Archives for October 2008

Colleen, Melissa, Lindsey and I ate downtown before heading to to the big NKOTB concert.  To be honest, I had no intentions of going.  I was a HUGE NKOTB fan back in the day.  I even blogged about their return back in April but never really followed through with catching up with them.  However, Colleen got an email about a 4 pack in the nosebleed section for $28 a pop so I couldn’t pass it up.  As the date grew closer this week, I got more excited…even going back and listening to some old songs yesterday to see how much I remembered (a lot!).

First I have to say I noticed that the entire audience were women.  Seriously I only remembered seeing 2 men, one of which was on the screen.  And they weren’t teenagers either.  Actually, I really don’t remember teenagers at all.  I’m pretty sure most of them were in their late 20’s and 30’s.  It was like everyone that was in middle school and high school in the late 80’s/early 90’s all had a reunion in order to stand and scream for 4 hours.  Almost twenty years of fangirl excitement coming out in one loud, four hour screaming session.

Needless to say, we were all surprised about how good they were.  They did a mix of old and new stuff. I hadn’t heard but one of their new songs and have to say they have some great dance songs out.  Dirty Dancing had to be my favorite.  Maybe because they came out into the audience on a revolving stage and danced singing about a girl dirty dancing on them.  You can’t imagine what that did for our temporarily regressed middle school minds.

Oh, one exciting thing was when we went to go get seated, they said our section was getting moved downstairs to some better, empty seats so we got REALLY good seats for what we paid.

And yes, it was all cheese.  Cheesy, choreographed boy band dancing to cheesy songs and cheesy lyrics.  One thing I can say is the guys CAN sing.  I don’t think I realized how well Jordan could sing.  He sang several of the songs, hitting some amazing falsetto notes.  I thought Joe would be featured more than he was but he did really well when he was.  And Donnie did a little rapping, not much but he was definitely the ring leader of the entire show.  He was the best dancer of them all by far and I remembered why I owned that Donnie button back in the day.  Yes, he is still my favorite.  Jordan WAS cute in his scarf or even lack thereof during his solo.  Danny sang a few noteworthy bass notes and did some breakdancing at one point.  Jon firmly stayed in the background the whole time but he looked good.

I don’t know, we had a FABULOUS time.  It was like one huge girls night out and no one cared how or if the person next to them was dancing.  We all had cheesy smiles on our face and squeezed the person’s arms next to us and screamed when they did a pelvic thrust.  It was fangirl heaven for those few hours.  I’m really glad I got to go.

Melissa is supposed to be putting up some pictures but here is a montage of video I caught.  Excuse the hands waving, the screaming and the jostling of the camera as I danced behind it.

I’m sitting at my desk working away and Scott walks from the living room/kitchen area: What do you have in the washer?

Me: Lexi’s blanket.  She wanted it washed.

Lexi, from other room: Mattie licked it and I wanted it washed.

Him: You should go put it in the dryer.

Me: Me? Why? I’m sitting here working and you’re twice as close.

He moves onto the elliptical in the office: Come on, mommy, go dry her blankie for her.

I get up, annoyed: OK, I’m sitting here but yet I have to get up to do this. Whatever.

He follows me into the kitchen into the laundry room.  I open up the lid to the washer and it farts (sorry, I don’t usually use that word, it’s just fitting).  I spot his fart machine sitting on top of the blanket.  He cracks up laughing, lying his head in his arms on the kitchen counter

Me, rolling my eyes and throwing the wet blanket into the dryer: Do you have to be so juvenile?

He’s still laughing.

I’m still rolling my eyes.

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My fingers barely know what to type right now.  I’ve just finished Breaking Dawn and I’m speechless.  The word beautiful keeps ringing through my head over and over.  Such love.  Such amazing, unending love.  I really don’t know if I can write a proper review right now.  Tears stream down my face and I am sure that a book has never touched me quite like this one.  It’s not that this one was better than the other three.  Suddenly it’s not about a four part book series.  To me it is just Bella and Edward and their story.  No, their love.  It’s not a simple Romeo and Juliet or Cinderella and her prince.  It’s that and so much more.  The hard stuff.  The scary stuff.  The REAL stuff.  Maybe another day I can dissect it as a book but for now, I’m a part of their story.  A very lucky participant at that.

I could seriously listen to a man read the phone book if he has a British accent.  It’s not just British accents either.  Australian or Scottish works too.  I’ve been known to literally stare at a man at a perfume counter at a department store.  I almost tripped over myself when a man with an accent needed through the line where I stood and said, “Excuse me, love.”  OMG.  What I don’t get is why TV and movie execs are not taking advantage of this since I KNOW I’m not alone.  I can think of at least three really good examples.

First and foremost.  Rob Pattinson in Twilight.  Edward has been around long enough I would believe he had an accent.  Couldn’t she have written an extended stay in London into his life? Not so hard, my dear.

Second.  Ed Westwick as Charles Bass on Gossip Girl.  He could have easily went to boarding school growing up.  Come on, PLEASE!

And finally Dr. House!  He has such a weird background I could believe he spent his residency in Europe. I’m not sure if House would seem so mean WITH an English accent but still, I’d like to hear it.

People, quit stripping these men of their beautiful accents and our swoon-worthy TV and movie watching moments!

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I think maybe I’m reading so much that I just don’t feel creative enough to write.  Or maybe it’s because I’m not getting enough sleep.  And work is really busy.  Something like that.  But here’s a few things of randomness:

• Lexi had a dentist appointment yesterday to get a tooth filled.  She was REALLY talkative so I hit the record button on my iPhone and got some of it. I think the dental assistant’s Southern accent is just as entertaining.
• I’m having issues with Rob Pattinson being Edward.  He’s got nice, chiseled features but he’s shorter than I thought and not gorgeous as the book might describe.  I have yet to come up with an actor to replace him with though. *Update* I just read he is 6’1″.  OK, so maybe he’s growing on me.
• I’m about 1/3 of the way through Breaking Dawn.  Jury is still out on this one.  Had a great beginning but now I’m in Book Two and it’s waning a bit.
• We didn’t go out at all last night.  Scott got bored and remade my shelf in the laundry room.  It is bigger to hold all the great cleaning supplies I bought at KMart on double coupons.
• Yesterday’s Isagenix cleanse day was pretty easy compared to last time.  I decided to just do one day. I was down two pounds this morning.  But it won’t last long as I’m prepared to eat WELL for dinner tonight.
• I realized the New Kids on the Block concert I’m going to with Melissa is THIS Thursday.  I haven’t been following them since their comeback but we were huge fans back in the day.  And we got tickets for twenty bucks so couldn’t really pass that up.