Last Day of NaBloPoMo

and I think i only missed one day. yay me! maybe next year I'll actually blog every day of november....and find my voice whilst doing so. who knows.

Heading off the slumberland right now. I've trivia-ed myself to death today. I played so much online jeopardy that I was getting all repeat categories...even the final jeopardy ones. So
tomorrow should go well.

I shall update on twitter our progress tomorrow. I'm sure we're gonna be $1000 richer by 5PM! (power of positive thinking and all that jazz)

nighty night!

another day in the life

another day in the life
I have to thank Gina for her suggestion of grape juice and iron pills. They are like a miracle cure right now for me. Normally, no matter how much caffeine i do or don't ingest, I'm exhausted most of the day and have to take a nap around 6 or 7PM regardless of what I've done.

But the past couple days I've actually been slightly productive and awake. Yesterday I woke up around 12noon and stayed awake without a nap until 2am (which is a big deal for me...i know i sound lazy but whatever) and today I woke up around 11am. I'm so excited. Maybe I can actually get on a regular sleep schedule and be awake when the rest of the world is.

Plus it's helping me get my xmas gifts done. I have 2 afghans done and 2 more that are about 4/5ths of the way done ... should finish them on Sunday. That will only leave 3 more, but they're easy. Who knows! This year I could be done with my crochet goodness BEFORE december 24th lol. No carpal tunnel for me this year.

So I"m on my way to darts in a few w/ the fizzle. hope I have a decent game. And then tomorrow is all about trivia. So if you see me online and I don't respond right away don't be mad. I'm just mega cramming my brain for Saturday's tournament and the chance to win $1500 in cash and prizes!!!!

My Trivia Live tournament info

YAY for Helio!!!!

While I would have been equally happy to see Mel B. and Maksim win last night, Helio totally won my heart from day one. Plus he kinda looks like a guy i used to have a crush on many many years ago. ^_^

I was just happy Marie didn't end up in the final 2 or (gods forbid) winning the damn show. I mean seriously! Did you SEE her freestyle dance?

(warning...don't watch if you have a phobia of dolls ... and also it might make you wanna punch your computer monitor...watch at your own risk)

I can't even begin to FATHOM how she thought that would be a good idea!!! Because she's a doll designer? So designing dolls basically makes you an obnoxious idiot.

I used to be a Marie Osmond fan. I'm completely guilty of watching old Donny and Marie shows and singing along, wanting to be "a little bit country". But this whole season on Dancing With The Stars she continually talked down to the judges and everyone else, but she always ended with a giggle or a laugh. I guess that was her way to downplay how obnoxious she was. I swore to Kevin that if she won I'd never watch DWTS again! (thank the gods that didn't happen)

So, even tho I thought Mel and Max were just as deserving, I'm happy that Helio won. I absolutely loved him.

my 3 favorite Helio dances of the season

and yes I realize after posting them that the music to these 3 dances is extremely similar. That wasn't on purpose, but i guess I'm influenced as much by music as I am by dance.

The NExt Great American Band

Okay ... I"m seriously addicted to this show. I watch it every week. I was pretty pissed 2 weeks ago when Franklin Bridge was eliminated. They were phenomenal, but they did do a crappy cover so it's understandable they were eliminated.



This week they got rid of Cliff Wagner and the Old No. 7, which, altho I really liked them, they were bluegrass and prolly not as marketable or versatile as some of the other bands (i LOVE bluegrass...and I loved them...I added one of their songs to my profile)



So this past Friday night they all did covers of Rolling Stones songs. I'm not a Stones fan. I think there are maybe a handful of songs of theirs that I like ... "jumping Jack Flash", "Sympathy for the Devil", "Angie", "shattered" ... but I had to share this amazing version of "Gimme Shelter" by the Clark Brothers.



I absolutely totally dig the Clark Brothers. They have so much talent and they're such good role models. And this version of this song gave me goosebumps when I heard it. The way this song started so soft and intense and then just built to an explosion was phenomenal imho.

In case you aren't familiar with the original (which I'm sure almost everyone is):



And for the record, I'm PRAYING that Dot Dot Dot leave this week. They piss me off and they did an ultimate craptastic version of Rolling Stones "Let's Spend the Night Together" (warning ... if you watch this video you may want to shoot yourself or the screen or both ... I'm just including it cuz you need to see how craptastic they were if you can handle it)

Saturday & Sunday

had a yummy steak dinner @ the Rouge Park on Saturday with some trimmings. A nice break from turkey leftovers. Then it was a bday party and karaoke (with me working) which was fun. Except that I started at like 8PM and didn't end until after almost 1:30am. That's a long shift for karaoke. So I was hoarse and tired and my back hurt like crazy. But i'm making good money so I'm not complaining (too much). Joel even showed up for karaoke. Bobbie arrives in Chicago tomorrow night and we get to officially meet on Tuesday evening when they arrive by train.

Today was football sunday without the Lions. (or the Jets) so I watched New Orleans kick some azz (how bout them Saints?), watched Arizona lose to the Niners in OT (which keeps the Lions in the Wold card contention) and we're currently watching NE getting shoved around by Philly (which is good for my fantasy numbers cuz the guy I'm playing today has Brady and Moss) (and I know this is all gobldigook to most people who read this)

I'm also crocheting like a madwoman. I didn't reach my goal today of finishing an afghan I've been working on for about a week, but I should finish it tomorrow along with a couple other gifts. I'm trying to remember to take pics of everything but my real camera needs batteries and my cell phone camera sucks at getting colours right.

Heading up to the Box in a few. don't wanna. I took some allergy pills and I'm so tired I could go to sleep right now and not wake up until noon tomorrow. But it will do me good to get out of the house.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more of a brain to write more than basic life journal entries. I have so much stuff floating around in my head I need to get out.

oh! and it's entirely possible I have stopped at 18 days. I'm still gonna make plans to see someone about this, but if I have stopped it's not as urgent as it was before.

xoxox