Saturday, November 29, 2008

tis the season

now that thanksgiving is over it is the official start of the christmas season!!!...this is def my fav time of the year...at work i replaced my polka dots and flowers with snoflakes and garland!...and i set up my christmas tree in my cube...i am so excited for winter and all things christmas...later today i'm going to start my christmas shopping...i dont really know what i'm gonna get everyone but i'm sure i will find the perfect gift for everyone on my list...

there are some people out there who are totally bah humbug...((how do you spell that by the way)) i just cant understand why...this is the season of giving and love and celebration...why is it so hard for some people to get in the spirit of the holiday season???...for me it is so easy!!

thats it for now...i want everyone to get out there and spread the holiday love!!!

Friday, November 28, 2008

vegas baby!

finally i'm getting around to my recap of my trip to vegas...sorry about the delay but on wednesday i was so fired up over the train that i couldn't possibly think happy thoughts about my trip...and for those of you who are wondering i usually get home from work around 705...wed night i didnt walk into the house until 850...yeah i was just alittle annoyed...lol...so lets put that behind us and move on...

little sis and i got to vegas saturday morning and went to the backstreet boys concert that night!!!...we wore the super awesome shirts that i made
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the concert was AMAZING!!!...did you really expect me to say anything else?...haha...nick was sick so he didnt sing a lot...i felt really bad for him....you could tell he was struggling just to be out there...he didnt sing his solo and they also chose to skip panic...i was slightly upsent about that because panic is one of my faves on this tour...i even have it as my ringtone...the one plus to nick not singing a lot is that howie sung most of his parts which was great because it shows how talented he is...i've known for years but its about time other people see this as well...yeah we had tons of fun at the concert...oh and the girld sitting next to us were from jersey too so we werent the only crazies there...haha!...

on sunday we met up with barb...oh how i miss her so...there is never a dull moment when hanging out with barb!!!...we went to lunch at the returaunt she works at...it was delish!...then we went to the wax museam...that was a ton of fun...there i sang with jessica simpson...barb was rude to cameron diaz...and cort married george clooney!...like i said we had fun...then we went to dinner...out waitress was kinda nasty too us but we didnt care because we were talking about "happy holidays miss lisa"...hahaha...cait you should have picked up the phone we wanted you to be a part of the good times!...and then we went to see keith barry hypnomagician...he was great...the show was super funny and the things he does are pretty crazy...it was taped for a special on discovery channel...so you might see us in the audience!...

nothing exciting to report for monday...we woke up super early and then went home...so overall we had an excellent time in vegas next time we will have to go for longer...

thats all for now...i hope everyone had a happy turkey day!!!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

nj transit...grrrrr

before i recap my trip to vegas this past weekend i want to start this blog by sharing my extreamely negative feelings towards nj transit...

these morons never seem to get it right...today is the busiest travel day of the year and you wpould think that they would try to be prepared...its not like it snuck up on them...the wednesday before thanksgiving has been the busiest travel day for years and years and years...but instead of being prepared it is a mad house in penn station...it is now 6:10 and there are still trains on the board that should have left at 5:40...all i want to do i go home after along day at work and yet such a simple task is seeming impossible at this moment...oh and did i mention that they already decided yesterday to cancell my normal 6:11 train and combine stops with the 6:13 to "accomedate early weekend getaways"...can someone please explain to me how combining 2 trains accomedates more people...i just dont get it...so now its going to be so crowded on there that i probably wont get a seat...and if i do i will be squashed next to smelly people...i hate when that happens...this is soooo annoying...grrrr....

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

twilight tuesday!

this weekend i went to VEGAS with little sister!!!...we had a great time...i'll provide a recap tomorrow...for today's twilight tuesday it only makes sense for me to talk about the movie!!!...i know there have been mixed rewievs but i personally LOVED it!!! of course it had it's flaws but what movie doesnt especially the low budget ones...so here is my breakdown

***caution: the following may contain SPOILERS!***

what i liked:

1) the cast was great!...most of the characters were portrayed just like i imagined them when i read the books...some were even better like charlie and jessica...charlie in the movie has a little bit more personality than charlie in the book...i loved the part when he was cleaning his gun and bella told him edward want to meet him...it was so funny...speaking of funny jessica was amazing!...anna played the part perfectly...i could go on and on saying something good about all the charaters but i'll stop there becuase those are the biggest stand outs for me...

2) the baseball scene was awesome!...i thought it was really cool with the slow mo action and the mid-air collision of emmett and edward and the music the played durring it....the only thing that would have made it better is if it were longer

3) the pacific northwest is breath taking...enough said

4) nothing too drastic from the book was taken out of the movie...sure the blood typing would have been cool to see but it really wasnt necessary

5) the end was set up perfectly for new moon

6) rob and kellen and cam are super hottt!!!...lol...i just had to add that in

7) there are tons more that i cant think of right now so i'll move on...

things i didn't like as much:

1) some of the special effects were cheesey...but nothing worse than an episode of charmed and i loved that show

2) sometimes robs american accent sounded weird...but not all the time

3) while kristen didnt bother me so much as bella i'm still not her biggest fan

things i liked but you may not if you didnt read the book:

1) there were a lot of faces the characters made that you wouldnt know why they were making them unless you read the book...like when bella first walks into bio and edward makes a face like he wants to throw up and/or run away...i thought it was very funny cause i know that hes making that face becuase he wants to kill her...

2) i think thats it

Thursday, November 20, 2008

survivor thursday

i have tons of things to do tonight...well not tons but enough...i have to make t-shirts to wear to the backstreet concert saturday...and i have to pack for my trip...and i have to watch the hotties of thursday night...and i should call britt to finalize our plans for tomorrow night (twilight yay!!!)...and i'm sure i'll think of something else i must do...but i'll move on for now...

so lets talk about SURVIVOR...there are 8 survivors left and i would say that its pretty much anyones game at this point...i def think randy is going home tonight...so it could be anyone's game but his...the guy is crazy...he reminds me of the creature from work...not as gross but def just as crazy...the previews show him excited that he has bob's imunity idol...too bad bob made it so its not real...haha...i'm gonna laugh if he tries to play it at tribal council...hey at least its more believable as an idol than the stick ozzy carved a face into last season...but yeah i'll be surprised if its not randy going home tonight...

now lets talk some strategy for my boy matty to win this thing...i'm not sure if hes smart enough to pull this off but this is what i feel is his path to $1 million...this week he needs to stick with the kenny/crystal/susie allience and vote out randy...then next week he needs to make a tighter allience with sugar and they need to break away from the kenny allience and vote with corrine and bob against their old allience to get crystal and susie out...then pull kenny back in with them to vote out corinne and bob...that would leave a final 3 of matty sugar and kenny...the jurry wont vote for sugar to win becuase no one likes her...most of them wont vote for kenny to win because he was the mastermind in picking off the onion allience one by one...so that leaves matty as the winner!...i'm sure things wont work out that way but hey you never know...

so thats all for now...you probably wont hear from me again until monday...so have a fantabulous weekend all!!!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

way back wednesday

just like the morning zoo does with their phone taps i have decided to have a way back wednesday and share a story from my youth...haha...and since i'm going to see the backstreet boys this weekend (yay!!!) let me make it about them...so here it is folks...a look at my early days of crazy fan girl...

back in 1997 my little sister cortney and my cousin brittany became fans of some group called the backstreet boys...little sis played the "first" cd over and over and over...i liked it and thought the music was nice but i didnt really know too much about them or anything like that...they were just whatever to me...(hey i was in 7th grade i thought i was cool...haha...)...on christmas eve that year we were all at my grandparents house and all the cousins were hanging out in the basement...cort and britt listened to that cd all night long...i'm am ashamed to admit this now but i yelled at them about it...**gasp** i know...as i said i'm ashamed of that moment...

fast forward to spring break '98...my family went to vegas on vacation...when we were there we saw an add on tv for a bsb concert there in august...little sis said she had to go...now i dont remember all of the details but we ended up getting tickets for the show and planned a big event out of it...after we got the tickets i decided that i better get all my facts straight before i go to this thing so i got on the super cool internet with a dial-up modem and learned as much as i could...i listened to the cd over and over...i was quickly becoming obsessed...i had to tape every time they were on tv...i just couldnt get enough of these guys...

summer of '98 came fast and being the super dorks we are my sisters and i got season passes for cosmic bowling...why is that important you ask...well because during cosmic bowling they showed music videos on big projection screens...it was there that i saw the quit playing games video for the first time...yeah it was my turn and just before i let go of the ball i looked up and saw the close up of howie with the open shirt in the rain and dropped the ball in the gutter...haha...yeah LOVE that video!!!

august 7, 1998...the night of my first concert ever...it was AMAZING...i didnt realize how much of an effect seeing them live would have on me...i went crazy...that concert is pretty much what sealed the deal for me...i knew from that moment on i would be a fan for life...

since that night over 10 years ago the craziness got worse for a while (maybe one i'll tell one of those stories)...but that level of crazy eventually died down some...i have seen my boys in concert 26 times...(it will be 27 this weekend)...and i have no intentions on that being a permanent number...as long as they keep touring i will keep going...some people become addicted to cigarettes or coffee or whatever else but not me...i am addicted to the backstreet boys...and i always will be...= )!!!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

twilight tuesday!

hello all...or none...i'm still not really sure if anyone actually reads this or not...but it doesnt really matter cause it gives me something to do on the train...but if you are reading dont be afraid to comment...let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions for future topics...thanks in advance...

so to celebrate twilight tuesday i want to talk about tayor lautner...he plays bella's bff jacob black in the movie (only 3 more days!!! get excited!!!)...while i do think he is a cute kid i'm not here to talk about how hot he is or anything like that...to me he will always be the kid from cheaper by the dozen who takes sally (from mikes super short show) on a date to the movies...so yeah i'm like an old lady in comparison...lol...anyway i'll be moving on now...there seems to be many people out there who are concerned about taylor playing jacob in the rest of the movies...not becuase of the actor but becuase of the character...i must admit that i had my doubts at first too but now i think he will make an awesome jacob in all the movies...and here is why:

1) in new moon jacob grows a good foot in a short amount of time...i think that they were smart in casting a young actor to play jacob in twilight so in the time between filming twilight and new moon he will age (possibly have a growth spurt) and look more like the jacob in new moon...if they were too cast an older actor for the role the chances of him looking exactly the same from movie to movie are much greater...so i have faith that taylor will be able to pull off older jacob no problem...and is it just me or does he already look older and buffer (more buff??...whats the proper way to say that??) compared to how he looked in the movie...so while it is important for the rest of the cast to look the same taylor needs to get older and he obviously is

2) it will be impossible to predict just how tall taylor will actually get but i'm sure the movie people can work their magic and make it look like he is close to 7 feet...in harry potter they make hagrid tower over every one and in real life he isnt nearly as tall as they make him in the movie...i think that looks fine so i'm not too worried about the hight issue...

3)last thing that makes me think taylor is a great jacob is watching him on "my own worst enemy"...he plays the son of the main guy...not really a huge role but in last weeks episode they showed him at some type of martial arts fighting event...i dont know any of the right terms to use here so just bare with me...he was in a match using a long metal stick...i read somewhere that taylor was good at that kind of stuff but WOW after seeing it for myself i was super impressed...that was the moment when i said "yeah...he is def our jacob black"...i was sold and from that moment on theere hasnt been a doubt in my mind that taylor is going to be an AWESOME jacob in twilight and the rest of the saga!!!

alrighty thats all for now...if i'm going to continue to have twilight tuesdays maybe i'll have themes for the rest of the days of the week...any suggestions...

Monday, November 17, 2008

happy twilight week!!!

**omg...i just wrote sooo much and i held down the clr button for a second too long and lost it all...grrr...stupid new fancy phone...okay so let me try again...**

before we get into the amazingness that is twilight in celebration of twilight week let me recap the events of last week

SURVIVOR: so there was a merge and matty is safe...yay!...charlie got voted out at tribal council this week...its a shame he had to be the one to go cause i didnt really mind him...he was a nice guy...but he was in the other alliance so i had to be one of them...randy has got to go next he is one annoying guy

THE CW: so the jets won!...it was close though...they won in overtime...so no salt was poured in my wound but it was held over them ready to go at any second...lol...also SMALLVILLE and SUPERNATURAL were shown on saturday night...good thing too because lots of important things happened in these episodes...**spoilers ahead**...if i didnt know the events leading up to Chloe not knowing clarks secret anymore i would have been lost...thats a huge event and i must say that i'm a little sad about it...and on supernatural we found out what happened to sam when dean was dead...and why he trusts ruby so much

ALTER BOYZ: omg so funny!!!...if you get offended easily i would not recommend this but if you like to laugh and realize that the jokes are all in good fun then you should def go see this show!!!...i loved it!!!...and omg Neil...at one point he was right in front of me singing to me...i think i stopped breathing for that moment...haha...who knew the boy could sing...so yeah very funny go see it!

ROLE MODELS: i know i didnt say that i was going to see this but i did so here is a quick review...this movie was very funny...again if you like a good laugh you should go see it...but its rated R so leave the kiddies at home...and dont forget your id...cause if you're 23 but look 12 like i do then you might just get carded...thats right i got carded at the movie theater...haha!....it case you dont know what this movie is about you're in luck cause im gonna tell you...so these 2 guys (paul rudd and sean william scott) get into some trouble and are sentenced to do community service at a big brother type program...they each get a kid...one is a geeky teen and the other a trouble maker 10 year old...and the crazy antics ensue from there...i was laughing so hard tears were coming out...so go see it!

TWILIGHT!!!!....the movie comes out on friday and i couldnt be more excited!!! i fell in love with this story...britt suggested that i read it so i took her advice and from the moment i read the first page until when i finished breaking down i put my life on hold to read...i just could not put it down...the story pulled me in and wouldnt let me go...i couldnt wait to get out of work so i could read...i even cancelled my daily morning nap on the train to read...thats huge for me...lol...its such a great love story with some super cool vampire stuff thrown in...i just love it!!! i'll admit it i'm in love with a fictional character...so now all i need is for a real life edward to come along and sweep me off my feet..but to be honest even though i love edward in twilight i think in real life i would be more compatible with someone like emmett...

i think that will be it for now...i have a whole week to talk about twilight so i'll save some for another day...ttfn!!

Friday, November 14, 2008

alter boyz

i'm going to see alter boyz tonight with ty....yay neil!!!...we are just sitting here waiting to be let into the theater...so i can't write much...tomorrow i will let you know how it goes...i hope its good because i wanted to see it and convinced t to the y that he would like it...so expect a review from me tomorrow...also on the agenda fro tomorrow will be the results of last nights television programing...i will say one thing...you will be happy to know that no salt was poured in my wounds...lol...

well i best be going now...talk to you soon!!!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

stupid patriots

okay so i'm a tv junkie...2 of my fav shows are smallville and supernatural...both of which come on the cw on thursday nights...i should be excited for the 2 brand new episodes that are coming on tonight...right?...WRONG!!!...the cw11 decided to put on the jets patriots game instead...when did the cw start showing football???...so now i'm stuck with the football game when the rest of the country is able to enjoy the super hotties of thursday night...how is that fair?...it's not!...so there are 2 things i have to say about this...first the cw better be planning on showing these episodes...and b) the jets better win tonight...if the patriots win it will be like pouring salt in my wounds...lol..grrrr...why must they do this to me???...

at least i have other programing to look foward to tonight...survivor is on at 8...i hope that there is a merge but if that doesnt happen fang needs to win immunity or else my boy matty is in trouble...the old kota members will get rid of him so fast its not even funny...he is my fav so i hope he manages to stick around longer...but this season weak players are picking off the strong ones one by one...so we will just have to wait and see...

also on tonight is the return of dr mark greene to the er!!!...i cant wait!!!...the episode that he died was the first time i ever cried over a tv show...it was so sad...so it will be good to see him back in action in tonights flashback episode...

i think thats all for now...stay tuned and i'll let you know how tonight turns out...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

fancy new phone

i just wanted to see if i would be able to blog from my fancy new phone...it turns out i can...yay!...so it looks like i will be blogging more often now that i know i can do so on the train...

well i gtg...good night!

where has the time gone???

i feel like every time i blink another month goes by...time seems to be moving faster and faster...it feels like i just wrote a blog a few weeks ago...but no it was almost 3 months ago...i dont understand...its not like my life is oh so exciting that i cant find a few minutes to write in my sad little blog that i'm pretty sure only cait reads...lol...((thanks cait!!!))...

so yeah i just cant comprehend how it is november already!!!...hopefully i wont let time slip away again before my next blog..and i promise to put something interesting in it...well i can try at least... =)...maybe i'll go back to reviewing the shows i watch so then i feel like i have to blog and i wont be mia for too long...its too late in the season for the amazing race (TAR) and dancing with the stars (DWTS)...but maybe i'll start sharing my survivor thoughts...we shall see....oh and of course i'm going to need to talk about twilight soon because i am completely obsessed right now...only 9 days left until the movie comes out...yay!!!!

umm...thats it for now...happy blogging all!!!