I am in a rut....

Well Obviously I wasn't "back" lol since its now December and I haven't posted since September.

So I feel like I need some sort of "photo challenge". I have been working on my Christmas photo gifts and it got me thinking about preserving memories and photos of friends and family no matter what. Too often I think we naturally go with the thought that there will always be time for more, so we don't stop to take that moment to be sure we have it. I tried to take more pics of adults this year since I realize I always have the kids, and I still don't feel like I got enough of everyone. So I think I need to give myself some sort of challenge...but what do I want to do? I was thinking of some how challenging myself to take a photo of everyone I meet. I am not talking people on the street but if I go to a party-got to get a pic no matter who they are! But then I don't need an album full of strangers either although most parties I go to I DO know the people LOL.

I still need to focus on adults. But I do need to get myself in the pics more too. One thing I DO know I have to do is get the photos I have already taken into albums!!

ITs Fall TV season 2009!!

And I'm back!!

Well, at least I am hoping to be back. With all the new TV starting over the next few weeks I am feeling motivated to get my TV Talk on.Its a great excuse to blog and a great excuse to talk about my opinions of things on TV.

Up first...the new season of 90210
(First, let me say that I do hope they make amends with their attempt to break up David and Donna last season. Even just the implication of such a thing is just WRONG and I want clear indication that all is well in their lives at some point this season!!)

Now, up first I must comment on the new theme song/opening. I actually viewed it online earlier today and it is definitely a much better and fresh, fitting opening for this show. Its catching but still fits with the old school charm that the original show had. It seems like they are trying more of the structure of filming that the original had.

I am only about 10 minutes in but I have some serious questions.....
1-Why did the main family move? Their new diggs seem to "fit" better and it looks like we won't be seeing grandma now that she "has a show in Vegas" and I think that is a wise choice because she didn't add a thing to the show. A better explaination better be coming...
2-Annie is still a brat. She was a brat last season and she is a like a bad brenda in her dark years wanna be.
3-What the heck happened to the Beverly Beach club?? I know things would have been updated but a pool and no beach scene? really??
4-The recycling of the Valerie and the married man at the beach club story with Naomi (a teenager) is just stupid. It better have a point and go some where good.
5-I like the idea of Naomi, Silver and Adrianna as tight girlfriends, it just seems a little out of place with Silver but I guess she had to fit in somewhere. If you didn't watch last season it won't seem as weird nad I know they made amends but it still seemed a bit odd at first, especially since Silver WAS friends with Annie.
6-Annie is gonna crack and its either going to be really good TV or its going to be a great, easy way to get rid of dead weight on a show that doesn't need it.
7-as the show progresses I am happy to now see the beach at the beach club:) I guess the pool was just an addition (and gives another place to show off people in their bathing suits.)
8-New guy Teddy, going to be interesting although for me it will be a hard sell since I saw him on Days of Our Lives last summer and he was just an awful actor and character. Hopefully this will be a step up for him!
9-I really like Dixon and Silver...hopefully they will have some sort of "donna and david-esque" long term relationship.
10-Well it looks like we are rid of Ethan too. Good call. I vaguely remember hearing they dropped him at the end of last season. He offered nothing as a character and the actor was just ok in my opinion. He wasn't given a lot to work with so it just never seemed to "fit". Enjoy Montana!

It looks like it has potential to be a good season. Since they are not force-feeding back story and they lightened the load of who we should care about a little I am more interested in watching than last season, and I didn't get to see one original cast member. I still think some ties to the old will be good but we will see if these group of kids can reel me in like the original series.

Ah....90210!!! Comfort TV!!

Ok....so is anyone reading this? I am SO behind!!

So this past weekend was a lot of fun!!

A few months ago a friend of mine from elementary school and I thought it would be a great idea to try and get a few other girls who we used to hang out with together for a lunch and catch up. Most of us went to high school together too but didn't really talk/see each other as much then (We went from a school where there were 23 of us graduating in 9th grade to a school where there was 200 in our whole class so having a class with people you knew already was rare). Anyway, our central "theme" to bring everyone together was our having gone to elementary/Jr High together.

Shortly after we planned this, one of the girls passed away from a brain tumor. This just re-enforced our desire to have a lunch and catch up. So much so that my best friend who lives in FL actually bought a ticket to come up for the day and join us (this made me VERY happy!).

This past Saturday we finally had our planned lunch! It ended up only being 4 of us this time because a few things came up for some of the others. One of the guys we went to school with, also stopped by after we had eaten lunch so it was really a great day for memories!

We started out meeting at the school and taking a few photos. One girl missed this because she thought we weren't meeting until 2pm but we were meeting at 1pm and by 1:40pm waiting in the hot sun we had given up and were going to the lunch place because we were melting!! Here are some pics:

in front of our school








The three of us being silly in front of the school




lunch @ the Manor


at the Manor


It was a lot of fun and we are looking forward to trying to plan another and wrangling up a bunch of others (boys and girls LOL). I am really glad we did it and I look forward to the next time.

While we were at lunch, one friend also gave us all rubber bracelets for the brain cancer association. She had made a donation in memory of our friend who died recently and gave us each one of those bracelets for support. It was a really sweet moment and definitely sad at the same time.

All in all the lunch was a blast. It was bitter sweet because while I was thrilled to see everyone, and I was so thankful for the time my best friend and I had to hang out together, both during lunch and before when it was just us, I just wish there was more and its always sad to say good bye at the end. But hopefully it won't be as long before our next meet up in person!!

After I dropped my friend off to meet her dad, I went over to see my grandfather. He seems to be doing pretty good. He decided to start using a cane when walking around and it seems to help him a bit just giving that little extra support. And its handy for getting his hat out of the closest LOL. He also told me he has used the handicapped placard I got for his car a few times because I "was right and there is a bit of an incline at the grocery store" that tires him out and if there is a spot open, now he can use it. It was cute because he was telling me about how he is careful to remember to put it up and then when its time to leave take it down (technically it is illegal to drive with the handicap placard hanging from your mirror. Everyone does it but you aren't supposed to and I didn't want him to get pulled over some random day for something like that!)
We went to dinner and then I came home.

And THAT was my awesome Saturday.

Next weekend is the American Idol Tour Concert in Atlantic City with my good friend Kim. I can not wait AND I have an extra special treat to share regarding the concert...who wants to know what it is???

ta ta for now!

FWD:FWD:

this is a test.

American Idol Top 7 (Again!) Disco week

Ok here are my thoughts...

Lil-BLAH BLAH BLAH she is so over, she can't sing and dance, she can't pull off the wig and she looks stupid on stage and she realy isn't that good-not original at all and hasn't been all season. Go Home!!!!

Kris-definately showed ability to be original.Definately shows he belongs in the competion still. I am impressed. Good performance. Simon did say it best by saying that his performance was a polar opposite of lil.

(I just have to get my I hate kara in-she looks ridiculus when she talks!!)

Danny-Shocking song choice-not! Nothing impresses me by him anymore. I am over him. He is better than lil and I don't think he will go home yet but I just can't get into him as I did early on. He just sings like a shouting church singer week after week. He is good at what he can do but he can't do anything different.

(and Kara can take that finger she points and shove it...)

Alison-I like that she always does try to change it up even if its not the best choice for a particular song. She is way better than Lil. And I think she has tried to stay true to her own interests which I respect....and she is 16!! I think Paula actually said it well.

Adam-He should win. I like how he does put a spin onto whatever he sings and even if its not conventional he makes a change and does it well. He can pull it off and I really like him. He is original and a great singer!!! Wahoo!!

Matt-don't think it was the best song choice for him...he simply performed it disco and I didn't think he really did anything new to it. He could go-and I have liked him and his type of music but this was not it and let's just hope Anoop is worse.

Anoop-not impressed. For a guy who did Bobby brown earlier b/c he liked to have fun I am surprised he didn't pick a more fun song. He showed he knows how to sing a bit but it was really boring.

My hope...bye-bye Anoop and LIL!!!
(Unless we can get rid of Kara....I am still all for that!)

American Idol Top 9....live blog

Well I am not even sure if anyone reads this but its that time again!!!

*Kara is a waste of space on the show*

Anoop- I really liked Anoop early on but he just didn't do it for me at all tonight.

Megan-OMG...I think I have an earache from listening to her. She is just AWFUL and does the same AWFUL thing week after week after week. She sounds like someone is pounding on her chest while she sings-she was HORRIBLE!!!!! I REALLY hope she is gone soon!!!!

Danny-I don't know if they just didn't have enough guidance this week in picking song choices or what but even Danny I feel was not out of the park. He was good-he is always good but I just didn't feel anything extra. He is DEFIANETLY better than the other two....the first two were a waste of space.

Allison-I really like her. I think she stays true to herself but also performs really well. I thought she was going to play a little more of the guitar than she did.

Scott-I love Billy Joel so I had high hopes. Scott does ok but he seems to do the same type of song performance week after week and that could easily become old. I don't know if its memorable enough....I enjoy it but I am only one person. Iwas glad Simon liked it and hopefully that will help keep him around this week-he is definatly one of the better ones so far tonight!

Matt-Did ok. I don't think he was the best and I don't think he was the worst. He was very middle of the road with this week's song choice. I don't know that he "made it his own" but sang ok just the same. He was almost forgettable and after being in the bottom 3 last week I am a little worried because for some reason people like Megan (darn vote for the worst!!!) I do think if he had done something like "Apoligize" he could have blown it away-but he didn't.

Lil-She can sing. No doubt about it. But I find her boring and more and more I see her the less and less I like her. No question she has talent-and I am sure she will do well post-Idol but she is not one I care about anymore.

Adam-I surprisingly enjoyed it. He kept the elvis hair and no make up face which I thought was funny and he is a little funny when he dances but he is good. He is entertaining and he is a good singer. Comfortable on stage and it was much better than expected and he looked like he had fun. I was happy with it.

Kris-One of my fave songs so I was nervouse but I think he did it well and I liked what he did with it. So far this season Kris has been forgetable to me but tonight's performance was more memorable to me and I am feeling a little bit more love for him that I did last week.


Overall not a bad night...not the most interesting or exciting evening we have seen.

I am gonna give some love to Danny, Scott, Matt, Adam, and Kris this evening. Now everyone go vote!!!

And for the record...I still hate Kara and hope she is not back next year!
OK, WTH is with the outfit critics....seriously, Randy, is this a fashion show or a singing show? I get giving some constructive criticism on outfits but making the outfit the focus of your comments...come on! At least Simon had a reason for why the outfit bothered him!

American Idol Top 10....live blog

Well you all know what time it is....American Idol blog time!! You KNOW you want to read my hate on Kara!

But before I get into my live blogging let me just say I am happy we are at the Top 10. This is who we will see on tour this summer. And while I would have prefered Alexis to be on the tour instead of Megan (She is not quite my "carly" yet but she is definately when I will be checking my text messages) but over all I am happy with who we will get to see in concert. I look forward to the American Idol Concert in Atlantic City because its the one time a year I get together with one of my best friends from college for a girl's night out - just us! We hit Atlantic City-have a nice meal, and head into the concert, sometimes seeing the idols...sometimes not! I just hope they release the dates soon so we can get our tickets!! Plus...once we know when it is I can start my secret plan!!!

Ok down to business....

Matt-Nice job. Nice touch getting up from the piano. Good song choice and I was happy with it. He is one I really enjoy and I hope he will be around for a while.

Kris-He is ok. Not bad at all but he just hasn't pulled me in quite yet. I don't mind listening to him but I don't look forward to it either.

*I just thought I would interject here....can we vote off Kara?? I don't even listen to her so when she talks I have to write about how much I hate her so I don't have to listen. SEND KARA AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Scott-I like Scott. Everyone knows this but I have to say that who ever is his stylist has to help him a little...pink pants? That is just mean. Maybe they are trying to dress "Motown"?? Anyway...I really enjoyed his performance. I am glad he took something a little more upbeat to show he doesn't do just the same song every week. I was surprised Simon didn't like it. I thought he did better than they are acting like he did. I thought it was a good job to do the upbeat.

LOL Paula just gave Simon crayons and coloring books!!!

Megan-Blah Who is dressing these people??? and I really don't like her or her voice-its not good. And she is still wearing those awful eye lashes that keep her from opening her eyes. Randy said it---TRAINWRECK!!!! PLEASE go home!


Anoop-I like Anoop but that was nothing spectacular and it could hurt him. I would like to keep him around for a little longer but we will see...

Michael-Another one I don't mind watching and I am glad he is on the tour but I don't think he will be around much longer. He is ok but not sure people will buy into it. But people DO like him.

Lil-she is not a bad singer but just something about her that makes me go "blah blah blah blah blah" when she talks....she is to full of herself and has some serious ego issues.Didn't do anything for me though...

Adam-he looks funny. They had to tell them to dress Motown or something.But his singing is good and I enjoy him. Good interpretation of the song in bringing it. He showed he could do different...and made the song his own.

Danny-I do enjoy a good upbeat song....did very nice job. I liked the performance and the song and can listen to him so far anytime.

Allison-I thoguht she did a good job. She doesn't at all sounds like a kid. I worry a little about her because she did forget some words but the judges love her so we will see.

All in all a good show-Motown was more entertaining than I expected so that was good. Let's see where it goes tonight....