Last week was a great week. So much happened I hardly know where to start, but I'll try to start at the beginning...
Monday - my brother who has been laid off for three months, started working again, and my downstairs neighbor got a new job (at my office) and that will bring many good things to both of our lives
Wednesday - I took one of my two finals and I WON tickets to the sold out Billy Joel concert for Saturday!
Thursday - I had my very last 'class'.
Saturday - We got a ton of work done for the graduation party and then we got to go to Billy Joel (for free)!!!!
I have always enjoyed Billy Joel's music. He's multi-generational (as evidenced by the crowd around us) and covers several genre's as well. He is an extremely gifted musician, vocally and especially instrumentally. They had a camera positioned so that the big screens showed his fingers flying over the keys of the piano that rose from beneath the stage. The piano also rotated so that his back wasn't always to one part of the audience which was great. He performed for three solid hours, with no opening band, and he still couldn't play all of his biggest hits, although the closing number of his last encore was an incredible Piano Man, which he sang twice! He was also quite funny when he spoke to the crowd, making comments about songs written for an ex-wife, and his aging; telling the crowd at the beginning that he was Billy's dad filling in! I still can't believe we got to go for free. I've always wanted to see him, but just couldn't find enough room in the budget when tickets went on sale.
This week promises to be pretty great as well. One more final to take (Tuesday), and then graduation on Friday and the graduation party on Saturday. My brother gets to be here, as well as lots of other family and tons of friends. I'm excited to see everyone and keeping fingers crossed for good weekend weather!
