Not enough hours in the day

Ever find that you just don't have enough time? I swear the day needs about 35 hours not 24. Laundry overflows, dishes are everywhere, work is over my head. You wonder why all I talk about is reality tv - I need mindless banter. I can't think one more minute about data or reports or paying bills or cleaning. I am mentally exhausted. Seriously. My brain actually feels foggy. I just realized I need to pay my mortgage and that I don't know where I put my credit card billing statement. So enough. The Snuggies came. Glorious glorious snuggies. You have never seen such happy children. Dabba and older sister Miss Thing (aka Puddin) wear them all day. They'd drag them like Linus outside if I let them. Gotta love the old dude that my BIL thinks belongs to some kind of Snuggie-cult:

https://www.getsnuggie.com/flare/next?videoID=ai195&bufferTime=5

Now sad to say I am not caught up with Top Chef, Housewives, or Rock of Love, so there will be a much bigger update later... we need to talk about AI though... NY and Puerto Rico - not bad. In fact enjoyable. What was going on in the window behind the judges at the NYC auditions. There were people out there milling around this boat...it was bizarre...

So first our charming friend who is very very in touch with the universe. So much so that she feels a shift and she wants to be a part of that shift. naked. and dancing. She sang so sweetly though, very cute. Don't know how far she's gonna get though.

Rocker Chick I like you! Didn't like you singing the Jason Mraz song I love but you're second song I like. I can hear you channeling some Janis Joplin. I think if she doesn't feel pressure to perform, she'll make it through Hollywood.

Crazy Theater guy! If he can be serious (and improve his look), he might get some where. He could actually sing. He's just gotta stop being flamingly silly. It gets old fast.

Now I don't know if you remember this crazy chick from the last time. I remember her singing a tad bit like a stoned Janis Joplin. But she was just too insane to keep. And she's back, and looking quite nice actually. The best part of her interview the last time around was talking about her cat that she got because she was "practicing to be a veterenarian". hmmm... wonder if the cat survived? she didn't. again. No surprise.

Oddly - these are all the photos I can find. None of these people have been very memorable yet, but there's hope for Hollywood. In the meantime, I leave you with the mystique that is Billy May's new Big City Sliders Station. I only have a few questions:

https://www.bigcityslider.com/flare/next?videoID=ai282&bufferTime=5

1. Why are you yelling at me?

2. What planet did you come from, Billy Mays?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mays

3. Why did you not get on the Snuggie Bandwagon?

4. I had no idea that onions under your burger makes them taste like an old diner. (ok - not a question - whatever!)

5. Is it ok if I just make the burgers without the pan?

6. Are you related to the ShamWow guy?

Off to catch up on all my other reality....TV, that is....

Churchill Downs my A$$!

Well, well, well, for those of you watching Top Chef I think it's safe to say that Hosea no longer has a girlfriend, and Leah no longer has a boyfriend. Naughty naughty.

So American Idol did pretty well in Lou-uh-vull. I don't know why but I thought it was wierd that they wouldn't just go to UofL or something and use the stadium or some other place than Churchill Downs. Been there for lunch, btw. It was ok. There was a horse standing right outside the window eating grass. But there's not like random races breaking out at any moment. Or horses all over the track just running around. It's all very quiet. Any way, so let's see.... Well there you go. Looking at the pics where were they? Yup - Freedom Hall - a big ole arena in the middle of the Kentucky Fairgrounds. And I was wondering if the windows behind the judges was actually some kind of a mural because nothing in it ever changed! Liar liar pants on fire!! So the AI site has no photos of the audition, only people singing in the hallways of the fairgrounds. Seriously. See?

So now I'm looking for Audition Photos of people we actually may have see on TV. Hmmmmm.....'k this guy didn't make it.

And that's about it. I can't get any photos of the people who auditioned????

Well that's just great. How can I blog about it now. Oy why why why.

I guess the good news is that the Snuggies are now in Illinois and in fact according to the good folks at UPS left there last night at 11pm.

I have a killer headache now so I will disappointedly wait until next week for more Idol. *sigh*

AI - SanFran - 12 people???? et.al.

Wow - after everyone they heard, 12 people??? My oh my.... So I wrote this nice posting and all yesterday, changed some settings, and it was gone. I will recap today...

1. Rock of Love - nasty crazy Brittaney gone! Who the heck keeps dirty sweaty socks in their pillowcase and food in their bed. I think she had a screw loose.

2. Housewives of the OC - I think Tamra is two-faced and Gretchen handled herself well while wrecked on tequila. If you do not want any spoilers with this show don't read their blogs on bravo's site, btw.

3. And Now for Idol:

ooooooohh baby baby - as a singer this guy is an excellent Rubik's cube solver. He didn't open his eyes, has never sung in front of anyone...shocking! I didn't even know what song it was until he got to the chorus. I am still waiting though for that one memorable bad audition, like Excentric, remember him? That was glorious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyCGwajKiQ
Or Let my People go? See you just can't forget this stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pGpnx5jSk&feature=related

Can;t find a pic of the first chick in her crazy dress - what was that - a lycra snakeskin design tube that she attached tulle to the bottom? What a drama queen. I don't know why she got through really.

Plaid coat - not an incredibly horrid singer just so theatrically over the top. And I wonder if he's actually homeless to be honest. Perhaps if he had only opened his mouth WIDER he'd be in, yes? No.

This is probably the first guy I thought might actually make it through Hollywood. I like him. His hair is a little scary, but I like him.

Oh no Simon you are evil. Bring in this dude's kids so he gets through to Hollywood on sympathy. He will not make it through Hollywood and you know it. He reminds me of Josh Gracin, the marine corps singer a while back, who tanked after his angry rendition of "Jive Talking"...

Summertime and I can't really sing....she was ok just too too much...and I began to wonder if she took off that bizarre gauze strip on her neck would her head just fall off?

And last but certainly not least, Akilah. She is the only one I remember because the poor girl was singing from the wrong rectum, which certainly does not help the sound to come from your Lar-nicks. And I completely agree that she should not have allowed Simon-Randy and Paula to irractitate her. That was certainly her undoing.

So I continue with my no carb hell and wait with bated breath for Louisville tonight, and Top Chef! Will Hosea fall to temptation?! Will Jeff realize he's just not that good looking? Can't wait to find out!

Lunchtime randomness

OMG I just lost everything I wrote. Holy crap. Oh well. Until tomorrow please enjoy this video of Morgan Freeman in the Electric Company...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0-yDJAtWQ

AI night one...Arizona....

So did sunny Phoenix fulfill everyone's expectations for the first night of American Idol? I have to say that the bad wasn't that bad. Here's my assessments (I'll put in pics where I have them for clarity):

Wolverine - tap shoes were a bad choice. hearing his voice on the radio this morning, I came to find his singing wasn't awful actually. The crotch grab, however, was unfortunate.

Ahhh -- Barra barra cuda.... now this was kind of nice. I was just remarking that we now need a rocker chick. And her hair made me think of Dabba's fave super-hero Hot Lava Girl:

Hey - it's Bikini Girl! Heard her playback on the radio and yeah, she sucks. Get yer mind outta the gutter, you know what I mean. She cannot sing. And you don't accomplish runs by moving your jaw and head around.

Cactus man - this was wierd. If he had stopped goofing around for one minute his voice was pretty good. But I think he was high.

Blind dude - I really hope he can keep it up. I'm not sure he can and I don't want to see him there week after week on sympathy.

Oh dude....first - I am not sure that your hair isn't a wig held on by that karate kid headband. There was so much wrong here. He was too sad. Jon Bon Jovi doesn't cry while he sings does he?

much much too pink. but i also thought the judges were way too hard on her. she's 16 for cryin out loud. give her break.

and then there was the dude who swallowed Wayne Newton - the craziest singing technique I'd ever seen, the guy singing some seriously bad Barry White, the geeky kid could be a new Clay Aiken, but I can't say I was blown away by anyone. The girl who sang Etta James' at last...eh... if you listen to all these sound bites a couple things become apparent. The bad ones were not atrocious (at least what we saw last night. I'm sure there's some humdingers in the can for a special later) and the good ones were not remarkable...and they all pretty much sang in the same key.... really. But that's ok...lot's of auditions to go...next stop Louisville? Oh the Batman will be beside himself. I can see it now - he'll keep asking for names just in case he knows someone, cuz you know KY's state motto: 15 million people, 15 last names. yeah, I said it. Lastly, I am very concerned about David Cooks new album cover because he every much resembles a Sleestak:

Nobody needs to leave a light on with eyes like that. Lookout, Chaka!

Where's my Snuggie?!

Ok - Dabba is obsessed with the Snuggie - my 5yr old couch potato. So I ordered 2 (what a deal! two for the price of one! only pay a small huge shipping & handling fee) well before Christmas and where are they?! We're freezing. And we're trapped in ordinary blankets that don't leave your hands free!!!!!!! SNUGGIE COME SAVE US! At least I have my ShamWows.

Ok everybody, American Idol starts tomorrow, are we psyched yet? Set your DVR's and be ready to blog about it.

Random thoughts for the day - oh too sad to put on here. I start every gloomy doomy day worrying about accidents and injuries and my kids and everything. I could have a section just about general anxiety lunatic rants.

But ok, let's talk TV. Rock of Love, people. First of all I've made it no secret that if I were a former stripper with big hair (and of course there'd be implants), I'd be on that bus. Bret Michaels is hot - the weave, the guyliner, yeah whatever...I love the hat, the cowboy boots, tight jeans, ( a belt buckle the size of Texas wouldn't hurt - yeah I like 'em kinda yokel-like) but I love his sense of humor. Half of what I watch the show for are his comments that crack me up. Last night's episode featured some poor blonde lobotomy patient offering her family's prized possession that she made a wish on in order to be with him: a $2 Bill. It's been in her family like forever and now she's giving to him to wish on. His comment was that he didn't know what was sadder, that her family's heirloom was this $2 bill or that she was actually giving it to him. HA! That's funny. Come on! It is! So far I am not rooting for any of these women. I don't get them yet. I think he really should just go back to Heather from Season 1. I mean, she's still got the tattoo on her, right? And she almost won Rock of Love Charm School and quit smoking pot to be on there too. That's dedication folks.

ok - so see you tomorrow after AI......

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