Guilty as Charged!

I blame my 17 years of Catholic Education on all of this!  Look at this guilty little girl!

So it began at the tender age of 5 - rebel with the red shoes!

I am so feckin' guilty!  I can't enjoy anything without feeling like Jesus, Mary and Joseph are shaking their heads at me in disgust.   I am a sinner and I know it!  Guilty as charged!  I have many sins and I know I am not perfect - far from it, but as a Catholic its even hard to have fun sometimes. At least we have confession - its like ServePro for sins - "Like it never even happened!".  Yep, going to hell for that joke too - reason #327. 

 I am not here to lecture you on the art of avoiding sin or how to sin well (hey, if you're gonna do it, do it well), but I do want to talk about another level of guilt today - the sin of the guilty pleasure.  Ooh la la! Sounds so....so...guilty and bad! I am in! 

I think now is the time I indulge you all in a few of mine. Now, don't get too excited guys and gals, I won't give you EVERYTHING, lets save that for another time...buy me a drink or two first.

Now I am running a big risk here sharing these. I feel like many of these are total deal breakers for dating or friend relationships.   But honesty is the best policy right?  If I can find a guy who can sit through me professing my love for all things NKOTB, lets me quote from "Wayne's World" on almost a daily basis, isn't ashamed of my competitive  Britney Spears karaoke skills, and is still at the party after witnessing me break out the 80s and 90s dance moves - well, that's a keeper! So I feel its best to just get all this out there right away!

Not a costume! Concert attire! Anyone who can deal with THIS is rad in my book!

So drum roll -side note,  I always envision the start of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" as my drum roll always - I give you my guilty pleasures - get ready....

1. I am a massive NKOTB fan!  I know, I am losing street cred as a little punk rock chic, but I have to be honest to the teenie bopper girl I was. Also,  there is a time and place to be silly - and NKOTB is just plain silly.  So,  I am a card carrying fan club member since 1988.  I have a skirt made of the bedsheets(in above pic), I have been on the cruise, to 12 concerts (5 in the last 3 years), I know all the songs, have all their autographs, laminated posters, key chains, lunchboxes, trading cards, fanny packs. I know birthdays, wedding dates, kids birthdays and.....ok now I sound crazy. Lets say I am a fan. I am not the lady on the cruise who had a Mt. Rushmore styled tattoo of their faces on her back (God I wish I had taken a picture of THAT) kind of fan, but I am a fan.  So deal with it! 

2. I know the words to and sing along to many Taylor Swift songs even though I openly mock her love life and her in general. Phew, had to let that one out. Shame.

3. I think "17 Again" is a great movie! It makes me laugh and I watch it at least once a week - alone. Mostly I watch alone because I love my friends too much to force them to view it with me, but they are always welcome. I also feel guilty when I watch it because I think Zac Efron looks super cute in it and I feel like a cougar thinking that.  I did have my kids act out a scene to this but I can't get the video to upload...next time...sorry.

4. I will watch ANYTHING, I mean ANYTHING with Johnathan Rhys Meyers in it. The man could read the menu at Taco Bell and I would watch. It could be the Irish accent , or it could be the green/blue eyes - light colored eyes get me every time!  I don't know why, but he has been in some of the worst shows and movies ever,  but I will watch them all! Guilty, guilty, guilty! Oh, baby - so guilty!  I mean come on! Look a the man!

Basically the only reason I became interested in Tudor history - sad right?

5. Wow 5 already? I feel you can see into my soul already I have shared so much!  A perfect night for me would be staying in and watching on an endless loop episodes of Full House, Different World, Small Wonder, and 227. Yeah, another relationship deal breaker I think, but totally worth it to be part of the Tanner family for the night. Which by the way - here is what I need for Christmas, hope your taking notes!

Feck yeah! A DJ Tanner T-shirt?! I am so in!

6. I sing in the shower and in the car.  I am sure my upstairs neighbors are sick of my American Idol auditions every morning at 5:30 am, but I won't stop!  My Broadway dreams are still alive! Tomorrow morning I am rocking out to some Liz Phair. So, apartment 301W get your request list in now, I will start with Supernova and work my way from there.  I am guilty - of waking you up with awesomeness! 

7.  Ok, I know I will get a lot of shit about this. I love Cds - not the financial kind- the ones that play music. Yes, they still make them. I love my collection and I continue to add to it. Anyone who decides they want to live with me will have to make room for my towers of Cds and my Bose Cd player - they are a part of me and we will never be parted.  I wept the day I lost my cassette player with the ability to tape songs off the radio, and hell with freeze over before I give up my Cds. You will need to pry them out of my cold, dead, pale (er) hands before I let go.

One of , ahem ,a few towers. Why yes that is a unicorn bank on the table. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Doritos - I can pound a family size even party size bag of Doritos all by myself.  I have banned the nacho flavored devils from my apartment, and if a restraining order could be made against a snack food I would have taken one out years ago. I would love nothing more than to watch Full House , while eating a bag of  Nacho Doritos - ahh perfection! And this is probably why I am single! Nacho breath and John Stamos - a sexy ass combo! That's me. 

OK - so I may have lost all 4 of my followers here, but I feel you deserve to know my truth. The rest will slowly be revealed as we walk this blog road together.  These guilty pleasures make me smile and add a nerdy individuality to me, and I am cool with that.  Own your pleasures (ooh that sounded like fun - oops reason #328) , and be proud of who you are and what you like! 

Swag on!

See you next time - when I taste something I may regret!  

Swagger Mom

@Irishbelle2000