100 Things I Love In 100 Days: Day One

Okay, I'm doing this to remind myself of all the things I love. This is mostly in an effort to force myself to be more positive about things, and to not hate on everyone and everything. We'll see how long I keep it up...

Day 1 THING I LOVE: Flip flops. Good for showing off the pedicure, they keep your toes flying free all summer long. I probably have twenty pairs of black flip flops/sandals. Some are sparkly, some are plain, some are athletic, but I love them all! Comfortable, convenient, cool. I do love my flip flops. :)

Ohhhh, Shiny!

Some days it takes me five hours to get anything done. I start something and then I get distracted and forget what i was working on and then the next time I look up, it's hours later and I haven't finished anything.

Sometimes, it's not my fault. I'll be working on something and someone will email or call and I'll have to look something up and then I'll start something else, and never get back to the original thing I was working on. Sometimes it's entirely my own fault. I'll see something shiny, or a new picture of Adam Lambert and then my mind wanders and Boom, I'm getting nothing done again.

Also, I have no willpower when it comes to spending money at a bar. I realize this and everytime I swear I'm only going to spend X amount of dollars and then the Vodka/Cranberries start going down and I'll just HAVE TO HAVE more and the next thing I know, my debit card is out and I've spent fifty dollars on drinks. Do you know how much you have to drink to spend fifty dollars at a regular bar? About 10. This weekend I spent over a hundred dollars on a turkey club, and drinks. Oh, and entrance to the strip club for me & Jason. At least I don't have a money problem at the strip club. That would be truly awful.

The Last Year...In A Nutshell

Hello! It's been almost a year to the day since I posted last! I always forget that i have this blog. I tend to think in smaller bursts lately, what with all the dead brain cells from drinking, and mostly post on Twitter and Facebook.

Since the last time we talked:

I saw Adam Lambert twice. Once in Nashville with my mom and once in St. Louis by myself. Which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I was surprised by how friendly everyone was when they found out I was there alone. Both concerts were truly spectacular.

I drank waaaaayyyyyyy too much in the last year. Pretty much every weekend, holiday, sporting event & funeral I went to involved alcohol of some kind.

I hung out with friends, played with my cat, got my finances more securely in order, smoked a few (million) cigarettes, went to Huntsville for a birthday, and Indiana for Jimmy Buffett night at a country club. I traveled to Florida with my parents, where we mostly ate and I drank beer every single day. I had the best Halloween ever. Even though I didn't really dress up as anything. Maybe this year I'll go all out.

I celebrated birthdays with friends, family, and acquantances (Hi, Megan's brother Sean!), attended a couple of trivia nights, a game night with friends, and various other functions.

My grandma passed away. :(

I watched a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Youtube videos from Adam's Glamnation tour. I bought tons of Adam Lambert merchandise.

I wore the same shirt numerous times and had it pointed out to me numerous times.

I danced. I laughed. I cried. I puked.

It was a pretty good year.

American Wannabe's - Take 9!

Welcome back, Idol Lunatics!!! Yes, it's me again. I'm thinking about recapping this silly show again this year. It's always easier when I don't really have a favorite. Less stressful, more snarking, more time: since I won't be voting for two hours straight for ANYONE this year, just more fun all around for everyone. I was overinvested last year which completely ruined my blogging abilities for the most part. This year's crop of wannabe rockstars, country crooners, and pop idols seem to be a likely bunch for fun-making, so we'll start here and see how it goes.

Tonight the ladies start us off. Since last year, we have lost one judge (the awesomely drunken/fashion don't-tress Paula Abdul), revamped our format from a top 36 to a top 24, been subjected to guest judges the likes of Posh Spice, the always hated by me Shania Twain, one of the JoBros, and NPH (aka: my 3rd favorite gay in the entire world, after Jason and Adam). We now know that this is the last season for Simon Cowell and the first season for Ellen DeGeneres.

There are sob stories aplenty featured this year, along with the usual bunch of mothers, fathers, church singers, boys with guitars, girls with guitars, girls with funny colored hair, preppy boys, 16 year old girls, and everyone in between.

The top 12 ladies are going to be singing tonight, followed by the top 12 guys tomorrow night, and on Thursday we will mercifully cull the herd a bit and get rid of four people. Hopefully, once we get down to the top 12, I will be able to remember some of these people's names, and not just the cute boys that I like and the girl with the bad teeth.

And with that heeeeeeeere's RYAN! This. is American Idol. Thanks, Ry! I totally forgot what show I was watching! I love when he states the obvious. BTW, Sprinkles is wearing all black with a gray and black patterned tie, looking waxy and slightly attractive to me once again.

The guys are in the audience, watching the girls do their thing tonight. And here are your judges, live and in person. The order goes: Ellen, Randy, Kara, & Simon. Interesting. Some stupid banter between Ryan & Simon, as usual, some nonsensical blathering from Kara, some pointless hyperbole from Randy, some funny from Ellen. Get to it, peeps. This show is two hours long and I bet they still run over because of all the talking. Let's sing, bitches. I don't care about Simon's wandering hands, Ellen. AHHH!! I'm already dreading this stupid season, and I haven't even seen one girl sing. I really hate this show. I miss Paula.

Theme: Songs from the Billboard charts. That narrows things down. Practically every song ever made has been on the BB charts. So original this show is not.

First up: black girl I have never seen before, named Paige Miller. I have literally never heard her name mentioned yet on this show. I do believe this one is fodder. We'll see. She has a decent voice from the clips. Tonight she will be singing "It's All Right Now", by Free. Started off a little flat, but when she wails it sounds pretty good. Oh, no. Flat note, and now the chorus. Only slightly painful, and the backup singers are once again doing their best to sabotage. Thanks, backup singers. ILU. Heh. Slightly wedding/cruise ship singer to me. Simon thinks she has the best voice out of all the girls, didn't like her song choice. Heh, he just said wedding singer! I'm psychic. Kara disagrees w/ Simon, likes the song choice because of her soul, didn't like the chorus. Me either! I agree with Kara, shockingly enough. Randy says something. Ellen liked that she was present and confident in the moment, since being first can't be easy. Oh, no. Paige mentions that she was sown into her outfit and has had to pee for five hours. Jesus, the first one up and she makes a pee joke with Ryan. This is going to be a very long season.

How many girls are left? 11??? FUCK. ME.

GLEE COMMERCIAL!!! OMG! I CAN'T WAIT! MADONNA EPISODE FTW!

Next up is Ashley Rodriguez. She looks boring. :( Heh, Simon hates Battlefield. So funny. You better go and get your armor. Hee. She is singing "Happy", by Leona Lewis. I hate this song with a fiery passion. Ashley is very breathy and not very good. She makes funny faces when she sings. I miss Adam already. And Allison. And Kris. Kara says "Big song....there were some nice moments, and moments that weren't great." Kara is so smart, y'all. Randy couldn't see 'Ashley' in the song, he saw Leona Lewis. And not a very good Leona Lewis. Simon thinks she's going backwards from where she was when they first saw her. He thinks she could be in trouble after her performance tonight. Aww, is she crying? Sucks to be her. Next!

Janell Wheeler is her name. Singing is her game. Kind of. Singing "What about Love" by Heart. Oooh, this is a crash and burn song. No one can sing it like Heart, so if you don't make it your own and do something different with it, it's going to sound like bad karaoke. Which it does. Sorry Janell, your prettiness will probably carry you another week, but singing should not be your goal in life. You're just not that good at it. Moving on. I'm skipping the judges on this one. Beep-boop.

I think I'm a bit anti-girl this season since the judges seem all "oh a girl will def. win this year, blah, blah, fish-cakes". Do they not realize that most of the people voting are fan-girls? And that fan-girls will mainly vote for the cute boy/boys that they like unless one of the girls is just an amazing singer, which from what I've seen so far, they really aren't? Ahem. Not that I know anything at all about fangirls. Heh. ExceptItotallywasonelastyearforAdam.

Singing the Beatles song "Fixin a hole" is Lilly Scott. There is NO WAY she is 20. She looks about 40 and sounds like she smokes a pack a day. Her mannerisms on stage really are kind of annoying. She is a little Bjork-like in her phrasing. Huh. I really didn't like that, but I think the judges will. I'm skipping them again, because this recap is already getting to be Tolstoy-long.

Did y'all know that Ace is going to be in Hair on Broadway? Nudity! \o/ I really need to go to New York this summer. Also, I need to go to Vancouver the first week of April, because Adam is doing two shows up there. Jesus, he needs to start touring in the US already. I can't wait. Seriously, if you haven't bought his CD yet, or if I haven't bought it for you and forced you to listen to it at gunpoint, you really need to get out there and get it. It is worth the ten bucks or so for "Fever" alone. Plus, you get Whataya Want From Me, Strut, FYE, Music Again, If I Had You, Soaked, Sleepwalker, etc. I recommend buying the Itunes version because you get two extra songs, the amazingly random tripped out Down the Rabbit Hole, and the political agenda anthem Master Plan. Go. Now. Buy it! You won't regret it, I promise! Ok back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Katelyn Epperly, she of the curly hair and pretty face. Her song of choice tonight is "Oh, Darlin". Ryan doesn't say who it's by, and I don't care enough to Google it. I kind of like her better when I'm not watching her sing, which probably isn't a good thing. She too makes weird singing faces, and her lipstick is freaking me out. I like her dress. She scream sings in places, but overall, not a total trainwreck.

Black girl #2 is up next. Her name is Hayley Vaughn and she is an annoying 16 year old. 16 year olds should not be able to use the phrase "I've wanted to do this for so long" or "I've been watching this show forever." You were fucking 7 years old when this show started. I have pants that are older than you are, so STFU, STFD, and respect your elders. Damn I'm old. Anyway, Hayley will be treating us to yet another Beatles song "I wanna hold your hand." Of course she wants to hold my hand, my hand is awesome and soft and maybe we could skip through a meadow while holding hands, jesus she is annoying. Singingwise, eh. Meh. Stop screaming about wanting to hold my hand, bitch. I don't like her white dress or her white tights, or the stupid giant white headband she is wearing. Way over the top, girlfriend.

Halfway through. :sigh:

Lacey Brown is an event coordinator at a church. Apparently she was rejected last year, and decided to try out again. Good for her. She has Adam's hair, only red, and his love of eyeliner. She will be warbling her way through Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide". Whoops, when I said warbling I was kind of joking, but sweet child of mine, this is bad. Quirky voiced is one thing, but this is awful times ten thousand. The best part is the harmony being sung by a male backup singer. Yikes. Beep-boop once again.

Remember Me preview! But Edward, what about Bella? What will she think about you canoodling with a blonde whore while she is busy dying inside and riding motorbikes with Jacob back in Forks? How dare you!

I really hope they backloaded this shitshow. So far, I haven't really liked anyone and I haven't really thought any of these girls deserved to move on to next week.

I can't wait to see Sue Sylvester in a cone bra.

Yay, more girls singing. Michelle Delamor, pretty girl, cute ass hair, singing "Fallen", one of the few Alicia Keys songs that I like. Oh, honey no. This is a bad imitation of Alicia. Moments of good singing, but sweet christ on a cracker, what is up with all the weird phrasing by these gals? They have these weird pauses and ups and downs. I gotta tell you girls, making it weird does not equal making it your own. Just saying. She was alright though. Not too terribly bad, not too terribly good.

Didi Benami is a 23 year old waitress and she kind of reminds me of Megan Joy from last year. She is a cryer. And she looks like Kitty from Arrested Development. Sounds like her too. I think I like her voice the best so far for some reason. It's not really strong, but it's unique. She also picks an Ingrid Michelson song, which: two thumbs way up for that pick. Obscure enough that people won't compare, but still familiar sounding and a really good song. She's a smart one, this girl. I say keep an eye on her. Don't care what the judges say, cause my hands are getting tired of typing this recap. I bet Simon didn't like it, but he likes her personally. I bet Kara tries to sound smart and fails. Randy says something about for you, for him, it just didn't work for him dawg. And Ellen loved it, because she is the nice one this year. Have I mentioned I miss Paula?

Getting down to the final few: yes! I think I am going to take a Jack in the Box break and go get some dinner. I am starving all of a sudden. Back in a bit with the rest of the girls!

Siobhan Magnus is next. Sorry for the delay. I talked to my mom, ate some Tacos, drank some Diet Coke, hung up my laundry, fed the cat, read some cracky fan fiction, and then watched White Collar. Now I'm back to wrap up the lady singers. Finally. Siobhan is singing "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak. A song it was rumored Adam was singing on the finale last year. Unfortunately he didn't, and she is, and I'm soooooo bored already. She has an interesting voice, but it seems like she's yelling too much and making cutesy faces too much and just generally creeping me out all around. I will say that she is one of the better girls tonight. Ditch the flower in the hair next time tho, 'kay?

My fave girl, Crystal Bowersox is next. Her baby is adorable. Her teeth are awful. But her voice. Singing "Hand in my pocket", by Alanis Morissette, standing alone on stage with her guitar, and her harmonica. Girl is in this to win it. I love her vibe, and her voice. Kind of hippie, kind of old school grunge, kind of new agey sounding. My only problem with her is that I get the feeling that she will continually be bringing up her son and how she is doing this for him and to provide him with a better life. Ugh. I always hate the sob stories and the Oh I'm so POOOORRRR stories. Nothing turns me off faster on this show than them continually shoving someone's "story" down my throat and ignoring the music aspect. Just ask my good buddy Danny Gokey from last season. Decent voice, but boy, what a douchebag. So yadda yadda yadda Crystal is pretty good, at least she has a bit of an original thought in her head and it wasn't truly awful karaoke times like some of the rest of these girls have shown us tonight.

Finally, the last girl! The truly obnoxious and precocious Katie Stevens! She will be singing "Feeling Good" and making me hate her on the first night! A new all time hater record! Adam killed on this song last year, and he strutted his way down fucking pink steps doing it, and this little 17 year old bimbette needs to step off the Adam songs. They be retired, bitch. So she sings, and looks all pagenty and cutesy about it, and she does actually have a good voice, but unfortunately it's buried beneath ten tons of bullshit artifice. Like of all the songs in the world, she had to pick this one? For one, it's too old for her. Pick something that might actually showcase what type of music you will be singing after the shows over. This wasn't Big Band week, or Michale Buble covers week. It was fucking Billboard chart week, which means you can basically pick anything and sing it. And you pick Feeling Good, a song that one of the best contestants EVER in the history of this show sang just last year? I hope you go down hard, girl. HARD. Unfortunately the judges salivate over kids like this, and she will probably be spending many more weeks irritating the shit out of me, with her Little Miss Sunshine smiley face smarming her way through many a ballad. Damn it.

Well, this recap is done. I'll be back tomorrow for Guy's Night! Hopefully it doesn't suck ass as much as tonight did. T-Bone out!

Hello again!

Hello! Long time, no posty. I've been busy. Work stuff mostly. I really don't have anything to say on here most of the time. I'm still nurturing an unhealthy obsession with Adam Lambert. Fan fiction is the devil. Ahem. I still am not fond of children, still am very fond of dogs, and still can't stand my idiot loser brother. I've been watching a couple of new shows this summer, HawthoRNe, and Make it or Break it. Both have been entertaining so far. The former mostly for Michael Vartan as a doctor, while the latter is mindless fluffy pleasure.

Since I was last on here, I have been to Vegas, Huntsville, and the All Star Game. I've probably had a few too many at times. Probably did some things I shouldn't have. Other than that, not much is going on in my life. I'm pondering a serious change that I don't really want to talk about yet, though I can say it involves moving. I've decided I'm in a big 'ol rut, and need to do something drastic to get out of it. Actually, it's more of a big 'ol ravine. Anyway. That's me. Maybe I'll update on here more now. I kind of forgot I had this silly blog.

Glambert Rules, Gokey Drools.

Seriously? Seriously?! Here is a list of songs that Danny Gokey, douchebag contestant on American Idol, has sung so far this season: Endless Love, Stand By Me, What Hurts The Most, PYT, Jesus Take The Wheel, Get Ready, Hero...I think I'm missing something else, but damn can this guy pick songs I loathe or what? Every time he opens his douchey mouth to smarm out some douchey song, I just want to smack something. Preferably him. At least he ditched the lesbian glasses this week. Hate him so much.

Oh the other hand...the Glambert can do no wrong in my eyes. That last note he hit tonight was simply amazing! I really love the guyliner and the punk/drag/rock/HotTopic look he has going most weeks. I am a total fangirl over this guy. The last time this happened was when Ace Young was on, and I really just lusted after him. With Adam, I realize I have no chance since I am in fact a woman, however it really doesn't matter. I want to watch an Adam concert, and buy an Adam CD and wear an Adam t-shirt. I am seriously way too old for this shit. Heh. Oh, well! It's nice to look forward to American Idol again every week.

Everyone else is kind of just a big ball of blah to me. Kris is cute. Allison is sixteen going on fifty, with a two pack a day voice, though I do like her most of the time. Matt has that mole that freaks me out, but he can sometimes sound almost like Michael Buble enough that I like him for a few minutes. Lil, or Little as Simon calls her, is totally and completely karaoke. Scott with the blindness and eighties hair really creeped me out. And Anoop! I always forget about Anoop. He reminds me of American Dreamz, the movie starring Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore. There is a Middle Eastern contestant in the movie that Anoop reminds me of every time I see him. Anoop dawg bores the ever living fuck out of me. Good voice, zero charisma.

Sooo. Did anyone else do the Happy Hands Club interpretation of "The Rose" along with Lil's singing tonight? Seriously, you need to watch Napoleon Dynamite, if only for this scene, and the scene at the end with them doing the sign language to a Backstreet Boys song, and Napoleon dancing of course. Vote for Pedro!

I really want to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show with Adam, with him singing along to all the songs, and me just smiling and laughing and tra-la-la all night long.

Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser is totally making me cry tonight. Stupid fat people crying makes this stupid fat person cry. Damnit.

I need trainer Bob to follow me around yelling at me to gut it out and not give up. Because it is so easy to just give up.