Friday Fragments - A Briskness to the Air

Joining up with Mrs. 4444 for the Friday Fragment section of the blog. You can join in too.



A cool front came through yesterday with some rain (yes I said RAIN). And today is cool too. So excited to be wearing jeans to work and tennis shoes.

The rain of course means it is State Fair time. Because it always rains during the state fair in the fall and the arts festival in the spring. Its just going to happen. Almost makes you want to have those events more often if it would bring the rain. Because we are in the red zone for drought now. Like the entire state is red (and not just because of the red clay dirt).

I just bought tickets to go see Les Mis in October with one of the touring companies. I'm hoping that it will be spectacular.

Glee started last night. I won't give any of it away since Whitney couldn't watch it right away. Some good singing but once again some of the stuff that happens in that high school is just so far-reaching. Throwing a slushie would never be tolerated without a suspension. Come on people.

I would like to be a celebrity judge on a cooking show like Top Chef or Iron Chef. Although in my rider would have to be a clause of "no peas". I never get food served to me like they have there.

Did you catch the last dancing on So You Think You Can Dance? Next week they crown champions and they will have dancing, but no more competition. I was excited that Eliana got to dance with Alex again (although not as good as their first pairing) and Twitch outshone Cyrus in Cyrus style (go TWITCH!). I had a crazy dream that they had Alex and Twitch recreate their famous dance on the show next week. I'm sure it won't happen, so we'll just have to settle for the original here.

Thursday Means Friday is Almost Here

This has been a really hard week at work. I've been in panic mode all week which I don't do. The crisis isn't over, although I'm hoping the solution will be found today. It is very frustrating when one person decides to interpret a rule in one way that NO ONE ELSE in the country interprets that way. Let's just say lawyers are now involved and on initial view, they are on my side. There's a lot of money at stake so I'm hoping that their ruling will be the right one.

So in light of this mess, I'm going to try and reflect on lovely things today. Like this new blog hop I'm doing. Mingle with Us by Happy-Go-Lucky. I like that name so I'm going with it.


Or how about my review of So You Think You Can Dance last night. Dan asked me if the talent this year wasn't as good (which tells me he is paying attention) and I think he's right. He asked if I would pay to see any of the dancers and I said Alex Wong. He said how about the competitors. I said no. I did list a bunch of dancers but they were all male so he wondered about females. I said I had watched girls dance for 14 years so I'm onto the boys now. LOL.

Here's one of my favorite routines from years past. And it has a girl in it too (just for you honey).

I almost forgot the review. I think Eliana is the best girl dancer and she should win. Boys is a little trickier. There isn't a stand out great dancer but there is a personality. I don't like that they seem to hide Cyrus' lack of dance and don't call him out on it like they do the really trained dancers. This deep in the competition, you'd better be dancing your heart out.

The big high school rival football game is tonight in the university stadium. Now that Whitney is in college, I don't go. But I still want the Tigers to win.

Emmy Nominations

The Emmy nominations came out this morning. I don't watch a lot of regular tv so I have no idea who some of these people are nor do I know the shows. Plus I don't get HBO, Showtime or any of those kind of stations. I do watch Glee and noticed that none of the main characters were nominated. I'm sure that is because the main storylines were really sucky this year. But good old Sue and Kurt were nominated. They are great no matter what they are given.

But I'm really excited about the choreography category. Did you know they have that? Well you would if you are a fan of So You Think You Can Dance. I absolutely love this show. Last night as we watched, Whitney and I started naming all the dances that we thought would be nominated. And we had them all right. Guess we are pretty good judges. It looks like each choreographer who was nominated had three dances listed. I don't know if they award on a body of work or an individual dance. But they can give out more than one so I'm hoping that they get more than one.

My favorites had to be Alex and Twitch's hip hop "Outta This World". Entertainment Weekly named it the number 1 dance from all seven seasons of the show. It is fantastic. It is too bad that Alex got hurt the following week and had to withdraw from the competition because he would have won. I'm hoping that next week he is announced as an All-Star for the rest of this season.