A Celebrity Among Us

Any given day if there isn't anything planned or to do around the house, we'll just take a walk outdoors to get some fresh air. Usually that is the case, but Chloe had been giving us some trouble for a couple of days so we had to stay indoors to take a few privileges away from her and teach her some hard lessons. She must have learned because she became an angel later in the afternoon on the 28th so I decided we could go out and just walk around the island. We did just that, but when we got to the end of our street the local bus was coming so I decided to just get on it and I knew it would take us to the city so that way we could just walk all over, then I'd have no excuses not to walk more and get some much needed exercise. I wasn't close to home anymore, so we had to walk, or should I say, "I" had to walk & stroll my lovely children all over. It was ok because we went up and down the city streets and just enjoyed being outside. We definitely had a great time & it was nice to be out after being cooped up in the house for two days. 
We ended up staying out in town much later so we called Troy at work to see if we'd be able to meet up and go back home together. He'd plan on taking the tram to one of the stops closest to where he was at the Embassy so we could catch the next available bus to go back home. We started our couple of blocks walk to near his location. While we were walking two girls passed us up and one of them looked so familiar and as she was passing the whole time I thought to myself, that's Kat Von D. OMG!!! THAT'S KAT VON D. I said nothing as they passed but I certainly couldn't get my phone & dial fast enough. Troy answered the phone, I screamed of course, in his ear and said, OMG KAT VON D just passed us on the street. He tells me, NO WAY!! I said yes, and he says, did you get a picture? PICTURE? OMG!!! No one is going to believe me. He said, you big dummy.... and boy did I feel like one after that. I couldn't believe it, me of all people, the talker of the universe didn't speak. Someone actually left me speechless. WOW.... It was definitely going to... (well I can't say Snow) because it will definitely do that in Helsinki, eventually... but you know what I mean. I told Troy that I was going to get this picture no matter what it took, and I certainly did do that. Let's just say, "STALKER"... that's me. My poor children who were involved in their mother's shenanigans, those innocent precious angels. I truly felt sorry for them, well not Troy Jr as much as I did Chloe who at the time was walking instead of riding in the stroller. Poor baby, she was just about running with her crazy mother to get this picture. It was hilarious, well to me it was on the inside, that I, a grown woman older then this girl I'm following is doing this only because we've seen her on t.v. and did enjoy her show but that no one would believe me without this proof or even myself for that matter. It was just crazy to fathom what I was doing or about to do. We all ended up at the street corner opposite of each other. We did stare and saw that she was staring at Chloe, of course, and smiling. As we are passing each other up, I froze in a different way. I said, Kat Von D and she said, "yes, I was just telling my friend how cute your daughter is." I said thank you of course, but all of this is being said as she's walking away from us and going into the craft store behind us. While at the same time, I'm mortified to see that my sweet angel cross the road without me and I'm just sitting there in the middle of the street looking back at her like she really is this big deal. What is going on with me? Have I really lost it, is this what the life of a celebrity is really all about. Crazy people like myself stalking them just as I did. Good LORD!! Please help me. I wasn't finished, I went got Chloe and decided to go into the store and finally ask her if she could take a picture with Chloe. 
We went into the store, and as I approached her I got very nervous, nervous like I've never been before. It was ridiculous if you ask me. I just couldn't believe it but I said, "Kat Von D I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was wondering if you could take a picture with my daughter." She said, "Sure no problem" and got down on Chloe's level. Sweet, down to earth and so nice to us. What was I worried about?? I'm still not sure about that. She was very cool and meeting her was the highlight of our day on the 28th of December, 2011. Chloe was looking at me like I was a little out there, as if to say, "Why is my mother making me take a picture with this stranger." She was pretty funny afterwards and feeding off of my adrenaline rush because she was screaming outside at the top of her lungs, "We just met Kat Von D, Kat Von D." She was hilarious and so cute about it. For those who don't know her, she is a tattoo artist that's stardom started back when she was on the TLC program, "Miami Ink", then went out on her own and went back home to California, and started, "LA Ink". Troy and I use to watch her and really enjoyed it. Her art, her work is amazing and she's so talented. So it was a very nice treat to meet her in person. When we met up with Troy finally, we had so much to tell him. We showed him the pictures, and all Chloe kept telling him was the same thing she had repeated all night long, "We met Kat Von D, Kat Von D." She was so excited and I bet she didn't even know why. I must say it was awesome and time for us to go home and have supper and put a very happy girl to bed. We did just that, and that was a day in the life of a stalker, paparazzi and living in a place that celebrities might actually come to visit. :)

Chloe enjoyed meeting Kat Von D

She even gave her a kiss!!