Date with Josh

7/26/2011 3:14PM Changed my life!

There I was minding my own business, typing furiously trying to complete a memo and I hear the "ding" of my email alerting me that I have a new email. Disinterestedly, I open it. It's from an Executive assistant to the Partners at my job who I dubbed the "ticket lady" because the only time we get emails from her is when there are tickets to concerts or games that my company is trying to give away (or sell at a reduced price). But this time, my attention was captured within 5 seconds of glancing through the e-mail - among the available tickets to see Keith Urban and Mystics vs San Antonio, there were 6 available suite tickets to the Josh Groban Concert on Wednesday July 27, 2011 at 7:30pm at the Verizon Center!! OMG!

Remembering that the tickets are on a first come first serve basis, I quickly sent an email back to the ticket lady requesting 2 tickets and waited. Oh, did I wait! Thank goodness I had painted my nails because I would have gone to town on my pinky (I'm a recovering nail bitter...7 years and counting).

But at 3:53pm, I got the best news! I got the tickets!!! A squeal escaped before I could control it! I was in Cloud 52! I had thought about purchasing tickets myself when I heard he was coming, but those prices were steep! I love the guy, but COME ON! And out of the blue, I got SUITE tickets! Like a VIP! It can't get any better than that! And of course, I knew who to take with me..my fellow Grobanite and bestest friend, Bunmi!

I had to go to great lengths to get the tickets but I wasn't going to let gas be the stumbling block to my date with Winslow! Thursday couldn't come fast enough! I started boning up on all his songs - Oceano, one of my all-time favorites (I learned the lyrics! And I have no idea what it means) came to mind. Although he released it in 2007, I was really hoping he would sing it....

So Thursday - Bums and I got there at the right time. After trying to find parking in the Executive parking lot with our VIP parking passes (we were rockstars!), we left the car in the capable hands of the parking officials and rushed off! The show started at 8:10pm -

Bums and I

He was magnificent! His voice is so full, so rich and deep and I had to shake myself sometimes - his music is so profound that you can forget where you are. It still comes as a shock to me that that beautifully controlled tenor/baritone can come out of that slip of a man! He sang several of my favorite songs - Oceano (made my night), February song, You are Loved (with a twist), Per Te, Higher Window, War at Home, Bells of NY City, Galileo (Bunmi's new favorite), Alejate - Bunmi's all-time fav, you should've seen her face when Josh was singing this song!,Voce Existe Em Mim (beautiful Portugese song with a beautiful arrangement and lots of drums) and The Wandering Kind, an arrangement he put together when he was 12!. Oh! and he sounded BETTER live!

I should really stop here because I could go on and on about this guy! He sang to a lady for her birthday; I'm sure she will never be the same ever again! He was funny, witty, geeky, quirky and soooo Josh!

Okay, I'm done! I plan to listen to all his songs I have and hunt up the rest! I have fallen in love all over again. I'm actually thinking of quitting my job and moving to New York to find him. I have a beautifully crafted scenario already planned out. Still thinking about it though!

I have attached some of my favorites here for your listening/viewing pleasure!!