Songs from that girl.

A few months ago, my phone rang. I was half-awake and didn't move. The person hung up when the answering machine picked up. About 2 minutes later, it rang again. I finally got the nerve to feel for it in the head of my bed without opening my eyes.

I mumbled: "Hello?"
Kristen: "I just tried to call."
Me: "I know, I was ignoring it."
Kristen: "You sick?"
Me: "No..sleeping."
Kristen, ignoring what I said: "Oh. Well, I have a job for you for the wedding."
Me, not enthused: "Are you going to make me the guestbook person? Because if you are, I'm going to say no."
Kristen: "Nooo.."
Me, still not enthused: "Are you going to make me serve food? Because if you are, I'm going to say no."

I'm too old to say "yes" to the shit-jobs.

Kristen: "Noooo.." I could see her roll her eyes in my mind.
Me: "Okay. Then what?"
Kristen: "Well, I need someone to make a list of music for the reception and Josh said "What about that girl?" and when I figured out he was talking about you - I thought "PERRRFECT."

I paused, my eyes popping open: "Yeah, being called "that girl" is going to get him far with me." she laughed.

Well, last night, I finally finished it. 100 not too corny, not too campy, variety of songs for Kristen's wedding. And now I am posting it here for my future reference, because I enjoyed doing this:

1999 - PRINCE Accidently In Love - Counting Crows Air That I Breathe - The Hollies Amazed - Lonestar Answer - Sarah McLaughlin At Last - Etta James Baba O'Riley - The Who Beautiful In My Eyes - Joshua Kadison Best Of My Love - The Eagles Bless The Broken Road - Rascal Flatts Breathe - Faith Hill Brick House - The Commodores Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations Candyman - Christina Augulia Clumsy - Fergie Collide - Howie Day Come Away with Me - Norah Jones Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runner Crazy For This Girl - Evan/Jaron Crazy For You - Madonna Crazy In Love - Beyonce Dance Tonight - Paul McCartney Dancing Queen - ABBA Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls Earth Angel - The Penguins Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wild Cherry Feels Like Home - Chantal Kreviazuk First Time - Lifehouse Get The Party Started - PINK Gettin' Jiggy W/It - Will Smith Golden Years - David Bowie Good Lovin' - Young Rascals Hella Good - Gwen Stefani Here For The Party - Gretchen Wilson Hey Ya! - OutKast Hot In Herre - Nelly I'll Be - Edwin McCain I Cross My Heart - George Straight I Like The Way You Move - OutKast In Love W/A Girl - Gavin DeGraw In My Life - The Beatles In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel Iris - Goo Goo Dolls It's Raining Men - Weather Girls It's The End Of The World - REM It's Your Love - Tim McGraw/Faith Hill Joy To The World - Three Dog Night Lady - Lennie Kravitz

Lady Marmalade - 2001 version Lay, Lady, Lay - Bob Dylan Little Less Conversation - Elvis (2002) Look After You - The Fray Lost In This Moment - Big N Rich Louie Louie - The Kingsmen Love Shack - B-52's Love Song - 311 Making Memories Of Us - Keith Urban Melt With You - Modern English Mickey - Toni Basil Milkshake - Kelis My Girl - The Temptations No One - Alicia Keys Our Song - Taylor Swift Poison - Bel Biv Devo Praise You - Fatboy Slim Proud Mary - CCR Rock W/You - Michael Jackson SexyBack - J. Timberlake Shout - Isly Brothers Slow Dance - R. Kelly Soul Man - Blues Brothers Storybook Love - Mark Knopfler Sugar - The Archies Superstition - Stevie Wonder Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond The One I Love - David Gray The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim This Love - Maroon 5 This is How We Do It - Montel Jordan Toxic - Britney Spears True Companion - Marc Cohan Umbrella - Rihanna Unchained Melody - Rightous Brothers Underneath Your Clothes - Shakira Valentine - Martina McBride Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves What I Like About You - Romantics When You Say Nothing at All - Alison Kraus With You - Chris Brown With or Without You - U2 Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton YMCA - Village People Yeah! - Usher Yellow - Coldplay You're Still The One - Shania Twain You Get What You Give - New Radicals You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive Your Man - Josh Turner Your Song - Elton John

I’m Joe’s girl. Who are you?

Okay, so I'm waiting on meds to kick in - which means, it'll be about an hour. Seriously, lap-band prevents anything that isn't liquid from hitting your stomach until it's ready. Which, good thing for food. Bad thing for meds.

Let's talk about the talk of the talk. I've been getting emails and reading tmz like crazy. No not for Britney news (yea, she's fucking psycho). But for news that brings a smile to almost every chick my age.

The New Kids On The Block reunion.

Oh c'mon - you know you loved them. Embrace your inner child. Seriously, has it BEEN 20 years?

My room was covered in posters, I saw them twice in concert, and I still have a t-shirt as most of you have seen in the pictures. I owned all the tapes (yes, tapes - not cds). But I didn't own "Face the music" I had pretty much grown out of them by that point and had moved on to....yes, Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg. I went from The Monkees to NKOTB to Dre. Thus is the life of a teenager.

Joey was my favorite. Still is. I own a cd of his solo work. "Meet Joe Mac" - yes, corny, I care not.

If they get back together, I'm there. Wearing my "I'll be lovin' you (forever)" shirt. And maybe I can find my big Joe button. Who knows? I'm 28 years old and it's past the point where I worried about how stupid I look. Life is too short.

No matter how many grey hairs I have, how much work - life - guys have put stress on me. I still have a chubby 8 year old girl inside me. Who still loves NKOTB.