Chapter 25

MILLENIA!!!

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Subject: Re: Oh my GOD!

Hi Margaret! ooh, Gale's sooo excited as well:-) her friend Scotti was visitin Thurs nite, and asked if I was goin to "Shytown" to see DL, and I said, "Where?" he Fri, Sat we did nothing. Sun afternoon I asked Gale, "are you ready?" and she asked how many cans she should buy, I told her "80!" when we showed up at Hartman Toyota with 6-1/2 cases of canned (wax beans and baked beans:-) Tim and Sue of the morning show were happy to see us! the truck wasn't even 1/2 full!! the other Grand Prize was a trip to Hawaii to see N'Sync, but we both gave Sue a Hi-5 and said, "We want to go to Chicago to see Def Leppard!" teehee, she got 10 entries, Gale took 5, I took 5, and put her name on 4. she asked why, I said, "I never win anything!" plus, I told her to Think God for Thanksgiving and Thank Jesus for Christmas, my new motto. I put in one entry for myself, and later, drove out with 8 more cans to put in an entry for Bob. Gale got pissed, "I hate driving somewhere twice!" I told her, "well, they need the cans, and Bob will be really PISSED if I don't put in an entry for him!" I told Bob, bout the trip to Hawaii, and Cynda, Gale's daughter. If she won that trip, her daughter would have gone with her, that was the deal. I told Bob to listen to Wink104 at 8:20, and he did! so did Pork, Gale's ole man, and her in her van, and me at work. When I heard her name the first one pulled for Def Leppard, I jumped up and screamed at work!!! A coworker was startled when I kept repeatin "SHE WON! SHE WON!" and asked, "Who won what?" so I told her, teehee. then Gale called, she had been sitting in her van, waitin to hear who was the winner, in the parking lot at work. When they called her name, she jumped outta that van and began dancin round in the parking lot! A woman actually came out of another bldg near her and asked, "I take it you must be Gale Piper!" Gale said, "YES I AM!!!" well, there it is, in a nutshell! damn, it's always someone around me who's the lucky one! remember, I did not win the trip to Puerto Rico, but I was in the runnin! It just took 2-1/2 years, and a good friend, to get THIS LUCKY!!! o boy, what a great time to get lucky!! I want you to get lucky when you go up to Halifax! we have to get a plan goin, like I should have told them before, how we got ripped at CRW--maybe I'll get that chance? I will take lotsa pix to put up on the ole website as usual, and how do you like the chapter being name Milleni-Euphoria, does it fit? as always, Euphoria Lady -Ruth:D

Thurs, Dec. 16 dream: As I was skiing down a slope, I had passed Joe and Phil. They seemed to be waitin for me to pass and then followed behind me. We were all goin to meet at the bottom, where there was an arena for their show. There were roadies and crew members I passed along the way, who all seemed as well to be chasin me down the slope or playin 'it tag' --I don't know which! Whatever, they were all smilin:-)

Monday, December 27th and 96 hours till milleniium hysterical euphoria!!! got plane tix arriving Chicago 11 a.m., concert seat tix are for sec 103 row E--that stands for Euphoria!! oh boy, I heard Joe's voice sayin "Have a Merry Christmas and a rockin new year," and YES I WILL! teehee, just wait till the guys see me there, SURPRISE!! even more bodacious is that their own record company paid for this trip and concert tix, which means I'll have more money to buy drinks!! I'll keep it to a minimium. Then I won't have any regrets:D

Tuesday, December 28--Gale just had to call Hotel and ask the inevitable question--"Will Def Leppard be stayin there?" The desk clerk whispered into the phone, "Yes, Def Leppard will be stayin here, but don't tell anyone I told you!"

Well:D if that wasn't enough Gale just had to go another step further, makin some more phone calls, she called me again at at work--"Guess what!! We get to go backstage and have a champagne toast with the band before the show!!":O

OMG she had to go and blow my surprise!! It's what I had expected, for this to be the ULTIMATE DEF LEPPARD PARTY--and with only 72 hours until Chicago, I just cannot contain myself any longer:-)

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