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It’s been over a month!!  I can’t believe I have left you all without reading material for so long.  In case I feel some need to take another sabbatical though, my friend Katie always has something interesting going on on her blog.

So, next Saturday, October 25th, my hero James Hetfield and his band Metallica are coming to Kansas City and playing at the Sprint Center.  I haven’t seen them in concert in probably 4 - 5 years.  I was an irresponsible fan and I did not get logged on and make the purchase of tickets in time and the concert sold out.  I can honestly say that if anyone knows only one thing about me, it is almost always that I love Metallica.  In an unhealthy way.  When their most recent album came out, people that no longer work here and that  never really even like me, made contact with me to see what I thought of it.  I’ve have someone that I worked with 2 years ago that has since moved to Florida and started a new life text me to tell me he thought about me when he heard the new song in the car.  Several people here at the office make references to the band and one called me back to his desk yesterday just so I could hear Metallica on his computer because Sirius was playing them.  This is how unhealthy my infatuation is.  The last concert I went to, James took his shirt off on stage and I made out with the stranger sitting to my right.  I’ll never forget that night.

Alas, a friend here at work has a friend that purchased tickets and is no longer able to use them.  He offered them to me for a slight mark-up and I jumped, lunged, threw my whole self at the opportunity.   For the chance to see them again?  Are you kidding me??  Totally worth it.

Unfortunately reality set in and I realized that I need to make a mortgage payment so I cannot afford the tickets.  This is a sad day.  Depression is starting.  It is almost worth it to get to go to that show but I do also enjoy having a home to come back to every day.  One to stay in when I’m sick.  Somewhere to go when I’m too lazy to get dressed.  I tell ya though, it was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make.  You think deciding if you want to exercise or not every morning is stressful?  Try deciding between a home and something equally as important.  A Metallica concert.  Sadly, the fact that there is a poor economy right now and there’s never a guarantee that I’ll have a paycheck won out over the solid reasoning I had for buying the tickets.

So next weekend, when all of the cool people in town are rocking out with James, Lars, Kirk and the new guy, I will be hanging out in my living room rocking out alone to the S&M (Symphony and Metallica you dirty minds) DVD.