Okay so Mr Y very graciously said Yes to doing a Neil Diamond concert at our kids’ school to help raise money for the Afrikaans department. Cool Hey? But when Snippie Forsythe booked a table and asked me to come (using all sorts of emotional blackmail I might add!) …I was put in a bit of a quandry! Hmmm…what to do?? Is it normal to go and see your ex husband singing? Is it normal to watch all and sundry cheering and behaving like bandicoots at a man you recently went to hell and back with? Is my ego not going to go into overdrive and toi toi out the schoolgrounds ??! …Will I get sentimental and cry silently into my platter of sausage rolls? …or will I have to live up to the new ‘Forgiveness speech’ I said at the Voelgoed Expo a week earlier and be cool with it all? Ho Hum …what to do…
5:00pm:
Back from speaking in Louis Trichardt. Was nice morning. Cool ladies …pretty hall and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called ROXY! Gorgeous dog (obviously!) . Wow. Long drive…am exhausted and looking forward to watching taped Survivor S.A tonight…
5:35pm:
Oh Yikes! Mr Y’s concert tonight! Don’t know how I am feeling about going?! Perhaps I can call Snippie and tell her had tyre blow out on the way back and can’t make it? Or… that I have gippo guts from eating too much guacamole and can’t make it ….OR that aliens have kidnapped me and are using me for sensuality experiments with another kidnapped human who looks alarmingly like …Gerard Butler!!
Naahhhh…will just have to eat humble pie …and go. Concert starts at 7:00. PTA selling wine and snacks beforehand. So should be there 6:30 ish looking svelte and splendid and in control super cool angelic forgiveness enriched being.
6:30pm :
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! Am supposed to be there already! And am still slopping around in smelly tracksuit and Have-just-been-pulled-through-a –bush-backwards-type-hair. SO much for svelte- splendid and cool looking. Am squeezing on jeans and sucking in tummy to get button done up …(meanwhile am sure Mr Y’s new lady will be there looking svelte and splendid and as brilliantly well groomed as she always does!) OUCH! My ego shouting VERY loudly into left ear!
6:40pm:
Ok …have done damage control …maybe not svelte and splendid…but reasonably presentable…My nerves are a little seasick and certainly don’t feel like drinking wine at school…an accident waiting to happen … so am going to smuggle in my own margarita in shaker as well as HUGE margarita goblet….WHY NOT Huh? Think I have just cause don’t you??!
6:50pm:
AARRGGGHHH! Is that 2 portions margarita mix to one portion tequila or the other way around?.....What the heck…as long as have plenty of ice! Aaarrrgggghhh! Concert starting in 10 min and I can’t find my margarita goblet!
12:35am:
Well ! What a cool evening! Made it JUST in time. Smuggled in my shaker (everyone very impressed) Watched show. Booed when Mr Y dissed the Sharks and even got up and boogied to ‘Pampoen’! People behaving like the predicted bandicoots and standing on chairs and dancing….Mr Y puts on a good show! Can’t take that away from him! Weird feeling being here and not backstage. Have a different role now….
Am honest to goodness paying customer now. Ticket in hand and heart beating strangely. Still new things happening like I notice for the first time how cute Mr Y’s band actually is! And some of my friends order R600’s worth of wine in an effort to try and set me up with one of the guys standing by the bar area! I avoid them, (make no eye contact whatsoever) and am doubly happy that I brought my margarita. During the ‘Hello’ song Mr Y usually goes around the auditorium shaking everyone’s hands…I see him starting to move towards our table ( he doesn’t know I am here)…I try and slide under table …but its too late …I turn and face him and I see him get a bit of a shock...we shake hands … and then life goes on……
This is easier than I thought… am actually having …fun!
Afterwards a bunch of us go back to Snippie’s house and play 30 secs till Pumpkin time. Lots of laughs and a good time was had by all.
My verdict of the evening?
Company was fab!
The show was great!
Mr Y is super good at what he does!
And as for my Margarita?…AWESOME
Roxy's WHASSUP for Feb 2010!