Idol!

I watched my Tivo'd episode of AI this morning. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good show. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for Sally Struthers to come out on stage and bring tears to my eyes with that incredibly thin, shaky voice she has. The songs were pretty good. Jordin amazed me with her song choice. I was surprised that a 17-year-old girl would even know who Rodgers and Hammerstein were, and even more surprised that she would sing a song of theirs! She's my favorite Idol of the moment.

I don't like Time Changes...

It throws off my sleep, my daily schedule... It's 8:40 and I'm finally rolling out of bed. Maybe that has to do with the fact that I didn't go to bed until 2am. BUT, how can I go to bed at a 'normal' time when my body thinks it's an hour behind?! GAAH!! I wonder how the grand experiment of starting DST early is going to end up. I think, just for kicks and giggles, next year, we shouldn't even change the clocks. See what THAT does to our energy consumption. I don't like these people playing with my sleep schedule. Aren't there places in Indiana and Arizona that ignore the time change? I'm going there!!! Seriously though, I guess the one bright point of this daylight savings time thing is that it is after 8:30am and Aiden is still asleep, and he even went to bed between 8 and 8:30 last night. He had been waking up earlier and earlier until today. He's sawing logs in his crib right now. :o)

Spring is springing in NC this week. Our high yesterday was in the 70's and this week we are forecast to hit 80! How crazy is that?! Trees are budding, daffodils are past their peak, and my plants are starting to poke their heads out of the soil. I weeded my front flower bed this weekend because they got incredibly out of hand with this warm weather we've had.

I never got to comment on American Idol this week. Oh wow, what a shocker!! I cannot believe that Sanjaya is staying. He has a nice voice, but he is BORING. And I love happy people, but goodness, this guy smiles ALL THE TIME, well except when he's waiting for the results to be read. Then he himself is incredibly surprised that he made it through to the next round. He's overcome with such amazement that even he can't even smile. I'm glad Antonella is gone. She just didn't do very well at all. Her voice in the lower register... nuh uh. She couldn't hit them. I'm quite shocked that she made it as far as she did. And Sabrina going home... while I think she was the better singer over Haley, I'm not surprised in the least. And to be perfectly honest... I VOTED FOR HALEY. I don't know what it was about Sabrina. I just didn't see STAR when she was up on stage. I saw a singing machine, a robot with a good, well trained voice, but she lacked charisma. Now did Haley have that much more personality? No, but for some reason I just liked her more. And her voice isn't bad. I'm eager to see what she does in the coming weeks.

OK, there is my update. And it sounds like I've finished just in time as I hear Aiden singing from his room. :o)

Happy Monday!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Now I have time to finish this post...

This is the front a card that Aiden and I made for Daddy this morning. Aiden helped me glue on the hearts. :o)

I watched my Tivo'd episode of AI this morning. I'm so excited to see who the final 24 will be. I can't remember having someone to root for this early in the season last year, but this year, I'm all over Chris Sligh. He's funny, he's unique, and he has a really good voice that sounds REAL. He's not a machine singing. He sings with his soul and you can hear it when he does. When he first showed up on the show and he said he wanted to make David Hasselhoff cry, I knew EXACTLY what he was talking about (The Hoff was in tears over Taylor's celebratory finale song on last season's AI). He has a quirky sense of humor and he seems like a really down to earth guy. Another plus for him, he's somewhat local. He lists his hometown now as Greenville, SC, though after doing some research on him I've discovered he lived in Europe for a while with his parents. I wonder if he ever thought people would be googling his name like they are right now. Anyway, Chris... as of right now, you're my AI fave!!