I hope ya'll don't think I am trying to "toot my own horn", but I am so excited, I just had to share this. I just got home from Greenville, and no, I didn't get my hug, but I got something almost as good! I went to the pre-party with Dusky, Lax, Esterina, and Claylicious (love them to death, they are such fun!). Anyway, I had no idea that Faye would be a the pre-party. A friend of mine who is friends with Faye was at the Atlanta concert and I had given her a copy of my book and asked her to give it to Faye. I wanted to talk to Faye so bad, but didn't want to bombard her, especially since my friend already had the book to give to her. Anyway, my friend was at the pre-party too (had not yet given Faye the book), and she encouraged me to go ahead and talk to Faye, saying she really wouldn't mind and that was why she came to these events, for the fans. So, I got up the nerve and approached her. I started off by saying "Faye, I had promised myself that I wasn't going to bother you, but I made something for you that our mutual friend is going to give you." She immediately said that I was not "bothering" her (which made me so much better), and asked me what it was. I told her that I was the one who had written the parodies posted on Jan's website and she gave me a big smile and said "Oh, I love those, they are SO GOOD." And she thanked me for making her a copy of them! EEEEEEEE!!!! I know that may sound silly to some of you, but just knowing she has actually read them and LIKES them, just tickles me to death!
I'm sure you've heard by now that she had told Clay not to hold back at the concert, and that boy listened to his mama! Lord, if he had been any hotter, they would have set off the smoke alarms!! Holy cow, I've said it before and I'll say it again, whatever you have to do to see this concert.....SEE THIS CONCERT!!!!
He hit every note, forgot the words to WYSYLM again, and was just so ding dang cute!!
As if that wasn't enough, he can make you laugh till you cry. He was trying to talk and someone up front kept yelling things out to him and he said "Excuse me, I'm tryin to talk here, and you keep distracting me, now I've lost my train of thought." Then, "on the count of three, everyone just tell me what you want to tell me and get it over with." So he counted to 3 and everyone yelled "we love you Clay!" He knows how to put someone in their place without hurting their feelings, and cracking everyone else up in the process.
Then, he saw someone in the first few rows with binoculars and he said something like "what are you in, like the 3rd or 5th row and you have binoculars, what do you think you're gonna see with those? Jacob has a big booger in his nose, you can probably see that." Everyone just cracked up. Sue was sitting a couple of rows behind Faye and watched her when Clay said that and Faye just seemed to shake her head, like "boy are you in trouble."
So, not only is he drop dead gorgeous, sings like an angel, sweet as the day is long, makes you laugh till you hurt, HE IS HAWT, HAWT, HAWT, HAWT!!!
Gee, maybe I should tell you something you don't already know!
hugs, Cathy