Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we figured that since we haven't written about much that pertains to Kim and Alexis these days (not that the poster flashbacks haven't been awesome), we'd entertain you with our own version of the 25 Random Things That People Might Not Know (or care to know) About Us.
1. Shockingly, we are not lifelong friends. We met on the internets in 2005. Who would have thunk that the crazy girl not currently planning a wedding, but who frequented a wedding planning website would become a BFF?
2. We have spent the last three Thanksgivings together, with our husbands and Alexis's kids. Kim rescued the two kids from a fire in '06, Alexis broke her butt in '07, and nothing tragic happened this past year. Kim thought she was going to go to Fargo for Thanksgiving this year, but Alexis tricked her into having Thanksgiving with her by planning the Los Angeles trip...
3 In 2007, we spent several major holidays together, or at least parts of those days. New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween (? - did we?), Thanksgiving, as well as both of our birthdays.
4. We have several posses. One of our posses is called the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. It's a long story.
5. For a couple of weeks in late 2008, we had similar - but not matching - knee injuries.
6. We secretly like the attention we get when we wear matching outfits, although we would never admit it.
7. There was a period of time in the summer of '08 when we didn't go more than 36 hours without seeing each other.
8. Kim is not very good at math. Neither is Alexis.
9. We were cut off at the bars in the Xcel Energy Center at the Justin Timberlake show in January 2007. The supervisor followed us from bar to bar to make sure that nobody served us. After the show, we managed to ring up an $85 tab at the bar across the street, while "waiting for our ride." Kim had the worst hangover of her life the next day, and it was just her luck that there was a water main break on her street, resulting in no water to her house. With a terrible hangover. Kim hasn't had that much vodka in one sitting since.
10. When Alexis announced her faux engagement to Joey McIntyre on Facebook in October 2008, several people actually believed it. Actually, several people still believe it.
11. Believe it or not, our entire fall '08 NKOTB tour only cost us $1,583 each. That covered the Mall of America day as well as eight full concerts, seven of which were out of state. We are awesome at shopping frugally!
12. We just spent $2 on pull tabs and we didn't win. Damn.
13. If Google Ads hadn't screwed us, we could have claimed a lot of our "business expenses" on our taxes.
14. We do enjoy music that isn't the New Kids. We are currently holding tickets for several upcoming shows: Britney Spears, Lady GaGa, Lily Allen, and Flight of the Conchords. Our musical tastes do range outside of Top 40 Pop music though. Seriously. We promise.
15. Jason and Drew don't really miss us when we're gone on tour. We mean that in the best possible way.
16. We taught Baby Barbie how to say "Holla!" when she was barely a year old.
17. We both list Titanic in our list of Top Ten Favorite Movies of All Time.
18. The Barbie thing started last summer, when we thought we were going to be able to write our blog anonymously. Anonymity went out the window when we were recognized (with the dolls) at the Mall of America. Now we just think it's funny. How many people can say they have their own action figure?
19. We don't update our blog nearly as often as we think we should. However, we feel like posts should be meaningful. If we wanted to hear ourselves ramble on about nothing, we would just call each other. Besides, aren't the vintage posters great?
20. Being a Journalism major, Alexis finds it incredibly annoying when people change two words in a sentence [that we wrote] and think that's not plagiarizing.
New Kids Blogs are about CREATIVITY.
And CREATIVITY is not about stealing other people's original thoughts and exact phrasing,
It's about going to happy hour and using all of those advanced writing courses you took in high school and college...
You COPYCATS!
[If you haven't heard from us, we're not talking about you. But YOU... You know who you are. You can suck it.]
21. We're awesome. Just ask us, or just ask any other random person who approaches us when we're out in public. Perfect strangers feel the need to tell us their life stories. We're approachable, I guess.
22. The origins of the Shamrock's Pre-Party were less admirable than you might think. We were sitting around in Alexis's back yard, floating in the pool, discussing how we were going to get to and from the show. Rather than go the obvious route, a $10 cab ride (including tip), we decided that we needed to coerce our favorite neighborhood watering hole into running its shuttle that night. And what better excuse to get the Shamrock Shuttle running than a NKOTB pre-party?
23. We used to worry that we have alienated non-New Kids friends in our daily lives. We admit to still sometimes worrying about it a little bit. But we figure that if people want to hear about New Kids they'll read the blog. In real life, we only speak about the New Kids if spoken to.
24. We get really offended when our jukebox selections are not played immediately. We are even more offended when the songs that are playing include a country version of "The First Noel." And it's February. Also - We must have a death wish. We plugged the jukebox at an Eastside bar with New Kids songs during billiards night. It was followed by a lecture by a guy in overalls, who told us all about how the Best of Bread was one of the best "Parking" albums of the 1970s. Alexis thought he was talking about Bret Michaels. We are awesome (see #21).
25. As we were writing this at the Sherwood Lounge, a woman (Deb) approached us, wondering if we were writing a novel. Nope, no book deals yet. We're available for a reality show though! If Bromance can make it...
We'll leave you with a couple of shots that we took at the house that we rented last month with the Secret Society of Darksider Pirate Hookers. Were we meant to rent that house or what???!?
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So... did the NK pillowcase come with the house? I'm confuzzled. If so, I'd like to rent said house. Could be fun!
We're blogging here in the south... but we're not plagarizing. Promise. :)
Jenni - yep. For the past three winters our posse has rented a house for a weekend to get out of town, eat chex mix, fondue, watch movies, stay in our PJs all day, etc. This year we rented a house called "Retro on the River" and one of the beds was made up with the NK sheets! Their retro theme wasn't very consistent. We determined that retro = anything before 1993. It was a great house though! The Barbie was there as well.
Oh, and we aren't talking about you guys ;)
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