Backstreet Boys, Books, And Shout-Out To Our Newest Proud Stalker!

(1)  Guess what song came on my iPod today?!

I was on the way home from my Tuesday night date with the gym (power pump and kickboxing back to back....never EVER fails to make me so sore it hurts to stand up) and my iPod was set to shuffle and this song came on. I haven't heard this delight in probably over a decade!!! In fact, my mom dug up these gems not too long ago and tagged me on Facebook....

This is me and brother, James. We were pretending to be the Backstreet Boys in concert. I'm wearing carpenter pants. Why mom? WHY???

Our "microphones" were fashioned out of black pipe cleaner. Once again...the pants....and the shoes...and the sunglasses....the backwards cap.....this is just not okay....why couldn't I have dressed up like the Spice Girls like my BFF's Sarabeth and Allie???

I bet this is where I'm belting out "GET YOURSELF A.....BAD BOY!!!" 

Anyway...back to this evening.....I was so excited I was pretty much squirming in my seat. I was trying to dance, but since I was driving, it was really hard. So I ended up just squirming. But I had blast. Alone. A part of me wanted to bust out that pipe cleaner handless microphone....

(2)  So I finally finished an excellent book, All the Shah's Men, by Stephen Kinzer. It's about how the CIA overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953. It was at Britain's insistence...back then Britain was the one interfering everywhere and thus to blame for everything, not the U.S. It's amazing how much history has to offer, especially when calculating our current foreign policy....and yet how it's completely disregarded....especially when calculating our current foreign policy. Sad. Anyway, there is a lot of bad blood between the governments of Iran and the U.S. Our govt. would have everyone believe that it's their fault. And their government would have everyone believe it's our fault. Well it's not quite so easy, but a good place to start would be the year 1953. That CIA-backed coup d'etat  had more than a few consequences which have lasted more than a few years. It's really a great read (though not without flaws, but I won't offer my criticism on the book here) and I highly recommend it.

(3) Our blog has a new follower! Welcome, Luke! Our #20! (Let's pretend for a second that my mom isn't following this blog from 3 separate accounts because the first two wouldn't let her leave comments....) And for those of you pansies who follow this blog without actually clicking on the button "follow" in the upper left hand corner out of fear that it'll seem weird for whatever reason....shame!! I know there are more of you.....I just know it :-)