paper before I had to go to work. Yes, Kelly, the paper I was worrying about while I was visiting you guys in UT.

Judge me all you want, I truly don't give a crap at all. I SAW MARIAH CAREY IN CONCERT!!!!! and it just might have been the best day of my entire life. I can't see how anything could top it, even my wedding day is probably going to take a backseat to this. Unless she sings at the wedding.