Oprah

It's been a dream of mine to see Oprah since high school. Every day at 4 o'clock I would watch and wait for a new Aha moment to hit me, I was hardly ever disappointed.  I felt like I knew Oprah, it was as if she was sitting next to me in my living room having a one on one discussion about life, she was practically family. I was of course crushed when she went off the air and my chances of seeing a taping of the show died. But then she came back with Oprah's Lifeclass, whaat! And then she's coming to Houston? I signed up to win tickets to the show, and didn't get them. I thought why? This is my time. She's here, I'm here, It's Houston, I don't understand. I was distraught.

That's when the email came. My mom and I volunteer for the Hobby Center as ushers and they sent out an email requesting 75 volunteers to be stand-by's in case there are empty seats that need to be filled. We signed up. It was first come first serve so I showed up at 5:45 where I was the third person in line with the first two were a mother and daughter from Atlanta. Later I would find out they were in no way the farthest traveled people to see the show (Amsterdam).  Friends, it was everything I dreamed it would be and more! Oprah is a huge dork who is even funnier in real life. Andre, her hair stylist, comes out between takes to fix her hair.  This makes me feel better about myself knowing that if I had someone fix me up every few moments then I too would look fabulous.

Pastor Joel Osteen was her guest for the Lifeclass which I didn't know how I felt about. I had been hearing mixed messages about him and had never truly researched him before to hear the real deal.  I thought "ok go in there with an open mind. Oprah has a reason. She knows what she's doing".  It was true, hearing both of them talk about the power of words was amazing. Aha moments were hitting me every minute and my life will be changed forever. I can't believe it really happened but as the guest Joel Osteen says "Believe Big, Pray Hard" and well I believed big didn't I?


Truth Time: In college I skipped my classes for two days to repeatedly call the Oprah hotline in hopes of getting tickets.