Reba!!!

Can I just say - first and formost - I have got to be one of the BIGGEST Reba McEntire fans around! I absolutely love this woman! My husband is convinced that, given the chance, I would marry her - and sometimes I think I would agree!
I have been a fan for over 15 years now - I own just about every CD she has put out. I am missing two of them. But I am working on it! I follow everything that she does and even call the local radio stations to correct them when they say any stat wrong. I visit her website daily and belong to her 'street team'!!! I enter every contest on that website and can you believe I won the last one? Yup! I should be getting a personally signed picture from this amazing peron!!! I am so excited about that!!!

I even got the awesome chance to meet her! Now I wouldn't say I am sorry that I got that chance - but I so deperately want to go back in time and grow a spine! I can not begin to explain how embarrassed I am on how I reaacted in front of the one person I would have died to meet. You know that question "Who is the one person, living or dead, that you would like to meet and/or have dinner with" = yup = she was it! I have a picture saying I was there - but I can barely remember the moment in time when that was taken! All I know - I couldn't talk! Here was my one-in-a-million chance = and I BLEW IT! I remember watching, in awe, from the back of her meet-n-greet line and being amazed that she was even nicer in person than I thought! She greeted everyone so friendly - how are you - glad you are here --- that kind of thing! She was everything I had always heard she would be in person! Everyone got a chance to have their picture taken with her - but they said no autographs!
Now -- the man in front of my husband and I was holding a teddy bear that a local radio dj asked if he would have Reba sign. Like I said- she didn't sign anything for most of this line, but when the wicked old ginch from the concert promoter told that guy with the teddy that Ms. McEntire wasn't signing anything = would you believe Reba took that teddy bear out of that wicked woman's hands and signed it right in front of her!!! LOL!!! I was not about to loose my chance! But I had come prepared - I had her latest CD with me and I also had a sharpie that I borrowed from a friend of mine working for the radio station broadcasting there!!!
Now being the ultimate fan that I am, I had prepared for this moment! I ran this over and over again in my mind, what I would say, how I would hug her!!! I had it planned!!! I even had a gift that I had crafted for her (a quilled version of her signature) and had it wrapped in a sunflower gift bag! I had put a note in the bag with a personal message to her because I just knew this would be my only chance!
And there it was - THE PRESSURE!!!! This would be the ONLY chance I would have to stand in front of her - OMG! And that ladies and gentlemen was all it took - I failed - I stood in front of my idol like a 2 year old stands in front of friggin Mickey Mouse for the first time! I froze! My husband had to talk for me!! Can you believe that? I was a 30 year old dumb ass!

At least I can say I was there - right!!! ***sigh*** I'm a lost cause - I am sure of that!