Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
Does anyone else feel a little like AI is already over and Taylor has won? A lot of people DID expect a Taylor and Chris finale and now it seems like that was the finale of the show and Taylor won and the rest is just aftershocks of the show. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me.
Yikes, bible study is tonight and I haven’t done my lessons. Gotta go do that!
This weekend was so nice. I actually enjoyed myself and found a smile on my face lots yesterday. Friday night Mom watched the kids and we went out to eat with C&D. Emma stayed with MIL. Friday night I went to Heather’s and stayed until 12:30 working on a scrapbooking project for MIL’s present. That was fun. Heather has like a small scrapbook store at her house. Saturday we got up and I didn’t clean (very much anyway). Amazing. And it felt good–at least for the day. Not so much this morning when I want to finish cleaning. Anyway, we got out and got some more presents for Mother’s Day. Emma came home for a little while Saturday afternoon and then they watched the girls while Scott and I ran up to SouthPark to exchange some more clothes. Sunday we went to church, ate at MIL’s, came home for Lexi to nap and then spent a few hours at my Mom’s last evening. We had so much fun over there. We ate outside on a new patio set and the girls played on the new swing set and we jumped on the neighbor’s trampoline. Man, I haven’t done that for YEARS and it was SO much fun. I felt like a kid again. Scott bought me a shirt and some exercise clothes for my present. They are nice but a little, uh, clingy. So I might have to exchange them. But great weekend.
We had a ton of people sign up for the training I’m helping with at church on Saturday. We are still working on last minute details. Nursery might be a little issue. There are 20 kids signed up for nursery for 7 hours (with a lunch break). Hopefully we can find enough older youth to take care of them. I’m hoping either my mom or sister can come pick them up after work so Lexi can go home and get a nap.
OMG! Grey’s Anatomy was SO crazy last night. I don’t even know where to begin!! Let’s take this by couple I suppose…
Der/Addison–Priceless when Addison realized her assumption that they were sleeping together was not true and that he was extremely jealous of McVet and still loved Mer!! And then her outburst being heard by the entire staff including Mer. Didn’t you love Mer going back and forth not sure where to go??
Der/Mer–You could have cut that tension in the elevator with a spoon. Apparently they say that scene used to have words and Patrick Dempsey wanted to cut them out. Good call, dude. That rocked. And Mer saying she still loved him to McVet and totally not talking about the dog! I loved it!
Cristina/Burke–O.M.G. Burke got shot. I literally gasped and threw my hand over my mouth when I saw Burke lying there shot. I’m thinking her and Burke get over their tiff after this. They can not let Burke die. I know they won’t and they can’t and they better not. And as one poster pointed out, how come Burke was not on the ground instead of the roof where helicopters normally land?
George/Callie–Lovin’ George telling Callie off and takin up for Mer. And I ALMOST started liking Callie when she showed Mer the x-rays. Still don’t like her with George, but sorta liked her as a person. Almost.
Denny/Izzie–Awww. I can’t stand it. I literally cried when Izzie told him why did you make me love you? And WHAT IS SHE THINKING! She cut. Denny’s. cord. Why would she do that. And now Burke is shot and what is going to happen to Denny? And why didn’t George make her stop? Why didn’t Denny have some sort of last minute change of mind and say hey, you’re fixing to kill me, stop it! Denny must not die and they must not make me wait 6 months to find out if he is alive or not.
Ugh! I am so glad the end is tonight and not next Sunday!
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.
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!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will someone PLEASE take Doodlebops off the air?
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.