Reality TV - The Week in Review

OK I'm a reality tv junkie. I admit I have a problem. I am selective, but when I decide to watch something, I watch it from beginning to end.

The Voice

We had to watch this one online because of the storm Tuesday night. I admit the best part of a DVR is skipping commercials. We had the same stupid Latisse commercial 10 times online. OK for the show they announced the two "saves" for teams Blake and Christina. Christina did not suprise me at all. Blake...WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?! The viewer one was fine, but Blake chose Xenia, who shouldn't have even made it to that round. Maybe he thinks this is "The Voice Who I Can Mold and Needs Me the Most". Terrible choice and there is no way anyone from his team will win.

We had performances from Teams Cee-Lo and Adam. Cee-Lo decided that his singers really needed some backup talent/fire twirlers/dancers. Very distracting there. Maybe that was to mask the bad song choices. Hopefully Cee-Lo won't make the same mistake Blake did and pick the sister group. Yikes.I'm sure the viewers will pick Nakia, who is pretty awesome.  Adam had a much better team to start with. He may have a tough decision ahead. It was unfortunate that Javier sang that song that plays during the dog/cat commercial about animal shelters. We couldn't even watch it it is so depressing.

Not sure what next week brings but I saw that there is two shows.

Top Chef Masters

It was the season finale of this show. Three very talented accomplished chefs cooking the best meal of their lives. Sometimes this seems like odd choices. The first season where Rick Bayless won has to be the best cohesive meal I think. Floyd won, a very nice man. Of course I was hoping Mary Sue would win because her food seems the most approachable to me. Plus I remember watching her on Two Hot Tamales years ago.

So You Think You Can Dance

Thank goodness that the best "talent" show is back on the air. I so love watching good dancing. And boy the talent just keeps getting better each year. The performers really got to stick with their normal genre except for a few. I think that helped because people could see how good they really are, instead of having to do something so outside what they normally do and screwing up. I was really wrong about who America would vote into the bottom three. None of the ones that I thought deserved to be there were in the bottom. And then they had these breathtaking solos to stay on the show. How could anyone choose to send someone home? The judges even had two of the boys do it again so they could pick.

And then the biggest cop out of the year when they decided not to send anyone home. Two couples will go home next week. Personally I think that they didn't want to send any of those dancers home because they didn't like how America voted. I think that there were weaker dancers safe and they wanted to give America another chance to get it right. I hope that next week they make people go outside their comfort zone and then we'll be able to see how they do.

The group dance was pretty awesome I have to say too.

Microburst - What a Storm!

Tuesday night we had a microburst. That is a storm that whips up 60+mph winds, lots of rain and hail. I was at a restaurant with a friend and we kept checking the weather on his Iphone. We were sitting next to windows and kept looking at the clouds. All of a sudden things started banging and wooshing. The front door was opening/closing so the staff locked it. And it monsoon rained. Whitney called from home (thank goodness she had made it there from the mall) and said it was a monsoon and hail there. The neighbor's tree in the back had split. The power was flickering. At the restaurant we got quarter sized hail.

Do not do this

And the roads flooded really bad. Tree limbs across the street came down and luckily missed a car. I knew I wasn't going anywhere for awhile so we ordered dessert. What else could we do? When we finally decided the road had gone down enough to drive through, I went home. We only missed really bad damage by a couple of blocks. I passed several large trees down.



Downtown building



There was a great deal of hail/wind damage downtown.

And about 1 1/2 mile from my house there were downed power lines. An apartment complex had its roof ripped off. We did lose a big branch on our front tree but we had power all night. About 1/3 of the town was without it. We didn't have cable or internet until lunch on Wednesday so we really didn't know what had happened other places.

Good shopping day

I took Whitney shopping this morning and we found the deals. I had $10 Kohl's cash to spend and a discount card. We ended up getting two patriotic tshirts for free! (I love free by the way). Then we hit Dillard's and they had intimate apparel on clearance so we each got stuff. Major clearance (I love clearance too). Best of all I spent quality time with my girl.

Girls Weekend

So it is just Whitney and I this weekend; Dan is out communing with nature. So what are the big plans? Tonight we made pesto pizza and brownies. We had leftover pesto from earlier in the week, I bought a pizza crust and there you go. Wasn't as good as Dan's pizza, but it certainly was tasty. The brownies are low-fat and taste just like a good chewy brownie. I colored my hair and Whitney went to bed really early. Guess all those days of double shifts at work caught up to her.

Saturday should bring us shopping (of course Whitney's favorite activity). I have a huge wine tasting event to go to. It's a big fundraiser so I spent a lot more money than I ever would. But I decided to splurge and treat myself to something just for me. They will have nine restaurants and 200+ wines to try. I have the list in advance so I could do a little scouting since that is just way too many to drink. Yikes, don't want to drink too much. That wouldn't make a good impression.

Sunday is church and cleaning the house. Maybe we'll go see the Parade of Homes Showhome and get some decorating ideas.

Monday is the big day. We go to OCU to register for classes. It is a whole day of talks, meetings and lunch. I'm excited and I know Whitney can't wait. There are quite a few people from her online boards going so she is hoping to meet some new people that she has chatted with.

I'll be sure to write about the wine tasting and registration days. Hope everyone has a good weekend and don't get too hot.

I Can't Post Comments

For some stupid reason I can't get my google account to log in and post comments on anyone's blogs. And I want to. I need to give words of encouragement to Sarah (please know I am thinking of you). I love the Brazil pictures over at GB. There was a delicious snickerdoodle cake on a blog. And I am always humored over at Pampers/Pinot. So for a week I have not been able to comment. Everything is bottled up inside. People probably think I don't care. And I do care. I just can't figure out a way to show it.

Dance Recital

Saturday was Whitney's last dance recital. After 14 years I'm pretty much a pro at this. She was in all four shows so I spent the day and night at the theater. Thank goodness it has comfortable seats, although about halfway through show 3 my back was hurting.




Whitney is second from the right

Before show 4 they had senior recognition. Eight lovely young ladies who probably have almost 100 years of dance with Modern Dance Arts. I know the girls starting to get a little emotional knowing it was their last time together. One of the girls has been in almost every single class that Whitney has been in. That's a lot of classes together.
She did wear the dress we dyed last weekend. It turned out lovely.

The Voice - Review After the Battle Rounds

Well I had great promise for this show after the first week. Unfortunately the battle rounds did not live up to my expectations. I didn't like the whole put two people to sing the same song as a duet. I could see each person singing the same song after each other. That way they could be in their key and not try and sing something that was wrong for them.

Here are my picks for teams:



Team Adam before cuts

 1. Adam has the best team hands down. I think he was the most thoughtful in picking people to start. He also has three of the best male voices on the show. I'm not sure how the rest of the show is going to work with live performances but I think someone from Adam's team will win.

Team Blake before cuts

2. Blake has a couple of good singers and a couple of duds. Last night the two girls signing had no business being on the stage. He does have a good country male singer but that's about it.

Team Cee-Lo before cuts

3. Cee-Lo is third. The guy with the wild hair is good and the first girl that was picked is good too. Not sure if they are winners though. And he picked that sister group that isn't even worthy of bubblegum songs. Geez.

Team Christina before cuts

4. Christina has the worst group ever. Last night she clearing picked the less talented person only because she wailed notes like Christina does. She seemed to really like people who wail like her. Not good. She also seemed to like bald women. Maybe she needed to feel like no one could compete with her beauty.







So I will wait to see how things come out next week.