Your Weekly Townsend Fix Column 8

Ok remember I said I was going to be in my Matt mood just in time for the next column? I'm in my Matt mood and I'm going to submit this column early due to the fact that I will be in school till 2:10 everyday of the week this coming week and I have to see my trainer at like 7 and I won't have time to submit. School's been pretty cool so far. My Church History teacher (I go to private school) is new so he let the entire class out like 25 minutes early, my Drama teacher is really cool her name is "Mrs. Torres-Kelly" I'm serious, my English teacher is cool and young she's engaged too so she'll be preparing for a wedding instead of assigning me homework (my english homework is this column), my Geometry teacher is so neurotic it's hilarious Mr. K is so cool though, he's got this sense of humor that reminds me a lot of Todd and TREX put together, my Bio teacher is cool she is really into not caring whether or not we like gross stuff like disecting pigs and whatever, my Spanish teacher is really sweet, he's loud but has such animation when he teaches. All and all I think it'll be an ok year. I have never seen half the people in my classes this year. It's like "Who are you?" But hey I'm not gonna complain. I'm still known as "Townsend Chick" and I'm still the girl with Townsend plastered on the back of my binder, just now a lot people know about Townsend or have seen Townsend. My friend said she saw me with the "5 hott guys" at the NSync concert in the parking lot, and one of my classmates said that she didn't know that THAT was Townsend until she saw me at the Aaron Carter concert on the grass rough housing with some "friends." She called one of them "massivly tall." I'm assuming she's talking about Matt. OH! Nickname! MASSIVE MATT! Yea well maybe I'll come up with another. Anyways yes my Matt mode! Whoo hoo! I have been constantly running into Matts or hearing about Matts or something that requires the name "Matt" to pop up. I like how the name is common but not TOO common you know? Common enough to have 1 Matt in one of the classes I have this year but not common enough to have 2 or more! With Matt being constantly on my mind I tend to hear his name a lot, probably the Random Effect (haha Joy). Anyways, who thinks Matt is a cutie? I DO! He's so adorable, and I'm not talking baby gurgle adorable, I'm talking HOTT adorable, I just didn't want to have to use the word "Gorgeous" and embarass myself. He is gorgeous though, you know how there's two kinda guys (no not smart and stupid), that you know by looking at them? There's the Common "I-Think-I've-Seen-You-Around" look and the Stand-Outish "I've-Seen-You-Here" look. You know, that look that separates a guy from every other guy out there because of the way he walks, talks, smiles, and acts? That's Matt. It's cute actually. I haven't had enough time to notice if he has a "walk" (we know Ryan does), but the way he talks (sooo cute), and the way he smiles (oooh Lordy), and the way he acts (OooOhHh baby), is something that makes him stand out. OH! New Effect!
ADD IN: The Quick Response Effect-When you're talking about a Townsender with a friend and the other person says something about the Townsender and you jump to say "OOOhh Baby," "Yowza," OOOhhh Lord!," "YUMMY."
Ok back to Matt. He has this natural energy that makes everyone happy you know what I mean? Like it could be so random but Matt could just start singing or dancing and you automatically just smile. OOOh ANOTHER EFFECT.
ADD IN: The Automatic Smile Effect-When you talk about a Townsender and you just smile because EVERYTHING about the boys make you smile. This normally happens when you're describing the way a Townsend(er) does something (IE: Eat, smell, walk, act, sings, dances, hugs, ties his shoes).
OK I'll save all my effects for afterwards. Anyways He has this thing that just makes you smile. One of my favoritest things about Matt is the smile. Much like my grandfather, Matt's face lights up when he smiles. He goes from just this hangin out look and as soon as he smiles his face shape kinda changes and he has this smile where his face just lights up and the smile is just so pure and his eyes sparkle. I know it's not just me and all of you have noticed it too so don't think I'm just making this up. I love Matt's smile! It's one of the many things that distinguishes him from a lot of other guys who rather than smile give the "head nod." God I hate that, what's the problem with guys when they do that anyways? Is it a twitch thing or do they have like food in their mouth and they don't say anything so they don't spit it out on accident? Matt's also got a very interesting personality. I mean it the best way possible. I mean he has this quality to the way he acts so that it kinda makes you want to be around him as much as you can. Maybe it's in the way he talks or something I don't know. But I know personally that Matt's a guy that I wish I had 24-7 on standby. He's the "guy friend" (my Gram insists that there is no such thing as a "guy friend" and it only leads to marriage...she also doesn't know about my EX-boyfriend) that every single one of us girls want. You know what I mean right? I have a couple guy friends like Matt. They're like guys that I call on when I need advice on a guy I like or I'm going out with, guys that I sometimes prefer to talk to in case I have a feeling that my girls just won't understand, and guys that I wouldn't mind seeing having a girlfriend throughout the course of a friendship but would be angry if the girl broke his heart because I just "know" that the guy wouldn't dump a girl. You know what I mean? That kinda guy friend. I love Matt like that. Then again Matt wouldn't make such a bad boyfriend either, can you imagine how great he'd treat his girlfriend? Probably like a princess in a fairy tale. I'm also thinking this way because I have one of those "racing minds" that teachers are talking about. You know, the kind where you have fifty gillion ideas racing through your mind and you need to find a way to express them or act them out? I think I either have that or A.D.D.or something haha.

Ok I'm sorry I'm sounding wierd. I saw my volleyball team and they have these imaginations that just run so wild it's almost wrong. They're always the girls that go, "Wouldn't it be funny if...." and then go off on how they picture something. I think part of me is guilty for being like that on some level though. Sometimes my mind is just racing with fifty gillion things going through my head and if I have no way to act them out I pretty much go insane. At least these girls know when to say what's on their mind, I on the other hand just say what's on my mind and suffer consequences for a long time effect. So in a way I'm kinda like the 6th graders I just don't come up with those "Wouldn't it be funny if..." scenarios as often as they do. I think I've been spending way too much time with them. I have an alotted 2 days a week for 1 1/2 hours of practice and that's not even including game nights and days. My volleyball team is in love with Matt to. This summer I had a skeleton team, a lot of my 11 players were on vacation so I didn't have all of them to practice with. The ones I did came Wednesdays and Thursdays for 1 1/2 hours to practice. We have 2-Minute water breaks and one of my ex-players (she left due to a family situation) was helping me pick up a mini-photo album that had fallen out of my purse. She asked me if it was "OMG Matt Yoakum" and well to make a long story short, the regulars and people and the rotating players the past like 3-5 practices have heard about "OMG Matt Yoakum." It's not even "OMG Matt" it's like they have to say the full name with an "OMG" in front of it. Remember how I said we should give Matt a nickname like "Wu-Todd" "White Rye" and "Tarzan Twins"? I think "OMG Matt Yoakum" suits him just fine, Matt causes hysteria anyways. It's better than "Massive Matt." Have you seen him around girls who meet him for the first time and then recognize him from Making the Band? It's so cute, this girl at Great America spazzed when she saw Matt and Matt had this "Whoa it's just me" look on his face. I think it's just as big for Matt half the time as it is for the fan. I mean some of these girls are IN LOVE with Matt. Book and all. Seriously people, this is "OMG Matt Yoakum." I loved it when my volleyball player said "Is that Matt?" really non-chalantly and she just bursted into this spazztic "OMG MATT YOAKUM?!" mode. I personally thought it was pretty cute but to the Athletic Director who was supervising the practice it must've been pretty damn wierd. But I really do love this I love how the "OMG Matt Yoakum" runs into one word. If you think about it "OMG" isn't even one word but we make it sound like one (right Megan?) and now with what's technically 5 words runs like it's one. To me I love it, I'm pretty sure I was something like that about the Backstreet Boys when I was that old, in fact, I'm very sure I was like that about the Backstreet Boys at that old...OMG NICK CARTER....see? One word.

But after seeing how these girls are in love with him and even propose to him. (Heck even I tease Matt about being married...I just have fun like that, I also have fun with long walks on the beach, looking at stars, and apparently dating a headless, armless, handless, legless, midget watermelon dressed clown...right Courtney, Joy, Andrea, Katie, Amber and Nick?) I must say that it's an honor to know Matt. I realized how much of a hysteria like effect he has on girls and I just sit back and go "Whoa, that's my friend Matt." Don't some of you do that? I feel special to be someone who hugs him "hey" and "see you soon" or "talk to you later." This is the same Matt that has been there to be my emotional support through the loss of my grandfather. I remember talking to him the night of the day of the passing of my grandfather actually. I was online and he asked me how I was before I could ask him how he was. I told him "I've been better, but how are you?" I remember that he didn't even bother with talking about him but said "What happened?" I remember it was fairly late at night and he even suggessted I get some sleep. He offered his help in any way, told me he wished he could give me a hug, and told me it was ok to cry. I sat in front of the computer with everyone else in their beds sleeping and I just bawled in front of the screen. Half of me wanted to call a taxi and go out to where he was and just cry. (The other part of me realized I looked like a mess and decided to hold off.) At the time I had only known Matt a little over a month and by that time we had been talking ever couple of days which made him the Townsender that I talked to the most. I had felt close to Matt and talking to him made me feel like it was ok to express myself through tears. I hate crying, I always felt like I had to be strong and if you saw Gina's play "Hold down the fort." But I felt like I could cry after talking to Matt and recieving an email from Todd while talking to Matt. I just felt better. When I saw Matt the day after the funeral I remember that I said "I owe you a hug don't I?" and gave him this huge hug that almost made me want to break down and cry. But it was still fairly early and I had more strength to hold back tears...well more for like 2 more minutes till I saw Dom. How many of you can relate to me on at least most of what I've said about Matt? I know at least a couple of you can. Maybe more of you. I'm not sure how many people read my column anymore. Can you please email me at KNRinSF@a... and tell me if you've read my column more than once and how much you hate it? Because I still hate my writing but love talking so this is what the column's for. I have always thought maybe like 5 people read my column but apparently when I see people or talk to them they'll bring this column up. I'm not sure how many people read this and if it sucks or something I'd like to know. I still have english to start this year.

Anyways, let's not go off topic here. Matt, you rock, I love you, the world loves you. Thank you for blessing us with your humor, talent, love and inspiration. You kick so much butt! (I don't know but I still think I could take you down if I HAD to, just don't wanna embarass ya there buddy haha j/k I know you put up a fight lol.) Thanks for your hugs and personality when I needed it the most. I love you!

I'm out for now, I'll be back, I think I've been a mode for every Townsender and most of you know that I'm in my Ryan mode and naturally include parts of it in my columns, I just try not to go off till we get to the point of no return. I think now that I'll be talking about Townsend as a whole. I mean that's what they are, a whole. But if I ever go into a mode randomly, I'm going to write about it

I hope all of you are having an awesome time in school or not! Stay safe and stay you!

Love Always,
Kristen

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