Idol Update!

It's been awhile since my 2 cents.....so here's an overview of where I think this competition is headed. We'll see how these guys do tonight but all in all i'm thinking......yawn.......

One step in the right direction! (?)

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/19/interactive.health.care.benefits/index.html?hpt=Sbin

I personally think it's a positive thing. Health care has seriously gotten out of control, to the fact that some people go completely with out it because they can't afford it, some people get it completely for free, and others have to pay through the nose to be able to protect and keep their families healthy. And not to mention the OUTRAGIOUS salaries of the CEO’s of these companies and the record breaking profits! I’m talking billions people! I am lucky to work at a company that provides great benefits so I'm really not sure that this will effect me (us) at least not right now. But these few changes here will certainly mean the world to some people...
I know people (republicans) are freaking out about socialism (aahhhhhh - {Scare Tactics} I mean seriously I just read an article recently about how republicans got caught in the act about trying to use scare tactics to get things done) but first of all it's not socialism, and it's not universal health care - which has it's pros and cons but they have universal healthcare in so many other countries and their general happiness and way of living is off the charts compared to the US - just saying.

Anyways check out the link and let me know your thoughts on the matter....... (comments anyone?)

Eclipse Trailer...eeeeeeeeee!!

http://mashable.com/2010/03/11/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-trailer/

American Idol Top 12! Booooo HISSSSSS

Jamie Genovese Is anyone as OUTRAGED as I am about American Idol last night?
Julie Makeyenko Fulciniti thats why everyone should vote

Jamie Genovese I completely agree!! I did too for once, but it didn't save my Lilly! :)

Julie Makeyenko Fulciniti i really like her toooo

Lindsay Walsh I can't believe she's gone! She was my favorite!

 Jamie Genovese I know! I'm happy that Didi made it tho, I love her, but i'm sad for Todrick and Alex, I thought they were soooo much better than Tim (ugh) LOL

Jen Kapsiak I am only sad for Lilly! I thought for sure she would be in the final 4 with Crystal, Michael and the one Kara likes (I forgot his name).

 Jennifer Faber Barry I really liked Lily too...I thought Katie Stevens was going to be gone for sure...I also liked Alex WAY bewtter than Andrew...

Jamie Genovese @ Jen K Casey James! Yes I like him too
@ Jennifer B - I was SHOCKED when they said Andrew over Alex (even tho i liked Andrew) And SHOCKED when they said Katie over Lilly, i mean WHAT? All the while Tim is sitting there and i'm SHOCKED over that too, sorry i'm waaay too passionate about this LOL


 Jennifer Faber Barry I think that some how there are always a couple that sneak through on "America's Vote" so people can see them improve over the 12 week period...just a theory.. this is how much I remeber Tim?!? when you first sadi his name i had to go to the web site to see who he was..he wasn't even an original pick for the top 24

Jamie Genovese I KNOW and he STINKS! LOL I mean he did waaay better this past week but he soooo wasnt better than Todrick and Alex. I'm going to start a show called "Jamie's American Idol" LOL

Jennifer Faber Barry lol

NEED I SAY MORE?!

Isn't Married life GREAT!?

So many people have asked me "how's married life" in the past 6 months that I've lost count! It's a wonderful question though, one that I love answering! I usually say the same thing, "it's great! not much different though!" Which is true - it's not much different. I guess the major difference is that I can call him my husband, which I just love doing by the way :)

Dave and I have been together for 6 years now (WOW!) and so when we finally did get married we really already had everything married people usually have, a family (Jared and of course the fur babies) a house, a bank account, etc, etc. So really it's just a piece of paper (I hear people say this) but really it's so much more... I have a sense of security now, it's different from before. If you would have asked me before we got married if I had a sense of security I would have said yes, ask me again and yes, but it's so much different. It's intimate, it's beautiful, it's powerful, it's love. It's not something I can describe without just feeling it, and I do feel it. Every morning when I wake up to his kisses, every night I look into his eyes before I fall asleep. Every day that I grab for his hand, reach for his embrace, share with him a smile. It's all the same stuff, that we've always done but now we're married and I'm so aware of it. It's beautiful! I tell him all the time that he's stuck with me now and he tells me that he's happy to know it. I think I know we have the goods to make this last, I'm happier now than I've ever been, and everyday it seems stronger and more wonderful.
So ask me again, how's married life?? "IT'S FANTASTIC!!!"

American Idol Week 2 Results

Ok so here are the results for week 2!!! The only person I'm not so happy about is John Park, surprising enough! I had him at the very bottom of the guys list but last week I thought he did pretty good! So no I don't think he was good enough to win the whole competition but I do think he deserved to stay at least another week. But se la ve.

The ladies I agree with 100% (even though I kind of liked Michelle's spin on Creed. I also think that Katie is growing on me. And I have to honestly say that I think Chrystal is ridiculously OVERRATED! The judges are all about her this season and it's really getting old, ok yea she can sing but comon she's not gods gift to the competition, and can we give Didi a little credit here?! She's AMAZING and the judges were so rude to her on Wed that they made her cry!!!!

ugh the judges are really falling off this year, with Kara's ridiculously embarrassing moments with going gaga over Casey and then how she took it waaaay too far by insulting his performance and calling his voice DIRT!? She's really got some nerve. And seriously stop the remarks about Casey, ok he's hot we get it and we agree. What's not Hot is thinking about Kara thinking he's hot, that's gross! (can you tell I don't like Kara, LOL) I keep seeing flashbacts of Kara flashing her gross stomach and non exsistant chest to try and one up bikini girl (who, let's be honest was an A-hole but at least she had a nice bod!) And one last thing about the judges this year that is really pissing me off, their total inconsistency of week to week and contestant to contestant. For example, make it your own but not too much, then they do a little and according to them it sounds exactly the same, I mean WTF are they even talking about half the time?  Then somehow it's sounds different in the studio then it does at home, so Ellen thinks it sounds worse in the studio but Simon regrets saying someone was good because it sounded worse at home?! Whatever I'm floored by who they like and who they don't this year and I swear it's a conspiracy, something is going on and I don't' like it one bit!!!



Go Didi!!!

To do list

I've always considered myself to be a very organized person. I make myself crazy if I don't keep myself organized. I feel like thoughts and ideas and things to do are always floating around in my head, unsupervised and reoccurring. They tend to stay that way too unless I get them out in some organized fashion. Enter iPod. This thing is amazing by the way, it can do everything! I can play games, listen to music, surf the web, pay my bills, watch TV, it's endless. But this post isn't about how awesomely amazing this device is (although I should make one, and ode to the iPod type of thing...)
It's more about the to do list. I was walking the dog this past Saturday and thinking to myself about all the things that need to get done, I had just spent most of the morning and early afternoon cleaning the house, doing laundry and just trying to get things put away and organized. Which is really not the thing I look most forward to doing on the weekends, but tis life... I felt like I made most of the difference in the bedroom, I was very proud of myself thinking that it looked like a hotel room, everything put away very neatly and no clutter to be found, and as I was walking with Gabby and thinking about this I realized I still had so much to do! ugh! It seriously never ends but I'm so thankful at the same time for all that we have. I can get all miserable thinking about how the house is never perfectly clean enough, the laundry's never ending, we always have some meaningless bunch of stuff laying around in one corner or another, but at the same time, we have a beautiful home, a lot of really nice things to fill it with, and let's be honest between the clothes that Dave and I both own and Jared's share if I ever did get caught up on the laundry completely I'd have no where to put it all!!!
But I've veered away from the topic at hand once again, I was telling you about my to do list, I was looking at it this morning and I couldn't help but to laugh at myself and how sometimes I can be so anal with little specific things, so here's the list including a little look into my psyche for your own amusement!!

Things to do
- Install Dishwasher - CHECK! Wooo hoooo
-Scan in old Photos from Grandma's albums - we actually just bought a new scanner for the Mac so I should be on the go with this one soon
- Make DVD back ups of pics (since our HD crashed - thankfully we didn't have much on it - I've been obsessing over backing up all our old pics
- make photo books/prints - nowadays with the digital cameras I find that I hardly ever get prints of pictures that I take, they all just sit in files in the computer, and if I ever did completely loose those I would be devastated (over 5 years of visual memories)
- clean basement -ugh but yes it must get done
- organize photos into albums - for all of the prints we actually do have they're all just loose in some box, it would be nice to have some rhyme or reason to it
- organize important paperwork
          * desk drawer
          * attic
          * china cabinet - that's right folks we have our "important paperwork" in three different spots into he house! What we need to do is to get a filing cabinet and keep it upstairs with the craft desk, this way all of it is in one spot. But that first includes me going through it all to decide if it's still in fact "important"
- clean out the desk - yea that too
- clean out the china cabinet - yep, yep
- organize closet and clothes - poor Dave, he has his clothes in three different spots, in our bedroom in the dresser(s), the spare room is for his work wardrobe and Jared's closet is for everyday ware (hoodies, jerseys, t-shirts). I would like to get his stuff out of the spare bedroom (soon to be baby's room - not too soon though!) and get it all into my closet, but of course that means first - organizing the closet and getting rid of alot of stuff we don't' need anymore, I swear we could open our own good will
- get dress cleaned, yep it's still sitting in the closet looking out at me! I still put it on sometimes too, lol. I first need to figure out what I'm doing with it though, am I cleaning it to keep it or to sell it? I'm not sure so there it sits.....
- sell two other dresses - yes "two" other dresses. They were both supposed to be for the Trash the Dress photo shoot. I bought the first one really early and then a couple months before the wedding I found the perfect one so I ordered that too, in hopes to sell the other one right away but never got around to it. Craigslist here I come!
- organize wedding stuff and sell - on our third floor we have boxes and boxes of stuff from the wedding, such as the ring pillow, baskets, linens, candles, etc. Alot of really cute stuff that I bought used and could totally resell. Most of the stuff that was put out at the wedding was ours, the only thing we actually rented were the chair covers, (god I LOVED those chair covers!) So yea, we have to do that too.....
- learn Photoshop and take more pictures!!!! - this is hard, working full time and trying to really get into this new hobby, there's so many ideas I have and so much I wanna do but by the time I get home, take the dog out, start dinner, do the dishes (not anymore!! although the dishwasher will still be slightly time-consuming but not nearly as bad) workout (when I feel like I'm not going to fall flat on my face) there's not much time left to plan for a photo shoot. It might sound like an excuse and maybe it is but during the week I'm so darn tired when I get home, maybe I'll be more refreshed once the weather finally breaks but we definitely take full advance of the camera when we can, and I have lots of plans for more shoots to come. The learning the Photoshop part is tricky too, it's a very large program that lets you do just about anything but it's hard to remember it all and figure out what everything means, I'm getting there, watching tutorials online and teaching myself, I'm taking alot of notes too but it gets old quick, I can't do too much at once or it's like system overload, I'm totally the type of person who wants to just jump right into things before actually knowing how to do them, it's great when it works but photoshop is alot more complicated than that. Maybe in the future it will be like the matrix where you can just download the information into your brain and then you know it all, that would be right up my ally!!!
And last but not least....
- create an Amazing Songs playlist! - you know how there are those songs that you just love? and when you hear it come on it's like shhhhhh listen, this song is amazing!! here are a few of mine - Black Velvet, Stairway to Heaven, Breathe Me (lady croissant), I wish you were here (pink Floyd), Beautiful disaster - Acoustic (Kelly Clarkson), Colorblind (counting Crows) Ok I think you have the idea, and with oh I don't know 3,000 songs on the iPod I would really love to be able to single those songs out into an Amazing Songs playlist, so gotta do that one too.....

Ok so there you have it, I hope you don't feel differently about me after this, LOL
I think alot of this is stemming from the fact that we're starting to really talk about having a baby and if it happens fast I would love to have all these things done, because enter newborn I can imagine that this list of things to do will no longer even be on the list of things to do priority wise.