Jordan is following ME!

Sorry.

This will be short but sweet.

But today, I got this notice in my e-mail inbox.

Hi, Christy80.

Jordan Knight (jordanknight) is now following your tweets on Twitter.

A little information about Jordan Knight:

55323 followers 1651 tweets following 97 people

Now, I must say... 

I've been trying to figure out how to get him to follow me for days.

I made up silly songs for him.

I dressed my dog in my Jordan Knight circa 1989 t-shirt

(and honestly, she really did like it)

I did a slew of other things

that are probably too embarrassing to mention.

But what finally did it...

Was asking Ellen DeGeneres to follow Jordan

and have him on her show!

So, in a roundabout way,

Ellen actually did help me get through to NKOTB,

like I've been asking her to do for so long!

SO....

I've got a renewed sense of HOPE and CONFIDENCE...

Ellen! 

Mrs. DeGeneres!

I am not giving up.

I still have faith that somehow, someway...

you are going to get my girl Leslie and I

on SS NKOTB

in 2010!

We'll be 30 this year.

A year of renewal...

rebirth.

What better way to celebrate than

with our childhood idols?!

The Block is Back in 2009.

And

You Can't STOP the Block

in 2010!

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Ellen... Can you hear me?

Dear Ellen... Mrs. DeGeneres, if you prefer. 

I never heard from you the last time, 

so this time I'm starting REALLY early.

Persistent? 

Yes.

Obsessive? 

Maybe.

A little bit CRAZY? 

Quite possibly.

So, if you don't know to what I am referring...

Let's take a little trip back in time.

A time when this blog was just a baby.

A fledgling little compendium of my 

random thoughts, feelings, opinions...

that would soon turn into something 

much, much bigger 

than even I could've ever imagined.

See, Ellen, back on January 14, 2009,

we first made our plea to you on this blog

to help us get aboard the cruise with NKOTB.

(Click here to read that first blog.)

In the next days, weeks, and months that followed...

we didn't let up.

From the sweet e-mails our families and friends sent to you on our behalf

(click here to read)

Our own fabricated breakdances starring YOU and us...

(click)

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And even trying to get through to Jimmy Fallon and

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to help YOU help US...

We never heard anything!

Now, since we believe in

the power of positive thinking...

We are quite certain that you 

didn't deliberately snub us.

But maybe...

That we just started our campaign too late in the game!

So this time around, we are being more proactive about things.

The 2010 cruise isn't even officially announced yet!

(But, it has been confirmed that www.rosetours.com is in talks of 

putting it on again this go around... Just sayin'.)

Now, I did send you a package in the mail as well...

Containing the "greatest hits" of this blog.

And I even danced for you in "my favorite pair of boxers" 

(a line from NKOTB's Two in the Morning)

... a pair of Ellen boxers purchased specifically for 

the making of said video.

So, as you can see...

there are no lengths we won't travel

to reach for what we want...

to cruise with NKOTB!

We are thinking it would be a great segment for your show, too.

Lots of NKOTB fans are also Ellen fans.

We would do GREAT commentary aboard the ship!

And now, we are hoping...

with the help of all of our 

FELLOW BLOCKHEADS 

that we've met on these crazy adventures of ours, like 

EJ, who gave us tips on cruise etiquette in

this guest spot (click)...

and Desiree, who wrote about our adventures

(and, I might add, how persistence and positive thinking CAN pay off...

we got to meet a few of the boys in Atlanta!)

in this guest blog (click)...

our new friend Kristie, who also 

wrote about her ATL adventures...

(click)...

our good friends over at their own blog,

the In Search of NKOTB girls (Holly & Kerry),

who have been to over 16 shows this tour! 

And let's also not forget the power of 

Twitter. 

Which recently helped yours truly have a little 

tête à tête

with the one and only Joey McIntyre himself!

(click)

All I'm sayin' is...

It's on, Ellen.

Remember George Watch '08?

That ain't got nothin' on

The Block Don't Stop in 2010!

(aka Operation Let's Get this, Part Deux)



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Joey Mac & Nynuk the Squirrel

I had a Mac Attack! 

(...my first ever, thank you very much.)

Now, I've never been a Joey girl,

because frankly, 

he was always Candi's and Jordan was always mine.

And see, friends (and in our case, cousins) 

don't go around stealin' each other's New Kids!

Which is why 

I wasn't in the least bit jealous when Candi got her hug w/ Joey Mac...

and was even more excited 

when I discovered that my friends had gotten a picture of it!

See, when I tried to get a picture, someone bumped my arm, 

and this is what I got...

Yeah, some chick's boobs. Sorry, chick... whoever you are.

But this is the picture that Kristie managed to get, 

without even knowing it was my cousin 

(we hadn't met yet)!

Anyway, so recently, Joe posted this video on www.letsgetthis.org 

(the website for the Let's Get This Foundation, 

which donates books to underprivileged children... 

"Helping the World, Step by Step," as the motto says).

Sunday Morning with Sammy the Book Squirrel from LET'S GET THIS FOUNDATION on Vimeo.

And the other day, he hops on Twitter and says,

Page the Squirrel I thought was cute. What do you think? Any other ideas? (Talking about the book drive mascot).

1:44 PM Jul 1st from web

Now, I'm no stranger to replying to members of NKOTB on Twitter.

But this time was different.

This time I wrote....

@joeymcintyre Why not name the squirrel Nynuk?! Throwback! :)

1:46 PM Jul 1st from TwitterBerry

And then, to my surprise... for the first time ever...

I check my Blackberry, and I see this...

RT: @christy80 @joeymcintyre Why not name the squirrel Nynuk?! Throwback! :) 

JM: Yer playing with my heart strings now... I like it.

1:48 PM Jul 1st from web

I replied...

@joeymcintyre Just open up ur heart and let it in, then Joey Mac! U guys always said Nynuk didn't mean anything... Let's change that! :)

1:51 PM Jul 1st from TwitterBerry

And then he said... 

K... enough about Sammy "Nynuk" Page- the book squirrel. That's his name.

1:51 PM Jul 1st from web

To which I responded...

@joeymcintyre I like it. Nynuk is his nickname.

1:52 PM Jul 1st from TwitterBerry

Ahhh! 

Yes, that's right kids...

Joey Mac responded to me!

Not only did he respond to me, but he chose the name I picked!

(For those that don't know, "Nynuk" was the original name for NKOTB.)

Anyway, it was a very cool moment, and I just had to share with you all.

See, NKOTB are very cool guys.

They are totally worth me getting soaked to go to the ATL concert 

(which is still my one and only this summer tour...

unlike some of my friends that have been to 4+ shows... 

my pockets just ain't that FAT, yo)

(Yeah, that's me right after I said, "I don't need that poncho... I think I'll be fine.")

And seeing the show with my cousin 

(basically, my sister my whole life),

an exciting event 

at least 20 years in the making....

(note the poncho on Candi... and hence, the lack of overall wetness on her part...)

So, thank you, Joey Mac!

Nynuk the Squirrel 

is the best!

(And Joey, hit me up when you're ready for me to 

write the children's book based on him... 

My friend Sarah & I have been 

working on some of our own already...

Seriously. I'm just sayin'... )

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