Hello? Is There Anybody In There?

Yes, I am still alive. I survived tax season...my first as a partner, which was a whole new mine field to navigate. This was on top of some personal issues that haunted me throughout, and from which I am still smarting. In fact, I almost abandoned this blog because of it.

But while things here are not always as I believed, it is still true that I have friends on here, and although I don't "know" many of you, I feel like I know you. You know? Hee hee...sure you do.

Anyway, I am back, and I am happy to be here. Here are a few other things I know, just to bring you up to speed:

1. Office politics suck. Yes, they do. Oh...and the sky is blue. I am all about the obvious here.
2. Grandbaby number 3 is a girl, and has still not made an appearance, although she is past due for it. I begged her to wait until after April 15th...now it seems as if it is my turn to be patient.
3. We are expecting Grandbaby number 4, a boy, August 2nd. I could launch into a tirade about this one, but I have taken the position that I need to stop whining. Some people never get the chance to experience this, and it is incredibly unfair and ungrateful of me to complain about such a gift. Are there negatives? Sure. But I am trying to focus on the positives. And this is not easy for me...worst-case scenario kind of girl that I am. So I am growing here. I AM! So stop touching me. Stop it! I'm telling...oh, MOM!
4. I am obsessed with Farm Town on Facebook. It is stupid, juvenile, ridiculous, and completely delightful because of all that. So much for growing.

So there. That is what is happening in my world. Now I will try to catch up with yours. Thanks for letting me disappear, and still welcoming me back. You blog friends are the best.

Idol Chit Chat 2009 - Top 9

I only have time to post a few thoughts.

My bottom three prediction...Anoop. Matt and Megan.

Matt did not deserve to be in the bottom three last week, and he was understandably pouty about it. So to fix that, his sucked hard this week, so he can officially feel better about being in the bottom three this week. I guess that was his theory, because that's what he did.

Anoop just bored me.

And Megan...oh please let her be going home. Her verbal inflections while singing are like needles being poked into my eyes. I cannot stand it. I would never buy anything she recorded, and I would change the station if a song of hers was playing on the radio. The girl is lovely, but the singing is teh suck. I cannot take it another week.

My top three...Adam, Danny and Kris.

I realize that a bunch of folks out there don't like Adam, but I do, and I'll tell you why...he is unique. He is never sings a song the way it was originally recorded...and I don't mean that he just shortens it up and changes a note or two. He changes many things. Sometimes it sucks. Sometimes it doesn't. But it is always interesting, and it is never karaoke (which I said before Simon last night, while defending Adam to CO. Of course I have no proof of that, but I did, so you're just going to have to believe me, Peeps). I don't know that I'd ever buy anything he has done, but I always look forward to hearing what he going to do.

Kris really surprised me last night. He has been flying under the radar, but the last two weeks, he has been really good. I love the song he sang last night, and I was worried he was going to fuck it up, but he didn't. I liked the changes he made. He was good, Dawg.

Danny was in my top three, but I wasn't as blown away as the judges. I love me some Danny, but weeks into this thing, he is disappointing me a little. Some of the shiny has worn off. Maybe that's due to sitting next to CO, who hates Danny, week in week out. Last week, during the results, I had to admit I saw a flash of the arrogance that CO keeps ranting about. Although I still refuse to buy into the notion that he is playing on the poor widower thing for votes. He is far to adorable, and I am not that cynical.

Rounding out the top 9 were Allison, Lil and Scott, who were all decent this week...not horrible not spectacular, just...you know...eh.

The best part of the evening was when Pauler was trying to sound sober by using big words in her critiques...intonation, magnificent, enchanting, etc. CO said, "Wow, Paula bought herself a dictionary. Either that, or she has word of the day toilet paper."

There is a visual to get us all through the week.