Your Weekly Townsend Fix Column 6

So today I took pictures for my mommy. She had no recent ones of Melanie and I so dad took us to that beach by the Golden Gate bridge (the one where the twins, Rye, and Todd took a picture with it in the background on that rock...u know what I'm talkin about?) to snap 1 black and white and 1 color roll. My dad said that I've started taking pictures in a different way. He even found one shot and calls it my "Ryan-Townsend shot" because it looks like one that one of the guys would take. It's in black and white and it looks sophisticated, it looks mature, it looks...so not like me. Man it costs a lot to develop a black and white roll 1 hour! $38 dollars! That AND it's hard to find a place to do a 1 hour photo development for black and white shots. We had to go all the way down to 3rd and Market. I was thinking "Townsend" in the back of my mind so I think that's why the pictures came out the way they did, I have one of those goofy-happy smiles on my face that I get when I'm around the guys. I didn't say one thing to my dad and he even noticed it. Haha...I'll scan them in and let you decide sometime. I know that you get one of those smiles too so shush...lol. Anyways onto your fix.

So today, I'm in a Twins mode. I think it's because number 22 for them is rolling around pretty soon. Tomorrow in fact. Who remembers the first time they saw Nick and Dom? I DO! I think I"ve already told you about the bus thing. All I can say is GOOD first impression. First Impressions last for a lifetime, and for the rest of my lifetime, I'm satisfied with the first impression them. Actually make that VERY satisfied. Most guys prefer a shake of the hand, a smile, a "hi my name is ___________(insert name here)," or even getting their guy friend to go up to you and ask you for your number, Nick and Dom on the other hand, not ONE word, they just took off their shirts and looked damn good. I would personally prefer it if a lot of guys did that, well not A LOT some guys just shouldn't take off their shirts, no offense to guys without bodies like that it's just that I prefer to see "bodies like that" more often. (Reason #253 I joined a gym.) Anyways, ya I think it sure beats out the traditional, "Hi nice to meet you." No really, the first time I DID meet the twins on an eye-to-eye level without the frenzy of a gillion girls and a big bus involved, it was nice. I think the whole topless thing counts for an impression but the time we actually exchanged words was the ACTUAL first. I actually met Dominic first, when him and Rye did an interview BACK in the day. In fact I remember it better than what I had for dinner last night. What did I have for dinner last night? Anyways I remember him doing the initial calling for the guys. It's funny now that I think about it, and I"m pretty sure Dominic himself doesn't remember it. My mom answered the phone and I really DID NOT care who was on the other line, it's always for my mom anyways. But I got lucky, "Kris, it's for you!" Whoo hoo! I actually thought it was my friend Joe who I was expecting a phone call from anyways. I picked up the cordless phone off the ironing board and gave one of those funny "Heelow??"s that we do when we know it's a friend on the other line. I heard a guy's voice and thought it was Joe, sounded like him at least. He said, "Hi Kristen." Now, Joe normally greets me with a "Wassup fool!!!" So I figured either A) Joe suffered a major break up with his girlfriend or B) It wasn't Joe. That was the ONLY two options but then I realized Joe doesn't have a girlfriend. SO, I felt stupid, could've been my at-then-time crush. "Hi?" I said. "You don't know who this is do you?" said the sexy voice. "Um no" I kinda giggled, games with a hott guy on the phone isn't normally something I'm a player in. "This is Dominic of the Tarzan-Townsend Twins." I'm not sure if it's humanly possible but I'm almost postive my heart stopped beating for a second, maybe two. "NO WAY!" I said raising my voice to a pitch, he laughed of course, (who wouldn't laugh at an insane girl?) I IMMEDIATLY realized what i just did, slammed my hand to my forehead, and said, "Hi, Dominic, how are you?" "Fine thanks, and you?" I don't remember what I said back but I"m sure it was a stupid answer implying I was fine...until he called and I suffered a massive stroke. He talked and I talked, kinda, I nearly lost control during the conversation but saved the high pitched scream till AFTER I hung up. He told me he'd call me a little later and stuff so I hung up not expecting a call back. I didn't know Dom very well and from history in the past with guys I've learne that there is always some sort of 3-day waiting period. I was expecting the call from Dominic on like Sunday or something. I wasn't going to be mad, just expecting the usual "I'm sorry I forgot" and we'd move past it. I tried to assume normal life afterwards by walking and playing with my dog. Didn't work, later at like maybe around 7 or 7:30 I picked up the phone and it was Dom. Now, what guy calls when he says he's going to? Well I thought they didn't exist but Dom proved they do. Not only that Dom (who made the first call that day around maybe 2) apologized for taking so long to call back. (WHAT? God instilled this quality in a guy?! AMEN!) We made arrangments and closed the deal. I was happy, well estatic...well insane if that's how you want to put it. I mean it was only a little while ago that I saw them and DAMN. Ok So the day of, I waited for him and Ryan (Todd at the time was on a trip to Seattle and Nick was in NYC.) I was more nervous than I thought was possible. When I saw him pull up I lost it, kinda, I kinda remembered to "play off" whatever. He got out of the car and smiled. I had every full intention of shaking his hand and hugging him when he left. (I had thought it out throughly so I didn't scare them.) Anyways, he brought a rose for me! That's it screw the shake, I'm hugging this guy. So I turn around and my mom was there! Great, I was almost positive she had naked baby pictures on stand-by. Instead he and Ryan greeted my mom shaking her hand introducing themselves. To my mom, this was everything she wanted me to marry. It made her happy and I think it shocked her enough to forget about the baby pictures. Anyways I was talking with Ryan going up the stairs and at a pause I realized that Dominic and my mom had started a full conversation on Riordan and high school (both proud alumnis of Catholic high schools here in the city). Man if Dominic charmed my mom anymore I think that my mom would be writing this column. Anyways the entire afternoon went awesome and on top of that my entire living room and hallway smelled like Dominic's colonge in the end. (I told you he smelled good.) So then I met Nick, in October, finally on a face-to-face level. I knew that if Dominic was awesome that Nick is his twin brother and was just as awesome. I had met Nick in July at the All That concert, had a brief conversation with him (and embarassed myself but I don't think he remembers so I don't want to mention it) but I don't think it counted considering it was less than 5 minutes and I embarassed myself without rebounding it (my rules people). So I was walking to see them at PH's get together before the Christina Concert and first I ran and hugged Ryan (since I hadn't met Todd or Nick before and at the time the twins were VERY identical). I looked at two twins wearing green and red pants. They gave me the "can you tell us apart?" look. Both of them had this smile like they knew I had a 50/50 chance at it. Obviously, they had played this game before. So I jumped to hug the twin nearest me and said, "Hey." I waited for a response to tell me who it was. "Hey Kristen, I don't think you've met my other half, this is Nick" and said the guy I was hugging, he pointed to the other twin in green pants. Whew! Nick said "Hi" and I quickly conetemplated between hug and handshake and figured, "well if was going to take a chance hugging Nick I might as well hug him knowing it's him" and hugged the guy. I was then introduced to Todd and it was alll gravy after that. They had different colored pants and that was all I needed to get me through. Nick was actually quite a fun guy. Despite it being the first we've met in person, he was cool and was a very very sociable, interesting person to be with. I had time to talk to him and catch up to be on the same level I was at with Dominic, which helped. I remember taking to Nick very quickly. He was such a character and such a fun person to talk to that I was never un-entertained. What can I say? Nick was a pretty fun guy to be with. In fact I think sometimes that Nick and Dom aren't twins just guys who look a like because Nick has a distinct way of identifying himself between the two as does Dominic. Both of them carry themselves in a different way and I'm not sure what it is, it's different but both of them share the qualities of being VERY hott, VERY sweet, VERY funny, VERy caring, and VERY VERY charming. My mom, I know, loves them. She loves all of them, and I mean for her it's hard to like ANY guy friends I have. She always has the idea that if I go to a movie or to a dance with a guy friend that I"m going to come home drunk off my butt or some sort of wild child hoodlum who begins to fail every class of the semester. She has a hard time actually trusting guys that are my friends. Mom on the other hand, was thrilled when she found out Joe was my "guyfriend date" to winter ball last year because I have known Joe and his twin brother, Dan Poggetti since I was born and they were shoving sand down each other's diapers. But with Townsend? She'd trust em with my life. I could walk out the door with Todd, tell her we were going to San Diego to meet up with Matt, Dom, Nick and Rye and we were going to cross the border to go to a party. She'd say "Fine have fun say hi to the guys for me!" If I told her I was meeting a friend named Mike a couple blocks down where I live to go see a movie she'd want a social security number, finger prints, 3 clear color and black and white pictures of him, and his life story before letting me go see Shrek. The guys, definietly on a good level, same with my dad and Mel. My family is more willing to go to a Townsend event in Mountain View then they are to go to the Volleyball games I coach 5 miles away from our house. In fact VERY willing, more of a desire after I bring it up. Can someone please fill me in on how that works? I have countless stories on the twins and how much I enjoy myselves around them. I'm sure a lot of us do. It's something about them that makes you feel good about yourself you know? It's the way they talk to you, smile at you, it's the way they just act towards you that makes you wonder if you will ever find a guy as good as they are. Dominic has made me cry (in a good way) and Nick has made me smile through tears. While my grandfather's death was something I wasn't ready for, I proceeded to the Aaron Carter concert under the suggesstion of my mother with Melanie, my dad, and Samantha, Mel's classmate. I had no intention of having a good time, it was the day after the funeral, I remember the night before crying myself to sleep because the death of my grandfather hurt so bad. In fact I hadn't planned to go out at all the day after and stay in my PJs eating Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream while watching "An Affair To Remember" and "Boys and Girls" for the millionth time. But after arriving at Great America I ended up smiling for the first time in a week. It felt weird but good. Todd was the one that made me smile when he got there, I was smiling and had every idea that I had cried so much that week that it wasn't possible to cry anymore. When I saw Dom (Nick wasn't there at that event), he gave this look that made me stop walking, it was comforting actually, he held out his arms for a hug. I just remember walking to him as fast as I could and hugging him. He gave me one of those long hugs. He doesn't know this but I let a couple tears go when he hugged me. In fact I"m actually getting teared up now just reliving that moment in my head. It was just something in Dominic's touch that was so sincere, so comforting, that the few tears that were left in me came out when he was hugging me (and again later on in the day when Amber, Townsend, and friends signed a sympathy card and gave it to me). Thank God I was wearing wire-framed sunglasses that day because those actually caught the tears so he didn't see them streaming down my cheeks. He turned around to hand Todd some stuff I gave them and I quickly stuck my fingers under the rim of the glasses to wipe away the tears. To this day, unless he reads this or someone tells him, Dominic doesn't know that happened. I guess I was scared to have anyone see me cry because the simplest reaction from anyone else to it would turn me into an emotional basket case. Nick has this quality that makes me smile at ANYTHING. You know what I mean? That stupid-goofy-happy smile that I absolutely hate to do because I look like complete nerd. But Nick can do it EVERYTIME. One time we were taking a picture and I said "Ok Nick pretend you love me!" jokingly of course and Nick responded "Oh Kris you know I do." Well Lisa who took the picture for me captured that smile. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, this one, you can make it two thousand. Maybe it's my attraction to hott guys, maybe it's the Alieve I was taking for my back but Nick knows how to make me do that stupid smile without even trying. If I didn't try to contain myself so hard he'd probably get that dorky giggle outta me too. He doesn't even have to say something it can be the way he smiles at me or mouths the words "Thank you." For all I care he could be mouthing, "Kristen you smell funny." and it would still have the same effect. Not that I"m saying I smell funny, I wear Pearberry lotion from Bath and Body Works. Ok enough of how I smell, back to Nick. Then there's the times Nick has caught me DOING something stupid. The way I'm easily freaked out tended to be the factor at the NSync concert. While sitting near the guys while they signed autographs, my dad came up behind me a couple times to update me on his location with the rest of my family. He had to reach between a sign and barrier about 5 inches tall. EVERYTIME, he tapped me or came over he would FREAK ME OUT. I'm easily scared and startled so he didn't try NOT to scare me he kept doing it, and I never learned. Nick being close by along with Matt got a kick out of it everytime. That same day Nick ran across one of those photo strips of 4 that you take in a photo booth. I had it in an album I had in my purse and it was stuck in there because I had it the day before when I took the pictures with my 18 year old cousin, Jennifer who I act like a 5 year old with. Of course the photos weren't exactly GQable let alone serious at all and Nick saw the priceless pictures. He laughed, and gave me this look like "Wow, if you were famous these would be in a tabloid" look. Now if my dad or mom had given me that look I would've gone into PMS mode, what happened when Nick did it? I had that stupid smile on my face with a shade of red on my face, and it wasn't my lipstick. Nick teases me sometimes but unlike when my family or friends do it, he gets the smile and the giggle that probably invites him for more shots but he doesn't take 'em. I think he knows I'm weak like that. It's cool though.

Today, the way I am with the twins has in some ways changed and in many ways haven't. I still feel like I need a set of binoculars around them (like June 10th) because you never know what kinda first impresssion they'll make on someone else. But in more ways than one I feel like they've grown to be so much more than just "the hott twins." In many ways they've been there for me as my emotional support and moral support. If I didn't have them to get me through what they have, I'd be a mess and I'd really be more insane than now. (I know it SEEMS impossible but it is.) They have given me confidence and motivation. Seeing all that they do, singing, dancing, performing, EMTs, Firefighting, everything, it inspires me and encourages me to make something of myself. It makes me want to pursue my dreams because I know I can, because I"ve seen them accomplish theirs. More than hott guys, they're my friends, and to me, that's more important. (But they are hott...really hott...you too Dom haha "Wait he get's 'cute'? K, I don't know if you've noticed this, but we're TWINS.") So, Just thought I'd submit this as a special, because of the mode I was in, happy birthday Nick and Dom. You've blessed the world 22 years with being you and will continue for many more. I hope if you're reading this you'll be amused, just don't take words below the belt next time I see you and get me on what I just wrote because Dominic, I could take you out and you know it, and Nick, I'll hold back the giggles and take you out too! So HA! LOL no really, I love you two very much and wish you the best, happy birthday you guys. All of us here wish you the best birthday in the world! We love you!

Love Always,
Your "K-Angel"

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