Success at the Today Show (May 8, 2009)- Thank you Matt Lauer

In my opinion, this is probably one of my best New Kids encounters! EEEEEK!!!

Jess, Grace and I got to the lines of the Today Show around 2:30am Thursday night, when we literally did not have to roll up till 6am. [Backstory...we had a hook up thanks to my dad's friend.  Good friends with Matt Lauer...for real? Thank you baby Jesus!] We went to the VIP line, because that was where we thought we would have to plant ourselves, the "friends and family" line. Due to mix up and people at the Today Show not knowing WTF was up, we ended up scoring a perfect spot at the front of the line. Wellllllll apparently the girls who were there since "SUNDAY AT 11am" did not like this. They started going off about how it wasn't fair that they were there since Sunday and now "these bitches get to come and get to the front of the line? That isn't far!" Now I kept my mouth shut, but I couldn't justify sleeping on a sidewalk in New York City for 6 days. I love the New Kids...but not that much. Sorry guys!

At this point it is about 4am and we were just hanging out in line. Only in New York would I get hit on at 4am while I am waiting in line to see the Kids. Ridiculous. It was this drunk little guy (he was cute, just shorter than me and that is a NO GO!).  He was going on and on about how he couldn't believe we were in line for so long. He was making up words, his friend was embarrassed for him and I was tearing him down any way I could.  I was texting and he proceeds to stare at my chest and cover it up by saying "you have a lot going on here" and points to my phone. I told him I was very busy.  Like I said, only I would get a new "boyfriend" while waiting to see the guys. FUCK MY LIFE! Can't get a real one, but I can get a crazy!

So flash forward to 5:30am. They start giving out the passes and I am still unsure of the lady I am supposed to be looking for. I was told to look for Matt's assistant, but turns out she was not going be there, because Matt was on location. At this point I am ready to hurl, slit my wrists and bleed out on the street. WHAT DO YOU MEAN!? Guy was a dick to me, so I went back to the line. This lovely girl Sara came over and helped us out, figured out the mess and lead us in. SCORE!!! It felt like VIP status.  I felt bad, but got over it when we got our VIP passes and were lead out to the stage *DEAD* There was already one row around the stage, but we were 2^nd people from the stage. Just as good, actually VERY good. It actually worked to our benefit that we were not right against the stage.

Grace and I infront of the stage...she hates her pic on the internet.

Soooo we wait…then Jess yelled "THERE'S DONNNNIIEEEEE!!!!" Welllllll everyone went apeshit. Leave it to us to start commotion. Typical. There they were…giving out tickets to people in the line…outside. WHAT!?! COME IN HEREEEE!!!!  First Donnie goes into the building, then Joe, then the tannest man in the world Danny, Jordan and Jon. From our spot we were able to face the doors of where they came out and the stage perfectly. 

I saw Donnie putting on a mic and got ready with my "Donnie, Seriously make out time please?" sign (Don't judge me!!! I am a Joe girl with Donnie tendencies! He is just a nice guy!). He is on his phone and comes to the door way. He saw me and my sign and waved…ohhhh sweet Jesus. The man came towards me, he was looking at me…yes he was…he was coming…coming closer…gives a hug…TO THE GIRL NEXT TO ME!!!! WHAT THE HELL DONNIE!?! F.M.L Then this MFer decides he wants to say hello to everyone…on the other side. So when attention hog comes back (I say it with love!) over he starts to walk past us…oh fuck nope, not gonna happen. I needed a hug! So I bust out, "I KNOWWWWWW you are not going to diss your FIRST baby daddy bus girls!!!" He turned around and HAND TO GOD he gave the BIGGEST GODDAMNED GRIN EVER to us! Eye contact and all, he came back over and is all "HEYYYY!!!!" We got a big bear hug.  He then stopped and gave our friend's mother the chocolate he is holding and says "hold this for me" (apparently someone gave him chocolate and he gave it to us...nice Donnie).  Back to the hug, because if you have ever gotten one from the man...you know how it is.  Now I was in the middle of this bear hug and my face was in the crook of his neck. Ohhhhh sweet baby Jesus. I couldn't deal.  Hims smelt gooooood. We talked, but do I remember what was said…no. I was in a bear hug…TWICE…with Donnie and got a HUGEEEEEE grin from him…EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!!! 

I calm down and I saw my man, Joe. I was prepared and have my "Joe, your NYC Girls" sign all ready for him.  He spots me, smiles real big and nods. I started doing my lame pointing dance thing, he pointed back and then I started doing my happy dance a little harder. Motha fucka started bouncing up and down with me. Are you kidding me right now? This is not happening!!! He came out and started getting all his gear on. He was waiting to get his ear piece to work, so Grace and I took the opportunity to hold our "FULL SERVICE=FLASH FLOOD" Oh, he saw it and proceeded to say, INTO THE MIC, "Yeah I still don't get Flash Flood" HE CALLED US OUT OVER THE MIC!!!! *dead and gone* I couldn't...DEAL! We looked at each other and just said, "he just...yeah...he did." I knew for a FACT this man KNEW what it meant. We'll drop it…for now.

Then the rest of our menz came out. Let me tell you, Danny was NOT lying when he said he was at the beach in his tweets. Dude changed races! What the hell!?  I was prepared for him too and held up my "Danny, body shots?" He saw it and goes "body shots?"  I start shaking my head and he goes "on the cruise" and does this hand motion, which I was not following, because I go "WHAT THE FUCK!?" He does it again and I finally pick it up. I AM NOT GOING ON THE CRUISE DANNY!!!!! I CAN'T DO BODY SHOTS OFF YOU!!! FML!

When they were all finally out there and on stage for sound check I was in heaven. It was amazing. Jordan was acting a DAMN FOOL with his stoooopid 'tinks!' He would sit there, pretend to fall asleep and then pop his eyes open. Idiot. (Again with LOVE I say this!!!) Then Donnie started doing this 'tink!' song while he standing right in front of me. I personally think 'tink!' is LAAAAME, so I didn't hold back. I started yelling "Donnie STOP!! Don't encourage him!!!" I got nasty looks from fans and a "huh?" look from Donnie. Looking dead in his eye I say "Stop! Don't encourage it!" He smiled and walked away.  Grace said Jordan heard me (again) and gave me a face (again), dude HATES MY LIFE WITH ALL OF HIS BEING! He refused to look at me and my sign for him.  Legit would look over it. Until later.

Utter disappointment when we found out it was the Jabbawockees, that were the special guests…we for sure thought it was New Edition.  I personally thought THAT would have been EPIC! They came out and started 'Hanging Tough'.  Those masks were creepy as hell up close. I couldn't even look at them, so I tried to find the men (sorry to the Jabba fans, I looove their dancing, but the masks...I can't do it). They were all crouched down behind the stage and started to pop up. LOVED IT! They were all so into it…except one. Let's guess…one Mr. JOOOON KNIGHT! He looked like he wanted to cut a bitch and end his life. He wasn't having it. Not at all. He did it though. I thought a panic attack was about to ensue and you can't blame him for looking like that.  Poor guy.  At the end of their performance of HT, they all started bouncing on stage and crackhead Joe decides to jump into one of the Jabbas and literally knock him in the face with his shoulder. I couldn't…I.DIED.LAUGHING!!! He was a beast during sound check!

Got a TON of love from Joe while they were performing and was basking in it. He would do some goofy shit, I would laugh or scream and he would look at me and show them pearly whites. *sigh* Then pelvic thrust in my direction……………………………………………………… Oh sorry, flash back. Donnie was giving us tons of love too! Staring at us and most definitely Jess (loves her life) while dancing, leaving Grace and I to lean against each other at a few points. Danny kept looking at me so I busted out another sign…."Danny's Fan Club" with 4 arrows pointing down. He loved it!!! Smiled and pointed. They sang their set twice, so in total we saw them perform 3 times.

Result of one thrust/wink combo...

Remember how I said Jon wanted to pull some 'Twisted Helena' shit and kill himself during sound check? Boy had some Starbucks pumping through his veins for the live performance, because he KILLED IT!!! Sooo energetic. During CIWYW, when they do "it's so groooovy" and they do those slow motion moves, him and Danny were acting a fool.  They were ON with that performance, even if Jordan did flub a bit. Joe was straight Broadway, flailing around and shit on stage. So hot. The pelvic thrusts are heavenly. Too bad they cut to that girl during it for the live broadcast. I got them on my video though! WOOO!!! Jordan was a FOOL during these performances! I loved it! He hates me, but I still love him and he was cracking me up! I couldn't deal with him! All the faces, the movements…special ed!!!  Donnie of course, had his swagga turned up! He was all over that stage, he caused some floods and at one point I had to put the snorkel in…no joke. Had to put the snorkel in. I think Joe caught me, because his eyebrows went up and he was looking at me. OOPS! It was a success!

So it was over, as usual, in a flash. The guys were so nice signing stuff for everyone. I held out my VIP pass and got Danny's signature then I move to Jordan. He literally signed everyone's, but mine! I am telling you he HATESSSSS ME!!! Whatever, because Joe was coming…see ya Jordan. You wanna act a fool…do it. Joe was signing people's passes, signs, whatever…and kept looking over at me. He was a few people away and he looks me in the eye and gives a nod, like "I got you"…I was going to pee my pants. I got THE nod from Joe Mac…dead! So he gets to me, takes my pass, looks at me, stops like he is going to say something, but kept signing. I hold up my flash flood sign and was like "YOU KNOWWWW YOU REMEMBER!!!" He is like "OH! I remember YOU, I just don't know what it means…you know I'm innocent!" (He said "innocent" in this really adorable soft tone...*snorkel in*) I looked at him like "yeaaaaa…." And said "YOU WERE THE ONE THAT ASKED IF IT WAS DIRTY!" He laughed, gave me a BIG smile and had to move on.*sigh* I love him. We think we are going to get JOOOON KNIGHT's autograph…but no dice. He stopped 1 person in front of Grace…FML! It is ok though, our time will come.

We were on cloud 9. We didn't know whether to stay and watch them leave..or go to the hotel. You know how we do and went to the hotel. TONS OF CUPCAKES!!! It was like a bakery. I couldn't take it. We started walking down the street to get some food. We get food, sit on a bench and eat. Then we saw a blacked out van. Food was left behind and we were sprinting down the street. It was no one. FUCK THIS!!! So we decided to hail a cab and go catch a train home. WELLLLLL….I go to hail a cab, that cab drives by, but there was a blacked out van behind it. I had my hand out as if I was going to hail Joe and Donnie's van!!! MAJOR FAIL! We sprinted back to the hotel.  Joe was a speedy Gonzalez and was inside lickity split. Ddub however takes the girl in front of me by the shoulder, looks at me and says "I will be back in 1 hour"…we all know how that goes. Could have been ages.

We go back to our bench. Grace is passing out on the bench, when all of a sudden this man asks if we are New Kids fans.  Used to being made fun of we all give a lame "yeahhh" and my new best friends says, "Jon Knight is around the corner, go through the cut through in the building down there and he will be on your right." THANKS MAN!!! We were off.  Having to act smooth so the cupcakes didn't get a whiff of anything, we walked at a decent pace. Soon we were in the walk through, made a right and there he was. With a gal pal just talking. Jess starts to spin and I was like "WTF! Just keep cool!"  I spotted a Starbucks and said "oh thank God, I need some Stahhhbucks" without looking at him.  It was true though...needed some, we were up for over 24 hours.  Jess and I went inside get something, come out and he was still there. Grace was all "I'm not bothering him, he is talking." Jess and I look at each other and were like "yeah, ok."  We started walking toward him and Jess flaked out! What the hell?! I went up to him and said, "Hi, I am realllyyyy sorry to bother you, I know you like your alone time, but would you mind taking a quick picture?" HE.WAS.SO.NICE!!! He reached for my hand and said "no, no problem!" Got up, I was still apologizing profusely to him and his friend, we took our picture and then who else came over to take pictures with him? Oh, the two that were too nervous to go up to him! Always doing the dirty work. I can not get over how nice he was. It was quick, but sooo perfect.  It came out ADORABLE!!! The best picture of me and any New Kid, hands down. We are two pretty people (it will be posted as will all pictures...I am still learning!!!).

We went back to the hotel and wait…and wait. Ddub where are youuuuuuuu!?!?! Seriously, I was tired, hungry and had blisters on the back of my feet from my new shoes.  Where the hell are you? FINALLY, he came out and the cupcakes are swarming. Frosting is flying everywhere…well not really, but there were freak outs. They are all screaming "DONNIE, DONNIE!!!" He knows his damn name, so I started screaming…"DETECTIVE STEVENSSSSSS….DETECTIVE STEVENS!!!" (loud I might add…head back and screaming) Well when I am done doing that, I looked in front of me and who is staring at me…FUCKING DONNIE!!!  I looked at him, he looked at me and I was just like "oh fuck, Detective Stevens" he smiled and he was gone. Cupcakes dispersed and we waited a bit for Joe. We were exhausted and had NO idea when he was coming out, with that we were done. (Later I found out if I waited 2-3 hours later he came out and schmoozed with fans...DAMMIT! By then though I was dead to the world in my bed.) 

It was officially over and now we wait for summer….

Here is my video of CIWYW (forgot my camera...D'OH! Had to use the BB.)

Me and Jooooon Knight! So purty!