Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Looks like Bellingham could get up to 6 inches of snow today. It is coming down pretty good. Here is the view out of work window.



I think there are hot buttered rums in my future. Everyone stay safe and warm!

Teen years revisited: NKOTB Style

Oh yes, you read that correctly. When I heard they were getting back together I about died. I taped the Today Show appearance. I googled them. I signed up for their newsletter. I emailed with Katie all day about them getting back together and a possible tour. You could say I was pumped. Katie came over and we watched the Today Show performance and when they said tour I hopped off of the bed and went straight to my laptop to see what the tour dates were and find out when tickets were on sale. I emailed some people to see if they wanted to go and hence the group of NKOTB ladies was created. The day the tickets were on sale in June I was at Kerry's parents computer pushing the refresh button at 9:58am. I wasn't taking any chances that the tickets would be sold out. The weekend before Thanksgiving Kerry, Laura, Lisa and Katie and I all met up at my mom's house to get ready and head to the Tacoma Dome for the New Kids on the Block reunion tour. We even made shirts. Very awesome shirts I must say. I crimped Katie's hair with her crimper (YES hers). Here's a picture of us in all of our glorious 80's makeovers and one of me actually using the crimper:

Kerry was nice enough to wear the Danny Wood shirt (thanks for taking one for the team). Lady Gaga and Natasha Bedingfield opened for them. Both of them were pretty good openers. I still think Lady Gaga is strange but that is OK When the New Kids came on stage I thought I would die. I also thought the roof would come off the Tacoma Dome. It went crazy! Kerry giggled to herself for the whole first song. She couldn't believe we were actually seeing them and it was 2008.


The show was really good. They did a great job of playing their old hits as well as some of their songs on their new CD. I thought it was a great mix of both. Joey and Jordan even sang their hit songs from their solo albums. Here are my top 10 favorites from the concert:

1. Rotating stage in the middle of the floor seats. Such a genius idea to have them close to the crowd. From the looks of it everyone was civilized. I however would have died being that close to Donnie Wahlberg.

2. Donnie Walberg! I didn’t think my teenage obsession would come back with such force but it did. I pretty much screamed my head off any time he said anything. No seriously, EVERY TIME!!

3. Jordan Knight performing with his shirt open blowing in the wind machine. The girls had come over to make sure and we watched the NKOTB dvd I own and one part has live concert footage and what do you know there was Jordan doing the same thing. It also happened to be the picture Laura put on her shirt. Oh yes check the photos above to this one below.

4. Running into friends who also went to the show. Oh yes there were quite a few people at the Tacoma Dome I knew were going and some I found out went later. It is nice to know I am not alone in my love/obsession.

5. Giant buttons – Katie and I bought giant Joey and Donnie buttons. Oh yes and sported them at the show. Mine is on my desk as we speak.

6. Pose off – at the end of their song Click Click Click they do a pose off. At our show the band joined them in the pose and that was awesome. I watched some other pose offs at other shows and I didn’t see any where the band joined them so that made our show a little more special.

7. Dancing, dancing and more dancing. Oh man was it a big ol’ dance party in there. I think we danced for practically the whole time we were there.

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8. Watching my friends every time their favorite New Kid was on stage. They had the happiest look on their faces.

9. Hangin’ Tough – they sang that as their very last song and I must say it was a great choice. The joint was hoppin’ when the beat started. They even rocked some of Queen’s We Will Rock You in the middle.

10. The Ladies – It was a blast hanging out with those four ladies and sharing in the experience of our teenage years. Only two of us had actually seen them when they were big in the 80’s or 90’s. The next time they tour I know who my go to team is. Thanks for the memories ladies!