Archives for 2006

What are those stages of grief? Shock, something, something, anger, something, something, acceptance. I think I’m moving into acceptance. It’s taken a whole 17 hours. Ok, being a little dramatic. Sort of. I do realize this is a good thing for him seeing that he won’t owe AI anything except some time to put his record out. But, dern, he didn’t deserve to go now! I feel a little comforted by the fact that message boards blew up everywhere last night after the show with everyone complaining he was kicked off. It’s not my partial-ness to him that is blinding me. He really didn’t deserve to go yet. I know he will have no trouble finding work but I hope he doesn’t take a job with a band like Fuel or Creed. It just doesn’t seem right. And you know what the weird thing is? I don’t even listen to his type of music. I listened to some of his stuff from Absent Element and actually didn’t get through it because I didn’t like it so much. I really hope he makes an album that I like because I love to hear him sing. I was SO looking forward to the week that he got to pick his own song and the judges picked him a song. I thought he would really shine because it would be very close to the real world.

And what was up with the request for Taylor to do his song again. I mean, is that allowed? That was so unfair to the rest of the contestants and it was just weird.

OK, enough about Chris and AI. I do have other things in my life besides AI (repeating to self).

Supposedly Scott took the kids mother’s day shopping this morning. Not sure how that went except he said she didn’t last long enough. Which sounds like he either bought something out of being rushed or didn’t buy anything at all.

I’m at work today. I am STILL stuffed from my Flo’s Filet at Longhorn. Gosh, I love that steak and fries and salad and bread. Yeah. I’m full. That won’t stop the 3:00 coffee run to Starbuck’s though.

I need a show for Thursday nights and I was told today that The Office is good. And since Jaynee raves about it, I think I may check it out.

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Folks, please take a minute to mourn this horrible moment in American Idol history. This is AWFUL. I am still in shock. I think the neighbors heard me scream my wretched NOOO!! when the news was announced. Ryan’s announcement was sort of drowned out for a second and it took me a minute to completely understand what he was saying. I could not believe it. And neither could Chris apparently. I knew the dialidol stats and yet I denied that everywhere I turned, they were saying Chris was leaving. Paula was devastated–ok, so Paula could be devastated over much less but that’s not the point. Simon even looked ticked–ok, so Simon always looks ticked but that’s not the point either. The point, the point is that CHRIS GOT VOTED OFF. UGH!!!!

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will someone PLEASE take Doodlebops off the air?

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Ack, dialidol has Chris at the BOTTOM of last night. I got in 349 votes for him and tried to call from our second line but never got through. I thought that was good. But maybe not. And dialidol had an issue with getting numbers mixed up possibly from last week so ugh. Maybe wrong votes went to wrong people. Thoughts for last night:

Taylor: I was REALLY scared last night would be cheesy when I saw the song Jailhouse Rock. But Taylor was REALLY good. I didn’t think it was karoke-ish. His second song ended way too soon. It was so good I wanted him to sing more!

Chris: Ahhh. The guy is hot. I enjoyed that first song better than the second. He sounded great on both but I think if he would have just smiled at least on the second one instead of doing the whole staring flirting thing, it would have been more appropriate for the song. And the last note of the second was a little…off. So although I enjoyed both immensely, it just didn’t seem to have much personality and spunk as Taylor’s performances.

Katharine: They were both awful. She must go home.

Elliott: He came out fighting and he did a GREAT job. I’ll be disappointed if he goes tonight.

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MJ’s blog posted AI song spoilers

Elliott Yamin: “Trouble” and “If I Can Dream”

Chris Daughtry: “A Little Less Conversation” and “Suspicious Minds”

Taylor Hicks: “In the Ghetto” and “Jailhouse Rock”

Katherine McPhee: “Hound Dog/All Shook Up” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”

VERY excited about Chris doing Suspicious Minds. I wanted someone to do that! A little concerned about Jailhouse Rock and Hound Dog and their possible cheese factor. Taylor can probably pull it off but not sure about Kat.

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So Scott and I went to church last night while MIL watched the kids. There was a group Hope’s Call there to sing. They also presented Companion International which helps poor kids around the world. We ended up sponsoring one. He is a year older than Emma and we are calling him Alex although his name is four names long, two of which I can not pronounce. His first is Ariel although that might be confusing given the whole Disney Princess Ariel. His second name is Alexander and since Alex reminds me of Lexi, we just decided on Alex. Emma drew him like 4 pictures last night and I wrote a letter to him. We haven’t even gotten his address yet but I’m truly excited about it. It is like the girls’ big brother. So, if we get any updates, I’ll have to tell you about them.

Emma is off to school this morning. Scott had a meeting at the church. I am still in my robe. I could have slept until 9 or 9:30 easy this morning. I went to bed with a headache and nauseous last night. No, I’m not preggo.

So Desperate Housewives was INSANO last night. I’m not sure if Desperate is quite the word for all the junk that happened last night. It does make for some good drama to watch though.

And Grey’s Anatomy!! Ah, I love that show. So Derek is assuming a little too much about Meredith and although his assumptions about how many men she has slept with is correct, it seemed a little unfair seeing that she HADN’T slept with McVet. And is it just me or am I the only one surprised that they HADN’T slept together. OK, so maybe Derek had a right to assume that. Anyway, so I guess since next week starts the season finale they are leaving the Mer-Der thing “over with” for the season. Which didn’t they sort of do that last season finale when the wife-y showed up? Poor Izzie. Poor Denny. I don’t see good things happening for them at the season finale. I’m pretty sure he gets his heart but I can’t imagine he would make a full recovery by season finale end. So, he either dies or we don’t really get to see them together. Alex was awesome last night. I’m starting to like him more. I really liked Cristina “cheery”. She was much more pleasant to be around and I always like her dancing. But Burke seemed to take the whole falling asleep thing pretty hard. It must be that everything is coming to a head with him and putting up with her because he seemed pretty upset for just that.

What else is coming up? I’ve got bible study tonight, an orthodontist appt tomorrow to get my mold for the bottom retainer and probably will go into work on Thursday. I think that’s about it for the highlights of my week. Hopefully the gym will fit in there several times.

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Lately I have been starting to get, I don’t know, panicky, about Emma becoming 4 this year. It’s still over 6 months away but 4 just isn’t a baby anymore. It isn’t even a toddler and it’s almost not even a preschooler! And she stays so busy during the week, I’m feeling lately like I barely get to see her. Sunday we are at church. Which means we leave at 9:30 and I don’t usually pick her up from her class until 12:30. At that point, we normally rush off to lunch and if we are going with his parents, she wants to ride in their van. Then after lunch she normally spends the afternoon at one of our parents. Usually my mom because she watches the kids for me for choir practice if Scott is working. Anyway, so then it’s back to church in the evening. Monday morning is school and I’m working in the afternoon. Tuesday I do get her all day. Wednesday morning is school and then MIL comes and gets her. Thursday I get her. Friday Mom gets her and ususally Lexi too. Friday night she stays with MIL and then she usually keeps her until Saturday at dinner time. Then the cycle starts all over. That means I only get her on Tuesdays and Thursdays (when I’m working) and whatever craziness we do in the evenings during the week. That means we don’t really get any good one on one time. So I’m starting to feel really protective over where she goes and for how long. I haven’t stopped her from going anywhere yet. But I was happy she stayed home this Friday. And Lexi I think has the croup again and the 3 of us stayed home from church this morning since Scott is working. I really hate to miss church because my week just doesn’t seem to go right without it and I really feel at a loss without it but I am enjoying just hanging out at the house with our jammies on and I don’t have to worry about working or cleaning. I used to be almost happy to send Emma off with folks. She obviously enjoys it very much and it was a much needed respite for me with a little one around. But now that Emma is getting older and things seem to really have an affect on her and I know her time is just going to get more busy, I’m just feeling a little overwhelmed! Where’s my baby??

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