Tishia Lee

OMG OMG OMG! I totally interrupt your regular scheduled programming to talk about NKOTB! Yes it’s all about New Kids on the Block yet again. Don’t blame it on me, blame it on my friend Heather! No seriously it’s all her fault I just read her blog post about the NKOTB concert on The Today Show on Friday and I had to go back and re-watch it because I missed a VERY VERY important part. So it really is her fault that I’m writing about them again. (thanks Heather for pointing out this important part that I missed!)

So because of her blog post I was so disappointed that I had to go back and re-watch the whole concert to see the part she referenced (thank goodness for my DVR & having it recorded…LOL). Disappointed my rump! I’ll be replaying their concert off and on whenever I get the urge to get my NKOTB fix.

And oh man let me say it was so worth re-watching it. Donnie lifted his shirt and I was like hello! Too bad he was kind of ‘hiding’ in the background when he did it and you didn’t get all that great of a view. Well it was a good view but it could of been better

It’s funny to see them 15 years later - they have certainly aged well and I actually think some of them look a heck of a lot better now than they did way back when. Jordan is still cute but I have to say that I like Donnie a lot more now-a-days which is funny cause back then I didn’t really care all that much for him.  It just must be that ‘bad boy’ way about him that tickles my fancy.

Why is it that when I’m trying to not think about a certain someone that everywhere I turn there is something that makes me think of him. It’s not that I don’t want to think about him because believe me I think about him on a daily basis but what I’m trying to say is…why is it that when I’m trying to keep my mind off him and occupy myself with other things to think about do I end up thinking about him even more because of everything reminding me of him? (did that make any sense?)

The past couple days I’ve been trying to keep myself busy and occupy my thoughts but everywhere I turned there was something reminding me of him. I went to Wal-Mart with my mom yesterday and she asked if I had heard from him yet which obviously didn’t help with the keeping my mind off things, and that’s not a new question - she’s asks me it on a daily basis.

This morning I was catching up on some of my TV shows that I had recorded on my DVR that I haven’t had time to watch yet. I turn Grey’s Anatomy on only to find part of the show about a soldier and then another soldier comes to visit him in his Army uniform and of course that made me start thinking about him. Just a few minutes ago I was reading a blog and they mentioned Iraq and soldiers.

So now I’m sitting here missing Seth more than I already have been. It’s been a little while since the last communication I had from him and I’m just missing him. I don’t need any help in thinking about him but for whatever reason the past couple days there has been something everywhere I turn to make me miss him even more. And every day I wonder if it will be the day I hear from him…I can’t wait till I hear from him again The times that we go in between no communication has made me really appreciate the times we do get to communicate even more. I appreciate a simple little email or instant message from him so much more than in the beginning when we used to communicate frequently.

Last night Caleb and I hung out with my grandma & grandpa (dad’s parents) and my Aunt and Uncle for a couple hours. It was nice visiting. Caleb had fun showing them his videos of his wrestling tournaments. All of them are always in Florida for the winter by the time his wrestling season starts so they don’t get to see it. My grandma was freaking out about how rough of a sport it is and she kept telling all of us over and over (this could of also had to do with the Alzheimer’s that is taking it’s toll on her body) how she couldn’t believe that we would watch something so rough and watch Caleb get hurt. I don’t think she understood that Caleb isn’t the one to be concerned about getting hurt - it’s the kids he wrestles that we should be concerned with He’s only been hurt once and that was in his first year of doing it when he wasn’t all that experienced.

When we got home, I got online to check email and say hi to Twitter land and now I’m writing this post and setting it up to publish tomorrow (that’s one of my favorite features about WordPress!). So even though you will be reading this today (Saturday) I’m actually writing it tonight (Friday).

I can’t believe that on a Friday night I even followed my new ‘bedtime’! It was 10:52 when I was writing this post and I had to have it done by 11pm so I could go to bed. I don’t know whether that’s crazy, good, the lack of a social life or the fact that I’m just getting ‘older’ Whatever way you look at it, sleep is a huge thing for me (just the fact that I’ve even been getting any the last couple days is a HUGE thing for me) and it’s certainly helping in many different areas of my life! I only hope that I can keep it up. They say it takes about 28 days to make something a habit so I’ve only got 20 some more days to go and I’ll have this 11pm thing down pat!

I don’t know that I would call this the most exciting Friday night fun but one thing I have noticed as I’ve gotten older is that it’s a lot more important for me to hang out with my ‘elderly’ family members than what it used to be.

I have to say that I’m totally impressed with myself. It’s only been two days but still for me it’s impressive. If you missed my post from the other day, Sleep Really is a Necessity, you missed the fact that I was in bed by 9:20pm the other night and set a new ‘bedtime’ of 11pm for myself.

Last night at 11pm I shut everything down, said good night on Twitter (and had to laugh when I saw Shannon’s response - what? but do you know what time it is? LMAO) and by 11:20pm I was in bed for the night. I must of even fallen right asleep instead of laying awake like I usually do. I didn’t sleep a super peaceful sleep but I did sleep.

I’ve noticed the past two days I’ve felt amazing. The ‘foggy’ brain that I’m always complaining about is gone. I can actually think straight and focus which is obviously a good thing. And even more impressive is the fact that I’ve worked my ‘business hours’ the past two days! Back when I first started my VA business I said I wanted to work 7am-4pm but sad to say in the two years since I’ve been in business, I don’t know that I’ve ever kept those business hours!

The past 2 days have been wonderful! Yesterday, because I was done with all my work by 4:30pm I hung out outside with Caleb for awhile and then my dad called & invited Caleb and I to meet up with him, his girlfriend, her son & my sister Melissa to watch her other son Ryan’s baseball game here in Gaylord. We went and didn’t get home until a little after 9pm and not once did I worry about work that needed to be done because I had it all completed already! It was such a nice feeling to actually sit back, relax, have fun and not even think anything work related once.

It’s 20 after 4 on Friday afternoon and I’m done with my work. I’m getting ready to head outside again to hang out with Caleb. I think we might head out to the park today. It’s nice again even though it’s a little cloudy. I’m gonna grab a book and Caleb can play until his heart is content.

Now this is what working from home is all about! (Too bad it’s taken me 2 years to get my head out of my rump and follow my schedule and get things done according to the schedule!)

Ok I’ve openly admitted the fact that even after all these years I still like NKOTB (New Kids on the Block). I was in love obsessed with them back in the early 90’s (it might of even been late 80’s) when they first came out and I longed to see them in person and get any chance I could to be close to Jordan Knight (oh he was super dreamy! I never did get a chance to go to a concert). I owned VHS tapes, sheets, bedspread, buttons, t-shirts, a watch, and even a duffel bag. None of that compares to all the Teen Bop magazines I had to buy to decorate my wall (every inch of it - you honestly couldn’t see an empty spot on my wall!) with NKOTB.

Oh those were the days.

Maybe NKOTB is a guilty pleasure or just part of me trying to hang onto my youth or maybe it’s all part of a mid-life crisis? Oh wait I think only men go through those Whatever the cause may be, I’m happy excited to announce they will be appearing live on The Today Show this morning to perform a concert! Yes a concert!

I can’t wait! My DVR is set to record their appearance but I’ll be watching it too! I think I might be a little too geeked about this but hey I can’t help it, it’s big news for any NKOTB fan! Seriously, it is! Maybe this will help cure that longing that I still have to see them in concert. Should a 30 something woman be admitting she still has a secret longing to see them? Guess it’s not so secret anymore

And I have to say that Jordan Knight is still kind of dreamy but Mark Wahlberg kind of got my attention back when he started appearing in movies. He’s kind of sexy in that bad boy sort of way.

Oh my do I ever feel refreshed and for once wide awake with no foggy brain! Hmmm ok so all you people that say sleep is a necessity, I guess I have to bow down and say you are right.

My body has been sleep deprived for years so it just seems like no big deal for me when I’m just laying down to go to bed at 4am or a little after and actually I’m usually going to bed around 2am, this 4am stuff has been over the past couple weeks. I’m used to running on a couple hours of sleep a night.

But after last night I have to say that I now plan on being in bed by 11pm every night (that’s even an hour ahead of what I ‘planned’ on doing in the past). Go ahead and laugh cause I laughed too when I sat here this morning and realized how different I feel after sleeping last night.

I was in bed by 9:20pm last night! Isn’t that bizarre? I couldn’t believe that I was crawling into bed so early. I’ve been under the weather lately (I feel a lot better than I did last week but I’m still not feeling 100% myself) and I’m sure lack of rest/sleep hasn’t helped. It all finally caught up with me yesterday and by 8:45pm I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. I was finishing up a client project and as soon as I was done and had it emailed to her I was closing things down for the night.

I can’t say that I slept peacefully all night long and I actually woke up at 2:20am and was awake until a few minutes after 3 (at least that’s the last time I remember looking at the clock) but I still got way more sleep than normal. I feel like a different person today. I woke up feeling refreshed and ‘alive’ for once. I think I even had a smile on my face as I crawled out of bed - not a normal thing for me in the morning! LOL

It’s not even 7am yet and I’ve already completed 2 things off my to do list for the day! At this rate I might actually be able to follow the business hours I set way back when I first started working from home 7am-4pm That would be nice!