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How went the concert, you ask? Was it as fabulous as hoped for, and worth all the hype?

Why yes, yes it was. They did a couple songs that I hadn't heard before, several that I had. And, I discovered a new favorite. Shannon is by far my favorite, followed close by Drew. Before it was that the other 8 were just there, pretty fabulous but none really stood out. At the concert I went to last year, I discovered that many times the voice sailing over everyone else that I thought was Shannon turned out to be this guy David. So I was pretty impressed with him. Well he left the group not too long ago. It seems that many of his roles were taken over by (dadadadum!) my new favorite number 3, Liam, who has always been in the group, I just never noticed his amazing-ness before, partly because he was overshadowed by Shannon & David. The Ten Tenors do a really great version of the Bohemain Rhapsody, and Liam was the man feature in that song. Although possibly my favorite thing he did was Nessun Dorma. This was one of the last songs they did, and I knew he was my new #3 before then, but that definately confirmed it.

Let's see, what else....so they really like the Beegees and did a few of their songs, in addition to The Boxer and a couple Queen songs. And of course, the opera and Australian folk songs.

So then after the show we are in the lobby debating about whether or not to stay for autographs. I know, silly question, why would you not stay, but I get shy & nervous in those situations. Well as we're debating they all come out and there's Shannon standing like 5 feet away from me. Well, ok, I have this here program, I'll just have Shannon sign it.

And then my mom says are you sure you don't want anymore? I'll go with you. Ok, well, Drew is standing right there, I'd better get his. Elaine says you should open your program to their page and have him sign there. I thought that a good idea, and so did so and got Drew's. And was then about to leave. And then I thought about getting home and only having 2 autographs. How dumb would that be? So I just got the rest.

Now, if you'll look closely, you'll notice that there are only 8 autographs on this page, plus the one on the front making only 9 tenors. Well, some of these are illegible really so I can't be sure, but I think it was a guy named Dom who I missed. I later was thinking about it and didn't recall seeing him in the lobby. He probably was there, I just missed him. Alas.

Tip o' the day: If you must paint your nails right before bedtime (and let's face it, sometimes there's no other choice) dry them as much as possible before sleep is really just the only thing left for doing. Then arrange your hands very carefully so while you fall asleep and the first little while your nails don't touch anything. Theoretically, by the time that you move in your sleep, the nails are dry, no harm done.