What a night! I wasn't really worried about anything until my Mom called and "suggested" that I not sleep in my own room becuase there was a good chance branches could fall down and my room has LOTS of trees surrounding it. So then I got nervous. Around 11:30 I had settled on the couch and then I started to hear what sounded like gunshots, but it was branches cracking all around the house. I have to say, it was one of the scariest things ever. Tre and I kept trying to find the safest place in the house, which turned out to be the pool room. Luckily, I was smart enough to scarf up the papasan chair so I was a little more comfortable than Tre was! She got over her fear and went into her bed shortly before 3 and I think I went in shortly after. Yep.. we slept in her bed because not only did we lose power, but we lost heat. This morning it was 58 degrees in our house and I couldn't exactly feel my fingers. So not good! We had to get our basement pumped out by the fire department, so we then had no hot water as our hot water heater was flooded (or some other technical thing). Our power went on at 11:30 this morning and luckily, the house didn't take too long to heat up. The hot water has now also been fixed, so we're basically back to normal, which is more than I can say for most people who have heard they might not have power back for up to three days. I've come to the realization that I am WAY too high maintenance to not have power.

Here are a few pictures of the carnage:

This first one is the pine tree in our back yard, taken from my bathroom window. Those are ALL branches underneath the tree.

This one was taken on the side of our house, and I'm pretty sure it's the big bang I heard just before the power went out. This is the tree outside my parent's house, in the neighbor's backyard. Looks like lightning hit it, not ice!This is the tree that fell on my parent's neighbor's car and into her back yard.

Nytropalooza notched an unexpected win last night, beating Sunshine (the first place team) 3-0. Granted, they didn't have one of their star players and their leading striker was apparently hurt and in the goal, but one person does not a team make! We played really well and scored three GORGEOUS goals en route to our win. Shannon got leveled and called a douche bag, but I was just happy that this week it wasn't me that got the shit kicked out of me! Early game next week in case anyone wants to spectate!

Today's weather sucked, but at least I made it to and from work in one piece. I'll be honest, the roads weren't as bad as I though they'd be. I think they'll be way worse tomorrow, which is why I'm pretty sure I won't be making it to work tomorrow.

I was just about right when it comes to the housewife who's leaving The Real Housewives of Orange County: Lauri has decided to spend more time with her family, which considering her son's circumstances, is probably a good thing! I haven't had a chance to watch this week's episode yet, but I should probably apologize to C. Howe for spoiling the fact that Gretchen's man died. I honestly didn't know anyone but me actually cared!

Macaulay Culkin's sister has died after being hit by a car in LA. It is NOT a good week for celebrity offspring!

The O's traded away Razor Ramon, but at least for once there's someone waiting in the wings to take his place. It may not be over yet, but rumors are that the Red Sox are gonna fight hard for Mark Teixeira. I have a feeling SOMEONE WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS (for those not into baseball, I'm talking about Peter Angelos) won't let the O's compete for him. I'm just saying..
This really sucks. I had a LONG list of things to blog about but I was so excited and eager to leave work that I left it there. When I go back in (hopefully on Monday) it's not going to make any sense.

No one I know is having a holiday party this year, but if they were, I would attempt to make these. They could be my NEW specialty!!!

Someone is now going to have even more Daddy issues... and I can't wait to watch it unfold!

I am a little ashamed to admit this, but since I know some of you will be with me (and when I say "some of you" I mean Tara), I feel ok with posting it. Now that I've heard of it, I'm kind of excited about Confessions of a Teen Idol. Not so much about I Love Money 2, but that probably won't stop me from watching that trainwreck unfold.

This one was kind of surprising, and I like the way they TRIED to be subtle about it. 14 months?! Damn shame I say.

I'll take whatever Dawson's Creek reunion I can get, even if it's just good old Grams.

Ok.. I think I did alright considering my lack of a list. I know I still have the Golden Globe nominations and I'll try to devote a post to those tomorrow or this weekend, once they sink in. All I have to say is that my man, the Piv, is once again nominated. Just one more reason to watch the red carpet AND post a picture of him in formal wear. Not necessarily good formal wear, but formal wear just the same.

Enjoy your night and drive carefully!!!

Rumors around town are that T.R. Knight is leaving Grey's Anatomy because he's "unhappy with his storyline." Um.. at least he HAS a storyline. I mean, Izzie's sleeping with a dead guy for god's sake!!!

So, apparently Oprah's pushing 200 and she's ashamed. Well ya know what? She should be. I'm sick of hearing about her thyroid. If I had Oprah money I don't think there'd be any reason for me to be more than a size 8! I mean, you could have your own private chef, trainer and plastic surgeon for the money that woman has. Even if she really does have a thyroid condition (which they have medication for and since I am Anti-Oprah, I'm not so sure that's the case), I think she's just being lazy, but that's just my bitter opinion. I'm chubby because I don't have Oprah money.... but if I did.... I'd be the hottest housewife in Columbia County! Ok wait.. if I had that kind of money it's doubtful I'd still live here, but you get the point.

So, J and I had "the talk" about our relationship the other night, and I don't think things are going to end well. Basically, that they ARE going to end. Right now we're "thinking" about why we're together, since the other night, neither one of us could really come up with a good answer. That's not a good sign, right? Today at work, it was one of my co-worker's birthday. Anyway, to add insult to injury, her boyfriend came in to take her to lunch and subsequently proposed to her. It was sweet and all, and I'm happy for her, but do you really want someone else to be starting a new life and being sublimely happy when you're miserable and only two years away from a "geriatric" pregnancy? To answer that question, no.. you do not. However, congratulations and happy birthday go out to her anyway cause hey, I'm just that kind of person.

The Orioles are at the Winter Meetings. Will they do anything? Doubtful, but at least they ARE thinking about it.

I found one of my old friends from high school on Facebook today, and it made me very happy. I haven't talked to her in years! She reminded me of a skit we had to do in high school English, where we had to modernize Shakespearean plays. Ours was Othello. There is a great section of our senior video that has me waxing poetic about my "black man, black man, my dear moor Othello." Ok, it doesn't SOUND funny to you, cause it's kind of a had to be there thing, but if there were You Tube in those days, this certainly would have made it on there!

Sadly, Mark Ruffalo's brother has died from a gunshot wound sustained last week. There's lots of speculation as to why he was shot, but the latest is that he was the big loser in a game of Russian Roulette. I had no idea people played the odds enough to still do something like that! So NOT a game I want to play! I bet there is WAY more of this story to come to light!

Tre and I are headed out to see Twilight tonight, finally! We've been trying to go since it opened, but we could never get it together to do so, so I guess I'll have to let you know what I think at another time. It'll be way past my bedtime by the time we get home! In other Twilight news, Catherine Hardwicke will not be back for the sequel "New Moon," due to scheduling constraints.

Last night on The Hills, Whitney went to NYC and had her interview with Diane Von Furstenberg. I'd hate to ruin it for anyone but she gets the job, which will begin her new spinoff show "The City" which debuts December 29th. I don't want to want to watch it, but I do.

Tonight on The Real Housewives of Orange County, one of the housewives will leave the show, as I've previously mentioned. I'm thinking it might be Gretchen. Through reading her blog on Bravotv.com, I've come to find out that her fiance Jeff did not survive his bout with Leukemia, and it would be logical for her to have to leave the show to take care of him. Sadly, I hope this is the case because besides Lauri, I really can't let any of the others go. I just can't! Then again, it seems the ladies aren't ALL friends.. big shocker, right?

Time for me to get out of here. Don't forget - tomorrow is hump day and since I plan to live vicariously through others, someone please hump what you've got!

I really have never liked Rachel Zoe, but her show on Bravo was like crack and I'm so excited it was renewed for another season. I also LOVED Tabatha's Salon Takeover and Bravo did not disappoint me.

I check this site every day, so imagine my surprise to find the reader of the day was from ATHENS, NY! Crazy, right?

I realled liked her in The Devil Wears Prada, so I might be ok with her dating my favorite Polack, John Krasinski, much like her ex seems to be.

We all know I love The Hills, and I have to say I've always felt the same way.... about Lo AND satin pants..

I've been on the treadmill three days in a row. Yay me. It was a slow day and I've got some things going on that I'm not quite ready to tackle on the blog, so you'll just have to bear with me! Hope you got through your Monday and that the rest of the week goes by just as quickly!

I've been meaning to post a picture since I made the "announcement" last week, but this is my friend Toine's newborn daughter, Taylor Gracie. Being a woman, I know enough not to post a picture of the baby and parents, as Toine looks like it's any normal day and poor Kelly just had a baby. It's just not fair to anyone involved ;). She is a cutie though, isn't she?

I've also been meaning to post pictures from our girl's night out. Granted, I wasn't there for the majority of them, as I was too busy being passed out, but here are a few of the pictures I was still awake for:

Shannon played hairdresser with her cute pink flat iron.. It'd be a GREAT Christmas gift Shan!

See? I may not have felt good, but I sure did look FABULOUS!

This must have been early..

Today is Hudson's annual Winter Walk and Fish is hosting the party of the year (after Nytropalooza of course). My camera is charged and this will be my first foray into drinking again since that night. I had two beers at bowling last night and to be honest, they didn't even taste that good. It's amazing what one bad night can do to you!

I've been pretty productive today. I walked a few miles on the treadmill and first thing I did was head to my nemesis, Jiffy Lube. Luckily, no one else was there and they guy that took care of my car was really nice and didn't try to sell me on anything! As I'm checking out he tells me that there's an air filter listed on my receipt, however there is no charge for it. Apparently, the manager from the last time I was there had a habit of forgetting to put air filters in the cars, one of which was mine. So yeah, I've been driving around without an air filter for the last three and a half months. I don't know anything about cars, but I'm pretty sure that can't be a good thing! I should have known though. If I remember correctly that manager was bald and pretty cute. There had to be something wrong with him (besides the fact that he worked at Jiffy Lube, who has a habit of screwing me in the bad way).

Enjoy your weekend and I hope to post more pics soon!

If you're not doing the speed limit, don't put your high beams on me after I pass your slow-moving ass. If you had driven anywhere near the speed limit, I would not have had to pass you, which therefore negates your reasoning for putting your high beams on. You're just acting like a douchebag, which kinda makes me even happier I passed you.

Know what else makes me happy? Bowling well, and I did that tonight. I shot 213-213-221. I know, I know, I could have gotten that triplicate patch I've been eyeing my whole life (sarcasm) but it didn't work out. Still, it's rare for me to have three 200 games when I bowl a 600, so I was pretty thrilled with myself. Next week is position round and we're in first place. I hope we keep it that way. I like winning money.

This afternoon we thought there was a gas leak in my office. Come to find out, it was the stench of one of the attorney's snacks. I can't remember the name of it, but it was some sort of Chinese fruit that is notorious for it's gruesome smell. Who wants to eat something that smells like natural gas?

Is it sad that I was a little forgiving this morning while watching Casey Anthony's jailhouse talks with her family on the Today Show? I know.. I have issues.

I'll end this post with good news: Kathy Griffin got her coveted Grammy nomination for her comedy album! I honestly never thought it would happen, but it did and I"m thrilled!

Yesterday I got a message from a friend of mine, basically berating me (in a good natured way) for sending him a Christmas card that said Happy Holidays. To be honest, that doesn’t bother me. I didn't get the cards to be PC and accomodate all my friends. I don't even think any of my friends celebrate anything BUT Christmas. It was the only one out of the four boxes I bought that didn’t have a reference to Christmas and I bought the box because I thought it was pretty. Sue me.

To be honest, I could care less what you wish me. I celebrate Christmas and that's what important to me. It’s the holiday season, what’s the difference!? I know someone who won’t shop at Home Depot because they don’t say Merry Christmas. I mean.. come on! As far as that’s concerned, it IS a business and you’re supposed to cater to everyone. As for me… just be happy I spent $.42 and then some sending you a card. It means I’m thinking of you and just didn’t want to write “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in your card because after signing 60 or more, my hand gets tired!!!

Guess we'll see which whiner gets a card next year... ;)

Last night's soccer game had it's ups and downs.. especially for me. We only had one sub, without Tre and Nikki there, so everyone had to bring their "A" game! Literally a minute into the game, I was dribbling the ball up the field and all of a sudden, I was down on the ground. I'm still not quite sure how it happened, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with my shoe getting caught in the turf. I now have scratches from the turf from my calf up to my thigh. I'm not looking forward to shaving.

Anyway, we ended up ahead 5-1 at one point after the half, and that is when the other team decided to take their goalie out. Their HUGE, hard kicking goalie. Yeah.. she decided to play the front line which left myself and someone approximately 1/3 this girl's size to defend her. Well, she scored two goals, one of which sailed by our goalie's head faster than anything I've ever seen. She was like "I've been a goalie for a long time, but I was NOT getting in the way of THAT!" I'll admit, it was scary! I went down shortly after she headed a ball into my nose and decided that was a great time for a sub to come into the game in my place. We ended up pulling out the win 5-3, but it was a tough final 5-10 minutes, as most of our team played defense just to stop big bad goalie from scoring and/or killing one of our players.

Next week we play against Psycho Goalie, who is our most hated nemesis. Unfortunately, her team is pretty decent so hopefully we can keep up this momentum and if not kick her ass, maybe get in some cheap punches instead. It's times like this I realize how much I miss rugby. I think I have a lot of aggression.

I will never understand why you would trade away your most valuable players, but if anyone's gonna do it, you can bet it'll be the O's. Seriously, the blog will be black if Roberts or Markakis goes.

Someone is leaving my beloved Real Housewives of Orange County. It better be Lauri or Gretchen.. I like them, but I can live without them. If Jeana leaves the show, I might have to follow suit! (OK.. I’ll never be able to quit cold turkey, but I WILL be VERY upset).

Looks like the recession is hitting some of the Atlanta ladies where it hurts!

Heidi says “oh yes, there WILL be Project Runway.” Skinny bitch better be right.

Alex got sent home on Top Chef last night, for an inedible Crème Brulee. I called it from the get-go cause they spent WAY too much time on him in the episode, when I’d barely known his name just a week before. Top Chef is about as good at editing as Top Model.

No grammy nods for Taylor Swift and The Jonas Bros. are nominated for Best New Artist? I wonder if the texts are gonna start flying!? PS – I don’t consider no nods for Miley Cyrus being a snub, but Taylor Swift!? She has insane pipes AND has sold a bazillion albums already.. What is going on with the grammy nominators?! Ok.. I stopped watching the grammy's years ago so I don't really care, but I do LOVE Taylor Swift.. Can you tell!?

I got an email from my dear friend Toine after my black/brown post yesterday:

Your blog was good. I am really big on staying away from black/brown myself and people who aren't aware of it stick out like a sore thumb! So.....black cashmere sweater, light tan pants, black shoes. Question....light tan socks to match the pants? Or black socks to go with the shoes?

He’s so metrosexual and I adore how he knew not to wear the tan socks, but asked anyway. Don’t you love how he threw in the fact that he was wearing cashmere? Must be nice to work for the Braves.. I hope I’m not embarrassing you Toine.. it’s when I DON’T talk about you that you should be worried!

You have to love good guest stars. I mean, this sure beats Izzie screwing a dead guy (albeit a hot, sweet dead guy).

More on last night's soccer game to come.

Here's your interesting "winter" tidbit for the day.

Remember kids, there are two sides to every story! As much as I feel bad for her (and am thoroughly ashamed to admit it), I'm even more ashamed I kinda feel bad for him too! What is this world coming to?

For real.. don't you want to know where Miss Cleo is today? Sadly.. I kinda do...

Ok.. I'm no Scrooge, but I'm not a huge Christmas fanatic. I don't listen to Christmas music, and the only thing I insist on watching every year is Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas (if you haven't seen it, you don't know what you're missing). However, this might be the ONE Christmas song I sing along to, and it's nice to see I'm so not the only one! Granted, I can't say I've heard any of the cover versions they post on the site, but I might have to check them out! I wonder if Huey or Counting Crows have done one? Now THAT would be awesome :)

I am not yet caught up on True Blood, as Sue and I haven't been able to get our schedules together so I can finish out the season, however it looks like I will have a good shot of seeing it before it comes out on DVD. However, if you don't like nude scenes, you might want to find another show to watch cause True Blood seems to be the Queen!

This should be a no-brainer. If you're wearing anything black - wear black shoes! Don't wear a gray sweater, black pants and brown shoes. It doesn't work. Also, even if you're wearing brown pants and a black shirt.. wear black shoes, cause you're never gonna get the brown in your pants to match the brown of your shoes.

Every day when I turn into my complex at work, there's this moron that puts her left blinker on to turn right. Granted, she's taking an immediate left after that right, but there is no possible way to take a left when her blinker is on and it irks me.

I can't believe Hootie and the Blowfish didn't make this list.

I had a productive lunch hour: I made my New Year's Eve reservations. I haven't had very good new year's and this year I'm gonna try to turn it around.. even though I'd probably rather be home in my jammies, eating Wendy's and watching a Rock of Love Girls: Charm School marathon. I also ordered some of my dad's Christmas present, so I'm practically done, which is a good thing. A mall is NOT where I want to be this holiday season!

All of them will work, but I'm partial to #23.. it's not an every day thing you know, especially in the winter. Who wants to waste a good shave!?

Is Britney's comeback ever going to involve ACTUAL singing and not lip syncing? I'm a little ashamed to say I watched part of her documentary on MTV... and kinda felt bad that I call her batshit crazy all the time. Kinda..

Members of the State are all over the place, but I want to see them back together again! Read on to find out what would be a REALLY great present for me...

I've been really busy at work lately, which has been nice. Sure does make the day go by. However, some people aren't quite ready to trust me. That's cool - stay later to do work I could have done for you. No skin off my nose, right?

I'm still in shock that it's December.

Sometimes you just need a long weekend.

Wednesday night, after a long, busy day of work, I went out to dinner at Mexican Radio where I strayed from my ever present tacos and got the enchiladas. They aren't as good as mine, but they were ok ;). After that, my friend's husband and I went to Melino's.. I lasted 15 minutes. I felt like I was 80 years old. Let's just say I won't be making THAT mistake again. I met everyone else at Stray (Jason's Upstairs Bar) and even then I only lasted till about 11. I was tired, not drinking (still) and just not in the mood to be out. I went home and enjoyed the season premiere of the Real Housewives of Orange County instead.. Speaking of which, I kind of like Gretchen, the new housewife. She seems like a decent egg, although it's only the first week so that could change!

Thanksgiving was good. The food was REALLY great. My mom made these awesome mashed potatoes and of course, there was plenty of turkey. At one point my mom looked at the table and said "you guys better get married and have babies, cause this is pathetic." Yeah, it was just the four of us. It WAS kind of pathetic! Still, that meant more food for me! Anyway, the rest of the family showed up and we spent the rest of the night laughing our ass off watching everyone play the Wii Fit. J has finally realized he's never getting it back.

Friday morning Tre woke me up and said we were going to the mall. After last year's outlet debacle, I did NOT want to go shopping on Black Friday, but we were going later than most people and I really didn't want to let go of those kind of deals! So, I got out of bed and much to my mother's surprise, headed to the mall with her and Tre. We walked into Macy's and it was hot, bright and loud! Within five seconds I was run over by a stroller and finally ended up at the Lancome counter almost unscathed. Mom and I had a slight ulterior motive to get Tre to use makeup that she didn't buy at CVS, so she sat down to get her makeup done and I started seeing ripples (auras) in my line of vision. I thought maybe I had just looked into the lights and couldn't see quite right yet, but it lasted way too long. It was so bad that I couldn't even read stuff, so I tried to get Excedrin Migraine into my system, but it was to no avail. I lasted another hour or so, but then I headed out to the car for some air and the chance to close my eyes. I ended up coming home and going to sleep for a few hours and even missed bowling that night, which is a rarity for me. I basically crashed out the rest of the night and laid low all weekend.

Saturday afternoon I met up with some of my cousins for lunch at Baba Louie on Warren Street. I had never been there and it's basically an "upscale" pizza place where you can get just about anything you want on your pizza. I got pepperoni. I'm not adventurous, sue me. Anyway, it was really really good! I had heard so much about it and I just expected it to have been.. overrated, but it wasn't. Plus, it was nice to hang out for a while, especially since my cousin Mandy isn't coming home for Christmas this year. It'll be the first year EVER that we're not all together on Christmas.

Anyway, that's really all that's going on with me. Like I said, I kind of laid low this weekend. We planned on going to see Twilight, but there was no late afternoon matinee. What the hell!? So, I hope everyone had great holidays and the food coma only lasted as long as you wanted it to! Back to the grind!

My sister, my friend Tara and I are going to see the Wu-Tang Clan on December 28th at Northern Lights in Clifton Park. My fave is Method Man who, of course, won’t be there. I’m considering it a cultural experience and it looks like I need to bone up on my Wu-Tang song knowledge before we go. A month should be enough time, don’t you think?

The finals of Dancing With the Stars was last night, and I’m still rooting for Lance and Lacey, even though if the judges had their way, they’d crown Brooke and Derek right now. There’s still the audience vote and to be honest, I’m surprised people know who Brooke Burke is! But hey, let’s hope the gays get out the vote for Lancey!! I wasn’t real enthused by any of the freestyles, so I’m still hoping Derek is still shut out of the victory (Sorry Brooke – guilty by association).

Congrats have to go out to my friend Toine and his wife Kelly, who are the proud parents of a daughter, Taylor Gracie. She was born on Sunday and Mom and daughter are doing well!

In my migraine induced haze yesterday, I spilled soda on my pink wool coat…. and thought it’d be a good idea to put stain stick on it, and then put it in the washer. It’s hanging up to dry as we speak but I guess there’s a reason it goes to the DRY cleaners. Then again, it gets wet in the snow and rain so how bad can it be? Only time will tell..

I don’t normally watch CSI:NY (or any CSI’s for that matter) but Chris Daughtry made his acting debut during last week’s episode and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. Granted, I adore him so I would have never ripped him apart, but I would have been honest had he been atrociously bad. Luckily, he didn’t put me in that awkward position.

I’ve missed Quizno’s ever since the one in Valatie suddenly closed, barring me from my sammies. I FOUND one this afternoon, which was a pleasant surprise! I REALLY wanted the chicken carbonara sub, but my stomach is still not quite right so I settled on a sammies meal. While still way more expensive than two little sandwiches should be, I thoroughly enjoyed it and even managed to make my former co-worker jealous over it.

Thanks to the holiday, soccer is tonight instead of tomorrow night. I could care less either way. I still kind of feel like crap so playing soccer should be fun, especially since at the last minute we have only one sub. As for tomorrow night, just looking at beer makes me want to puke. I guess I still need some time to recover.

Ewwwww

Had to leave work early today. Got a migraine on my way and lasted till about 1:30 before I couldn't really function anymore. I came home, took some Excedrin Migraine and passed out for a few hours. So far so good.

I would LOVE to post pictures from last night's girl's night, however, I hardly took any. Instead, I was passed out in the hotel room, thanks to a little too much pregaming.

I bowled in the afternoon and had a few beers before I met the girls to head up to Albany. My friend Jen and I picked up Heather, then we picked up the pizza, which was very good and very cheap, thanks to my friends at Gourmella's (formerly Cusato's). We all housed the pizza and Fish opened gifts and all was well. Until Shannon busted out the vanilla vodka that she didn't want to drink alone. Let's just say the drinks were more vodka than ginger ale and they tasted amazing. We finally headed out around 10 and went straight to Savannah's. First order of business - an Irish Car Bomb shot.. I don't do those.. I only finished about half of it so I ordered myself a jager bomb. BIG mistake. I'm pretty sure there was no red bull in it yet and that was what pushed me over the edge. Apparently I peed in an alley and then decided I had to go home. The girls put me in a cab and memorized the number, just in case anything happened to me. Course, someone could have taken the cab with me but NOOOOOO... lol.. I was supposed to text or call when I got back to the room but instead, I passed out so I think everyone was a little nervous about that. When Nikki came back around 1:30, she made me puke and got me into my jammies. I puked again when Tre and Fish came back around 3:30 and luckily, for once Tre didn't want to leave at the crack of dawn. I spent the rest of the day in bed, just trying not to throw up. I finally had some toast at 3:00 and am now feeling much better. I'm really disappointed though, as I planned the night and didn't get to partake in all the fun everyone had. Hopefully there'll be another girl's night on the horizon and there will be nothing but beer for me. NO SHOTS!!

Rumor has it, someone hit a transformer up near where I work so we lost power a little before 1:00. They finally let us go around 2:30 as we stood around in the dark for an hour and a half. It was nice for me because I got quite a few errands done that I didn't anticipate being able to do today, so hopefully no one got hurt too bad to get me out of work early!

Ashlee Simpson FINALLY gave birth to a baby boy, her first child with Fall Out Boy member Pete Wentz. I have no doubt you'll agree with me that this kid should be home schooled, cause any child named Bronx Mowgli (yeah.. like the f'n Jungle Book) deserves to get his ass kicked. Actually, it's his parents who's asses should be kicked. I'm not saying I want to name my kids sterotypically "normal" names, but I am pretty sure they won't be the ridiculed every day because of their name.. and again, NEVER gonna find that on a license plate in a Wheaties box. NEVER!

I'm always happy when someone leaves a comment or says something that makes me realize they read my blog. However, I was pretty excited this morning when I got a comment from someone whose blog I read pretty religiously. It was a good way to start my day!

Julianne Hough is hanging up her dancing shoes to concentrate on her music.. Until the music thing doesn't work out and she goes back to her day job. Why can't people just be good at one thing and let it go? Thanks to my early day, I've finally gotten around to watching DWTS this week and all I can say is "Go Lance and Lacey!" They picked the perfect time to peak and I hope they can keep it up and STEAL it from Brooke (she of the.. well.. NO personality) and Derek (he of the.. well.. WAY too much personality)!!!

Let me tell you, this is what I call a quickie!! I've done quite a few of these, but never that quick!!! (Get your minds out of the gutter)

Mike Mussina has announced his retirement. No offense, but I'd care JUST a bit more if he had stayed an Oriole and not broken my heart all those years ago.

Busy weekend on tap, but i hope to post some pictures for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy your weekend!!!

Why don't overweight celebrities have double chins?

I know I'm probably the only person who thinks so, but sometimes Kath and Kim cracks me up. Case in point: Kim is freaking out about the cable being out because "there is a Denise Richards marathon on at 3 pm and she's right. It IS complicated." Ah.. guilty pleasures. I really miss that show. I don't feel good about it, but it's true.

In a not-so shocker, Mckey (one of the three Brittany's) won America's Next Top Model. What did shock me was that it was Samantha and not Analeigh that made it into the Top Two. From that point on, it was a no-brainer. I do like that both girls had short hair and were kinda tough. I mean.. McKey came into her first photo shoot boxing and then picked Tyra up after winning. She's an interesting looking girl and I actually liked her the whole way through so while I was pulling for Analeigh, I'm ok with McKey. Congrats! Wonder if they'll let her have her name back now that she's won?

I picked up my new glasses this morning and I'm not so sure about them. I think they'll just take some getting used to but for right now, I'm kind of going back and forth. I know it's not the right thing to do, but baby steps are better than no steps at all!

We lost 6-4 last night, but it could have been way worse. We were missing my sister AND our usual goalie, but Allyson really stepped up again for us. This team just had some stellar passing, something we have not quite mastered yet. Personally, I played like ass and these girls were 8 million mph faster than me. So yeah.. that didn't help. We play this coming Tuesday instead of Wednesday, leaving the night before Thanksgiving open for some boozing, unlike last year. Well... that's not true. We DID booze last year, but then had to play soccer. Not a good combo!

I might be getting a little bit of OT today, as we have some applications that need to be filed before midnight. No, I won't be here THAT long, but it could be a couple extra hours, which is ok. I mean, I'm going home to an empty house so why should it matter what time I get there!? I think as long as I'm home in time for my Thursday night lineup, I'll be a happy girl!

Here's the latest on our FAVORITE Bravo TV reality shows. Well.. one Bravo show and one that might still go to Lifetime.

Twilight opens up tonight at midnight and while I'm not screaming bloody murder when the stars come on TV, I'm intrigued. However, I'm the nerd that would rather read the books first, so I already have them in my overstock.com shopping cart. Still, I have feeling my curiousity will not allow me to read them first. At least not all of them!

I'll try to get back to you later, but I make no guarantees. I might just enjoy my solitude! Have a Happy Thursday!!!

Ever wake up and just know it’s not gonna be your day? Let me count the ways:

Bad hair day
Too fat to fit into my pants
Got the hiccups
The heel on my shoes is non-existent, therefore anytime there’s NOT carpet, I sound like a one hoofed horse and I slide all over the floor, which was fun walking through the mall on my lunch break
Every slightly hoochie shirt in NY & Co. looked terrible on me, except the ones that were NOT on sale
My computer at work has mutinied against me – I don’t know what I did to it to make it do the things it does to me, but I’ve prepared at least 4 documents more than once today for that reason
My lips are so chapped that I can’t stand it, and no form of chapstick is helping. I’ve resorted to slathering my lips with my eczema medication.. Sexy. The last time I can remember them being this bad is when J and I first started dating and we were making out a lot.. I miss those days :(

In other news, Avenue Q, the best musical ever, is coming to Proctor’s in January. I have been waiting for it to come around ever since I took Sipper (the Australian) to see it when he visited me a few years ago. It’s the funniest show ever. I mean, when puppets have sex, songs are called “If You Were Gay” and Gary Coleman are involved, how can you go wrong? I’m trying to put together a group to go so I can enlighten all my friends to the hilarity that is Avenue Q. It didn’t win Tony’s for nothing ya know!!

I hit the mall at lunch to find a hoochie shirt for Saturday night, when the girls go out for my friend Fish’s 35th birthday. Obviously, that didn’t go so well. However, I did hit up the Macy’s One Day Sale and got two Liz Claiborne sweaters for $50.00. I have a problem, and it’s called Liz Claiborne. Because I went to the mall at lunch and didn’t eat, I ended up eating a Hormel Compleat meal for lunch. It’s basically a lean cuisine that you don’t have to freeze. Freaky, yes but WAY better than expected. I got the chicken pasta alfredo and while it did freak me out that I was eating non-frozen chicken, it was still pretty appetizing. Way to go Hormel!

I remember the days when my friend Chris and I used to watch The Real World religiously and actually cared what happened on it. Ya know, when they did more than just fight and hook up. Anyway, my co-worker’s roommate is in the running to become one of the new cast members, so head here and throw the guy a vote. His screen name is marcp2 and as of this post, he’s in 14th place from Troy, New York. It’d be kinda cool to get a real local person on and I don’t mean one from NYC. And just in case you can’t get enough of the challenges (and your favorite MTV “Stars” need a change of pace), here’s a new show for you. I admit.. I did get into Beauty and the Geek for one season, so this could be interesting.

While I have yet to watch the show, I couldn’t avoid knowing that Cody Linley was voted off Dancing with the Stars this week, setting up a showdown between Warren, Lance and Brooke. From what I hear, Brooke faltered a bit and Lance wowed the crowd. Can the sure thing be beaten? I hope so… Derek Hough gets on my nerves and I ADORE Lacey Schwimmer.

Finally, the ANTM finale is on tonight and I’m anxious to see who really goes home with it. All the leaks are saying the winner was obvious from the start, but I don’t see how that’s possible with these finalists. I mean, McKey’s first photo shoot was a disaster, Sam has been in the middle most of the time (except for her terrible runway show) and Analeigh only recently became a frontrunner. Guess we’ll have to wait and see. I know when I get home from soccer I’m going to have to watch that instead of Top Chef. Finales take precedence over shows I can tape and watch tomorrow without ruining the outcome (thank you world wide web).

Hope you don’t have as much trouble getting over the hump as I did today. Go NYTROPALOOZA!!!