Say what you will, Celine Dion is one of my favorite artists of all time. My mom had almost all of her albums (which is ironic since my mom doesn't really like Celine Dion now) and I remember spending hours next to my boom box as a kid, playing the c.d.'s and trying to practice singing like her. Back in those days, if the lyrics weren't on the the album booklet thing, you had to put in some manual labor. I would play the song and periodically pause so I could write down the lyrics (this was before Google lyric search/YouTube....and maybe even before our family's first pc). In 4th grade, Titanic made it's big splash and I remember belting out "My Heart Will Go On" with the rest of my friends as we dreamed of blue diamond necklaces and wept tragically over the death of young Mr. DiCaprio. Celine also did a cameo on CBS's Touched By An Angel series and that's when I first heard "Love Can Move Mountains"--another favorite. To this day, when I blast that 90's goodness in my headphones (because my car Rosie has never had a radio), I can feel the power of love, feel it all coming back to me, and all the things I could do because you loved me.
Needless to say, when Whitney Houston passed away (FYI the BodyGuard soundtrack cassette tape aided in many a bathroom cleaning and impromptu interpretive dance session), I knew I had to see Celine before she too was gone. Luckily, she has a long-standing show in Las Vegas so this could actually be fairly feasible. Then low-and-behold, my friend Michelle posts on Facebook, her determination to see Ms. Dion in concert this very August. Done and done.
And Celine did not disappoint. She is a class act through and through (a little cheesy on the script but phenomenal performance).
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#31--Get a grown-up job
To be honest, this will need to be addressed in another blog post someday but I thought I'd give it a shout out since it's nice to check things off the list. Also, I work with the best people.
The next two items are more honorary but if I would have known them to be a possibility, they would most definitely have made the 99:
#?--See the Backstreet Boys in Concert
Um...BSB were my boys in 6th grade. Loved them. LOVED them. Peeps now think that the Jonas Brothers or One Direction are the bees knees...not compared to Kevin, AJ, Nick, Brian, and Howie. The synchronized hip hop choreography was larger than life and if the frosted tips didn't make you swoon, their 5-part harmony would leave any girl feeling incomplete without them!
Observe fan love here:
#?--Buy a house...
Yeah...not sure how this happened...it doesn't even feel real...but now I get to think about things like buying a lawn mower...and when the cooler stops working, I get to figure out how to get it working. I still don't know when my garbage day is and I am not sure how to get my mail. I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants here. I used to think that grown-ups just knew what to do...but I am starting to realize that they might not have known as much as I gave them credit for. In one way or another, aren't we all flying by the seat of our pants?
I so need more pics of that house!
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