I've got so much "passion"

Thanks to Shamelessly Sassy for the gentle reminder that it has been a whole MONTH since my last post - what the heck?! In my defense, I did start a post last week and then got sidetracked. That would have made it only a mere 3 weeks since my last post. Augh - I know, I suck!

So anyway, to continue the post I began, I mentioned before my newfound love for all things NKOTB, right? Except that post did not do proper justification as to how far my obsession appreciation went. I have to admit that I was too ashamed to admit it at the time. I didn't want to admit that I listened to their new CD non-stop evey chance I got. That I changed my Google homepage to their theme. That I have a Google gadget that plays continuous loops of various NKOTB videos old and new. That I was following all the members on Twitter and having their tweets sent to my phone. That (instead of writing blog posts) I was watching NKOTB videos on YouTube. That I was contemplating selling an organ or two so that I could afford to go to the NKOTB cruise that went down a couple weeks ago. Ok, that last one was a lie. (Sort of.) Anyone who knows me knows I have this groupie/borderline-stalker mentality with anyone/anything I grow fond of. Alfred (God bless him) just rolls his eyes a lot when I get this way. My friends appreciate my "passion" for things (meaning, they still love me when I get the crazies). They know that I will eventually get over it. The thing is, when I AM caught up in my... ahem... "passions"... my poor kids go along for the ride. So now they know all the words to my favorite NKOTB songs (and they even have THEIR favorite songs):

You can't see her but you can hear Katelyn singing along in the background. She loves this song (2 IN THE MORNING) as well as SINGLE.

I was planning to take Desiree and Alana to another NKOTB concert in July (in Vegas). Katelyn is now asking if she could go too. She said "Mama? Can I go see New Kids too? Coz they are SO cute!" It is SO obvious who she takes after, right? It pains me that I can't be the hero and give in to her request. I just can't see myself spending $400 for all 4 us of to go to that concert. Heck, it hurts to be spending $300 for the three of us to go. Last time, it was just me and Desiree who went and even spending that $200 was SO hard. Then again, it might totally be worth it to see NKOTB and the Jabbawockeez - our two biggest "passions"! If you are a fan of either NKTOB and/or Jabbawockeez, you HAVE to check out the summer tour. A little birdie told me that it is going to be even better than their spring tour and that was ALREADY the biznaz! I don't want to spoil it for anyone who is planning to go to the concert but let's just say that I am SO excited about what they have in the works!

BTW - for those of you who were thinking that a NKOTB intervention was in order, I am pleased to advise that I have been listening to music other than NKOTB as of late, I have since changed my Google homepage theme to something other than NKOTB, I've changed my twitter settings so that I do NOT get their tweets via text message anymore and I haven't watched a NKOTB video on YouTube for quite some time now. Thank you for your concern.