Living Blossoms

+ I caught the tail end of the "Idol Gives Back" show last night, and at the end they sang "Shout to the Lord"... without the word "Jesus" in it. They sang, "My shepherd, my savior" instead. Now, what exactly is the point to that? Why not just sing, "My perception, my unnamed deity"? I realize that not everyone of the Idol final 8 is a Christian (in fact, are any this year?) -- which, if you ask me, is reason not to sing a Christian song at all, instead of changing the lyrics. Dorks.

+ I've had frozen individual-sized pizza for lunch every day this week. Nothing else at home is quick and appealing. *sigh*

+ This blog is awesome, even when I don't agree with the author. My favorite is the entry on Chick-Fil-A.

+ I caught John McCain on The View this morning. I thought he did a good job, although his position on global warming makes me groan. At least, since he's not a spender, he probably won't waste our tax money on trying to fix something that's not a problem. He was quite funny, though, which I was not expecting. And I thought Joy Behar behaved herself quite well. I laughed out loud when Elisabeth asked about a McCain/Hasselbeck ticket. Hehe.

+ I'm wearing my hooker hoops today. Bwaha.

+ Simply Ballroom was really cool. (We attended Saturday night.) It started out pretty cheesy -- like something you'd see in Vegas -- but it got better quickly. There were some gorgeous costumes (and some ridiculous ones), and lots of fantastic dances. I swear all the boy dancers were cute, too, and all the dancers were from all over the world. There were some from the UK, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Brasil, etc. Anthony Fedorov had a decent voice, but he is really just not cool enough to be on that show. Hehe. He's like a young Tom Bergeron, only dorkier and not as funny. Vonzell Solomon, though, was excellent. I think the Viennese Waltz and the Jive were my favorite dances there, although the Tango is beautiful too. (Always makes me think of True Lies, though.) Someday, we WILL take dance lessons. Anyway, it was a fun evening with some people we hadn't hung out with much before. We went out to eat afterward at a good local restaurant, and had a great time talking and eating while listening to live jazz music.

+ AJ turned 5 on Tuesday. CRAZY.

+ I loooove having new TV shows back! There was a new NCIS Tuesday, new Criminal Minds yesterday, and tonight is a new episode of The Office! All that's missing are The Unit and Supernatural. (The latter of which has new episodes starting in a few weeks, I believe.) Oh -- and Journeyman. But one of the stars of the sadly dead JM was on the new NCIS, so I suppose it really is over. *sigh* Anyway, rumor has it that one star of NCIS will be leaving this season. Honestly, as long as it's not Tony or Abby, I don't really care who it is.

+ Well, I've figured out how to end the cycle of frozen pizza for lunch: I'm going to get some Subway and bring it to Isaac's office. I hardly got to see him yesterday, and that sucks. So, off I go!