Always On Time

I have been so busy but I GOTTA get back to posting so.....today's Throwback Thursday song is.... Always On Time by Ja Rule ft. Ashanti! I love this so so so much. It's the song that IS high school. Every time I hear it I think about taking my friends to school in the morning and blasting it through the speakers of my little Pontiac Sunbird. Or, wishing every one of my classes could be taught by the best teacher I ever had, Tom Diab! Both Ja Rule and Ashanti have come and gone but this song will always be apart of the fabric of my being.

My favorite Jimmy Fallon parody....that took me FOREVER to find!

I'm posting a small blurb just because I love this Jimmy Fallon song that he did on SNL weekend update 2002 for the Winter Olympics. I thought about it recently and I searched and searched for it. It's not even on the SNL DVD that season. Thank GOODNESS someone had it up but I had to search far and wide for it. Now all of you....but mostly I, can now enjoy it for eternity since it is on my blog. My favorite part of the song is "Thaw Out" the parody of Ludacris' "Rollout" cuz it is so true...Black Folks do not do winter...let alone winter sports lol.

I totally forgot about this!

So I was looking through some of my old VHS home videos and I found a "campaign video" that Jennie, Caitlin, and I made for 11th grade government class. I was running for "president" because we were learning about the election process. I actually made it to the second round of elections. In the video we had gone to all of the places that I had worked including the Dollar Tree and Tim Hortons. We had also gone to a sporting goods store and Chuck E. Cheese to get "endorsed". I remember we were rushing to put this video together and it was snowing that day. We had so much fun and our video was HILARIOUS! It is kind of embarassing but....here you go. ENJOY!

Playing catch up with a little "Give It To You"

I missed last weeks Throwback Thursday post and I was just thinking about how we perceive things when we are younger compared to how we perceive things now. That got me to thinking about the dance moves in the video for Give it to You by Jordan Knight. That song came out in 1999 and I adored it. It was so fun and danceable, but it was a little dirty ;). I was a good girl and I didn't think about it like that in those days lol. What I really loved about the song was the video. It was set at a fair which I loved and it was super colorful. Plus, the video had what I thought was a killer dance routine! Check it out!

I watched this video about 4 months ago with one of my friends who used to be a professional dancer and we laughed our a**es off! This was the cheesiest thing we had ever seen! Especially the part towards then end when Jordan is shakin his groove thang on the leading lady. Now again, when I was a freshman in HS this video was the bomb but boy how our vision changes over 13 years! I still love this song and video but it now takes on a whole different meaning. What did you think of the dancing? Have you had any interesting perception changes lately? Share Share Share!

Blaque goes boom....like an 808!

My Throwback Thursday (on Friday....I know...) jam this week is 808 by the group Blaque.

This song came out in 1999 and the album was great also! I was also very lucky because I was able to meet this awesome group when I was a freshman in HS. When we moved to Saline we ended up meeting this really nice family that lived up the street. It was also great because we lived in a town that wasn't very diverse and they were another black family that lived close to us. The family had two young girls and their parents asked me to babysit them during the summer. The first time I babysat for them after I was done the girls father asked me if I had ever heard of the group Blaque. "Of course I have!" I replied "I really like the song 808". The girls father then told me that the lead singer of the group was his other daughter Shamari. I thought I was in heaven! My new found information made me love this group even more. After continuing to babysit Shamari's half sisters for about 6 months they invited me to go and see the girls perform at the summer music festival. We got to the concert late and we were able to stand on the side of the stage as they performed! We also got to hang out in the girls dressing room and meet the other artist that were there! It was one of the greatest nights of my life! Blaque's dressing room was even across from Destinys Child's dressing room and Beyonce waved at me! That was definitely an amazing time in my life and I am very happy Blaque's album was the soundtrack to my summer that year.

    On a side note....look at those braces lol. I do not miss my awkward years :)