Your Weekly Townsend Fix Column 27
Hey Everyone!
Thank you so much Holly for
picking up all of my slack while I've been out. I"m so
sorry everyone for my absense. There have been SO many
things that have been swamping me and just when I'm
about to post either my comp gives out or something
goes wrong! I know bad excuses i'm a horrible
co-founder. But that's why I'm not doing it alone! I'm doing
it with the fabulous Holly!!!!! Ok just to let you
know i WILL be at the Great Mall! I will have my black
hooded sweatshirt on it says "K-Angel" in the back in
silver lettering and I'll be wearing my laminates in the
front. Don't be afraid to scream "HEY KRISTEN!" or
something...I personally think that would be really cool to get
recognized like that. I'm paying Mel five bucks to do it
haha.
Also, WELCOME TO THE NEW MEMBERS! wow we
had like a burst of sign-ins! Thank you so much from
the bottom of my heart thank you. Holly & I
appreciate you so much! Ok onto the fix!!!
Stay Safe
& Stay You!
Love Always,
Kristen
Your
Co-Founder
Hey Everyone!
Hope you all had a very
relaxful Christmas! I know I did! I was able to celebrate
5 straight days of loved ones. Friday I went out to
dinner with my families, Saturday I went out to dinner
with Monica. her boyfriend, and Cliff, Sunday I
celebrated my birthday and reunited with friends and family,
Monday was my mom's side, and Tuesday I hung out with my
dad's side. I think those 5 days I probably ate my body
weight. It was really great though people wise. If
there's anything I've been blessed with is a majorly
wonderful family and friends.
It was kinda hard
this Christmas though you know? I mean it was hard
without Grampa. I spent Christmas Eve in his chair curled
up with my cousins. I think I spent more time
downstairs on the chair than at the table. But the past five
days I've luckily spent more time being happy than I
did sad. I enjoyed it actually. Friday was probably
one of my biggest perks in a long time it was the
first time in weeks I felt really relaxed after finals.
Why not spend a Friday night with my family right?
There's nothing better than a big hearty sandwhich, slice
of chocolate cake and family at dinnertime. Saturday
I finally got so see Monica, her boyfriend Jon, and
his buddy Cliff. I hadn't seen the three of them in a
while so it was nice to go out to dinner and do the
whole Christmas thing. Sunday was my Sweet 16, you
would think my family would let me sleep but no no no
bright and early. They TOLD me to get up. I was able to
see all of my family, even my cousin Greg and his
family from Vegas. I finally saw the twins Joe & Dan
again with their family. You would think that I would
see the people I grow up with more. The phone rang
plenty too. Whenever there's a birthday at my house the
phone will ring off the hook. This year though it was
my cell phone. I got kinda annoyed with my phone
since the most annoying ring is set and I'm too lazy to
change it. I was just about to turn it off at like 9:15
and i got my last phone call of the night. It was my
longest talk on the phone and I was so relaxed after I
talked on the phone that I ended up leaving it on till
like 2 in the morning. Christmas Eve & Day was the best. I really let
loose those two days. I felt kinda weird since my
Grampa wasn't there but still enjoyed the fact that my
family was surrounding me. My cousin Greg and his family
came Monday too. They have three kids 2 of them are
fraternal twins. Nick & Abby. They're so adorable. Nick is
the most affectionate toddler in the world. I have
pictures with him playing with a camera it's so cute!
Christmas day I ate so much I conked out on my dad while
watching TV on my Grandmother's couch.
This
Christmas I really appreciated everything I had you know? I
mean we all have a roof over our heads, clothes on our
back, food on the tables, and most importantly family
and friends and our health. I don't mean to get all
Hallmark on you but it's true right? With this past year
of the September 11th events, Christmas came kinda
fast. Heck, I didn't even have a Christmas tree this
year! I don't know, I'm just lucky and grateful for a
lot more than I normally am this year.
Ok, so
I got a couple emails and responses to that last
column. No negative ones! Whoo hoo! I'm glad, I posted at
my own risk. After I posted I figured there was no
turning back and took into realization I'm probably going
to get some backlash from someone who felt I was way
out of line. I was surprised when my friend said,
"hey I like your column." She's critical too, she'd be
the first one to tell me that it sucked butt and that
I shouldn't quit my day job. (Not like i have a day
job...one wouldn't hurt.) It was the first time she said
something about the column so I guess all the other ones
kinda sucked lol. When I was writing it was as if I
were venting. I had a lot of built up inside of me and
thought that if I didn't say anything that I would
eventually blow up or something. I mean seriously, a lot of
you can relate to a situation where you bite your
tounge and don't say anything and then the situation
progresses and turns into a mess. Well, a mess cleaned up I hope. Sure the
situation will never ever be squeaky clean but as clean as
possible. Think of your room, I know it's not always clean.
My words and thoughts were justified. I had a chance
to talk to Matt. He's a sweetheart isn't he? Come on
girls, I know you find him quite the adorable love bug.
Heck I do! It's actually funny. When Jayden left I was
like "well who can fit those shoes?" When I went to
the 98 Degrees concert back in May I saw this guy.
I'll be honest and Matt if your reading this, I really
do love you! I saw this guy, he was hecka tall. I
remember that being the initial thought since I saw him
from behind. Heck why not go full out on my first
physical impression...I thought he had a nice butt too.
When he turned around...well, let's say Matt's a well
rounded guy inside and out! I had the entire day off from
school that day and spent it at Melanie's field day (an
all day athletic event) so the only guys I saw were
up to my shoulder. But regardless of my midget
encounters earlier, Matt was pretty tall compared to the
other guys. I went up to Ryan and....well actually I
RAN into Ryan but hey man who cares about details? We
were walking and I straight up was on guard with this
"new guy." I knew that the guys would never put a guy
in the group that would be bad news but he had only
been in the group a little while! How did I know it
wasn't a sharade? (Is that even how you spell it?!) I
turned to Rye while walking and said, "So this is Matt?"
and pointed to this guy walking next to Todd a couple
feet a head. He looked, smiled that bodatious smile
and said, "yea." (Of course anything he does is
bodatious...Kristen boy crazy? Nah.) Later on in the concert I went
up to him and had brought something for him. I
introduced myself and shook his hand I gave him this journal
(I had given the guys journals) and he goes, "You
wrote me a book?" How original was that line. If I
wasn't so surprised at the reaction I think I'd probably
be more attracted to him than with the "Wait say
that again" look. After I explained that the book had
blank pages he thanked me and told me he'd use it to
write songs in. Wow, cool. Ok he was doin pretty ok in
my book. Later on I saw him smiling and realized
"Wow this guy has a nice smile." It was really nice
and genuine. I asked to take a picture with him and
he was more than happy too. He asked me "Hey can I
wear these for the next picture?" And took the
sunglasses off my head. (Which by the way I refer to as my
"Matt glasses." Mel's close friend likes to think I'm
just going to GIVE them to her...haha right Sam.)
Well, how open was that? It was so earthy and so random
that I fell in love with this "New guy." Meet Matt
Yoakum. I soon figured that the second I loose this guy
or any of them to the sky is the second I would hop
off the Townsend rollercoaster. Well, I'm still on it
aren't I?
I was talking to Matt and it was weird
because I had to ask how he was. It took me to ask before
he spoke a sentence with the word "I" in it. Raise
your hand if you're in love with that cutie! *Pulls a
Joy and raises both* That's what I thought. Gawd I'm
really beginning to miss them! Ok I'm calming myself.
I've gone through every kind of withdrawl! I just
missed Matt, my last column I totally was buggin out
about Todd, I was missing Nick and Dom when I was
playing with Nick and Abby, and I totally missed our Ryan
when I stopped in Berkeley Christmas eve to pick up
some flowers! I miss Pops & Wendy a/k/a Mr. & Mrs.
TRex. It's in the Dolci name I suppose. Oh the
withdrawls! Who heard the radio thing? It's absolutely
hilarious to think that I can get up at 7:45 in the morning
for a 10 minute Townsend segment on the radio yet
waking me up to go to school is purly impossible. I
personally think it's really really funny but my parents beg
to differ. I normally don't get up till lunch time.
I rarely eat breakfast with my family on weekends
or vacation because I'm sleeping. The last time
before this interview that I got up early was to meet my
friend, Tessa and her 2 buds from LA who were staying at
the motel next door to my apartment while we cleaned
out one the apartments at my place that belonged to
her aunt. I got up but it was like at 8:30 that I got
up...a couple more minutes can work wonders. I can't
remember actually the last time I got up at 7:45 to go
anywhere or do anything on vacation. I think it might've
been the airshow at Moffett Field...if it was Townsend
related, I was probably up after a fairly sleepless night.
But back to that interview. It was so nice to hear
their voices. In fact I almost had to leave the room
because it got to the point where I missed them that it
was like unbearable to sit there and listen to them
live without being to turn and hug one of them. I
found a picture of them on my desk but it wasn't as
fullfilling. My mom caught me hugging a picture, how mature is
that people? 16 going on 17. That interview was great.
I loved hearing them laugh I could really picture
them in my head smiling. Don't you think it's kinda
sad how it's no problem for me to picture them in my
head but my imagination for anything BESIDES Townsend
is non-existent? Sure I love the guys but I think if
I had as much creativity as I do for the guys
everywhere else in life I could be making enough money for
an early retirment fund for my family and kids by
now.
Mom actually has been fairly understanding of the
withdrawls of Townsend. She's been very tolerable which
surprises me. She doesn't take a lot of that from me. I was
sitting at the computer a couple nights ago and Mom said,
"We can't go to ALL the Townsend events because New
Years Eve we might be busy, we can go to the Great Mall
though. What time do you want to go?" I was surprised,
normally we go by HER schedule and she let me plan out the
day! We were at the mall doing Christmas shopping and
she even bought the guys Christmas presents from us.
I knows she love them but does she really love them
as much as me? My parents are awesome I love them a
lot. My mom though is probably one of the most
forgetful people around though. I can tell her that we're
or I'm going to a Townsend event 5 times in an hour
and the next hour she'll be like, "I would appreciate
it Kristen Nicole if you planned these things."
Hmmm...sound familiar to any of you? So who's going to any of the upcoming events?! I
think I"ll be at the mall. As far as New Years Eve. I'm
going to spend some of it with my Grammy Bear. I think
that it'll be hard for the both of us to start a new
year this way. Plus I think we'll probably watch the
halftime show together (since she has a thing for the
twins). My aunt is taking her 6 year old son and 2 year
old daughter to Noon Year's Eve. If you run into a
hyper kid named Cameron with sno cone syrup on his
shirt that's probably my cousin. I hope if I can make
it i can make it out to one of them. I'll keep you
updated. Most of you know the drama I go through when too
many things happen at once. If you don't, think
straight jacket and padded room.
Should I wear my
"I Love Townsend" T-shirt from Halloween this year
to the mall? I says "I <3 Townsend" on the front.
It has a red heart with their pictures in it. On the
back it has "...And this site is for
you...www.TownsendBoys.com" with pictures of hearts with their name and
picture in them. Hmmm...here's a poll for you guys...what
do you think? Let me know @
RyesPartyCrewClub@y... with subject title "FASHION STATEMENT." I'll
definietley be wearing all my laminates and will hopefully
get a chance to raid Kinkos. Haha I have this mental
picture of me walking around in that T-shirt with my
family shaking their heads lol. Don't you love this
whole personal life thing? In the surveys Holly and I
have gotten we've gotten the impression you like the
fact that we throw our personal lives around for you
guys. I think I'll probably post some pictures from the
holidays once I get them for you so you can kinda see and
understand what I'm talking about. Speaking OF surveys....WE
NEED MORE RESPONSES! Do I need to get down on both
knees and beg? Please respond!!!! I know more than one
of you have it saved somewhere! Anyways have a good
one! Happy Holidays!
Stay Safe & Stay
You!
Love Always,
Kristen
xoxoxo
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