smallville update

i decided not to review every season because its just too much...so i just wanted to provide a quick update...

i currently have 3 episodes left of season 6 and all of season 7 (which was shortened becuase of the writers strike)

i finally saw the episode lana and lex got married...i cant beleive i never saw it before...it was such a great episode!!!...a ton went down in those 45 minutes and now that ive seen it so many things that happened afterwards makes so much more sence...

i guess i'll let you know after i finish the whole thing...after that i'll need a new project...maybe thats when i'll really join the gym and not just say i'm going to...lol...

until next time happy blogging!

say it isnt so

this morning i arrived at work and got my stuff together and then went down for breakfast just like i always do...when i came back to my cube to eat my breakfast and read the latest articles on buddytv (my fav website) i discovered that buddytv is now blocked....ahhhhhh!!!....this upsets me on sooo many levels...not only do i go there to get all the latest info on all my fav shows but they also have all types of trivia and quizes and personality quizes and celb raters...its great...and it helps kill time on slow days...now that its blocked i dont know what im gonna do with myself...im gonna feel so out of the loop...this is sooo upsetting....

now i will have to find another website to kill time on...but i dont think there are any others out there that are as awesome as buddytv...if you have any suggestions please let me know...

goals for 2009

today at work we were all told that we need to set goals for 2009...so i had a little bit of free time so i started to think about...so far in my word document i have:

ashley
goals 2009

1.


...and thats it...haha...the only thing i could come up with is do not gauge eyes out with plastic spoon...but i obviously cant put that...haha...i'll just have to work on it...

while thinking about work goals i came up with a few personal goals...so here goes...

1) finish smallville...haha just kidding but i had to put it in there

okay here i go for real now...

1) stay in better contact with my friends...ive been really bad about this in the past but i want to change..

2) lose the josie grosie aspect of my life...ugh its gotta go...this is getting rediculous...grrrr...

3) find love <3...who doesnt? right?

4) drop a pants size or 2 or 10...lol...im content being the little tea pot that i am but i realize that if 2 and 3 are gonna happen i probably need to do this first...so tomorrow (or next weekend) im joining a gym...this time im really gonna do it...

that about it...im not gonna go crazy just a few things i would like to accomplish before 1/1/10...lets see what happens...

...happy weekend everyone!...

oh and ps- happy birthday to one of the backstreet boys!...if you know which one you get bonus points!...lol...

pretend dance class

right now i'm listening to my pretend dance class playlist...the songs my seem random but each one is for something different...lets take a closer look shall we...

1) "untuched" the veronicas - you cant start a dance class without stretching first so i picked this song just because i like it and it reminds me of the jazz dance thayne and chelsea did on sytycd (i liked it but many did not)

2)"cheated on me" gavin degraw- another stretching song...i realized that i need at least 1 more stretching song but i haven had a chance to update the list yet...any suggestions

3) "broken" lifehouse- this is my plié song...its perfect for pliés...i love it!

4) "happy face" destiny's child- this is my crunches song...doug used it one year at tremaine for crunches so ever since then this has been my crunches song...its tough to make it through the whole song...try it i dare you...haha...

5) "panic" backstreet boys- did you really think i would let a playlist go by without putting my boys on it???...of course not...lol...well its not on there just because its a bsb song...it has a purpose...panic it my kicks song...i also use it for something else and if i had any idea how to spell this ballet term i would say what it was...it starts with dega...lol...so yeah this has a good tempo for both...you can hear it as slower for the kicks and faster for the other...

the next 6 are songs that i already have dances for...

6) "there and back again" daughtry- my solo 2008

7) "how far we've come" matchbox 20- 2008 trio with cort and cait!...if you're looking for an intense work out just do this dance a few times in a row...its a killer...but super awesome of course

8) 7:15- its the 7:15 class' hiphop mix...including "apologize" one republic, "diamond girl" r.les, and "perfect lover" britney spears

9) 8:15- 8:15 class' mix...including "dat girl right there" usher, "so much betta" janet jackson, and angels very own what we call the heavy beat

10)"boogie woogie bugle boy" bette midler- 2000 tap dance...which happens to be my all time favorite!

11)"turn me on" kevin little- i learned a short rutine to this at tremaine one year...it was taught by the fabulous laurie johnson...and it was supper hard...i still dont get it right every time...lol...

the next 2 are songs that i would like to make up a dance to

12)"storm" lifehouse- i've mentioned my thoughts on this song many times

13)"little of you're time" maroon 5- i'm not sure if i've mentioned this one before but i think it would make a awesome jazz dance

and thats it...i def want to add to this list...more stretching songs...more previous dance songs...more songs to make up dances...just more of everything really...if you have any suggestions please let me know!!!

me, a 5th grade teacher???

a few weeks ago some kid (by kid i mean like 15 or 16) from TN friend requested me on facebook...he didnt seem like a creepster so i acepted...i dont mind having more friends...after i accept the request this kid write in my wall...some thing to the extent of hi mrs benham, you were my fifth grade teacher...i didnt want to be rude and say something like kid youre an idiot it cant possible be me for multiple reasons...it clearly states that i graduated in 07 so if youre 15 or 16 you were in 5th grade a good 5 years ago...i was still in school...and then theres the fact that im not from tennessee...oh and how could i forget i am def not a MRS...a little investigation and you would have know i was NOT your teacher...but of course i was nice and said sorry i dont think i'm who youre looking for but i hope you find her...so then he writes back to me that i have the same name and look just like this teacher person...i find it weird that there is someone else out there who not only looks like me but also has the same name...but whatever i just droped it...no need to go back and forth with this kid...

i thought that was the end of the story...no its not...yesterday i went onto facebook and i had a friend request...so i clicked on the thing to see who it was...it was some girl from TN...i was like you gotta be kidding me another one who thinks im the teacher...so this time i did not accept the request but i did send a message back telling her that if she looking for the teacher its not me...

i hope i dont have anymore of these dumb kids friend requesting me...oh well i gtg...

you are chloe sullivan

as i mentioned in a previous blog, i can relate to chole way more than lana...well it turns out im not the only one who says so...thanks to the awesome personality quizzes over at buddytv.com i have proven that i am infact chole sullivan...i took 2 different smallville related quizzes and my results were both the same...

Which Smallville Character Are You?

Which Smallville Character Are You?
Created by BuddyTV

Which Justice League Member Are You?

Which Justice League Member Are You?
Created by BuddyTV

just another thursday

last night i went to cafe vivace for dinner and socializing with dj and some dance people...i had a ton of fun...i wish i could have stayed later but of course my over active do the right thing gland started telling me "you need to leave now cause you have work tomorrow"...why must i always be the responsible one???...lol...i saw dacia for the first time since august...and niro was there...and richard and a whole bunch of others...and JAMILE!!!....yay jamile!...haha...hes the best...im so glad miss lisa wrote to him on myspace 3 years ago and said hey would you like to come teach a master class at my studio...this is why it never hurts to ask...he's going to be teaching a class on sunday at a touch of dance and of course i'm going...his classes are so much fun...yay i cant wait!

survivor starts tonight!...smallville and supernatural are repeats...imnot sure about er but i didnt watch last weeks yet...there is also new burn notice and abdc tonight...AND i didnt watch lost from last night yet becuase i was out...it was killing me today that i missed it last night...grrrr....so the first thing im gonna do when i get home is watch lost!!!...

oh and just a side note...i left my ipod at home today...its awful without it...oh well its not the end of the world...talk to you crazy kids later!

red kryptonite

***note: sorry if you're tired of hearing about smallville but im obsessed right now so i cant help it...i become obsessed with things a little too easily...haha...

i breezed through season 2 without a problem...a key moment in season 2 is when clark finally tells his best friend pete his secret...its great for clark to be able to talk to someone other than his parents when it comes to his abilities...it also helps to have a friend on his side to help cover for him when he goes running off to save the world...

another important element to season 2 is that clark finds out about his past...he begins to learn all about krypton and his family and all that good stuff...and who tells him about all of this???...none other than christopher reeve himself...how cool is that?!?!...

aside from these pivotal plot points of season 2 i think my favorite part was the introduction of red kryptonite!!!...when clark is on that stuff he looses all inhabition...he does whatever he wants without thinking about the consequences...i know i'm super goody 2 shoes but for some reason when clark is affected by this and turns into bad boy clark i find him to be extra delish...haha!...i dont know if its becuase he makes better clothing choices (no stupid red flanal...lol...)...or if its the confidence he exudes...or if its his lack of following the rules...i dont know...but i did notice that he tends to have his shirt off more often durring these episodes...and lets be honest...who doesnt love to see tom welling with his shirt off???...i know i LOVE it...haha!...

i think thats all for now...until next time happy blogging!

the movement

this weekend was mostly spent watching smallville...but i did manage to get out on saturday night...i went to see angels show at the joyce soho theatre...

first i want to say...yay angel!...i miss his class like woah...lol...

so moving onto the actual show...i thought for the most part is was excellent as always...all of the group parts were amazing...loved the transformers and oompa loompa peices and of course everytime takyhiro (yeah no idea how to spell that) came out on the stage was crazy...chris' solo was good...hes def improving a whole lot...angel was great!...as miss lisa angel with the snakes from the peanut m&ms was funny...there were some other funny moments thrown in there too...like the guy on the subway selling candy...it was sooo realalistic...haha...and the part when chris bought the cd form the other kid...all very funny moments...

so the only thing bad i have to say is that the 3 girls were seriously lacking...they didnt do so good...2 of the girls did some type of house duo which was just dumb...all they were doing was jumping around...it was kinda like that guy with the gold mask that keeps trying out for sytycd...the 3rd girl did a contemp and tap solo...the tap part was better than the contemp part but i wouldnt call it excellent...i could have done here part and been atleast 10 times better at it...

well thats all for now...ttyl!!!

boy crazy

with valentines day quickly approaching love is in the air all over the place...unfortunately no love for me...but lets not dwell on the patheticness that is my life...instead lets take a look back and reflect in a positive way...lol...okay so there really is no positive way to put my current sitch but im gonna share my history anyway...warning: nothing has ever gone past the "crush" stage (hence the patheticness) so if you're looking for juicy info then you are reading the wrong blog...haha...

it all started in second grade...my very first crush was on a boy in my class named tom..i thought was the cutest kid in the world...i'm pretty sure lots of girls liked him...both of our moms were class moms so my mom had to pick up something from has house one time...of course i had to go with her...it was very exciting...haha...((this could have happened in 5th grade i cant remember exactly))...so 2nd grade ended and i moved on 3rd grade...tom wasnt in my class this year but he was in the girl down the streets class...she had the nerve to tell our little neighborhood group that she liked him and no one else was allowed to...that set me on fire...i was like wait a second i liked him first thats not fair...so we got in a fight about it...(i didnt really like her anyway...haha...)...of course it was completely silly cause what are 8 year olds gonna do...i mean really...anyway moving on...i hate to admit it but this second grade crush didnt go away for quite sometime...not until after 8th grade...haha...some years i liked him more than other years it really depended on how much i saw him...but thats pretty much the end of that story...like i said nothing past a crush...i don't think anyone knew that i had a crush on him for sooo long until now...

my next crush was on billy...this one was in 9th grade...while i didnt have much a reason for crushing on tom for a billion years i just did, this was different...i had a reason...i was friendly with billy but nothing to write home about...we chatted in algebra class cause he sat in front of me and we were on the same bus but that was pretty much it...then one day stupid simon was saying some pretty mean things to me on the bus...i just ignored him...but billy stood up for me and yelled at simon...he didnt have to do that but he did...and that means a lot to me...and it still does because that doesnt happen too often...i dont think anyone else has gone out of their way to defend me like that before or after that...wow i'm getting a little teary eyed thinking about it...didnt think that would happen...lol...so thats why i had a crush on billy freshman year...

sophomore year...thats when i met ralph in mr himbers english class...we ended up as partners for a project..after spending time with him working on the project outside of school is when i decided that i liked him...of course i thought it was just a phase no big deal...then the next year we became bffs...well that complicated things...i liked him even more because i knew him better and realized how much we had in common...but at the same time i just made an awesome friend and i didnt want to mess things up and mess it up...well towards the end of junior year and into that summer i started to convince myself that maybe just maybe he liked me too...((umm hello stupid 17 year old ashley...if he liked you he would have asked you to the prom...duh...haha))...i was driving myself crazy trying to figure it out so i worked up every drop of courage i had in me and told him...okay so the words didnt actually come out of the mouth but i did write a long note to him about it...and the response i got back was sorry just friends...we were still friends after that but i dont think we were ever as close as before...i dont regret telling him cause i think it would have been WAY harder to get over him if i didnt know...ya know...so that was that and i didnt really like anyone senior year so my hopes of first kiss before graduating high school went out the window...oh well...

for a while i decided that i wouldnt allow myself to crush on any more boys because it would only end in disappointment for me..so i didnt...until spring semester junior year at rider...thats when i met mike...i fought the crush off until senior year...but i never really got my hopes up for that one...i knew we were gonna graduate soon and never see each other again...so whatever...i spent 4 years of college not really pursuing anyone...and clearly no one purused me...so goal of before graduating college: not accomplished...((see like i said pathetic))...

so my most recent crush...and probably the dumbest...i really dont know what i was thinking with this one...probably out of desperation...i was turning 23 and i was panicking...and that was pretty much it...nothing more to say for that...haha...

well here i am...still boyless..or maybe i should say manless...haha...i am 23 after all...so sure my non existent love life is pathetic as i have said over and over again...but whatever it will be okay...call me josie grossie if you must but it doesnt really matter...life goes on and one day all the love i've put into the world will be returned to me...and when that day comes i will be ready...=)

smallville season 1

in my last posting i said that i decided to watch smallville from the beginning...last night i finished season 1...so thought i should share my thoughts on it...=)

seaason 1 was your basic bad guy of the week format...sure there was a continuous overall story but the episodes could be played in any order and you can still follow along...i love season 1 cause it intoduces the audience into the world of superman and pretty much goes over all of the basics...ya know...

as i watched these episodes i realized that i forgot how much of a chlark (chloe + clark) fan i am...we all know that clark is destined to be with lois but as a freshman in high school it was chloe and lana in the running for his love...i think the reason i wanted chole to get the guy is becuase i can relate to her more than i can with lana...minus the journalism and all the wacky things that happened i was chloe in high school...just a normal girl with a serious crush on her best friend...all i wanted was for him to ask me to the junior prom...when i found out he was gonna ask someone else i was devestated...to be completly honest i almost didnt go...((last minute miss lisa asked richard to go with me so i went...we had fun...so im glad i went with him instead of not going at all))...watching chloe want to be with clark so badly and almost have him just to see clark run off to save lana really hit home with me...of course my junior prom was 7 years ago and im completely over it now...but when your 16 that kind of stuff stings a little...i dont think ill ever forget it (partly because i have an awesome memory and partly because prom is a big deal when youre in high school so its hard to forget the stuff you think is important from that time period)...

ummm...i didnt really intend to drag on about things from the distant past...its just that watching smallville really dug up these memories for me...oh well...

so now its onto season 2 for me...maybe i'll have a review when im done...but maybe not i havent decided yet...=)...

ttfn!

i'm baaack!

hey there blog readers...

i'm back from my hiatus...lol...like i said i became obsessed with my tinker bell game on ds so i have been playing that on the train home....at least i warned you right...haha...

lets see anything exciting happen in the past few weeks...

fierce was 2 weekends ago...oh god i thought i was gonna die...lol...it was way too long since the last time i actually danced...and it wasnt even a full fierce convention...it was only a few nick classes...durring the tap i was all like yeah i can do this...its just like riding a bike...yeah that thought went out the window fast...it turned into oh boy im too old for this...haha...oh well i still had fun...and some of the classes were at icon...omg that studio is soooo nice...everyone needs to go see it and take at least one class there...

this weeknd that just passed was super bowl weekend...steelers vs. cardinals...i thought it was gonna be a blow out which makes a boring game but it turnned out to be close and exciting...so i had fun at the annual party!!!...

also last weekend i decided to start watching smallville from the begining...its gonna be a long process...not like when i breezed through all 10 seasons of friends in 2 weeks durring winter break of my senior year in college...lol...this is going to take much longer due to the fact that i dont have hours on end available for sitting on the couch watching tv...haha...so im currently in the middle of season 1...the cast looks so young...its weird cause when the show started 8 years ago tom welling was older in real life than clark kent is supossed to be in the current season and yet he looks like such a baby...well it doesnt really matter cause he is a super hottie anyway...lol...

so yeah i think thats about it with whats been going on in my life...i'll talk to ya later!