It's Baaaack!

I missed a couple of seasons, but I followed the last few pretty closely. I love, love, love the audition portion of the show and am repeatedly shocked when strange looking, stranger sounding people are appalled and angered at their rejections from the judges. Scattered thoughts about the new season:

- Kara Dioguardi, the fourth judge, definitely adds a little something with her almost attitude...not as mean as Simon (yet), not as cuddly as Paula (probably never), and not a name dropper like Randy (again...yet). I like her (I think).
- Simon needs to stick to black T-shirts...white is not his hue.
- I love Paula's funky glasses.
- Some contestants truly make me cringe.
- Two contestants stand out to me...blonde, crazy bright blue eyes, bartender, 25, can't remember her name...sang "Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay" song and the blind genius named Alex who sang Billy Joel (one of my favs); they've already got my vote.

Colin Ferrell

I liked him in "Miami Vice" and even in "Alexander"...don't judge. Also, I love listening to his Dublin accent, but other than that, I've never been much of a fan. With that being rather pointlessly said, the man's acceptance speech at the Globes, made me smile and even tear up a bit. [Fast forward to 3:05 if ya wanna check it out]

Happy Dance

is what I did two days ago after successfully downloading a Microsoft converter. I'm no computer genius, and it seems that every single time I try to incorporate a new Intel, Mega, Giga, 2.0, Updated, Upgraded Anything, it never works. I typed up a Word document using an '07 version of Word, tried to bring it up on an older version, and it wouldn't work. Got a pop-up...download this, and I thought, yeah right! Nevertheless, I went to the site, clicked here, clicked there, waited for a few, and....Cue Happy Dance; it worked. I gave Gates' company a bit of praise while on the phone with my husband, and my iPhone cut out...Apple musta heard me;)

So...

Sometimes life gets a bit hectic and blogs are placed on the back burner. But, I've got a bazillion ideas roaring through my head lately, accounting for my lack of sleep last night and will post about them this evening...for any that are just dying for a bit o' "Saturday".

I Cheated

and opened one of my Christmas presents...at the urging of my husband, that is. He can NEVER wait for me to be surprised. I find it charming:) I received a UPS package last night and opened it to find a Sony Reader-PRS 700...say what???

It's similar to Amazon's "Kindle" in that you can store and read hundreds of books on it; an electronic, carry anywhere and everywhere book. I recently got to look at a "Kindle"...thank you SP, and given the brief time I've spent with both products I think they're both pretty slick (HA...that's a Dad"ism") Anyhoo, I'm about to load some books and really see what this baby can do...only drawback...you have to plug in the Reader to a PC in order to download books, whereas the "Kindle" is on its own wicked cool network or something where you can order books at the touch of a button without plugging it in. The Reader is smaller and sleeker, though...no offense, SP!! Wish me technological godspeed;)

Star Light, Star Bright

Hubby and I stayed up waaaay too late watching "Twilight". Call me crazy-corny, but last week Josh and I accepted tickets from my little brother to go to the midnight showing of "Twilight" here in Decatur. I haven't stayed up that late since Ella was born. My thoughts regarding our midnight "Twilight" experience:

- Decatur's theatre is somewhat of a charming throwback to the pre-thousand-screen-multi-megaplex, albeit a bit dusty and sticky with seats' comfortablility level reaching American Airlines-ish standards.
- I saw students there who'd been reading the book for weeks. I was proud of their enthusiasm and dedication to the story.
- Watching movies at the theatre cannot be good for my bladder; I refuse to miss anything.
- I only read a portion of the book, and that placed me smack dab in the "not worthy" to watch group.
- The clapping and shrieking of teenaged girls wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.
- Edward Cullen is a nice lookin' vampire, but I must say that he doesn't hold a candle to Lestat.
- Robert Pattinson, the guy who plays Edward Cullen, wasn't nearly as hunky when he appeared as Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire".
- And finally, the next midnight showing I attend will probably be when Ella can say, "Hey, Mom...let's go watch that movie...pleeeease!!"

Sugarland - Life in a northern town

Good song; I knew it as sung by "The Dream Academy" on one of my many "Pure Moods" CD's...go ahead, make fun. But I dig the Sugarland version:)