Friday Fill In

1. Yesterday I was on the phone with Debbie for a much needed catch up session.
2. Today I am bored.
3. Tomorrow I will be at my parents house for 2 family picnics and the Richfield Springs Pride days. Yippeee.
4. Someday I'm going to finish Riley's scrapbook.
5. I will never understand why Nicole Richie only got 4 days jail time.
6. I might sign Nyssa and I up for a beginner agility trial.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to meeting my brothers girlfriend, tomorrow my plans include garage sales, and family picnics and Sunday, I want to spend some time with my brother and his girlfriend! 

Ipod random 10: (please give me some good music today)
1. Batter Up - Nelly
2. Allstar - Smash Mouth
3. Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders
4. My Love - Justin Timberlake
5. Take a Look Around - Limp Bizkit
6. Seven Days without you - Teddy Geiger
7. Start me up - Rolling Stones
8. Boom! Shake the Room - DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
9. White and Nerdy - Weird Al
10. Love and Memories - O.A.R.

Not too bad..

Friday Fill In and Random 10

1.  I bet everyone is saying Harry Potter is the book I'm most looking forward to reading this summer.  I wish I had more time to read books. I'm not even sure what book I'd read first.
2. Dogs RULE!.
3. Nantucket is a town I'd like to explore.
4. Silly people are fun.
5. I'm longing to see JT in concert again.
6. Cow barns and bats are so scary!
7. What are you doing this weekend? Tonight I'm looking forward to doing nothing, tomorrow my plans include garage sale in the morning, INXS in Barrie, Ontario in the evening and Sunday, I want to Sleep, I'm gonna be tired!

Random IPOD 10
1. Rebel Yell - Kill Hannah
2. Smile - Flickerstick
3. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
4. Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly f/ Murphy Lee and Diddy
5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens (Where'd I get that from?)
6. St. Jimmy - Green Day
7. Country Grammer - Nelly
8. When I Come Around - Green Day
9. Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger
10.  Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot

Don't Stop Believing a hit AGAIN?

Thought I'd share the top 10 artists I'm listening to these days too since Andy did it.

1. Justin Timberlake
2. Plain White T's
3. Red Jumpsuit Aparatus
4. M.I.M.S.
5. Rhianna
6. Fall Out Boy
7. T.I.
8. Carrie Underwood
9. Saving Jane
10. Timbaland

And while I'm on the subject of music. I've been meaning to ask this for some time now. WHY is Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" #10 on the Sirius Hits most requested top 45 countdown. You have no idea how many times I've heard it on Sirius Hits. Is it on a movie soundtrack or something? I can't figure out why the hits station is playing it. Somebody enlighten me.

Be thankful he waved

I read a blog entry recently about how Justin Timberlake needs an attitude adjustment because some girl asked him for an autograph and he said "You want me to juggle too?" and because he was taking photos of the paparazzi and calling them assholes. Big freaking deal. Yeah I think Justin's attitude can be jerky sometimes who's isn't once in a while, but I don't think these particular examples are good enough to make a valid point about Justin's attitude. There was no background on the comment he made to the fan. The fan could have been annoying,could have been stalking him and bothering him for days, not like that's never happened before.(No not me, I hear the comment forming already ANDY!) I've seen first hand how rude and annoying some of his fans can be. And who says, "Do you want me to juggle too?" I don't believe that he actually said that for a minute. I've seen first hand how nice he can be to his fans. I had the chance to speak to him once and he was very nice, even stopped walking turned around and spoke to me. He even offered up additional information to the very very short conversation. I've also seen him more often completely ignore fans. I think all celebs are like this, you can't expect them to be perfect. And he's not the first person to take photographs of the paparazzi and call them assholes.

I think the bigger news story is the fact that his fans waiting for him outside his hotel ACTUALLY got a wave and acknowledgement from him. Now THAT's a big deal!

Random 10

1. Bounce - Timbaland f/ Justin & Dr.Dre
2. Getcha Getcha - Nelly
3. Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
4. Rockstar - NERD
5. The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
6. Pieces of Me - Ashlee Simpson (I know shut up!)
7. Shoot Down The Stars - Gym Class Heroes
8. Hold me Now - Thompson Twins
9. The Rain - Akon
10. Try Too Hard - Teddy Geiger

Did he really just say that?

I was watching the premiere of Making the Band 4 yesterday, I can't seem to resist Diddy shows for some reason. If for nothing else to watch Diddy, he is so funny sometimes. Anyway, in Diddy's opening monologue he talks about wanting to find the next great all boy soul/R&B group to follow in the footsteps of the greatest ones. He then lists some great male R&B groups, "The Temptations, New Edition, Boys 2 Men, Nsync". I rewound just to make sure I wasn't hearing things. Yes that's right he included Nsync in that list of great R&B Boy groups... Sweet!!!!

Debbie told me about this contest on the Gym Class Heroes fan club site. It's to create the best "Ill Summer Mix". It got me thinking, what would be my "Ill Summer Mix"? So far I've got a list of 14 potential candidates, but I'm not going to share them with you until I finalize my list. The GCH contest is 15 - 20 tracks, so I have to come up with more and then narrow down to the best 15-20 songs. Since I've been thinking about it since last night, I thought I'd see what my IPOD had to say about it, so I said "IPOD give me an Ill Summer Mix" and this is what it had to say:

1. Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
2. Blurry - Puddle of Mud
3. Stay - Madonna
4. Locked Up - Akon
5. A little less Conversation - Elvis Presley
6. Because of You - Kelly Clarkson
7. Dreaming - Blondie
8. No Sleep till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
9. Holiday Inn - Chingy, Snoop Dogg & Ludacris
10.In too Deep - Sum 41

There is one song in this list that actually IS already on my list, can you guess which? But other then that I'll have to say while I respect my IPOD's opinions most of the time, this just doesn't look like MY Ill Summer Mix. Maybe my IPOD doesn't understand what Ill is? hmmm.....

Making me so Smartie

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Riley's current teachers are both taking the summer off from school and they told me tomorrow was their last day. They also told me that Riley would be moving to a new room by fall and that this week would be their last week with her and that they would miss her terribly. Usually I give her teachers a gift a Christmas time, but since she wasn't with these teachers then I thought it would be fun to give them a gift before they left for summer vacation. Unfortunately, I don't know these girls as well as I've been able to get to know some of Riley's previous teachers, but lately I've gotten to spend alittle more time with them. I decided to give them these jars filled with smarties with a tag that said "Thanks for making me so smartie!" I thought it was super cute and really reflected Riley's personality and the relationship she has with the girls. It was really fun to make. I struggled alot with the letters on the tags. First trying stickers then rubons, then handwritting, and they all looked like crap. Then at midnight a lightbulb went on. I should just use the computer, so that's what I did. I taped the tags to a piece of computer paper and printed the wording on it. It came out better then I even imagined. The printer did smudge some ink on both tags near the top. Instead of trying to print more I decided to get out my new toy that I learned about at the Scrapbook Convention, distressing ink, and I inked all around the edges and was able to cover the smudges and I think the tags look a lot nicer with the distressing ink. I searched all around for an apple I liked and ended up with some 8 1/2 x11 paper that had a school theme on it with the letters and apples. I cut them out and used them. The tags I got at Joann's super clearance sale for $.97 for a pack of 6, and the yarn I also got for $.97 each. The jars and butterfly rubons I got at Michaels. I bought plain white gift bags at Michaels and let Riley decorate them with marker and some heart foam stickers. They came out cute. I forgot to take a photo of the bags though.

Riley was super excited this morning to take the gifts in. We're in the car and she's insisting that she have some of the candy. I resist, but finally reach in one of the jars to get a piece and it breaks!!!!!!! I was so upset and so was Riley. I thought today would be the last day I got to see both teachers and Riley was less then pleased about not bringing the presents in, so we went to Michaels to get a replacement jar. I figured I could just buy another jar and another set of rubons and quickly rub the butterflies on the new jar. They went on pretty easy last time. Get to Michael's and they are out of butterfly rubons. Great, now we have to drive all the way home with the replacement jar and use the left over butterflies I already had, so there was no way I could recreate the jar as is. I got home and quickly put on yellow butterflies instead of the blue. It still looked very cute.

We were so late this morning.... We gave the gifts to the girls and they loved them alot. It was so nice to see someone so excited about something I handmade for them. It so much more pleasurable for me then a store bought gift. I never knew it could feel so good.

They thanked me and proceeded to tell me that they were actually going to be at school for another week, that NEXT Friday was their last day. Figures!!!! :)