FanGirl Friday: What I Believe

I don't usually discuss current events, politics, or things like that on this blog. I try to keep it focused on fun. But on occasion, I feel the need to say something. This may be a weird, rambling post.

If you've set foot out of your house within the past week or two or taken a glance at any social media platform, you may have seen or heard what happened with George Floyd. I'm not here to dive deep into it. I will say that it was wrong on so many levels. I'm also not here to dive deep into the protests. I'm also not going to talk about my political or religious views surrounding the events of George Floyd's death or the protests.

But there are a few things that I want to share.

1. No matter WHAT you believe about what happened or the protests and violence going on, I am going to say this: I love you. I don't care who you voted for. Who you are going to vote for. What color you are. What your religion is. It doesn't matter to me. No, I am not "color blind." I see you, People of Color. I understand that you have oppressed for far too long. I may not have been in your shoes or experienced what you have, but know that I see you.
2. To those of you who want to get upset with celebrities who are vocal about their choices that oppose your own, I don't understand you. I'm speaking specifically in regards to whatever it was that broke out on Twitter Wednesday night. I'm not on Twitter much, but apparently, there were some haters hating on Brian and Leighanne Littrell because they are VERY Republican. I know this. I DON'T CARE! Yes, I follow Leighanne on Facebook but I tend to scroll past a lot of her posts. Do I agree with her on a lot of it? NO! But I love her nonetheless. Now, I may not have seen what erupted on Twitter, but I did see this post. So quit hating! Hating on them is similar to what is going on. It's not the same, but by trying to bully someone for their views, you obviously just don't understand.
   
   

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It doesn’t take a lot to find happiness in things,people and places. In the craziness of the world today, the way people are lashing out at each other saddens me. No matter who I voted for or what religion I am, I am a person.... a person that has feelings and beliefs as well as quite a difficult life growing up but I prevailed and made the most of every situation and this is why I can take all your loving and hateful comments...... they are direct reflections of you So good or bad there it is. These pictures I find happiness in and comfort in my home💕 I love and thank all of you for having my best interest at heart and just know the love goes both ways💖💕💖#loveyourself #forgiveness #compassion

A post shared by Leighanne (@leighanne_littrell) on Jun 3, 2020 at 4:08pm PDT

3. And furthermore, did you not see that these two celebs joined the #BlackOutTuesday movement? Okay, maybe they don't believe ALL of it. Baylee obviously doesn't quite get WHY Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the National Anthem but he understands SOME of it. And he is still young and developing his own views. If you want to know more about Colin's kneeling or why there are looting and rioting or anything else, EDUCATE YOURSELF. This has been going on for centuries!
   
   

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A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on Jun 1, 2020 at 3:49pm PDT

4. I'm beyond proud of Kevin (and AJ) right now for being so vocal! Yes, I fall more on his side than I do the Littrells, but I don't love them less because I don't agree with them.

All this being said, I am who I am. I believe what I do. I believe Black Lives Matter. I believe Love is Love. I believe in Science. I believe Kindness is Everything. You do not have to believe like me. You are free to believe what you wish. But know it doesn't change the way I feel about you.

Quarantined: Not So Much

I finally get to go back to work! Not that I haven't been working these past 11 weeks. But now I get to go back to work in person! This makes me happy because some of my co-workers have been able to actually work and serve this whole time. Yet for me, because of my situation, I haven't been able to. 

Now, this changes a few things: yes, I get to go back to working in person. Yes, I get to go back to serving our youth. But this also brings added stress and hazards to me. I have to keep my family safe while working.

So what does this have to do with fangirling? Well, it's May. Usually, May is full of craziness and school stuff and all kinds of things. In fact, on Friday, my kids finished school for the year. Granted, it wasn't the way we intended when the school year started, but it happened. Forgive the bare feet, but really, where were we going?

And they're not the only ones! So many kids I know are graduating, including my favorite teenager!

This just makes me cry! I remember standing next to this little boy. He was two! Where in the world did the time go????? He is not supposed to be graduating high school yet!!!!! But I knew back in August he was starting his senior year so it was BOUND to happen... But I SERIOUSLY just stopped feeling weird about this because he posted it two weeks ago. (See this post.) Gee, thanks Mama for posting this!

And then of course, after I go to bed Sunday night, what does Brian do: drop pics! Dang night owl! Awesome black and white ones. It's eerie seeing the first one because those freeways are usually packed! But his black and whites are always just STUNNING!

Quarantined: Too Much Love! Is that a Thing?

What a weekend! First thing's first, let's talk CMT Music 12 Pack Countdown. BAYLEE WAS NUMBER 4!!!!!! OMG! We are moving this boy up the chart!!!! Woohoo! And while we're talking about, GO VOTE!

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Number 4 y’all! Let’s keep it up! #cmt12packcountdown

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 23, 2020 at 5:52pm PDT

And then on Saturday, Brian decides to BLESS us with a video of Bay being Bay, his gorgeous wife, and a shirtless pic of him!

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#weekending in Littrellville.... 🤣 #iloveyoubaby thank you for the deliciousness..... 🤪

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 23, 2020 at 1:23pm PDT

Can life get better????

Why, yes! Yes it can! Saturday afternoon I got word of Bay doing a Live Instagram. I was bummed because it was right over dinner time for me. Well, apparently, they were having technical difficulties. Because when this live DID happen on Sunday, Bay was having all kinds of sound drops and blurriness! But it continued! Yeah, it was a short one, maybe 15 minutes but he sang "Some Guys" which is definitely growing on me the more he performs it! The first shot is from another Instagram user and then the rest are my screenshots. *sigh* God I needed this!

WIP Wednesday: In Deep

This WIP Wednesday, I wanna talk about the current project on my plate. It's a new thing. It's deep and dark and way out there for me. It is very much gay erotica. And by that I mean the story is told essentially through the sex.

I've never done a story like this before. Yeah, I've written erotic stuff and some of it was pretty hardcore (like "Finding Control"), but not something like this. And like everything else I currently write, it's fanfiction!

Title: In Deep

Summary: After coming out to his parents, Baylee finds himself kicked out and on his own. He takes to selling himself on the street. When a lucrative opportunity comes his way, he takes it, not realizing the consequences.

Currently Updated To: Chapter 3

So, yeah, um... Baylee, prostitution, gay... Can we get further from reality here????

I don't see this being as long as the last few I've written. I'd say it's likely a third of the way finished. Wanna read it? Click here.

Quarantined: Baylee and the Frick & Frack Show

Sunday afternoon, I'm sitting at home and I get a reminder on my phone about an event coming up. The Frick & Frack Show was hosting a fan chat via Zoom. Ok, lemme explain something about me and Zoom. For some reason, it hates me. My kids can Zoom easily! Me, I ALWAYS have either CPU usage problems and have to have ONLY Zoom up or my network hates me and I freeze! This song seems to be my life right about now:

So, I jump on, keep myself on mute because, well, my household is CRAZY! Two kids, two dogs, and my mom. Yeah, I'm lucky to get through an hour. Anyway, it was a BLAST! These two guys are awesome! You should check them out because now their podcast is JUST ABOUT everywhere. And come on, they are GUYS who ALSO are BSB FANS! Dang, why can't I find a guy like this?

So what did I say that Matthew couldn't read and Caleb just didn't read and about got me kicked out? I told them that they just needed to drop "The One" because Brian can't do it anymore! It's the truth though. The guys do amazing at covering him, but he struggles too much and I don't like seeing him struggle or just drop. What they don't realize is that I have been a Brian fan since the beginning and I will support him no matter what. He could've just stopped, but he is such a fighter!

So as I'm getting off and getting ready for dinner, I get the ominous text from my BFF. Literally, we can speak in two words: "INSTA NOW!" and we know EXACTLY what that means! It essentially means that one of our fav fam is posting on Instagram. So I hop over there and just about immediately start bawling because THIS is what I see:

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High School Grad sounds pretty good.Glad I got to spend it with you boys❤️ Thanks for sharing this special moment with me👊🏼 Can’t wait to see what the future holds. #highschoolgraduate

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 17, 2020 at 4:42pm PDT

Okay, yeah. I'm just done. Let me just go crawl in a corner and cry now!

And to make it even better, there's this on Gibson's Facebook Page:

So that was my Sunday... How was yours?

Quarantined: Littrell Love

It's been kinda sad in quarantine for me, a Brian fan. Yeah, the AJ fans have had their Looped calls. Howie's done his virtual "Howie Eatz." Nick is like family/baby obsessed right now. Kev, well, he's never been very social. And Brian, well, he's just intermittent. When he's away from the fam, he's like a social butterfly. When he's home, he's like family-focused. Okay, I get it. I'm fine with it. It doesn't bother me, much. So when he does post, I relish it!

But before we talk about Brian, let's talk about his son. Man, the things he does to just make my little heart quiver. The first thing he does is drop the dressed up pic:

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#bayleelittrell2024 @king_bigwillard for VP!!!😂😂😂

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 13, 2020 at 2:18pm PDT

 And then he has to go and remind us that summer is nearly here. In the words of Douglas Adams, "Where's your towel?"

 

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Throwing it back to last summer with 20% off our "We Run This Beach" towels, get them while they're in stock! store.bayleelittrell.com 🔗

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 14, 2020 at 5:00pm PDT

So let's talk Dad here. Who's got a quarantine project going? I know I do! And guess what, Brian has this young man whom he can "supervise" for said quarantine projects!

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@bayleelittrell_music and @aidanb1226 working hard.... I’m just supervising 😂 mulching in Quarantine.....

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 14, 2020 at 2:58pm PDT

And well, we can't forget that Baylee's "Boxes -615" is in the running for CMT's Music Twelve Pack countdown! And sometimes he even reminds us of this fact!

So, um, Go vote!

It's not much, but I'll take what I can get. 

Quarantined: #AloneTogether with Baylee Littrell

Brian and the fam had been pretty quiet on social media this week. I was getting restless! But then Thursday night, they go all "food post" on me. First Leighanne with what we'll call "The Before." I guess they took the "leftover challenge." Nope. Not one for me! And Baylee legitimately looks terrified to eat his mother's cooking!

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What’s in your fridge?😂 #leftoverchallenge tag me!

A post shared by Leighanne (@leighanne_littrell) on May 7, 2020 at 6:42pm PDT

But apparently, it wasn't bad because Brian gave us "The After" shot:

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Hated it!!!! Can’t you tell.... wow is it possible to have leftovers for leftover? That was amazing..... #leftoverchallenge 🤪

A post shared by Brian Littrell (@rokspics) on May 7, 2020 at 7:02pm PDT

And yeah, there were a couple of posts before that too, but all in all, Brian had been silent. And his post before this one was just a text post!

And both of these were literally right before I went to bed. And after I did go to bed, Bay drops this sweet thing on me:

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Here is a clip of me with the boys and my tiny microphone 15 years ago.Thank you for finding this @yahtzee27 😂time goes by too fast...

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on May 7, 2020 at 11:02pm PDT

This is like the sweetest little thing! THIS is how I see Baylee in my head. Two years old. Mop of blonde curls. Sometimes it's hard to see him as the almost-adult he is today. He's grown up WAY TOO FAST!

Okay, that was what I woke up to on Friday morning. Then came Friday afternoon.

I was just finishing work on Friday and getting back onto Facebook. See, I close all my socials so I can actually work. (Yes, I do most of the time keep my music on.) So as I was doing this, scrolling through Facebook, I see this post pop up from both Brian and Baylee. Apparently, Baylee did a vid for CMT! Oh, this made my heart happy. And I was even happier that it was my THREE FAVORITE SONGS from his album: "Come Kiss Me," "Boxes," and "Nobody Tells Ya." *sigh* It literally just made my Friday!


So, there I sat on a Friday afternoon, enjoying my favorite Boys. What a great way to go into the weekend!

Quarantined: Baylee is Country AF

On Friday, Baylee took over CountryaAFRadio and gave his top 10 songs that made him the artist he is today. So are you ready? I guarantee, some of these, you know if you've followed him AT ALL over the past 2 years.

So #1 was Randy Travis's "Forever and Ever, Amen."

This is not surprising as he's met him TWICE within the past year!

The first was at the Michael W. Smith event a year ago. And the second was when Baylee did CMA fest in November!

Ok, #2 wasn't surprising either. It was Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings." Why wasn't it surprising? This:

#3 was Brad Paisley's "She's Everything." And #4, I'm glad, I was outside with the kids for. It was Tim McGraw's "Don't Take the Girl." This song makes me bawl like a baby! Again, not a surprise, though, because of this:

#5 was "One Good Reason" by Hunter Hayes. #6 was "Burn Out" by Midland. #7 was probably the oldest one on his list. It was "White Sport Coat" by Marty Robbins. "Homemade" by Jake Owen was next. Followed by another non-surprise, of "Signed, Sober You" by Hardy. He's talked about that one a few times. And his list couldn't be complete without the great George Strait. His pick: "Troubadour." And then, to finish his time, he had to drop his own song!

And speaking of this song, it's in the Top 12 again this week. I just don't know where it fell because everyone is keeping it quiet and I don't have cable!

FanGirl Friday: Baylee's Second Helping!

Monday, I was in Zoom meetings all morning. When I Zoom, I always have my phone with me just in case my staff has to get in touch with me while I'm doing things. Well, one of the great things in following BSB and Baylee on YouTube is that I usually get alerts when they drop something new. This time, I didn't. But I knew something was coming from Baylee because he had teased it on his Instagram on Saturday.

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Hey y'all, for those of you who've seen #BayleeLittrellHomemade and want a second helping, we're releasing four new videos this #Monday on my Youtube at www.youtube.com/bayleelittrellmusic 📺

A post shared by Baylee Littrell (@bayleelittrell_music) on Apr 25, 2020 at 11:38am PDT

Anyway, I was in my meeting and when I finished I decided to check Baylee's YouTube page. Low and behold, there are the 4 videos! They became my playlist for the next 30 minutes while I worked on stuff.

So here is your "Second Helping" of "Baylee Littrell: Homemade!"

 My fav! "Nobody Tells Ya" Love this version!

"Dirt and Gold" is just to die for!

"Why Did You Leave" is amazing!

"Stuck in the Middle" is quickly becoming my new fav original of his!