falling asleep with a cheesy grin on my face.

these past few days little Lilli has been under the weather.  it is double unfortunate because her buddies are in town!  the highlight of her ickies was last night.  she got to feeling "just great mom"  and put on an outfit and brought me my  sandals and announced that we needed to go to the store.  it was 10pm.  in our family that is not late at all.  so, we hopped in the car and headed to the only place open at 10pm.... the brand spanking new supercenter.  i actually dread going to that place but it is the only place that i can get cake decor stuff until michaels opens.

i turned the radio on and flipped through the stations and my heart skipped a beat.  John Secada was on.  he was pretty big in the 90s and used to be part of miami sound machine.  the best thing about his music is that it is very easy to belt out.  lilli was in such a great mood that she didn't "ask"  me to stop singing!  a song from the good ol' days of early high school is just the best.  which brings me to the point of this blog entry.  here lately i have been falling asleep giggling.  ya know, thinking of stories that are just hilarious in my mind.  and i'd like to share a few with you.  and they have to do with some of you as well.

Lunch With John Secada... well...

on my last trip to new york city, my close friend kim and i kept running (following and sneakily taking pictures)  into "stars".  we had just sat down to eat our glamourous lunch of wendys at the airport when a family sat right next to us.  like at the end of our table.  the lady had a huge rock on her finger and seemed wealthy but down to earth.  her 2 kids were cute.  they were eating wendys too.  (it was a food court)  the dad showed up eating sushi.  i smiled at him and he smiled back.  kim and i finished our salads, just kidding our enormous fried chicken sandwiches and biggie fries, and were sitting there chatting when it hit me that i was sitting next to john secada.  i tried to whisper to kim what i had just discovered but i am sure i was obvious.  the next dumb thing i did was even more obvious.... she didn't know who he was (which many of you might not know who he is as well)  so i started whispering/humming one of his songs............ while sitting next to him.  like a freak.  and then we began to be like-is that him? yes. wait, no.  stop, he's looking at you.  so are his kids. so i got my phone out to try to take a picture of myself with him in the background but he was too close.  then it became quite obvious that he was indeed the real john secada when people came up asking for his autograph and getting pictures with him.  when we got up to leave i gave one quick glance and he gave one last head nod.  looking back i know that he heard me the whole time humming his songs and telling kim that i'll just sneakily take a picture of him!!!  if you're reading this john:  i'm a huge fan and i just bought a bunch of your songs off itunes.  and i'm a weirdo!

up next:  when your best friend breaks both wrists.  and its hilarious!