He'll be comin' around the mountain when he comes...

It looks like for once, gossip CAN be believed.....What was once rumor and speculation is now a done deal - more than a done deal, actually, it is a standing-room-only, sold out, fat-lady-sings kind of deal. All in one day, Conan O'Brien let it be known that he was actually going on tour and BOOM! - tickets were flying like chicken feathers behind a KFC! We, the multitudes of fans crashed at least one site, clogged many others, and when the smoke finally cleared it was pretty obvious that this was going to be a pretty darn successful venture for our ginger hero.
I personally bought tickets almost by accident. We on the "I'm With Coco" board had been debating whether the tickets were really going to go on sale at 7am that morning (as was indicated by the Ticketmaster web page) or if this was a default setting that would be changed as the day progressed. As sort of a lark, at 6:59am I started refreshing the page to see if indeed the shows were selling. On my third refresh, I was startled to be met with a "buy tickets now" page. Again, just out of curiosity, I typed in the my info, and was again surprised to see how many seats were already taken (this was about 7:02am BTW) I tried a few different seating choices before some came up as available, and before you could say "Visa" I had purchased those suckers!! My time of purchase on my receipt reads 7:07am. I feel I barely got out with my life.....
Back on the IWC board, it was reminiscent Normandy Beach - some were rejoicing in victory, others were crying out in agony, still others were walking around in a daze, looking for warmth or shelter or second dates to open up....There was noise and chaos, and the sounds of wave after ocean wave crashing on the shore (or maybe that was just my really loud dishwasher in the background?) The highs were extremely high, the lows were pit-bottom low. Someone came on the board, offering to trade his wife and kid for tickets. I know he was just kidding (?) but I hope someone does a welfare check on the family sometime soon....just in case.
It is amazing to me that all this happened just in one little block of time yesterday. Oh, and Conan broke his historical (since February) streak of only Tweeting once a day. He actually had multiple things to say, leading me to believe he is getting all full of himself and is on a diva kick (I kid, I kid) This made for even more excitement among we, the Coco foot soldiers. It seemed like the world had gone topsy-turvy, up was down, chocolate was peanut butter. Suddenly all of the rumors we had been bouncing off the walls and each other were realized, were real, were no longer just a hopeful, crazy dream. As proof, I have $100 worth of tickets I had to explain to my husband, who has a great sense of humor but is sometimes not amused. I am hoping that getting to see something as historical as Conan's live show will soften him up a bit....and if not, I am pretty sure Seattle has enough beer to do the trick!