Happy Hump Day everyone!
Thanks to everyone who emailed or commented about that stupid tax law. I’ve come to the conclusion that we are being railroaded, but what can you expect, someone has to pay, right? Guess it will be the Hellbusch’s.
So let’s talk about American Idol. We have finally moved into the rounds where people start caring about people. So what did Idol producers do? They went and screwed with the format! What is up with that?? There are some people there that deserve a second chance and there were some people that stood out hard. (Danny Gokey) But this new format makes NO sense. People have off nights, they are nervous, that’s why the format is you vote for the worst two and pick off the scab slowly. They need to be able to take the advice of the judges and use it. And by the way, I’m sure it’s pretty nerve wracking to sing live for the first time. So “Dear Idol Producers, go back, this sucks”. Because you know what? That crazy loon Tatiana is going to get thru and then I’m going to have to pull my hair out and stuff it in my ears, and I won’t look good bald and I’ll be that angry bald girl with hair in her ears. No one wants that. By the way, who gave Tatiana downers? Not that I miss the crazy, but I hate the fake “no really, I’m not crazy, *whispers* a psychic told me I would win wheee!” that she’s putting out right now. Ugh, Idol *spits* why do I watch this show?? Just give it to Danny Gokey so I can get back to my crime dramas and not feel like I’ve wasted years of my life willing people to be better and listening to them destroy perfectly good songs.
I think next year they should have an Idol off where they bring back all the like top 2 idols from every year and make them sing so we can crown David Cook the most awesomest of all. The end.
So what else? Oh, I need tips for painting a small wall dark red. My test swatches are coming out streaky and requiring like 400 coats of paint. Not that I don’t have the paint since I have a gallon and it’s a small wall, but I don’t have the patience to keep painting that wall without getting mad. I’ve tried a brush, a roller with ½ nap and a roller with 3/8 inch nap. We are using Behr latex paint in eggshell. So anyone that has worked with red paint before and knows some secrets, I would LOVE to hear your suggestions before my red wall becomes a Jackson Pollack.
We are going to try and paint the accent walls and bathroom this weekend so we don’t have to get 50 different trays and brushes for people who show up to help on the 28th. I haven’t heard if anyone is stopping by, so let me know if you are. We are just going to do the pecan on the 28th. Plus I’m going to be getting my hair done from like 10:30 to 1 so don’t show up until later if you don’t really want to work or if you want to see me! But if you really want to help Seth, you can show up anytime from 10:30 to 1. Hahaha.
I haven’t forgotten about the Cooking with Bob blog, but I’m waiting to get the pictures from my mom. Just in case you thought I forgot about ya’ll.
I just found myself wishing my desk had a secret door where I could hide and take a nap. That was weird.
That’s how bored I am today-for real.
Earlier I found myself wishing I could keep driving to Vegas and meet all my fun friends there and go dancing at a club all night and crash early in the morning and wake up and eat at a lunch buffet looking like I had the time of my life the night before-maybe in the same clothes.
You guys are so excited to read my random thoughts aren’t you?
In case any of you have ever wondered, I have a series book problem. I just got 10 books for Valentine’s Day (BEST HUSBAND EVER-be jealous, you totally should be, he does math and taxes and bills and lets me stare at him blankly and sing rhyming songs in my head when he tries to explain it to me. Last night he finally gave up and told me he’s going to write my parents a letter explaining how and why he is doing things so that if he dies and I refuse to get out of bed and hold the cats hostage with me, someone will know how to pay the bills and where all of our secret money is. He’s so smart.) and I had a stack of about 6 books waiting to be read, plus 2 my grandma gave me before I got the 10 books. So I have books to read, for sure. But I about CROWED with happiness when my dear friend L’ara (baggage blogger!) emailed me today to tell me she was going to stop by and lend me some books we have been talking about. Which because I am the BEST book borrower ever, I will put them at the top of my pile and return them to her promptly, because I am not a book hostage holder and I will tell her what I think of them in grand detail, because in my head, that’s how book lending works. I’m trying to get Seth to build me a long bookshelf for along the staircase in our living room, but I’m having trouble getting the image out of my head for him and on to paper, I’ve spent countless hours trying to tell him what I want. Because really I want like 20 things. I can’t decided if I want it open in the back, how deep I want the shelves, if I want little doors on the shelves (probably not, I’m a notorious book bragger-look at all my shiny pretty books!!) So I am at a loss. I seriously just want a whole room of built ins around a window with a little ladder that I can ride around the room, but I don’t think that will work in our house *sigh* dreams…PS I’ve decided that building furniture is about the sexiest thing a guy could do. Now I just need Seth to prove that he can do it, instead of trying to get me to draw him a plan…
Alright I’ve rambled sufficiently for today!
Hope you all have a happy hump day!
Love (for this week to be over already)
Carrie
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
100 unique things about me and a new Baggage Blogger!
Hello all!
First off, I’d like to introduce another Baggage Blogger to our little blog-her name is L’ara and she is my close friend. My senior year in high school we were best friends and we were college roommates my freshman year in college. Until I became psychotic about Cheez-its. Hahaha. She loves to cook, watch TV, have great theme parties, shop, and be generally witty and snarky. So I’m sure she will blog to that effect. Let’s give her a big welcome and hope she blogs soon for us!
So in lieu of an actual direction for this blog, I’m just going to my stalled writing stand-by and I’m going to make a list.
Today’s list is: 100 Things that make me different…
1) I can’t sleep if the closet doors are open.
2) I can’t drink a drink with ice if I don’t have a straw, I don’t like when it hits my teeth.
3) I can drink soda in a can warm-I grew up in Europe where ice is a luxury.
4) I change my underpants twice a day.
5) I have become that person who comes home from work and puts on sweats and LOVES IT.
6) I don’t wear make up on the weekends if I don’t have to.
7) I don’t wash my hair on the weekends if I don’t have to (I still take bubble baths).
8) I majored in History.
9) I love winter and snow, and bad weather.
10) I hate the sun, anything that causes me to sweat, and being outdoors.
11) I can kill a plant by looking at it (luckily my mom can save it by looking at it)
12) I hate talking on the phone.
13) I watch at least 3 hours of television a day (actually 6 hours if you count commercials which I fast forward thru)
14) I am usually reading at least 4 books at one time and I can remember all of them.
15) I love to share my books, but hate when people don’t give them back.
16) I miss characters of books when they are gone, I feel empty without them.
17) Once a month Seth lets me go to the bookstore and buy books out of the bargain section.
18) I usually buy 5-10 books.
19) I choose books that are long and thick and hard backed-because I like the story to last long and I like the way they look on my shelf.
20) My fourth favorite thing in the world is taking a bubble bath and reading my books.
21) I love to hang out with my family-especially if dinner is involved.
22) I like to cook, but I generally use the same flavors and tastes that I love, like garlic and balsamic vinegar and Dijon mustard.
23) Gordon Ramsey is my favorite chef.
24) I enjoy watching crime dramas most of all on tv. I feel it gives me the ability to solve crimes and give legal advice.
25) I’m starting to recognize dancers from watching all my reality dance shows. ßThis does not mean I watch too many reality dance shows.
26) I listen to rap music…LOUDLY and enjoy it greatly.
27) On overcast rainy days if I am driving I must listen to a man with a guitar.
28) If I’m pudding around the house, I like to listen to girl singers.
29) I make up my own dance moves and hand motions to songs in the car-and do them pretty often.
30) I’m pretty passive aggressive.
31) I’m so passive aggressive I will generally just complain about things until someone gets fed up and does something about it.
32) I am a hermit, I’ve been one since 9th grade.
33) I wish there was more places to order takeout in Omaha.
34) I like to go to bed early on the week nights.
35) On Saturdays I usually stay up until 2, catching up on tv or reading.
36) I have a pica disorder. I eat fuzz. At least I know why now.
37) I can’t sleep with socks on.
38) I can’t sleep unless I have 2 blankets weighing me down, even if that means turning the air down to 50.
39) I’m not really into sweets. I could live without them.
40)I could not however live without cheese, potatoes, or bean burritos with sour cream.
41) I can’t sleep unless it’s black as night dark-even if I’m wearing my mask.
42) I still sleep with my baby blankie in a pillow case and my teddy bear.
43) I’m 27.
44)The fuzz I eat comes from the baby blankie.
45) Yes I wash it. It’s barely holding on.
46)My mom is the only person in the world who can fix my teddy bear’s worn down appendages.
47) I usually send her an email scheduling surgery for him.
48)I’m 27.
49)I pee with the bathroom door open. I do everything with the bathroom door open.
50) I’m secretly claustrophobic in the bathroom.
51) I only eat pink and red starbursts.
52) I love going to the movies, but never go. <--Because I’d have to leave my house.
53) I don’t like driving.
54) I’m a Daddy’s girl.
55) My dad still picks me up to take me places. Because he knows I hate driving.
56) My parents are still the smartest people I know, and who I go to for 95% of my advice.
57) I first knew I loved my husband when I found out he drove a black pick up truck that was a stick shift.
58) Pam and I started planning my wedding and children with Seth the day after I met him.
59) I have always known he was the one. Because really, you just know.
60)I can only eat ice cream with a small spoon-everything else I need a large spoon.
61) I don’t use small forks, Seth doesn’t use the big ones.
62) I love my cats because they talk back to me.
63) I love to have my picture taken.
64)There are clearly not enough pictures taken of me when my friends and I get together, mostly because I’m taking them.
65) I don’t drink, only on special occasions, and even then I feel bad when I do it.
66)I’m a vegetarian.
67) I buy at least 2 things of sour cream every time we go to the store.
68)I crotchet.
69)I am crocheting the world’s biggest blanket. I refuse to stop crocheting it because I want to be like that lady in Like Water for Chocolate.
70) When I watch movies alone, I fast forward thru the stupid boring parts, like the fighting scenes or the will she won’t she scenes or the montage scenes.
71) I have a very British sense of humor.
72) Eddie Izzard is my favorite comedian.
73) I get sad when networks cancel my shows.
74) I went into a depression when they cancelled Gilmore Girls.
75) I’m still crabby about Eli Stone and Pushing Daises being cancelled.
76) I grew up in Europe and still live there in my mind.
77) I love to give advice.
78) I drink V8 warm.
79) I can suck the inside of a pickle out with a straw.
80)Peanut-butter and pickle sandwiches are my favorite sandwich in the whole world and I don’t know HOW I even first came to eat them because no one I know likes it.
81) I hate when I ask questions in a email and people don’t answer them or blatantly ignore them and answer the other questions in the email.
82) Seth hid my engagement ring in my jumper cables and I never found it because I am a bad Samaritan.
83) Seth hid my papers for my engagement ring in his math books and I never found it because I hate math.
84)I always try and wear an undershirt. My Dad taught me that.
85) I have to brush my teeth and put lotion on my feet and say my prayers before I go to bed, or I will literally lay there and wonder why I can’t fall asleep, it nags at me. My mom taught me that.
86)My brother is the funniest person I know. Even if most of his one liners are directed at me.
87) I love to email, I do it all day long, and won’t quit doing it until you tell me you are busy and have actual work to do.
88)I have an unnatural amount of bed sheets.
89)There is very rarely NOT a song being sung in my head.
90)In college I was an RA and pretty much the worst RA ever.
91) I social network stalk people. Not so much now that it’s blocked at work, but if I’m home and bored, chances are I’m stalking you.
92) I use chap stick obsessively. In fact I just ordered 10 tubes of my grandma’s Avon chap stick from her because Seth is starting to use chap stick obsessively too.
93) I always write a thank you-my mom taught me that.
94)I have grand ideas and little follow-thru.
95) I voted for Obama.
96)I don’t like to get my haircut and usually only do it once every 6 months when I go in for a color.
97) I go thru spurts where I can eat the same thing every day for a week and still want it.
98)I always worry when my friends are short with me or don’t talk to me like they normally do that they hate me <--I.E. I am a paranoid worry wart.
99)I sleep with one million pillows on the bed.
100) I have a toe thumb.
Thanks to everyone who helped me write that list, I petered out around 89.
Okay well, I think that’s it for this morning at least!
If you want me to expand on any of my nuances, comment below!
Love to you all!
Carrie
First off, I’d like to introduce another Baggage Blogger to our little blog-her name is L’ara and she is my close friend. My senior year in high school we were best friends and we were college roommates my freshman year in college. Until I became psychotic about Cheez-its. Hahaha. She loves to cook, watch TV, have great theme parties, shop, and be generally witty and snarky. So I’m sure she will blog to that effect. Let’s give her a big welcome and hope she blogs soon for us!
So in lieu of an actual direction for this blog, I’m just going to my stalled writing stand-by and I’m going to make a list.
Today’s list is: 100 Things that make me different…
1) I can’t sleep if the closet doors are open.
2) I can’t drink a drink with ice if I don’t have a straw, I don’t like when it hits my teeth.
3) I can drink soda in a can warm-I grew up in Europe where ice is a luxury.
4) I change my underpants twice a day.
5) I have become that person who comes home from work and puts on sweats and LOVES IT.
6) I don’t wear make up on the weekends if I don’t have to.
7) I don’t wash my hair on the weekends if I don’t have to (I still take bubble baths).
8) I majored in History.
9) I love winter and snow, and bad weather.
10) I hate the sun, anything that causes me to sweat, and being outdoors.
11) I can kill a plant by looking at it (luckily my mom can save it by looking at it)
12) I hate talking on the phone.
13) I watch at least 3 hours of television a day (actually 6 hours if you count commercials which I fast forward thru)
14) I am usually reading at least 4 books at one time and I can remember all of them.
15) I love to share my books, but hate when people don’t give them back.
16) I miss characters of books when they are gone, I feel empty without them.
17) Once a month Seth lets me go to the bookstore and buy books out of the bargain section.
18) I usually buy 5-10 books.
19) I choose books that are long and thick and hard backed-because I like the story to last long and I like the way they look on my shelf.
20) My fourth favorite thing in the world is taking a bubble bath and reading my books.
21) I love to hang out with my family-especially if dinner is involved.
22) I like to cook, but I generally use the same flavors and tastes that I love, like garlic and balsamic vinegar and Dijon mustard.
23) Gordon Ramsey is my favorite chef.
24) I enjoy watching crime dramas most of all on tv. I feel it gives me the ability to solve crimes and give legal advice.
25) I’m starting to recognize dancers from watching all my reality dance shows. ßThis does not mean I watch too many reality dance shows.
26) I listen to rap music…LOUDLY and enjoy it greatly.
27) On overcast rainy days if I am driving I must listen to a man with a guitar.
28) If I’m pudding around the house, I like to listen to girl singers.
29) I make up my own dance moves and hand motions to songs in the car-and do them pretty often.
30) I’m pretty passive aggressive.
31) I’m so passive aggressive I will generally just complain about things until someone gets fed up and does something about it.
32) I am a hermit, I’ve been one since 9th grade.
33) I wish there was more places to order takeout in Omaha.
34) I like to go to bed early on the week nights.
35) On Saturdays I usually stay up until 2, catching up on tv or reading.
36) I have a pica disorder. I eat fuzz. At least I know why now.
37) I can’t sleep with socks on.
38) I can’t sleep unless I have 2 blankets weighing me down, even if that means turning the air down to 50.
39) I’m not really into sweets. I could live without them.
40)I could not however live without cheese, potatoes, or bean burritos with sour cream.
41) I can’t sleep unless it’s black as night dark-even if I’m wearing my mask.
42) I still sleep with my baby blankie in a pillow case and my teddy bear.
43) I’m 27.
44)The fuzz I eat comes from the baby blankie.
45) Yes I wash it. It’s barely holding on.
46)My mom is the only person in the world who can fix my teddy bear’s worn down appendages.
47) I usually send her an email scheduling surgery for him.
48)I’m 27.
49)I pee with the bathroom door open. I do everything with the bathroom door open.
50) I’m secretly claustrophobic in the bathroom.
51) I only eat pink and red starbursts.
52) I love going to the movies, but never go. <--Because I’d have to leave my house.
53) I don’t like driving.
54) I’m a Daddy’s girl.
55) My dad still picks me up to take me places. Because he knows I hate driving.
56) My parents are still the smartest people I know, and who I go to for 95% of my advice.
57) I first knew I loved my husband when I found out he drove a black pick up truck that was a stick shift.
58) Pam and I started planning my wedding and children with Seth the day after I met him.
59) I have always known he was the one. Because really, you just know.
60)I can only eat ice cream with a small spoon-everything else I need a large spoon.
61) I don’t use small forks, Seth doesn’t use the big ones.
62) I love my cats because they talk back to me.
63) I love to have my picture taken.
64)There are clearly not enough pictures taken of me when my friends and I get together, mostly because I’m taking them.
65) I don’t drink, only on special occasions, and even then I feel bad when I do it.
66)I’m a vegetarian.
67) I buy at least 2 things of sour cream every time we go to the store.
68)I crotchet.
69)I am crocheting the world’s biggest blanket. I refuse to stop crocheting it because I want to be like that lady in Like Water for Chocolate.
70) When I watch movies alone, I fast forward thru the stupid boring parts, like the fighting scenes or the will she won’t she scenes or the montage scenes.
71) I have a very British sense of humor.
72) Eddie Izzard is my favorite comedian.
73) I get sad when networks cancel my shows.
74) I went into a depression when they cancelled Gilmore Girls.
75) I’m still crabby about Eli Stone and Pushing Daises being cancelled.
76) I grew up in Europe and still live there in my mind.
77) I love to give advice.
78) I drink V8 warm.
79) I can suck the inside of a pickle out with a straw.
80)Peanut-butter and pickle sandwiches are my favorite sandwich in the whole world and I don’t know HOW I even first came to eat them because no one I know likes it.
81) I hate when I ask questions in a email and people don’t answer them or blatantly ignore them and answer the other questions in the email.
82) Seth hid my engagement ring in my jumper cables and I never found it because I am a bad Samaritan.
83) Seth hid my papers for my engagement ring in his math books and I never found it because I hate math.
84)I always try and wear an undershirt. My Dad taught me that.
85) I have to brush my teeth and put lotion on my feet and say my prayers before I go to bed, or I will literally lay there and wonder why I can’t fall asleep, it nags at me. My mom taught me that.
86)My brother is the funniest person I know. Even if most of his one liners are directed at me.
87) I love to email, I do it all day long, and won’t quit doing it until you tell me you are busy and have actual work to do.
88)I have an unnatural amount of bed sheets.
89)There is very rarely NOT a song being sung in my head.
90)In college I was an RA and pretty much the worst RA ever.
91) I social network stalk people. Not so much now that it’s blocked at work, but if I’m home and bored, chances are I’m stalking you.
92) I use chap stick obsessively. In fact I just ordered 10 tubes of my grandma’s Avon chap stick from her because Seth is starting to use chap stick obsessively too.
93) I always write a thank you-my mom taught me that.
94)I have grand ideas and little follow-thru.
95) I voted for Obama.
96)I don’t like to get my haircut and usually only do it once every 6 months when I go in for a color.
97) I go thru spurts where I can eat the same thing every day for a week and still want it.
98)I always worry when my friends are short with me or don’t talk to me like they normally do that they hate me <--I.E. I am a paranoid worry wart.
99)I sleep with one million pillows on the bed.
100) I have a toe thumb.
Thanks to everyone who helped me write that list, I petered out around 89.
Okay well, I think that’s it for this morning at least!
If you want me to expand on any of my nuances, comment below!
Love to you all!
Carrie
Thursday, January 15, 2009
How I feel about American Idol and HBBC's First Book and Guest Bloggers get a new name! Or just Thursday...
Happy Thursday everyone!
I like Thursdays. At some point a long time ago some executive decided it would be the BEST night to put all my favorite type shows and for some reason, Thursday has been endeared to me forever. Except now-with the invention of DVR, I can watch all of those shows, so I love it even more. Especially since they moved Bones to Thursday night opposite Ugly Betty, and I just fell in love with Bones, thanks to Pam.
Speaking of television-I’m going to take a moment to rant about my love hate relationship with American Idol.
I started watching American Idol (henceforth known as AI in this entry) because Pam made me. Like most TV shows, she taped it and then we watched it and I fell in love with this guy named Chris Daughtry. Long story short, Chris got kicked off somewhere along the line and some stupid not as good other person won. (But the world remembers Chris so I was RIGHT) and I was CRUSHED. I stopped watching then and there. Then last year, when Seth and I were bored in Sioux Falls (as we often were) AI came on again, and this time, they were going to Omaha-so of course we had to watch. First of all, AI made a TRAVESTY of Omaha. They made us look like backward hee-haws. They kept flying over this “cornfield” (Seth says it was a soy bean field-and he used to farm, so I trust him) and finding these STRANGE STRANGE people. People with no friends, people who are down right CRAZY. But there was a shining light-David Cook. He sang Bon Jovi and I was all MELTY. And all over again, I loved AI. And then, oh then! He WON. OF course I voted like 80 billion times from every phone I had. But he won and I was SO SO happy.
So this year I sit down to watch AI again. But I’m not like most people in America. I HATE the audition shows. Hate them. I’m so embarrassed for people. I don’t understand. Do you have no friends, no family,who hates you enough to have you do this to yourself? I watch this show to see good talented singers, not goofballs in hot pants and a tube top. Or people insist they are SO good and everyone tells them so and they get up there and sing like a mountain goat. I hate it. I usually fast forward thru 95% of this part of the show.
Also you should know I religiously watch a show called “The Soup” on E! every Friday night. It’s basically a stand up comedian (Joel McHale) making fun of everything on TV. And it’s hilarious, and it makes me feel better about myself that I’m actually not the only person in America who watches this much tv. Joel McHale has a vendetta against Ryan Seacrest (the host of AI). So this week I am VERY excited to watch The Soup because THIS week on American Idol-Ryan tried to high five a blind guy. No really, he did. And Seth and I just looked at each other and he went-“The Soup is going to be SO good this week!” and I went-“I know I can’t wait-Joel is going to TEAR him a new one!” Here is a video that The Soup already has up on their website of the high-fiving!
I like Thursdays. At some point a long time ago some executive decided it would be the BEST night to put all my favorite type shows and for some reason, Thursday has been endeared to me forever. Except now-with the invention of DVR, I can watch all of those shows, so I love it even more. Especially since they moved Bones to Thursday night opposite Ugly Betty, and I just fell in love with Bones, thanks to Pam.
Speaking of television-I’m going to take a moment to rant about my love hate relationship with American Idol.
I started watching American Idol (henceforth known as AI in this entry) because Pam made me. Like most TV shows, she taped it and then we watched it and I fell in love with this guy named Chris Daughtry. Long story short, Chris got kicked off somewhere along the line and some stupid not as good other person won. (But the world remembers Chris so I was RIGHT) and I was CRUSHED. I stopped watching then and there. Then last year, when Seth and I were bored in Sioux Falls (as we often were) AI came on again, and this time, they were going to Omaha-so of course we had to watch. First of all, AI made a TRAVESTY of Omaha. They made us look like backward hee-haws. They kept flying over this “cornfield” (Seth says it was a soy bean field-and he used to farm, so I trust him) and finding these STRANGE STRANGE people. People with no friends, people who are down right CRAZY. But there was a shining light-David Cook. He sang Bon Jovi and I was all MELTY. And all over again, I loved AI. And then, oh then! He WON. OF course I voted like 80 billion times from every phone I had. But he won and I was SO SO happy.
So this year I sit down to watch AI again. But I’m not like most people in America. I HATE the audition shows. Hate them. I’m so embarrassed for people. I don’t understand. Do you have no friends, no family,who hates you enough to have you do this to yourself? I watch this show to see good talented singers, not goofballs in hot pants and a tube top. Or people insist they are SO good and everyone tells them so and they get up there and sing like a mountain goat. I hate it. I usually fast forward thru 95% of this part of the show.
Also you should know I religiously watch a show called “The Soup” on E! every Friday night. It’s basically a stand up comedian (Joel McHale) making fun of everything on TV. And it’s hilarious, and it makes me feel better about myself that I’m actually not the only person in America who watches this much tv. Joel McHale has a vendetta against Ryan Seacrest (the host of AI). So this week I am VERY excited to watch The Soup because THIS week on American Idol-Ryan tried to high five a blind guy. No really, he did. And Seth and I just looked at each other and he went-“The Soup is going to be SO good this week!” and I went-“I know I can’t wait-Joel is going to TEAR him a new one!” Here is a video that The Soup already has up on their website of the high-fiving!
A word about this blind guy-he was really really good. He is one of the people I WATCH this part of the show for. Show more people like him. Please. But here’s where I disconnect. DOES THE BLIND GUY HAVE NO FRIENDS?? No one who could have bothered to BRUSH this dudes hair before he came on national television. I get it-your blind, your arty, you like to dance-even though HOW you learned to dance is beyond me. But, really 30 people who screamed when he came out with his golden ticket, really dude who lead him around like a guide dog-none of you couldn’t brush this guys hair? REALLY?
(Ryan Seacrest high-fiving the blind guy who doesn't own a hairbrush or real friends...)
And once again-AI does another INJUSTICE to Nebraska. The producers must have stood outside and went-“EVERYONE FROM NEBRASKA-STAND OVER HERE” and then went thru one by one and picked out the most hideous people-one who I think was “touched” and let them go before the judges panel. Those were the only ones from Nebraska. In the interviews-they made sure to say-“HI! My name is CLEATUS and I’m from NORFOLK NEBRASKA and this here is a medal that I won in ELEMENTRY SCHOOL for being the BEST SINGER-and I taped a fortune from a fortune cookie ON THE BACK OF THE MEDAL and it says-something, I’m not sure the writin’s real tiny, but I can’t wait to prove my momma wrong because she says I’m not a singer but I’ll show her.” And then he goes out there and sings like someone repeatedly stepped on his throat as a child, which you probably assume was his MOTHER considering she is obviously EVIL and UNSUPPORTIVE to let her MENTALLY-ILL son go to Kansas City from NEBRASKA (Don’t for get-he was from NEBRASKA!-AI sure won't let you forget!) and make an ass out of himself on national television. That is how Nebraska is once again portrayed. Thanks American Idol…really, thanks..
And that’s my love/hate relationship with American Idol. Check back in 8 weeks when I have fallen in love with someone and demand you watch and vote for them and then when they get kicked off blame it on you and proclaim that I’m never watching this stupid show again. Although…I like the new judge…and there was a guy last night who was a music teacher whose wife died that made me cry...
You want to see me get REALLY crazy? Wait until “So you think you can dance” starts this summer. BEST.SHOW.EVER. No question. But we will come to that.
So moving on and merging to the left…
I (and my mother) have picked the first book for the “Heavy Baggage Book Club”! Oh wait, did I not tell you it has a name now? Oh it does. That’s it. There it is. “Heavy Baggage Book Club” I was going to throw the word “blog” in there too, but I couldn’t make it fit and sound okay. Anyway. Yay for witty names!
But the book! The book I am going to be reading and you can be reading too is “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink.
(Book cover from Amazon.com)
If you are reading it let me know, and I will give you a heads up when I am done so I can collect the reviews. Don’t worry, I still need to get the book from my mom, so we will give you a month to read it if you want. Bonus! This is the book that spawned a movie starring Kate Winslet (who I love, love, love)-in which last Sunday, she won a Golden Globe for-her first ever. So you could just watch the movie and tell me what you think if you are uber lazy like that. And I’m going to try and drag someone to the movie after I read it, so if you up for that, holla! Here is Amazon.com’s synopsis of the book:
“Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence.”
Let me know if you’re in for this round of the “Heavy Baggage Book Club”!!
Well I think that is all I have for this morning. Maybe I will peruse the net and find something awesome to blog about or someone and I will have a witty conversation that I simply must blog. But I’m sure I’ll be back later today! Or maybe one of my guest bloggers will be on! Who knows? I think I’m changing their name. They are going to be my Baggage Bloggers-because they are part of my baggage, in a good way. :-)
Leave your love and comments below!!
Have a wonderful day!
Carrie
“Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence.”
Let me know if you’re in for this round of the “Heavy Baggage Book Club”!!
Well I think that is all I have for this morning. Maybe I will peruse the net and find something awesome to blog about or someone and I will have a witty conversation that I simply must blog. But I’m sure I’ll be back later today! Or maybe one of my guest bloggers will be on! Who knows? I think I’m changing their name. They are going to be my Baggage Bloggers-because they are part of my baggage, in a good way. :-)
Leave your love and comments below!!
Have a wonderful day!
Carrie
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