Monkey Thoughts

Sure, a New Kids on the Block reunion is unintentionally funny to think about. But I would be lying if it didn't make me giggle with girlish delight. I did, after all, dedicate a good portion of my early adolescence to collection Teen Bop posters and buttons and t-shirts all smothered with the face of Joe McIntyre. (He was way cuter than Jordan, no lies.) I remember that fateful day when I decided I would like them. Seriously, I decided to like them. All the girls at school and my best friends were on their way to becoming groupies while I absolutely detested the band. Feeling a bit more socially awkward than usual, as is the case when you're a tall, brainy 12 year old with glasses, carrying around so-called 'baby fat' and a bad spiral perm, I decided to give into peer pressure and force myself to like them. And sure enough, when I did, I ended up with more than one female friend that year. Yes, 6th grade was a great year. Then 7th sucked. And in 8th, I ended up befriending a bully that I had to deal with for the entire elementary school run and we found out that neither one of us sucked as bad as we thought each other did. In fact, we even had a nice hug at our 'graduation' as we were going to different high schools. Sigh. Memories. High school kicked some ass though. That's right, I actually enjoyed high school. Considering I had put up with bullshit for 8 years of my life, I think I was entitled to enjoying myself. I give credit to the track system my high school had, so I was no longer the 'smart girl', but a regular girl in classes with other equally smart people. Emily will totally rat me out and bring up the point that when they highlighted the "top 6%" at our graduation, I was rank 11 out of the top 11. The dumbest of the smartest. HA! There is a small part of me that thinks they made it top 6% and not top 5% just because they liked me and felt sorry for me.

This has nothing to do with the fact that NKOTB is reuniting and I would like to take this opportunity to inform my husband that should they tour and come this way, we will TOTALLY be going. MUHAHAHA!

For the memories:

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