A big announcement

OK, readers, I have big news! BIG news! News that is so exciting it cannot be contained.

I’m engaged!

OK, OK, that’s not the big news. Actually, it’s not even the truth. Or anywhere in the neighborhood of the truth. You would have to date someone in order to be engaged to them, I would think. Or hope. I guess if it was an arranged marriage, though, you wouldn’t necessarily date.

Under no circumstances should any of you go start a rumor that I am engaged to be married in some sort of weird arranged marriage situation. I can just hear the phone call when that one gets back to my mom. Because we all know it will.

But I have digressed very far from the actual big news, so with no more babbling I tell you the real news: I won tickets to see Kings of Leon in concert at the Sommet Center on October 16!

KINGS OF LEON! FREE TICKETS! I don’t know where the seats are just yet, since I’ll probably go pick up the tickets tomorrow. But I have free tickets to see KoL. I got the tickets from Lightning 100, my favorite radio station in town, by signing up for a newsletter thing they send out. The funniest part of the story is that I completely forgot about doing it (I was so sure I wasn’t going to win anything!), so that when I got the email announcing my big win, I sort of thought it was a joke. I looked up the sender to see if he actually worked for the station. Yep, I am this big of a dork!

But, since Mindy has informed me she doesn’t even know who Kings of Leon is, I’m pondering holding my own contest to see who wants the other ticket. Pros: you get a free ticket to see KoL; Cons: you have to put up with me. Yet I fear no one would respond to my contest, leaving me utterly devastated and sad. I would muddle through the rest of my life with a broken spirit. I would lose my youthful charm and become unrecognizable to the love of my life who I had jilted years before because my family thought he wasn’t good enough for me. Wait a minute. That’s the plot of Persuasion by Jane Austen. I believe I may have gotten a tiny bit carried away . . .

But anyway, the big news: I HAVE FREE TICKETS TO SEE KINGS OF LEON.

If any of you have any interest in going to the show, just let me know.

P.S. Did anyone else other than me and Mindy watch “Dating in the Dark” last night? On ABC? Completely strange and dumb dating reality show, yet I could not rip my eyes away. And I discovered something about myself: I don’t want to date a man who uses a flat iron. I, of course, liked the guy who was a pitching coach for the Cardinals, until he finally saw the girl he’d been flirting with AND kissing AND whatever and he said that her complexion “wasn’t all that clear.” Because that seemed awfully shallow. Mindy called me about then and we called him a jerk together. The thing that made me laugh was that the one dude who chose not to pursue anything with the girl had to leave the house with his suitcase, and apparently, the walk to the end of the driveway was like miles long and sloping downhill. So, guys, if you go on this show, please make sure your suitcases have wheels. Because you’re going to be walking a LONG time if you choose to walk away!