Future Now

Barclays Center, Brooklyn, July 8th, 2016. Exactly 9 years to date, I was celebrating my anniversary with Nick Jonas. It's crazy to think it's been almost a decade of this. I've been there for the whole ride, and it became so much more meaningful as I desperately and impatiently awaited the results of the NJAmbassador contest. I'd been waiting for this moment since October when I watched them announce the tour in NYC at an exclusive preview, funny how fast 9 months go when you're counting down to the tour of a lifetime. The Future Now tour was a dream, Nick and Demi the best of friends on the road together again sans two JoBros.

I didn't know if I should bring up NJAmbassador or not since probably everyone would, but I figured it was worth a shot since it was our anniversary after all. After I hugged Nick I said to him, "Today is our 9 year anniversary, so if you wanted to get me something you could tell me I'm your New York ambassador. You know, just saying if you wanted to get me something." He merely laughed it off as of course he couldn't really say anything since there were thousands just like me around the globe waiting and wondering. After a night of Nick and Demi mashups, I wanted to see it again because once is just never enough. A few days later Nick and Demi were making an appearance at Woodbury Commons outlet mall in upstate New York. They would be giving out concert tickets and meet & greets, so an opportunity to get a picture with both Nick and Demi was worth the 1.5 hour drive. After a lot of unworthy waiting in the hot hot heat, I decided we weren't going home just yet. Why not take a chance and see if the Prudential Center still had tickets available at the box office? It was "on the way home" anyway. I didn't want to pay for parking if I didn't know if we were staying for the show, but when the box office didn't answer the phone I threw caution to the wind since we were already there. Sure enough, they still had decent tickets left.

Since I was already there, why not check the HOST VIP app and see if there was still time to buy a meet & greet? It was still up😏 I bought it faster than I had bought anything in my life and ran into the venue leaving my counterpart outside waiting (sorry Kristen, you know I would do the same for you if it was Justin Bieber). I had to run back outside when I realized Kristen had both of our concert tickets and I couldn't get into the meet & greet without mine. Once I got back in I had to battle the HOST VIP concierge because he didn't know what to do since I wasn't on the list being that I just purchased the meet & greet only a minute ago. I didn't see my usual HOST crew, but thankfully his coworker was able to help us out and all was well in the blink of an eye. I was ushered off into the meet & greet right away, I had never done this so fast without waiting. I ran into the friend I made at the Barclays Center just a few days before, and because Nick saw us back to back again he said, "Good to see you, thanks for coming again!" That confirmation really never gets old. And it hyped up my ego of the odds of me being the New York ambassador, but as you sadly know by now that didn't happen. Still waiting for a DNCE ambassador contest. Joe? Cole? Jack? Jinjoo? I'm waiting.