When Tisha Cash told me she was on board to do an installment of Becoming a Swifty, I thought, Well, how cool is that?!

This is the third episode of this series and I've now done talks with someone from my personal life, a complete stranger, and now -- thanks to Tisha -- someone from the professional world.

And what a fun chat it was.

Tisha and I go back roughly a decade ago to the time when I was about to become a parent for the second time, but we hadn't seen each other for a good little bit, so it was great to catch up with her and find out what's been happening in her world.

Christie Smerchek is a daughter, a sister, a friend, a wife, a mom, a dental hygienist, and a top-notch Taylor Swift fan.

I'm absolutely thrilled that she was willing and able to join me for the second installment of Becoming a Swifty, and -- much like my inaugural guest in the series -- she killed it.

We talked a little bit about a few of her non T. Swift favorites, i.e. The Postal Service's Give Up (2003), Final Straw (2003) by Snow Patrol, Imogen Heap's Speak for Yourself (2005), and Even If It Kills Me (2007) by Motion City Soundtrack, but a bunch of our focus went both in the direction of Miss Swift's career trajectory, as well as Christie's top three Taylor Swift albums, which were these:

I'm so very excited about this episode for a variety of reasons.

For starters, it's the first installment of the Becoming a Swifty series that I hope has a number of future guests (Note: Number two's already on the books!). This is an idea that's been cooking in the back of my brain for a good little bit, and it's always nice to see an idea come to fruition, whatever that may look like. And -- before you come for me, Swifties -- know that I'm aware that some of you may not care for a particular piece of the series spelling. The only thing I can say to that is that it's my show. I'm the language nerd, and I'm allowed to geek out in whatever aesthetic fashion I see fit. I do actually love the music of Taylor Swift, but probably not as much as you, and certainly not enough to defy the laws of grammar on that particular level. "And that's all I have to say about that."