Okay! PLEASE PASS ME A MILLION MOIST TOWELETTES AND A SAM'S CLUBS SIZED BUCKET OF SPRITZ!!!!!

Thank much better! Where do I friggin start? All I can say is its all KISMET baby! So Senorita and I head off for the second leg of our TrifectaFirst Hartford (we all remember THAT story right!) This one Worcester, and still yet to come Providence.

Things just fell into place like handed down from the BIG GUY(who BTW we know voted for Clay right!). We find street parking a block away on our first trythrow a few quarters in the meter thinking, heck if the meter runs out and we get a ticket, it will still be cheaper than the prices they rape with at the garages.

We head to stand outside the Centrum cause we got about an hour to kill. More radio station making people give up their first born to get upgrades. We avoided that and stood up by this wall with a bunch of other Clay fans. I used to work in Boston Radio so I see this lonely kid standing by the Kiss 108 van (the station I once worked for) and I decide to take a stroll down to meet with him (and you knowwork him over like a fine piece of meat and try to get better seats. DAMN I'm greedy.already had 10th row!!! LOL!!! Anyway, we reminisced about the good ole days when I worked with all of the guys at KISS and he reminisced about being in his mothers womb!!! Yes I was a tad older than him. After 15 minutes of pure shmooze he offers me tickets"hmmmmm that's awfully kind of youwhat are the seats? (batting my eyelashes!) He tells me they are in section 123 on the side of the stage and I tell him goodbye (j/kI wasn't THAT obvious okay!!!LOL)

Okay..I'm getting to the good parts I promise! We head inside. As we approach our row I see the man of the hour JEROME! He is standing right next to our aisle (remember KISMET) He finishes speaking with some lady and I immediately grab his attention. "Jerome, you are one famous dude you know that right?" I say. He says "I'm starting to get that picture!!!" He laughs. I hand him my little "care package." I explain there is a check for The Bubel Foundation and a note as well as of coursered panties! He starts to laugh. "Oh I see, you girls know what you're doing!!!" LOL. He takes down our exact seat location and asks me what my sign says..and I say 'Which One???" "We've got seven between the two of us".but then I tell him "Actually I wrote one down on the note "CLAY WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?" He says great cause Clay will take the time to read it very carefully and look for you. Heck yeah he will.I wrote directions as to where to find me in the note along with all my stats..heck I might as well have had my measurements "34 C Claywatch me bounce for you!!!!" LOLjust kidding!

So then he explains the "lottery" system that they have to get backstage passes and I nod agreeably saying in my most professional voice "I totally understand" but working up enough "love vibes" to send his way along with Senorita's big basket of cleavage for good measureI think he got the point that we NEEDED backstage passes.

So after he met with about 15 other people hounding him for Clay 'anything" and trying to put on their own dog and pony show, Jerome headed back stage quickly to give the gifts to Clay..FIRST MISSION ACCOMPLISHED WE HAD CONTACT!!! Once again THE PANTIES HAD LANDED RIGHT INTO CLAY'S HANDS (or so we hoped!!!)

THE CONCERT IS NEXT!!! Stay Tuned!

OkayWe know the show by now right?? Well I'll give you a few random notes and thoughts first.

THIS CROWD WAS AWESOME!!! Much more high energy than Hartfordpeople stood in the middle section THE ENTIRE SHOW!!! This also affected the performances, I think..everyone seemed REALLY HIGH ENERGY tonight!!!

All the performances were great again. Funny note about Juliashe comes out and says hi to her mom and dad somewhere in the crowd. Then she spots someone with a Yankees Sign and she says yeah go Yankees!!! BAD MOVE JULIA!!! YOU ARE IN RED SOX COUNTRY!!! She looked like a deer caught in headlights!!! After back peddling faster than the Le Tour De France in rewindshe said ­Lets just move on shall we? Yes, Julia I think we shall.

So let me set the stage for you. Senorita and I had SEVEN SIGNS between the two of us. A couple we never even held up at all. But we thought we should try to make some of the other lesser cheered for Idols happy. So the first sign Senorita holds up says WE LOVE CHARLESawwwww we thought we'd make his day!! Well that little buster doesn't even see it!!! I surmised that he might not be used to getting too many signs so he doesn't even look.but none the less Grigsbyyou're off our list! You're done!!! LOLactually I think Charles and I might have a thing going on, but its only a bus to curb relationship..more on that later.

So our next sign victim is Ricky! If you remember in Hartford I was hoping for a HERCULES HERCULES from the guy but we got nothingso dang it..this time Senorita just chicken scratched a HERCULES HERCULES sign and we waved it frantically everytime Ricky wandered our way. End of song.WE MAKE CONTACT. Ricky sees our sign and gives us a big ole HERCULES HERCULES right at us! Rickyyou've just moved up the list (no one said we couldn't be fickle right!)

Okay Clay!!!! TITN comes onWe're screaming and I'm holding my CLAY WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME SIGN and Senorita has her CLAY COME AND STUDENT TEACH IN MY CLASSROOM SIGNwe got a few glances over but no definite contact.

INTERMISSIONhere's where it starts getting REALLY GOOD!!!

More to come..

INTERMISSION

We get back to our seats and rearrange the sea of signs we've left strewn all over the place. It was seriously like our little production TWO MINUTES TO CLAY DANICING SIGNNO DROP THE TEACHER SIGN GRAB THE TRIFECTA SIGN NOW!!! GO GO GOahhhhhh we were so loved by our neighbors in the seats around usNOT!!! LOL!!!

I'm talking to Lexus to give her an update and who to my wandering eyes do I see?.JEROME is heading our way!! He stops again right by our aisle (KISMET) to speak with some people, and we know he's handing out those precious puppiesyou know the HOLY GRAIL for Clay fansTHE YELLOW WRISTBANDS!!!

I scream JEROME, DID CLAY GET MY PACKAGE? Jerome looks at his little note pad and saysyou guys seats 3&4..and we nod in a trancegetting that tingly feeling inside that MAYBE? COULD IT POSSIBLY BE? And then the sign you all want to see.the little finger calling us over ..BULLSEYE. We have contact again. He hands us the prized wrist bands and gives us instructions as to when and where to meet after the show. Senorita and I did a remarkable job of not peeing our pants. We head back to our seatevil glances darting at us from every direction.I could feel the knife in my back from behind me. Ouch! But I got passes.neener neener neener. Ok so that is a bit childish, but appropriate since as soon as we sat down the two of us broke out in shreiks as childish as the crowd at a Wiggles Concert. Okaylets try to concentrate on the show! HA, the understatement of the century.

I start of again with my CLAY WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME? Sign. I figure this is a good one to stick with because it was on my note. However when they begin the BeeGees medley I scrap that sign and grab the CLAY MAKES ME MOO sign. If the looks around us were bad before they got even worse here. Not to mention that Kevin, one of the burly security folk kept telling us to stop holding our signs up so long. LIKE A TOASTER he tells us, UP AND DOWN. Well Kevin, I always burn my toast so that doesn't help me.

He even scolded us at one point and threatened to take all our signs away. We were much better behaved from then on.

So I'm holding my CLAY MAKES ME MOO sign up as Clay is singing To Love Somebody and he heads to our side. I POP the sign up and CLAY SEES! And ladies, if I could describe the face he made when he saw it I would, but it was truly undescribable. He's ready for a high note and he sees the sign and he just scrinches his face with a smile as if to say "WHAT THE _______". I nearly fainted.

OUR FIRST REAL VISUAL CLAY CONTACT OF THE NIGHT, and yes, we knew it would only get betterand did it ever.

So I decide to stick with the MOO sign for the remainder of the night. UP AND DOWN of course Kevin.

So a little later after Clay finishes with Can You Feel The Love, he's talking to the crowd. Boston reminds him of London, etc. etc.He heads to our side againand POP, up goes the CLAY MAKES ME MOO sign again. He stops dead in the middle of his sentence and says this with his adorable Southern accent:

Okay, I just don't get it! I mean, I just don't get it. Now I've seen a lot of different signs now and I have never seen any like that. It says CLAY MAKES ME MOO. (crowd starts laughing and I hear my fellow Boltmates scattered through out start to screamI think I am wetting myself now) I mean what does that mean? I'm sorry if I make you MOO, but

(and here is talking straight to me so I yell HONEY IT'S A GOOD THING and blow him kisses) he went on about it for another 5 seconds or so, but at this point I'm about at the hottest I've ever been in my 32 years and ready to pass what might be referred to a Clay-stone.

To be honest the rest of the concert was pretty much over for me there.oh, but not really. We still had Invisible.

Okay. No jersey but a very nice black shirt with faded blue jeans.hmmmm very similar to a vision we worked up for ourselves the other day on the Clay Train threaddo you remember?

Can we say like 15 THUD TUGS! And I don't mean those subtle ones, but like grabbing the shirts and yanking it like little TUG spasms. He did this at every chorus along with some very deep knee bends. He also started out with the shirt tucked in and then half way through pulled out completely!!! Yep, pass the moist towelettes. However at this point we are both sweating so much we smell like a men's lockeroomI NEED A SPRITZ!

The concert ended and then the real show began. FINAL CONTACT, and FULL CONTACT TOO!

The Backstage rendezvous is nextstay tuned.

MEETING CLAY

So we all have to meet at this one spot after the showand this one spot is right next to where we were sitting (KISMET).

I call Lexus again give her more updates. We chat with the other folks with yellow wristbands, and its here we notice something interesting if not THRILLING. There are two different groups with BS passes. The ones like ours, and these other stickers. Well there are about 30 people with the stickers, and only 6 of us have the yellow wrist bands. We are very special. Jerome gathers us up and off we go. Barely seeing straight, but makin our way back stage. The larger crowd has gone into this "mess hall' and are gathering with all the Idols. We lucky few are ushered into another room.A VERY SMALL AND INTIMATE ROOM. We line up against the table and begin to all get our sharpies and Cd's and cameras out. While we are still trying to gather all our stuff, I hear this voice from behind methe voice that I've grown to love and cherish over these lo 4 monthsthat accent is right behind me!!! I whip around and there he is not 4 feet from us.

I'll try to get this in order, but come on, this is meeting Clay we're talking about, I can barely keep out thoughts strait! (which is why on my last recap I accidentally said the MOO conversation was after Can You Feel The Love, and it was actually right before INVISIBLE!)

Okay, Clay is wearing a white T-shirt (TIGHT) and like blue gym pants with stripes down the sides and flip flops. He is just chatting away. Right off the bat he sees my MOO sign. He's giggling and he says: Okay, now what does that mean? So I tell him that it is kind of like my moniker, what I say to people when they say hello or goodbyekind of my silly little thing. He's still giggling, and I say , It's a good thing Clay..and he giggles Well I'm glad to hear that, I thought it might mean you were in pain or something. LOL all around.

He goes down the line of all us (there is two girls from Maine, one woman alone, Senorita and I and a Mom with her 2 daughtersokay that is 8 people..I counted wrong) He asks each one of us our name and gives us each a BIG bear hug!

Okay ladies, when he came to hug mehe looks RIGHT into your eyesand boy do they just glisten, they are definitely a Blue Green combo almost like a shallow Caribbean water. And they twinkle too. So he says What is your name, and I say Kira and he leans in almost nose to nose (spritz PLEASE) and then just gives me this great big hug. I wrap my left arm around him and my right grabs him by the nape of the neck in the hug and I whisper "Its such a pleasure to meet you Clay" into his ear.

(okay breathe for me honey)

He then moves on to Senorita who gave him a nice big bear hug back. You can ask her about what tingly things were going on inside of her, but my guess is that they were similar to mine.

He then is asked by the first girl to leave a message for her friends answering machine in London. He takes the phone and says "Hi (her name) this is Clay Aiken and I know its like really early in the morning there and your probably still asleep but I just wanted to give you a nice wake-up call." Okay, how can I get that wake-up call!!! Waaaaaahhhhh.

Then he's talking about something and another girls says "Did you say pansies?" cause she miss understood him..and I say "No he said Panties, he's got panties on the brain!!! Clay giggles and looks back at Jerome (which he did a lot!) and he says "Yeah I only got one pair tonight" and I say "Those were mine!" and then I tell him that is the 2nd pair he's gotten from us because the other pair were thrown into his bus in Hartford.

He starts laughing and Jerome and he say something and then he say's that was yours? Then this other guy who is there who is like a road manager guy with a British accent says "Wait, those are the ones that hit me in the head!!!!" LOLwe were all laughing.

Then he's looking at one of the girls signs that was glow in the dark and he says, "Can we turn the lights off"

This is where I grab Senorita's leg, I think more to steady myself than anything, and he turns off the lights and I say into the dark air OMG we're in a dark room with Clay! I mean we could have reached out and goosed him if we wanted. AHEM, but I'm way too mature for that! LOL!

Then he starts signing stuff for us. And he hugs us all again before he signs. Are you keeping track? That is 2 Hugs thus far. He gets to me.I give his a more traditional hug this time. I give him my CD cover and he asks me how to spell my name. He says I have heard it with a "C" but not a "K" and I day that is the Irish spelling, mine is the Russian spelling. He's looking right into my eyes! THUD. He signs "To Kira, All My Love, Clay Aiken"

He then signs the MOO poster and he signs it "Kira, MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, All My Love, Clay Aiken" So funny!!! I got my MOO sports fans!!!!

He then goes to Senorita. I'm sure she has filled you in on the details but in short, they discuss her teaching, she tells them she teaches 3rd grade Bi-lingual kids. She tells them that she uses his music to calm them down and keep them quiet. She says she's Clay-verted them all. Clay laughs at this and looks back to Jerome and says SHE SAID CLAYVERTED, SEE THEY USE MY NAME IN EVERYWORD!!! So he signs her one drawing that a boy in her class drew of Clay, and he signed Ms (her last name) Hey kids listen to your teacher! All My Love, Clay Aiken.

He also signs her Teacher Sign and signs ALL MY LOVE in Spanish!!! Which if I had paid attention in the 4 years I took Spanish I could write here, but alas no hablas espanol very well!

(breathe for me honey!)

Picture Time!!!

More to come.

PICTURE TIME

So now it is time for picture (I know this is a novel by now, but I know how you people LOVE the details)

He gets to Senorita and I. We put him in the middle. Jerome is taking the pictures. I ask Clay if we can kiss him on the cheek and he says "Yeah Go For It" in what seemed to be a very happy tone.

So I plant one big messy sloppy smooch right on his cheek (sorry if my tongue licked your face Clay, honestly it was an accident! LOL) I got to taste him ladies!!!!

I'm happy to report that Clay received one big happy BOOBIE SANDWICH from the two of us (you'll see the picture very shortly I promise!)

The pic came out great!!!He took pics with everyone and right as we were getting ready to say our good-byes, he turned again to Senorita and I and THEN HE SAID ONE MORE HUG, and Senorita said WE'LL TAKE AS MANY AS YOU ARE WILLING TO DISH OUT!!!

Have we counted folks? That is now our THIRD HUG!!

As he says his final good byes I sayHey we noticed like 15 Shirt Tugs (AND I GRAB HIS T-SHIRT AT THE SAME TIME) and he laughs and says "Now come on, I only did 3, one at each chorus! And then he turned back and winked at us!!! Yes, we got a wink too!!!

(Spritz Please!)

So we've now just spent almost _ hour locked in a small room with Clay, part of which was in the dark!

I tell him as he leavesSEE YOU NEXT WEEK IN PROVIDENCE, I'LL HAVE MY SIGN! He laughed and shook his head and said okay see you there!

He leaves and doesn't even go into the other room with all the idolsthey don't even get to meet him. Only the 8 of us do in the entire Centrum!!! Senorita has already promised to run those probability ratios and chart them for me.

We head outside. We stumble like 2 drunks giddy with a magnum of Mad Dog in our system to a coke machine to get liquidswe were parched to say the least. We headed back just in time to catch the buses leaving again. I scouted our spot on the median. First bus Ricky and CarmenSecond bus.Julia and Charles for sure(sidenote on Charles. This is where Charles and I have our little fling. In Hartford Charles was the about the only Idol I personally made eye contact with on the buses. He was pointing at me and waving feverishly. Well, it happened again. He ran to the window and pointed at me and began waving like crazy again. What, does he know me??? Or just got the gleam in his eye for meWink Wink Charles, we'll meet again on the curb in Providence big guy!)

Third Bus.Clay as usual at the front waving. I plant myself right where the bus has to turn. I hold my MOO sign up high and what could make this night ANY MORE FULLFILLING THAN IT ALREADY HAS BEEN???? Well He points to me waves and BLOWS ME A KISS!!!

THUD THUDand don't you think for a minute that I didn't catch that kiss!!!

That's all folksMISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!

He Moo'd at me
I kissed him
We hugged him 3 Times (once with the nape of the neck)
The only panties again of the night were from us
We chatted
He giggled a lot
We got the picture
We got tons of TUGS
I even TUGGED his shirt
He winked at us
And He blew me a KISS

>>>>>>Stick a fork in me, I am DONE!!!!

(moist towelette please!!!)

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last updated 8/03/03