I just re-read my blog post AFTER posting...

Apparently I'm all about the fun...

Couldn't have said it better myself..

Speaking of the Colts, I'm heading to Buffalo on Sunday to watch them play (and hopefully not repeat Sunday) against the Bills. Yep.. Buffalo in January. I'm obviously brain-dead. It's my first NFL game and I'm really looking forward to it, however the next time I go, it'll be a) earlier in the season or b) in Miami (or some other warm destination).

Starting the weekend off by heading to Syracuse on Saturday for the Syracuse-Pitt b-ball game. As far as college basketball goes, I've only ever been to a Siena game, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what it's like at a bigger venue. Granted, I'll be watching from the nosebleed seats, but I think it'll still be fun!

I've been reading all these "best of" lists and while I wish I could do one, I know I don't have the time, especially with my fun, sports (and more than likely snow) filled weekend! However, I do owe you some pics of the fun dinner at Mexican Radio Saturday night (mmmmm.. chimichanga) and what I hope will be a great time on New Year's as well.

Monday begins my fast till the cruise... I can guarantee there will be some snarky blog posts a coming. Apparently I get cranky when I don't eat and have to (ugh) exercise. Apparently fat doesn't just fall off your body cause you will it to. Who knew?

Happy New Year!!!! Be safe and have a great time!

Christmas was a HUGE success. Thankfully, my mother does NOT get the concept of stopping when it comes to shopping, so Tre and I did way better than any 33 year old should! We now have a vacuum cleaner that works, a hard wood floor cleaner, silverware, games and a Tony Little stepper that Mom saw on QVC. We also got two new Wii games (Super Mario Bros and Wii Sports Resort) which entertained the family for HOURS on end! Now just looking forward to dinner at Mexican Radio tomorrow night with some of my oldest and dearest friends!

Merry Christmas one and all!

Gotta give them credit.. they know how to elongate their 15 minutes of fame and not take themselves too seriously! Hysterical! As far as the show goes, I watched last week's episode last night. If I were those girls, I'd be only SLIGHTLY pissed that the guys basically talked smack about them the whole episode.. I think if I saw guys being followed around by a camera I would A) NOT go home with them; and
B) NOT sign a disclaimer.

My local newscaster mispronounced Corey Haim's last name this morning during the birthdays. She's not old enough or young enough to not know how to say Haim.. It's not that hard.

Yikes... not a Merry Christmas in the OC..

Seriously.. NO ONE on True Blood deserves love more than Lafayette!

Even I'm sad to see Melky leave the Yanks... even if it's just cause I liked the "got melky?" shirts! Not sure that was the best deal the Yanks could have gone with, but we'll see.. The O's signed a one year deal with infielder Garret Atkins, which isn't a bad thing considering our corners are light, if not nonexistent!

I watched Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas last night. It's my only Christmas tradition and it made me want to go outside and cut down a Christmas branch. So, Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!

Interesting.. I guess this helps answer my "natural causes" question from yesterday!

Am I the only one who has an issue with the fact that the runner up for AP Female Athlete of the Year is a horse? At first I thought I was reading it wrong, but I'm not.

Ok, I hate to be the speculative sort, but it's REALLY strange for a 32 year old to drop dead of a heart attack and have it be "natural causes." If I remember correctly, Michael Jackson died of natural causes too... until the autopsy results came back!

Regardless, it's a tragedy and I feel awful for all Brittany Murphy's friends and family. While I found her to be slightly loopy, I really enjoyed lots of her movie roles and it's terrible that her career and life have been cut short in such a.. dramatic fashion! Perhaps I shall have a Clueless-Girl Interrupted film fest in her honor... after I watch Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas. Priorities...

I'm having a hard time believing this one... It might be because I adore him as a choreographer, or it might be just because the whole situation sounds slightly shady. I mean, if someone molests you, you don't wait to tell on the off chance they might hit it big some day. I hope this turns out not to be true!!

Carrie Underwood got engaged to her hockey player boyfriend over the weekend.. Yay love.

Hopefully this is just the start of something good....

I wish this gave me no reason to continue watching Jersey Shore, but sadly, I'll still tune in. Damn you MTV and damn you Jersey!!!

Can anyone say (in six months or so, for legal reasons) fantasy threesome? ;)

This is totally something I would do... I told Tre, next year's Christmas card is all about chest bumps and ugly Christmas sweaters...

I don't know if anyone has checked out UPromise.com, but if you do a lot of online shopping, sign up and do it from here. You can get yourself a check at the end of each quarter, or put that money towards a student loan. There are some good percentages to be made off it and anything that will help me to pay off my loan before I collect Social Security can't be a bad thing!

1 - I don't get it. 2 - Love is blind. 3 - Talent is sexy. That's all I've got to explain this.

In other couples news, the ink on the paper announcing their separation is hardly dry, but Dawson's found himself a lady friend.... .

Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett (Go Colts!) welcomed their first child, a boy, this morning in Indianapolis. All the girls next door and Hef are ecstatic...

Glee's fall finale was Wednesday night and what a great one it was! Lots of amazing music and the outcomes you were looking for.. unfortunately, we have to wait until APRIL for new episodes! However, if the guest stars go in this direction, it'll be worth the wait.

Wednesday night was a great night for reality TV, but I can't say I was happy with all the outcomes. SPOILER ALERT: The Voltaggio brothers and Kevin were put to the test in the finale of Top Chef and basically, Michael Voltaggio (the douche of the bro's) took the crown as he screwed up less than the other two. At least they did keep it in the family and since he doesn't already own a restaurant, I guess he can put the money to good use.

Ashleigh was unable to dance at all this week on SYTYCD, but instead of ousting her straight away, the audience was allowed to vote for her. The sympathy vote and Ryan's impassioned plea to keep her on the show didn't even put her in the bottom two, which I thought was kind of unfair. Mollee and Ellenore were in the bottom, and Mollee was let go, which was surely unfortunate and kind of a shock for her, as she had, BY FAR, her best week on the show. It's amazing what a partner like Jakob will do for you. I will seriously be shocked if he doesn't win the entire thing, but stranger things have happened. As for the guys, the bottom two were Ryan and Legacy, and while I was sure Legacy was safe, I was once again proven wrong as our favorite b-boy shuffled back home, leaving Ryan and Ashleigh to finally dance together in the finale. I have to say I was disappointed.. While I like them both, I would have been OK with them going home together. I'm saddened America... you let pity and sympathy cloud your vote! And again, I'm still on Team Jakob.. hee hee..

With all the zombie and supernatural fuss lately, I had wondered if Pride & Prejudice & Zombies would be made into a movie. Enter, Natalie Portman.

Toine is either a closet reality show fan, or he just knows what I like and wants to please me :) Regardless, he's the one that sent me this link today...

I have yet to watch last night's episode of Jersey Shore, but at least here's one mystery that's solved. Don't get me wrong, I find the girl to be annoying, but I still don't think she should get punched in the face by any guy... unless he's her plastic surgeon....

What's so wrong with originals?!

Anyway, that's all I've got.. Happy Friday.. Happy Weekend!!!

Not the most flattering shot, but that's what happens when you sit on someone's lap. Here was just a portion of the group at Fish's Winter Walk party.. Me, Jen and Joey taking some of Jen's famous long arm shots in the kitchen..

The softball girls at the Winter Walk party

Me, Tre and Jen at Melino's the night before Thanksgiving..

I'm sure more pictures will be coming, as there are more parties, more holidays AND C. Howe is gracing us with his presence ;).

I didn't purposefully watch Jersey Shore (and from the looks of the internet, a lot of people didn't do it on purpose) but I was completely sucked in. I couldn't help it! This is the biggest, sluttiest, scariest bunch of people I've ever seen and if I was in a room with any of them I'd probably want to rip out my eyes and ears... but since I'm not, it's KIND of entertaining. I can't stop watching now, as the previews show one girl (who is hopefully "Snooki" who is an annoying mess) getting cold cocked off a bar stool by some "guido." I mean.. she's annoying but not enough to seriously knock the bitch out.. ok.. well maybe.. but by a girl.. NOT by a big muscular douche! i'm insisting it's not event TV, but if this weekend is any indication, MTV will play it enough to be sure I tune in. I mean, who doesn't love a trainwreck o'skanks?!

I know I haven't posted much, but I seriously have nothing.. I've been so busy with other things that my blog has taken a hit.. I even went to the gym today and thankfully, it didn't fall down all around me, so that's a plus.

Soccer has been pretty good.. I don't think we've gotten a raging ass whooping as of late, which is pretty good considering we're out of practice! Last week we played another WHINY team... I got a ridiculously large and dark bruise on my hip from some vengeful skinny lesbian but I didn't complain.. Soccer is a contact sport.. play tennis if you don't want anyone to touch you!

Tomorrow night is another night and I can't wait. It'll be tough cause we won't have a whole lot of subs, but at least no one will bitch about playing time (not that anyone does, but you get my drift).

Snow's supposed to be coming in tomorrow, and I'm thinking about waiting it out before I head to work. My soccer game isn't until 9:30 so I could technically work my whole shift and not go in until 12 or 1. It might be a little creepy being in the office by myself but I bet I'll get a lot done. We'll see what Mother Nature (and my bald tires) have to say about that..

As I'd hoped, my faves didn't get kicked off SYTYCD last week, but Nathan and Noelle did. I was ok with them going. I liked them, but they weren't the tops on my list. The show has been ridiculous this season as far as memorable performances. I'm still drooling over the Sonya Tayeh routine Ellenore and Jacob did last week.. It's going to be extremely hard to let people go before the finals as everyone has been stepping it up something ridiculous! I really wish this show had been around when I was in my "formative dancing years." With the training I had I doubt I'd have made it on the show, but it probably would have motivated me to get more diverse training (and an eating disorder).

Baseball's winter meetings are happening as we speak, so we'll have to wait and see what, if any, progress the O's make towards improving upon last season.

As you can see, I'm now reading Price & Prejudice & Zombies. I've taken A LOT of English classes in my time, including British Lit, but I don't recall ever reading the original. I mean, I'm a girl... I know the gist of the story, but this book has been pretty entertaining in all honesty! What can I say? I love trainwrecks o'skanks AND zombies!

Be careful on the roads if you're getting bad weather and enjoy your hump day!!!

My man situation has been completely lackluster lately, so I took a turn in the right direction and deleted what I like to call "toxic" men from my phone. There were more than I had anticipated.. One of whom was J. Apparently I had neglected to delete him from my phone a while back and his numbers just transferred over. Yeah, that was definitely one of the ones that needed to go, as were the "guy who travels a lot" and "drunk text guy." I figure if I don't know their numbers by heart, they aren't important enough to be in my phone. I'm turning over a new leaf (hopefully!). I mean.. I'm 33 for Christ's sake. I just don't have the time, energy or inclination to waste my time on anything but bad reality tv.

There's this woman I work with who is just... well.. she probably falls under the toxic category as well. Anyway, she seems to be the only person who comes and goes as she pleases without any regard for time constraints and acts as if she is uber-important (she's not). Anyway, she sent out an email asking for help because she had today off and in the email she points out that she really doesn't want to have to come in because her husband is in the military and is leaving for combat very soon. It's pretty bad when you play the "war" card and still no one will answer you or wants to help you. That should be a reality check, huh? I really did feel bad about not caring, but then I kinda got over it. I know.. I'm terrible. My New Year's Resolution should be to try to be less terrible, but I'm probably just going to do the "I'll work out more" line of bullshit I usually do. Priorities.

TGIF bitches... Winter Walk is tomorrow so I hope to have a few pics to post for you! Have a great (and quite possibly snowy) one!

Don't you think it'd be wrong for the 2009 Chatham Fair Bull-Off (self proclaimed) Champion to NOT go to such a stellar event!? I think myself and the runner-up will have to make an appearance and see what we've gotten ourselves into!

You think I'm kidding? I'm not...

What do you think Alex P. Keaton (circa 1985) would have to say about this?

I've never been to either, but I'm thinking rehab is better than jail! In other BB news, I've never watched this show, but since Sunday night tv blows, I might have to make an exception this season..

Is it wrong that this article (and Jonathan Antin) have the ability to make me sublimely happy?

For God's sake.. just leave Tiger alone.. (That doesn't mean i'm not COMPLETELY intrigued by the fact that I'm sure his wife gave him a beat down...). I mean, if he's dumb enough to be so high profile and think he can get away with cheating, then so be it.. It'll all come out eventually. If only patience was a virtue I possessed.

SYTYCD is down to the Top 10 and I have to say, it's been a STELLAR season.. I have no idea who'll go home tonight and whoever it is, probably won't be the most deserving as it's all viewer votes now. If it's Jakob or Ellenore you'll hear me screaming from miles away, that's all I have to say about that!

I don't even want to talk about the White House party crashers, simply because I think a mountain is being made out of a molehill. Stop blaming the fame whores and fire some Secret Service for not doing their job! Or fire the idiot who decided it was smart to let them in!

Is this all you want for Christmas?

This is one of those "so unbelievable I couldn't make it up" kind of articles.

Sorry for the lack of posting.. been real busy and I do intend to catch you up, but now is not the time! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!