*OUR SIGNS THAT WE MIGHT BE OBSESSED WITH ITZ*


1. You wish you were Taylor's microphone...or Ike's guitar strings...or Zac's headphones.

2. When ever you see a big white van...you get butterflies in your stomach and your heart starts beating faster.

3. When you get dressed in the morning and you wonder if your favorite Hanson would like your outfit.

4. You put the TV GUIDE couch picture in a frame and put it on your computer desk.

5. You are constantly looking for couples were the woman is older than the man for examples to give to your family who think you are a cradle robber.

6. When someone talks about a new song and you have never heard it because you only listen to Hanson's CDs

7. You win a contest at a local radio station and win a CD but can not remember who the artist is because they are not Hanson.

8. You start a webpage about Hanson that takes up lots of your free time.

9. You realize that even though the webpage takes up a lot of time...all of your free time was spent listening to Hanson to anyway...at least now you are developing a skill by using the computer so much.

10. You stop listening to your regular radio station because they will not play Hanson.

11. You start buying clothes the color red even though you never used to like to wear that color before...or green...or blue.

12. You let your daughter get away with wasting film while she tries to take pictures of Zac off of the TV. (by the way the pictures did not take either)

13. You call the radio station every time you have to go to work at 4:00 in the morning and request Hanson's "Where's The Love" for your morning wake up. (It works better than coffee)

14. The disc jockey on radio at 4:00 in the morning starts to recognize your voice.

15. You are taking a shower and you hear your daughter yell that Hanson is on TV and you go running out to the livingroom with only a towel on to catch the last 5 seconds of the Hanson Eggo commercial

16. You go on a diet because in your obsessed mind you just know that you are going to meet the Hansons and you want to look like an 18 year old "hot chick" (Ok, so I am just a tad obsessed but I sure feel healthy right now...Kim)

17. You start dressing your children like Hanson and calling them by new names like: Ike, Tay, and Zac!

18. You have been toying with the idea of getting the Hanson logo tattooed on your body somewhere.

19. You are thinking about applying and trying to get accepted to Tulsa University to get your Master's degree in Psychology, just so you can breathe the same air they do.

20. You start searching for that perfect pair of Airwalks or Doc Martens to wear.

21. You plan to go on your one and only vacation of the year to Tulsa so you can go to LaserQuest, every Rex's Boneless Chicken in the city to sit in every single booth (you figure out why), and of course drive by their house everyday you are in the city (of course we will not even breathe on their property let alone trespass on it without permission, we respect Hanson's privacy).

22. You plan on going to a concert in another state with your sister (no kids allowed) and you have arranged for a friend to be on call in case you need bail money (we promise to be good, now if they would just post those darn tour dates).

23. You wonder if any of the guys are into older women (oh please, please, please, please).

24. You order the Hanson Logo stickers to put your car so everyone, not just your friends and family, can see your devotion to Hanson.

26. You have a poster of your favorite Hanson next to your bed so you can wake up every morning and look in to his eyes (Disclaimer: you married girls might not want to try this one...but if your husband is really understanding you might be able to get away with it...Kim).

27. You spend way to much money buying the import CDs from CD Now, but you rationalize this by saying "I need them to do research for the webpage."

28. You get a sick feeling in your stomach every time you wonder if all of this Hanson surfing will cause your computer to crash.

29. You are taking a walk with your sister and someone yells out of their car window "Hey Mrs. Hanson" and you turn to look only you do not recognize the person...and you think "Do I maybe talk too much about the guys?" You say to yourself "Nah" (My sister and I still do not know who this person is...Michelle claims they were talking about me because as she puts it she is kind of still in the "Hanson closet", she is not as vocal about her obsession as I am...Kim).

30. When you give your daughter her Hanson waffle, as they are now called, for breakfast you ask her if she would like a drumstick to eat it with (I got the cutest little grin from her when I did this one...Kim).

31. You are obsessed with finding reasons why you are not obsessed (Okay Michelle come out of the Hanson "stinky sock closet" and just admit to the whole world how you feel just like I do everyday...Kim).

32. You are watching the Leno appearance and hear they have motorcycles and the first thing that pops into your head after hearing this is the images of you and your favorite Hanson riding through the countryside with his hair blowing in your face and your arms wrapped tightly around his waist (Oh my).

33. When you get up an hour early to be able to surf the Net and see if Hanson has signed your guestbook yet (Did that clock really say 5:00 am...Michelle).

34. You buy the family size box of waffles, not for you and your daughter to eat, you buy it because the picture of Hanson is larger.

35. You eat spring rolls for the first time only because Taylor is watching them being made for himself in TTMON.

36. You know......when you open Hansonoline then your own page just so they can be close to each other! (If we can't be next to them at least our page can be) I (Michelle) think it liked it too.

37. When you do not shave your legs in the morning because that will cut down considerably on your Hanson surfin time.

38. You always check to see if Lego's are on sale...hey you never know the guys might stop over and want to play.

39. The newly single sister wonders if any guy will ever be able to compete with Taylor Hanson in her eyes.

40. You have pictures on your fridge...a small one in your minivan...and in your wallet of Hanson.

41. You hear the words "Oh Yeah" coming from the TV in the other room and you instictively know that it's the MMMBop video, so you take off running for the living room and sure enough there they are in all their glory on the tube.

42. You freak out one day because you think you have blown your speakers on your computer...just because you play Hanson a little loud when you are working on your webpage. (Do not worry they were okay the next day...Whew...Kim)

43. You do not buy the PopTart box because the picture of Hanson is to small.

44. While shooping at the grocery store you think you have laid down your keys and you need to find them...you have to stop and remember where you were in the store and the only places you can remember being are in the poptart aisle, the freezer section, and the magazine section.

45. During your 40 minute drive each way to school everyday the only music you play is anything Hanson!

46. While studying for your finals you can not concentrate because one of the things you need to study for is a class called Criminal Procedures and one of the cases has an part called the "Taylor Incident" and the words "he was placed face down on the hood of the car and told to spead his legs apart." (can anyone see why I had such a hard time studying...Kim)

47. Your daughter tells you to calm down when you are watching Hanson on TV.

48. You beg someone to send you "Tulsa Tootsie Rolla" lipgloss and nail polish.

49. You flour, sugar, and tea bag canisters now hold...twizzlers, sugar, and jelly beans, just in case of an emergency...uhh yeah right.

50. Your cancelled check from joining the MOE fan club still sits on your computer desk.

51. You and your sister jockey for the best position in front of the "Hanson waffle freezer" at the grocery store.

52. You would give anything to be a Hanson roadie for the day just to hear the words "get me a diet Dr Pepper and some jelly beans please."

53. You are proudly going around town with a big Hanson logo sticker on your minvan's back window, which your daughter points out to her friends.

54. You take a walk on the beach and write their names in the sand even though other people are watching.

55. You feel extremely extremely guilty and wonder if you are getting ill when find that you like the song "Everybody" by the BSB.(it still doesn't deserve to be number one..."Weird" is number one in our heart).

56. You are still feeling extremely guilty the next morning so you rush out and buy three Hanson posters, three Hanson stickers, and two magazines about Hanson.

57. You check out Hansonline before you even check on your own webpage.

58. You put your obsessions on a webpage because you do not care who sees them, you just want the whole world to know how much you love Hanson.

59. You tell your daughter that Hanson's music is the only music that is allowed to be played loud in your house.

60..You hear MON coming out of her bedroom and you tell her turn it up louder and make the walls shake.

61. You are at the local city festival and you are brave enough to ask the vendor if he has the Hanson shirts in a size that is obviously too big for your eight year old daughter (But they were Snowed In shirts and I wanted an x-large...sniff)

62. You sit and stare at the Admiral Twin webpage for about ten minutes and actually contemplate buying their CD when you have never heard a word they sing.

63. The same goes for the Admiral Twin t-shirt.

65. While at Hills you have to go into the CD section just to make sure the guys are comfy.

66. You find out your daughter will be riding in the Walleye Festival parade in a firetruck and you make her go back inside and put on a Hanson t-shirt (hey I just have got to promote the guys as much as I can...Kim).

67. You are a member of MOE and not your daughters (Both K and M are guilty of this one...giggle).

68. You are at the grocery store with your sister and you say to her "I will be right back, I need to find something"...when you come back she asks where you went knowing full well it must have had something to do with Hanson because you are being so secretive (you know what...it was, I was scoping out the Pop-Tart boxes).

69. You are at the laundrymat doing your laundry and you just happen to come across a picture of the guys in a magazine and to your amazement the picture just kind of tears itself out of the magazine.

70. You miss the New Years Ball Drop because you are watching TTMON (Michelle...GUILTY!)

71. You watch TTMON in slow motion once the whole way through the tape so you wouldn't miss a thing.

72. You contemplate joining a new record club so you can get back up copies of MON (you know 10 for a penny).

73. You are proud to show your neighbor your home office with all of the Hanson pics on the wall.

74. You tell any one who will listen about your webpage even after their eyes start to glaze over.

75. You now speak Hansoneze and itz your main language.

76. You catch yourself stomping your foot to the songs playing on the speaker system at work when you are standing.

77. You check out "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand from the library...just because you read in an article that Taylor is reading it. (itz over 1,000 pages long...aaarrrggghhh).

78. You also get a book out and the library called "Forever and a Day." (hmm...catchy title).

79. You get yelled at for clinking the weights to loud when you work out. (ok ok I was thinking about Hanson...that's why the weights were clinking!)

80. You have pictures of them on your visors in the car for that "quick" fix.

81. Your brother-in-law calls you the Princess of Hanson. (yes I am royalty now!!! Kim)

82. You are getting your "Guilt Free Ice Cream" out of the freezer and swear you see the word Albertane on it only to realize it says Aspartame.

83. You are already trying to figure out what to get them for Christmas.

84. You use the computer mouse little screen arrow to caress pictures of their faces.

85. You practically give yourself whiplash at the beach when you hear someone calling the name Isaac.

86. You drive for over an hour to a store you have never been too just because they have the perfect shoes to wear to the Hanson concert for sale...and you almost get lost on the way home...lucky we had those Hanson tapes to listen to.

87. You buy pens in red, green, and blue for you daughter, sister and nieces.

88. You no longer complain about taking and hour to put dreads in your daughter's hair...she has always liked them at least now there is a reason for it.

In case you were wondering these have all happened to the two creators of Hansonology at one time or another.

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