Thankful...but B-U-M-M-E-D

With a capital B.

First, I want to thank everyone for all the sweet comments, emails, phone messages, and generous outpouring of LOVE shown to me yesterday on my birthday.  I had a beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to me by a cute little old lady in a Scion.  She made my day!  (Well, my husband made my day. Thanks sweet husband!)

Also, when I picked Seth up from pre-school yesterday, I had to take him to therapy.  So when he got in the car, I said, "Seth, guess what today is?" trying to prompt him to remember, and get excited about, going to Mrs. Muggs office. Instead, he breaks into, "Happy Birthday" in full voice and sings it all the way through to me.  So lovely and sweet.  Loved every second of it!

I didn't have to cook a single meal yesterday!  Another reason to be thankful :-) We had chinese for lunch, and while Steve was teaching guitar lessons yesterday evening, I ate barbecue with my parents, sister and nephew and enjoyed some yummy birthday spice cake with caramel icing.  Ummm-ummm-good.

So there are so many reasons to be thankful.  Why am I bummed, you ask?

Well, for my birthday, Steve is supposed to take me to a concert at the House of Blues here in Dallas tomorrow night.  I REALLY like this new artist - Brooke Fraser.  

She is from Australia, and she sings with the group Hillsong United.  She also has her own music, and my sweet father-in-law has blessed me by giving me two of her albums, "Albertine" and "What to Do with Daylight". Not for my birthday, not for Christmas. They just showed up in the mail on a random Tuesday...because that's how he rolls :-) Here is a song that is getting a lot of play at some local stations here in Dallas, "Shadowfeet". Press play and tell me what you think...

So she is traveling with this group called the Hotel Cafe Tour, and there are several other independent female artists that were going to be performing with her. Ingrid Michaelson is one of them, and if anyone remembers the Old Navy sweater commercials from last winter, she was the one that sang the theme song from that "The Way I Am".

We purchased these tickets a couple weeks ago, but you have to go on Ticketmasters website to print them off before the concert. So I went on the site this afternoon, and lo and behold, the information had changed. Brooke Fraser's name was no where to be found, and someone named Laura Jansen had been put in her place. WHHHHHHAAAATTTT?

So I did some fast searching around on the internet and found out that Brooke Fraser is sick and has had to cancel for the next two weeks of the tour. At this point, I am pretty sure I had that pained look on my face, scrunched up nose, furrowed brow, mouth gaping open slightly. I don't mind saying that these tickets were not cheap. We do not go to concerts often, and I bypassed presents this year for tickets to this concert.

Dear Brooke,

You can't be sick. You just can't. Didn't you know you were supposed to sing for my birthday?

Please get better soon.

Your fan,
Courtney

P.S. And if you're not feeling better soon, just suck it up and play...cause it's my birthday, ok?

I called House of Blues and tried to appeal to the emotions of a guy named "Christian" who answered the phone at the box office. He wasn't buying any of it, said Brooke wasn't going to be able to make it and they had already replaced her with another artist; therefore...no refunds.

Doesn't he know that he is ruining my birthday? (Yes, that sound you hear is the sound of Courtney having a pity-party here in the privacy of my own home. And Steve got to witness it when he came home from work...)

I have already placed the tickets for sale on Craigslist, but the problem is that the show is not sold out. So I am thinking that the first place people are going to be looking for tickets is at the venue's website. So I may be out of luck.

And maybe, just maybe, we will go and have a wonderful time. If no one comes a knockin' on Craigslist, we will be at the concert tomorrow night. You all can just pray for a miraculous change in my attitude!! Cuz I need it!! (Honesty is always the best policy)