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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2022-03-04 03:50 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2022-03-04 03:50 pm
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Into the Void: Vegas!
The nutshell is I'm going to Las Vegas next month to see BTS in concert.
OMG! What am I doing!?
It was a difficult choice for me. I have only been a fan for about 7 months. Am I too old for this? It's a boy band. I wasn't a fan of boy bands even when I was a teenager. I like music, but I am not a pop music fan.
But there's something about these boys! [big thank to fellow ARMYbethctg for the last minute encouragement]
It is a lot of money [ticket, hotel, airfare, really the fees are what makes things expensive, all around, if it weren't for fees things would be more reasonable].
The process wasn't easy. I had to register as an official BTS fan (ARMY), then sign up for the pre-sale, then sign up at Ticketmaster, then join the waiting room and at 6 pm PT on Wednesday and was transferred to the queue (985 people ahead of me), then pick a seat. The seats for all 4 shows sold out in 5 hours. The stadium seats 65,000 (I think).
I haven't been to a live concert in 31 years.
I haven't been on an airplane or spent the night away from my kids in 6 years.
I am terrified, but I am going to (try to) do it.
The thing that pushed me over was I realized [while walking to pick up the boys at the bus stop on Tuesday] in May, I am going to be 47 years old. When my mother was 47, she got sick, went into a vegetative state after about a month, and died 5 months later. [Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease aka Mad Cow disease].
No one really knows how much time they have, so why not?
Now I am afraid I am too fat for the airplane, so I am going to try to lose some weight.
And practice my Korean!
I don't know why I like them so much, but I do.
OMG! What am I doing!?
It was a difficult choice for me. I have only been a fan for about 7 months. Am I too old for this? It's a boy band. I wasn't a fan of boy bands even when I was a teenager. I like music, but I am not a pop music fan.
But there's something about these boys! [big thank to fellow ARMY
bethctg for the last minute encouragement]It is a lot of money [ticket, hotel, airfare, really the fees are what makes things expensive, all around, if it weren't for fees things would be more reasonable].
The process wasn't easy. I had to register as an official BTS fan (ARMY), then sign up for the pre-sale, then sign up at Ticketmaster, then join the waiting room and at 6 pm PT on Wednesday and was transferred to the queue (985 people ahead of me), then pick a seat. The seats for all 4 shows sold out in 5 hours. The stadium seats 65,000 (I think).
I haven't been to a live concert in 31 years.
I haven't been on an airplane or spent the night away from my kids in 6 years.
I am terrified, but I am going to (try to) do it.
The thing that pushed me over was I realized [while walking to pick up the boys at the bus stop on Tuesday] in May, I am going to be 47 years old. When my mother was 47, she got sick, went into a vegetative state after about a month, and died 5 months later. [Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease aka Mad Cow disease].
No one really knows how much time they have, so why not?
Now I am afraid I am too fat for the airplane, so I am going to try to lose some weight.
And practice my Korean!
I don't know why I like them so much, but I do.