hip hop amy

before i was a mommy i was pretty cool.

not to say that i am not cool now, just maybe a little out of practice. {wink}


i mean i have always been pretty dorky, but dorky in a cool way.

yes, that is possible. [heheheheheee]

before i was a mommy i came and went as i pleased, worked several jobs, worked out at the gym 6 days a week 2 to 3 hours at a time and i spent a lot of time at the night clubs dancing all night and staying out until the wee hours of the morning….spent any extra time and money shopping for new outfits to wear at my next club venture….

who was i before MOMMY?


my nickname was "Hip Hop Amy" then.

Hip Hop Amy, you say???

yea.....


a local dj here at the clubs gave me that nickname and it stuck for a very long time and people started to know me as this.

i was known for my baggy jeans and combat boots, little teeny tiny tops and rock hard abs, a silver belly chain (sometimes two) and my long blond wild hair bouncing to every beat my body did.



i was always asking the dj's to play MORE hip hop music so i could show off on the dance floor. so i “Hip Hop Amy” could do my thang.

i was a HAM. and then some.

yes.....before i was a mommy....i was QUEEN of the dance floor.

"Hip Hop Amy" was QUEEN of the CLUBS.

the baggier my jeans were and the farthest they could hang off my teeny tiny hips without falling off - the better....sometimes hanging on to a lovely pair of wild boxer shorts that poked out the top of them....holes in my jeans, funky jewelry, funky tops.....that was me...."Hip Hop Amy".

i was pretty hot. granted i still had my dorkiness but it was cool. i was cool. very cool. a dorky kinda hot cool that could dance like no one was watching cool and yet i jammed. i had little to no inhibitions about me then. when "Hip Hop Amy" hit the dance floor that was it. all eyes on her....uh....me.

then.

i used to break dance. seriously.

i did not spin on my head, but i could spin on my back and then pose, i could moonwalk and do a little robotic thing or to as well. I had this hip shaker thing we liked to call “the blender” – kind of like Shakira’s booty shake thingy. I used to tick too.

i used to know all the lyrics to every hot hip hop song out there. i knew all the new dance moves, and even made up my own. i could watch music videos all day and pick up the routines in a minute and then put a twist on it and make it my own. one of my fellow club dancers was a dance teacher (she still is and she is VERY good) recruited me and i taught a boys hip hop street funk class for a few years for little boys ages 5 -16. i used to bribe the little dudes with the "tootsie roll" dance if they did well all through class.....which they always did and they were always awesome. they loved that dance and so did their parents…..so much fun.

even they (the little boys & their parents) thought i was super cool. they even told me so. {cheesy smile}

yep....before i was a mommy.....i was hot. i was funky. i was cool. i was sassy. i was hip. i was "Hip Hop Amy"

i rocked it.

"Hip Hop Amy" was a legend in the clubs, i knew everyone, got in all the clubs for free, new the owners, dj's, bartenders etc....never had to wait in long ridiculous lines to get in anywhere. a friend of mine once said that "Hip Hop Amy" was such the schmoozer that i could run for president....now that would have been FUNNY. [hardy ha ha]


President “Hip Hop Amy” here to save the dance floor……

ummm hum....that's right.


i was really cute and i had some really cute boyfriends (that were a lot of really cute trouble, go figure) and i had a whole posse full of "clubbers" to go "club n" with. i did a local tv dance show called NB901 (we didn't have things like "So You Think You Can Dance" then) for about 3 years. i was the bomb-diggity. "Hip Hop Amy" was the shizzznit.


i used to be one of those people who jammed their music so loud in the car with my windows down that people would stare at me at stoplights, gas stations when i stopped for gas, pulling up at my apartment etc...because i was just soooooo cool....yanno. [not]


UmmmmHmmmmmm....so i was a pretty cool chica before "Hip Hop Amy" became "Hip Hop Mommy"......[heheheheeee]


i mean let's face it, club days are over, teeny tiny itty bitty tops are over, jeans sagging off my rear end with holes in them - so OVER and those yummy abs have been on a hiatus lately (but i will not allow those to be over, i am holding on to those, they will come back, they will, they will, they….will), 6 days a week with 2 to 3 hour workouts - OVER, my belly chain has SO retired, my mommy radar looks for more than "cute" in boyfriends now (and less than zero trouble i.e drama, games etc....) and unless you knew me in those "Hip Hop Amy" days...."Hip Hop Amy" ceases to exist....sure there are pictures, dance videos [yikes!], even a few pairs of old jeans that "Hip Hop Amy" designed with my very own scissors and saftey pins…tucked away for proof....but “Hip Hop Amy” lives on only in loving memory now….

[a moment of silence please……]

thank you....

now shnookie doodles and "Hip Hop Mommy" ....we have our own dance everynight.... to a little Backyardigans and a bit of Jack's Big Music Show....and i must say, we are pretty good dance pair!

i wonder what shnookie doodles will think of “Hip Hop Mommy” when he gets older…..

he will probably think mommy's music is old, mommy is such a corny person, and how in the world could my mommy have ever been cool?? and “Hip Hop Amy”??? are you kidding, what a cheesy name…..[ha]


and then i will break out my NB901 videos and show him a thing or two…..[heheheheheeeee]


...maybe.