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Where is everyone's "List"?! Slackers. ;)

I might have a crush

on that young kid from American IDol... did everyone see him Tuesday night?
Check out this link to listen. He will for sure win I think.
http://www.americanidol.com/videos/?vid=966&pcs=499

It was such a wonderful surprise to check the mail the other day.. when it was about 2 degrees out and windy... to find my new Miracle Bra swimsuit had arrived from Victoria Secret. It was great trying it on..imaging myself on the beach.. drinking a daqueri.. in about 2 weeks. :)
on a side note.. I got this miracle bra top.. and for some reason in my mind i was expecting it to make me look like Pamela Anderson or something..
but it just made me a cup size bigger - a whole B :)

My List

So Jill's last post talked bout her "List". I only have one guy, as a lot of those Hollywood types do nothing for me. He is Michael Mantenuto from the 'Miracle' movie, about the 1980 gold-medal winning olympic hockey team. The movie casted real college-aged hockey players, as they thought it would be easier teaching hockey players to act convincingly rather than vice versa. Jay even approves. He read up about him and likes where he played, is a Massachusets boy, worked on a fishing boat, yadda, yadda. I lurve him. He resembles Jay, so Jay can't be too mad at me, right?!

I also saw Enrique Inglesias on the Today show, and might add him. Now, the Latin Lovers do NOTHING for me, but he always seems so genuine in interviews, is never cocky, is always polite, doesn't do that stupid Hollywood scene, and was so sweet to his fans while he was singing. And I think he's a cutie. He's grown on me over the years. AND, his tunes are catchy. Anna Kornikova is a lucky girl!

Who's on your List? It's a challenge. Get it done, girls...let's go!

This one is pretty funny too.. from Ikea

Aren't these sheet sets/duvets cool? They are on sale now at CB2.. Kinda want one. I wish the first one was in brown or a wine color.. that is more our color scheme in our room.

and also.. the voice of Prince Eric is.. the guy who played Greg in "The Brady Movie". what? he is not handsome and sexy like PRince Eric!! I Thought it was the guy who did the voice of Alladin.. the same guy who was DJ's boyfriend in Full House - Steve. but it wasn't. it was the brady bunch guy. :(
remember STeve? he was always eating.. and Danny Tanner was like, "Steve.. do your parents feed you? Stop kissing my daughter. "

hmm...

so... we recently watched Freedom WRiters (loved it) and Hilary Swank's character has the kids read the Diary of Ann Frank.. blah blah blah.. they find out the lady who housed Ann and her family is still alive in Germany.. they bring her to California.. she speaks to the kids.. whatever.
So tonight I was looking online to see who does the voices for Little Mermaid (we have been watching it the last couple days.. I HEART Little Mermaid..) and the voice of Ursella.. is... the lady from FReedom Writers.. who I thought was a REAL German lady.. who REALLY housed Ann Frank. but she was just an actress.. who also was the voice of Ursella. ..
I feel duped.

I wish Carrie and Aiden would have gotten together.. no offense to Mr. Big.. :(

Vegetables

I felt like doing a little research on the weird affects vegetables have on our body. Here is what I found.

1. Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
-22 percent of survey respondents experience asparagus pee.
-due to a metabolite called methanethiol.
- as your body metabolizes asparagus, it produces this smelly chemical, which your discriminating kidneys see fit to dump into the bladder.

2. Why does brocoli give me gas?
- Raffinose
Beans contain large amounts of this complex sugar. Smaller amounts are found in cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli

Jill's Critic's Corner

Jim and I watched Freedom Writers this weekend - starring Hilary SWank. This movie was fantastic! Even Jim almost cried.. I suggest you all go watch it if you haven't already. How sad that kids are really still living in these conditions/fear in LA and other project areas in the US. Will it ever be a world where it doesnt matter if we are black, white, mexican etc. How sad that we got rid of slaves.. gave rights to women and african americans to vote etc.. yet we still hold on to those prejudices and treat each other that way.
Anyways, the movie is really good. Hilary Swank does a great job.. go rent it. you will love it.

Oh, this is ladies night.....

I know, I'm a bad blogger, but I finally uploaded some pictures and here's a few cute ones from all our nights out in January! Ok, well it's not letting me put pictures on right now!

This kid cracks me up!

(look at me blogging a video!! I am almost as cool as Jill!)

So cool...

Whether you are a Billy Joel fan or not, you probably remember his song, "We Didn't Start the Fire." Here it is, set to pictures... very, very cool! Had to share this one. It's a flashback through the past half century. Turn up volume, sit back and enjoy a review of 50 years of history in less than 3 minutes! Thanks to Billy Joel and some guy from the University of Chicago with lots of time and the help of Google!
http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html

Look How Photogenic My Kid Is!!

Here's some pretty awesome pics of Antonia. I know you're all jealous and wish you could look as stellar as she does...we can't all be supermodels. Sigh.

A Few Minutes on My Environmentally Friendly Soapbox..

So I have been thinking for about six months now of buying reusable grocery bags so I wouldn't have to use plastic bags anymore. I hadn't found the "perfect bag"...they were either too small, or too expensive (I don't feel like paying $3.50 for one when I need eight or so). I went to recycle my glass and pick up a few things at Whole Foods this afternoon. Lo and behold, they had super cool, nice sized, cute, and cheap bags made from 80% recyled pop bottles for only 99 cents!! I bought my eight! I'll just keep them in my car and take them in with me when I get loose and do my monthly shopping at Wal-Mart, and every other time I shop. They will even replace the bags for free if they get holes or tears. The life of one of these bags will save you from using 1000 plastic bags. Per bag. Too cool. You can't beat that! Here are some other plastic bag facts I found on the internet:

-Plastic bags can take 400-1000 years to break down in a landfill.
-Only 1-3% of bags ever get recycled.
-The use of plastic bags worldwide is 1,000,000 a minute. (Yep. Crazy but true.)
-There are approximately 1,000,000 ocean creatures that die every year from getting entangled in plastic bags that are improperly discarded. (Okay, we're probably not the direct cause of this one, but you get my point.)

So get your bags, look cute, have a guilt-free concious, and recycle, Baby! (Everyone's doing it...)

IDOL in Omaha!

Even if you are not a huge American Idol fan I thought you may want to watch this coming Tuesday's episode anyway. That is the day they will be showing the auditions from Omaha! It will be fun to see what kind of people they chose from around here. I am sure we will see some corn fields, cows, and people with corn cob hats and their heads, but hopefully they will find some great talent from Omaha. Simon Cowell made a statement that he "loves Omaha." Just thought you may want to tune in!

Tuesday January, 27th at 7pm.

To share another blog...

I had to blog this. This is from another blog that is on my hometown newspaper's website. It's just dad's that can blog on this...I found this one particularly amusing. Just another thing that cracks me up about kids...so innocent.

The truest gifts
My wife and I have made it a practice, for at least the last two years, of not spending a great deal of money on Christmas presents for each other.
It's not that we don't want to be gifted (we do still treat each other to sundries via our stockings). It's just that we'd rather spend the majority of our Christmas allotment on our kids. Just feels right.
And as usual, the kids had a great holiday. But it was actually one of my stocking stuffers that entertained me the most -- or more specifically, what was done with it after I got it.
As a gag, my wife bought me the book pictured at right. (And yes, the gag is that the book is comprised entirely of blank pages.)
So our 6-year-old decided to start filling the book with the things HE knows about women. To help me figure it out, of course.
Here are a few excerpts from his entries so far (listed here as they were written):
"Men no that wimen have long haer."
"And wimen whar deodorant. And women whaer lotion. And women have pony tails. And women doro (draw) beautiful pictures."
And here's the one that floored me:
"And whimen have breasts."
Yes, they do. Apparently he had to ask how to spell the word, but he knew what he wanted to say.
This'll turn out to be my guidebook on male-female relationships. I can feel it.

I wish my kid was English...

barf

we have had 3 people at work in the past week have the stomach flu.. the kind that leaves you weak, miserable and pukey and poopy for days. I will be really pissed if I get sick. I HATE throwing up.. I cry every time.
As I was getting dinner ready tonight.. and putting some canned pears on Kate's plate I suddenly remembered my mom would always have us drink pear juice after throwing up. She said it would coat our stomachs and it would help get the bad taste out of our mouth. Did anyone else's mom do that? I have heard of a couple other people saying their mom's did it too.. Every time I am sick I instantly want my mom to be there with me. Jim is wonderful and takes care of me too.. but there is something about your mom being there.. rubbing your back... holding you.. that makes you feel better.
I really don't want to get sick..