Tuesday, December 9, 2008

To Billy or not to Billy:

If you know me at all, you know that I love, Love, LOVE Billy Joel.

(Love him.)

He's coming to Phoenix with Elton John on March 26, 2009, for their Face-To-Face tour. I saw this show in Las Vegas (with Thelissa and Holly) in 1995 and loved it. Watching them together on stage was incredible, especially when they were sitting at their pianos - man I LOVE the way they play their pianos. I do remember thinking there was too much Elton, not enough Billy, but I'm certain a lot of that was because I love Billy so much.


I've been in a quandary since I saw this ad. Tickets go on sale this Saturday the 13th. I've never missed a Billy concert since I "discovered" how much I loved him (late 80s, early 90s).

Getting out of debt doesn't really allow for non-important things such as concert tickets. I've been incredibly good at avoiding presents for myself for the most part, and find myself talking me out of things I would normally absolutely buy all in the name of "but I'm being so good."

Just today, several people have told me I should get a ticket for myself for Christmas. I deserved it and would truly enjoy/appreciate it. And I really would. Man, I REALLY would.

But I'm still in debt. I got myself into this mess because for my entire adult life, I've always had the attitude of, "But I deserve it because [insert excuse here]." I don't deserve it. Not this time.

Sigh. Bye bye Billy.

5 comments:

Jenna said...

Tara,

That would have been a fabulous Christmas present to yourself.

You have already seen it and I bet they have not changed one thing since you saw it. It is always better in Vegas anyways. I bet Elton is like 90% and Billy is only 10%.

I love Billy too - oh piano man - sing to me!

Allyson & Jere said...

Good for you Tara. What a hard choice to make, but I'm proud of you! I'm to freaking tight to ever pay as much as they'd want for a ticket, and BELIEVE me, I LOVE me some Billy. I'd love to see them in concert more than anything.

Jen said...

Ahem!

Paul and Mari said...

Amazing will power!

Sweet Notations said...

Tara, Hey its Mindy I finally got a blog, its mostly for my business, but I have enjoyed looking at your commments and stories. I will try to add some to mine as I go, I am just getting the blogging thing down.