I think it is always so much fun to think back on your life and write about it so I am going to write down a “first” and have you tell us all about it. This week is,

What was your first record, tape, CD that you ever bought and how did it make you feel then and what do you think about it now?

I will start with my very first tape that I bought.

I went to my 6th grade class room and found the weekly paper on my desk. A paper written to children to get them enthusiastic about reading. On the front cover was a picture of a band that was fast becoming the biggest group of the 90′s. My heart started to beat faster as I scanned these really cute boys. Five really cute boys to be exact! My sights landed on one in particular and I was smitten. I was lost in the pre-teen puppy love of a 12 year old girl, nothing had ever made me want to read out of this paper before now. Now this blond, blue eyed, Boston native named Joey McIntyre had me wanting to read more. I took the paper home and showed my oldest sister exclaiming with excitement, ” Stac aren’t these boys so cute. I really want to buy their tape.” Oh, if only I knew the obsession I was getting myself into. My 12 year old self going to my older and much cooler sister was my way of making sure that they were okay to like. She told me she would take me to the mall if I had money to buy the tape. I just so happened to have some babysitting money and I dressed up for the trip to the mall. You never can be too careful as to whom you may bump into. We went into the music store and I began my search as Stacey found her music on the other side of the room. I found it after my long search through the N category and grabbed the tape with the picture that I saw on the paper. “Hangin’ Tough”. I took that tape home and played that tape over and over again. I had my first taste of pop music and at 12 I was so in love. I had all the fantasy’s of a girl at my age and I went to their concert, my very cool mom going with since I was 12. I bought all their tapes, video’s, dolls, posters, any magazine with their face on it, trading cards, pins. I was a maniac and my mom took notice and tried very hard to shut it down. It wasn’t too hard when the year I turned 14 I turned my heart towards a different kind of music. My mom missing my 12 year old taste ever since! This is very easy for me to say that New kids on the Block were my passion for a very short time in my life, but since they have rejoined I found myself having those very giddy feelings again and being very jealous of my friend who has seen them in concert. I have grown up and my music taste is so different now, but you never forget your first crush, or should I say in my life, my first obsession!

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