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Brant's 30th Birthday Extravaganza!!

Okay, so his birthday was in July, but we finally took our trip to St. Louis to celebrate. What a great weekend! I've probably told you ladies most of what we did, but I wanted to post a few of my favorite pictures.

Our first day in St. Louis was spent at the City Museum. It was awesome! Talk about feeling like a kid again. There were slides and things to crawl on and things inside and things outside and did I mention the slides??!! So fun. If you ever go to St. Louis, make time for the City Museum. You will not be disappointed. Unless you hate slides. And if that's the case, I'm disppointed in you.

So the main point of the whole trip was to see the Cardinals play the Cubs. Tickets to two games was the actual birthday present. The Cards were lackluster at best. They lost both games. Did we care? Not really. On Friday night we had seats in the Bank of America suite. There was a great buffet that included the very best macaroni and cheese I have ever tasted. We also had free beer all night. On Sunday we sat in the outfield, in Big Mac land. We had to wave around these foamy french fries. Pretty fun, but we left early since they were losing.

On Saturday we ventured out to the zoo. Animals are awesome. It was so fun watching all the different animals mess around. I can't remember the last time I went to the zoo. This orangatan was my favorite. He carried that bed sheet around all over the place until he finally covered himself completely and took a nap.

Overall, one of the most fun weekends I've had in a while. Go to http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4558&l=d8ecf&id=509613964 if you want to see more pics.

Idiots

So many priceless moments this episode! Here are some of my absolute favorites:

Lauren's face when J.Whal mentioned he had a girlfriend...and that they were moving in together.

Lisa Love. She's lookin' good in that black and white plaid.

Heidi and Jenn going dress shopping. Question: Is Jenn Bunney Heidi's Maid of Honor? And if so, is one of her primary duties to try and talk Heidi out of getting married? "Obviously you're not in the right mindframe, but for me it's just different," Jenn. Gah! PS. This wedding is SO not happening.

Who's ever heard of this awesome band Blue Parachute Logistics or whatever? And the lead singer wears LADIES jeans...also, very proud of it. Watch out, MTV2.

The 3 girls walking into the dive bar. Whitney: "I hope I don't get wasted!" True fun is holding your nose to drink shots just so you can get drunk. You go, girls!

Spencer and Heidi registering. Obviously, they aren't getting married. I think Heidi is just scanning the walls and pretending. They will "come back another day..." MmmmKay! We'll see ya then!

One word. Katja. Gross. The name's gotta go. Mabye just go by Kat. It's a lot less horrible. Ok, not A LOT, but it's better.

The "engagement!" Wow. Idiots. All of 'em. He's an idiot for asking her to marry him after 7 months and she's an idiot for marrying someone in rehab who's not even supposed to be dating anybody. I think I see another marriage in our future...that is SO not happening.

I think Lauren said it best when she said that her engagement party "didn't include a keg and a Bob Marley poster." Sometimes, she's just so poetic.

Lisa Love. Still rockin' the plaid...hmmmm, is that in stye now?

Why is it that every interaction between Spencer and Heidi seems forced? "Here you go, Princess." "Oh Thank you!" Just be normal!! Idiots.

Favorite part: Let's talk Spiedi wedding. Tibet. Eloping. These are solid gold ideas. Why do we have to have our whole families there, Heidi? Why can't we just not tell our parents that we're getting married? What's the big deal? It's not as if this wedding is actually happening. Geez, so naive.

Breakthrough: Lauren - "This could have been me...and I'm so glad it's not." Halleluiah! It's about time that girl wised up.

And then she goes and makes out with Brody in the previews. Uggghhh. Can't wait til next week! VEGAS!!!

This really scared me

Bennifer 3! I just saw this picture on People.com and almost freaked out. Can't Ben Affleck just leave all the "Jen's" alone?! Then I noticed that it's for a movie, "He's Just Not That Into You." Phew! There are about a gazillion different stars in this movie, and I'm interested to see how it all comes together. What else am I interested in...the new Sex and the City movie! They are currently filming and here's a shot of SJP!

Overdue

So we enjoyed a weekend at the lake a while back, and I've been slow about getting a few pictures up. We actually didn't take that many pictures. I guess we were too busy mixing poinsettias and/or trying to find more of the frozen alcoholic drinks that are quite similar to Capri Suns. Anyhoo, good times were had by all. We played a rousing game of Taboo, the guys fished every morning and we all had fun watching the dogs play.

Top Ten Things We Learned at the Lake:

1. Bailey doesn't care for swimming but she likes splashing.
2. When you go to the zoo, you see zebras.
3. Christy definitely wants penis whistles.
4. Brant is a sucky fisherman, but Will seems to be a natural.
5. Carter is funny. Okay, we knew my dad was funny but he was in top form at the lake.
6. Hot Springs doesn't seem to stock mint in any grocery store!
7. Dawn is hilarious and Ron can cook a fine burger.
8. Debbie doesn't need to sit that close to Christy.
9. Kari prefers the life jacket diaper to noods.
10. Poinsettias are delicious at any time of day!

I watch a lot of TV: Emmy edition!

For those of you who don't know (and haven't figured out by reading the blog), I watch a lot of TV. I spread the love around to all the networks and have several favorites on cable. If you're unaware of the shows I watch, take a look on the right side of the blog and there's a starting point. I listed the rest under the "Interests" section of my blogger profile. Now that we all understand how much TV I watch, let's talk about the Emmys!

Here are some of my favorite and least favorite parts:
Emmys in the Round - Least favorite part. Alienate 50% of the audience? Bad idea. AND these weren't just seat-fillers, we're talking the entire cast of Ugly Betty and The Sopranos getting shut out. Who thought of this?
Ryan Seacrest - Second least favorite part. He's just not very funny. Is it possible for Steve Carell to host the Emmys? Is that considered a conflict of interest? I don't care, he should host anyway.
Katherine Heigl - The announcer lady pronounced her name wrong before she went up to present an award. It was obviously too much for ol' K'Hei to stand, because she called her out, "It's Heigl, so um, yeah...it's cool, it's a tough one." She could have come off really bitchy, but it was pretty funny to me.
Steve Carell's fake win - When Ricky Gervais wasn't available to pick up his Emmy (I've never seen Extras, but I wanted Steve to win), Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert said that their friend Steve could take it. Steve RAN up to the stage and they all jumped up and down like little kids. It was the highlight of the awards. Too bad he didn't actually win.
Dwight and Kanye's bit - The set up was lame, with Wayne Brady doing an "impromptu" version of his show Don't Forget the Lyrics (who watches this??), but with Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the Office) and Kayne West going head-to-head in a battle of "Songs from Kanye West" it could hardly miss. Even funnier, the fact that Kayne lost! He never wins anything!
30 Rock's win! - I love 30 Rock. It's become one of Eric and my's favorite shows over the summer. I love the Office and even Ugly Betty, but I was so happy that 30 Rock won. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are comic gold. Here's a clip:



I'm interested in what people wore, but only to a certain extent. Favorites include: Vanessa Williams - she has taken to her outrageous character on Ugly Betty so much that she now dresses like her even when she's not on set; Alec Baldwin - a white tuxedo jacket, so classic and it was after 6:00..."What am I, a farmer?"; Julia Louie-Dreyfus - she looks fabulous most of the time, and I wish I had her hair.

There ya have it. It was OK, but definitely not anything compared to Davie's big TOUCHDOWN this weekend! Go hogs!

Stare Faces

Why is it that after each episode of The Hills, I feel like I have spent more time watching them stare at each other than actually listening to them having conversations?

Rainy Days

Just a few thoughts today:

I wish I had a "job" where one of my tasks, possibly my only task for the day, was to organize a rack of clothes according to color.

Recently I stumbled upon a great radio station here in Memphis that plays 80s, 90s and today. It seems to be mostly 80s and 90s and I have no problem with that. Last week on my way back from lunch, I belted out George Michael's "Faith" and was suprised at how many words I actually knew. I even danced a little. It was fantastic.

According to a person in one of my classes, there is a 23-year-old who has 7 kids. SEVEN! Crazy and sad.

My thanks to Robin (the lovely fiance of Peter, from theseenormouschildren) for showing us this: http://www.myspace.com/aintitthough - scroll all the way down on his list of songs and listen to "Sooooooie." I would like Andrew to please learn every word and sing this at the Auburn game. Thanks Davies!

I think Memphis is through with the scorching heat for now and for that, I'm extrememly grateful.

Today is my mom's bday and tomorrow is my dad's bday. Happy Birthday to my Fam!

We have new neighbors and they are F-U-N! They have an adorable little girl, who is five months old. I can't believe I'm going to put this in writing, but I'm starting to think that babies aren't quite so scary.

I'm now completely out of things to say, interesting or otherwise.

VMA Highlights and (Mostly) Lowlights

I knew I shouldn't have watched it. All my better judgement was telling me to turn off the TV. But I couldn't resist and I watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night. Give me some credit, I DVR'd it so I fast forwarded through all the commercials and stupid parts. And let me tell ya, I condensed that 2+ hour sucker into about 45 minutes. The format was all janky this year. It was in Vegas at the Palms. They split it up into different "parties" hosted by various stars including J.Timb, Kanye West, Fallout Boy and Foo Fighters. It was all over the place and no one even seemed to be paying attention to the awards portion of the show. The rooms that seemed to be having the most fun were J.Timb's (duh) and Kanye's. The guests at those parties were basically treated to a sweet concert all night long. Which would be really sweet, if this weren't an awards show. This new format was a big bust. But anyway...here are some of my favorite moments!
Britney's comeback. It was terrible. She seemed nervous or unprepared or something, and she was just going through the motions. Her costume was boring, her dancing was lame and her weave was just bad. If she were going to "comeback" this would have been the place to do it and she didn't.
Chris Brown's performance. Chris Brown is like 17 or something. That kid can dance. Even JT said CB made him look old. He did a Michael Jackson dance to Billie Jean and it was fabulous.
"Umbrella" by Rhiana. That song is catchy and it won at least 2 awards, including best video.
Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. They punched each other out over something, probably Pam Anderson-related. Idiots.
All the rappers making fun of Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. P.Diddy laughed about it like they were 2 kids fighting over a toy on the playground. I guess that is basically what happened, though.
The Hills Girls. They presented an award to J.Timb. Even more reason to hate them.
Jennifer Garner. I love her, but why was she there? She's got a new movie with Jamie Foxx (which he yelled out about 25 times), but she's hardly got the street cred for the VMAs. Anyhoo, the reason she's on the list is because she and JFoxx presented an award to best new artist. She announced the winner as "Gym Class Fallout." All you tweeny music lovers will know that this is a combination of two of the nominees. Gym Class Heroes and Fallout Boy. Her face when she announced it was priceless. She looked at the card for a second, then looked up and announced "Gym Class..." and then paused as if searching for the last word and out popped "fallout." It was probably the highlight of the show for me.
Lowlight of the evening - Miss Teen South Carolina. Seriously? The dumbest girl in the Miss Teen USA pageant gets an invite to the VMAs? OK. The sends a really great message to all the youngsters out there. Say dumb stuff and get to hang out with Kanye West and J.Timb! She did make fun of herself a bit, but she was totally reading cue cards and if you have to read cue cards to make fun of yourself, there's something terribly wrong.
Overall, it sucked.

Tano Queen

I love Tano purses and here is my newest addition to the collection...and by collection I mean two.

He's Better Than Us

I watched part of the Future Sex Love Show HBO Special last night (of course I recorded it!) and I have just one thing to say about Justin Timberlake...

That man can D-A-N-C-E!

If you didn't get a chance to see this, I would highly recommend looking it up on YouTube or something. It was clear that he didn't sing every single line of every single song. But I forgive him that because he was busy making me feel totally uncoordinated. I think I'm preaching to the choir when I say that he's a great entertainer. And I was aware that he could dance, I just didn't know the extent of it. He did sing quite a bit, but I was just blown away by his performance as a whole.

Note to B.Spears: See what you could of had? You really blew it.

The face of Teen Vogue

The one thing that's become abundantly clear this season is that our girls have horrible judgement, especially in men. This week Heidi continues to pretend that Spencer is a great guy, Audrina goes back out with J.Bob even after he left her at the pool party and Lauren spends even more time with Brody. It's almost as if they enjoy getting treated badly. I'm not even going to try and decipher why they continue to hang out with them.

I'd rather talk about the hidden gems of this show: Lo and Whitney. I think I want to be friends with Lo. She's the girl who says things that people think but are afraid to say because they don't want people to get mad at them (ahem, LAUREN!), even though they really need to hear it. Like when she called out Audrina for still going out with J.Bob. Why aren't you "together" already? You've been together for 4 months and still nothing? Move on! Yes. Exactly! It's like she heard me through the television. And it's refreshing to have someone who thinks rationally on this show.

Poor ol' Whitney has fallen from grace because apparently Lauren only works one day a week. If MTV is going to can someone who has been hand-picked to be a Vogue runway model by Andre Leon Talley and then fallen down the stairs in that very fashion show, then there's no hope for any of us. That is pure gold. Why is "Speidi" getting all the camera time? Send some cameras to Teen Vogue without Lauren - she works once a month, and sits at a computer, we get it. And where the HELL is Lisa Love, btw?

Also, Spencer is going to need to shave. Now. It's not a good look. The last thing you need to do if you're trying to get away from looking like Chester Cheetah is grow facial hair. Dumb. Pretty sure he dumped Brody, too. Their breakup conversation was the best of all the seasons. Spencer talking about loyalty! He's a prince.