Faux Fur, Talkative Judges & Covered Toes!

Hi Delicious-

This week has flown by, can't believe it's already Friday!!!  Here are some of my random thoughts from this week:

FAUX FUR
I was fortunate enough to hook up with the Welcome House in Covington, KY, a homeless shelter for women and children and start volunteering for them recently.  Of course when they found out about my background in events they wanted me to help them with their Ladies Night Out Faux Fur Fashion Show and Fundraiser!  So I made up some baskets and worked the registration table (God help me!) and then got to go be an actual guest which was an awesome change.  My friend D came out and we shopped the wonderful showroom of fabulously, luxuriant furs that looked very, very real.  We bid on a Chinese raffle and everyone was in love with a faux fur throw that seemed to be the hottest prize.  I never win raffles, like NEVER but I put my two tickets in anyway.  After the obligatory wine and cheese and the fun raffle show using ladies from the audience as models, it was raffle time.  Of course, I didn't get any of the other prizes but I WON THE THROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I got to pick out which print I wanted (coyote, and yes, I feel wrong even writing that!) and it's like 60x72 inches and it's being delivered next week and it's valued at $299!!!!!!!!!  That may be the most valuable thing I've won like that!!!  FUN, FUN, FUN!  Now I feel indebted to this charity forever!  So I've got to give a mad shout out to Donna Salyer's Fabulous Furs:

NEW RUNNING SOCKS
Thanks to @rhondapsd, I have those running socks that have a "sleeve" for each toe...kind of like a glove for your feet.  Once you get used ot the weirdness of putting them on, they're actually really comfortable.  I only wore them for two short runs so I have noticed much of a difference but I'm sure I will when I'm out there doing the 100th Annual Cincinnati Turkey Trot (6th oldest race in the nation, pretty impressive) (and, I'm guessing, COLD!)!

TV (SPOILER ALERT)
I know this is going to shock everyone, so just sit right down.  I am a little bit over SYTYCD!  The performance show was TWO HOURS people, not necessary!  If you only let one judge answer for everyone since they all agree anyway, we could keep this show under an hour and see more of what I watch it for...GOOD DANCERS!  And I have to say that the choreo isn't really blowing me away this year.  I know everyone loves some Travis Wall but he's got to give us something new, how many times can we be moved by the same routine??? (Altho Ryan and Ellenore were wonderful in it and I wouldn't mind if there was a scandal that he left the other less likable chick for her...THAT show would be worth two hours!)  The only other routine worthy of mentioning for me was the birdcage one...finally, Tyce is back...but then she went home.  wah, wah!


DWTS was pretty good but Donny Osmond in the finals?  Oh goodness!  I would have preferred Joanna's spiciness!  I'm just in it to see Mya win like I predicted!!!


FLASH FORWARD continues to confuse and creep me out...there's an endless amount of twisting and turning going on...but I'm kind of feeling like maybe the plot isn't moving forward so much as laterally.  I'll stick with it to see where it goes.


I still have many, many hours of stuff on the DVR...have to watch PROJECT RUNWAY finale (even though I saw a spoiler tweet about who didn't win!)...and we're like a month behind on GREY'S ANATOMY (I still don't know why Izzy left) and THE OFFICE & V...we'll never catch up!!!

SPOILER ALERT!!!

I've caught up on quite a bit so in no particular order...here's my recap from stuff so far.  If YOU aren't caught up stop reading! 

SHARK TANK
This show gets a mention cuz J thought it sounded cool and turned out it was.  It's mildly entertaining to watch 6 bajillionaires make even more $$$ by investing in other people's great ideas.  The ideas themselves are sometimes cool, sometimes sketchy and sometimes creepy (peeing into a faux golf club?) but the real entertainment comes in watching these guys (and one lady for quota sake) try to outmaneuver each other and outwit people who are less wealthy than they are.  This show is a true testament that the US will never truly give up on capitalism!

DWTS
Again, if you don't know...you don't know.  I resisted this show until last season cuz I just couldn't get down with any of the "Stars" they have on there.  But sometimes I just gotta watch people dance!  If you can sit through the painfully awkward (Denise Richards, anyone???) it's actually kind of entertaining.  Although, it's a lot of TV...like 3 hours a week!  Thank God for DVRs and fast forwarding.  First of all, I wish Samantha Harris was not on this show, ever!  I always ff through her awkward banter and this week her hair just took over-ugh, she's my least favorite thing about the show.  This week's dances, however, were so much better than last week and Len actually seemed like he was in a good mood, almost everyone got 8's!  Sometimes it's just all about the dances too and the Paso and Tango are just better than the stupid country two-step on these shows!  Biggest improvement had to be Aaron Carter, who I don't really like but who did a great job and Michael Irvin.  My YAWN DANCES are Melissa Joan Hart (too many names anyway!) and Donny Osmond (who the judges love, unfortunately).  My favorite is Mya who can do no wrong, especially with Dmitri as her partner.  Even Joanna Krupa was entertaining with her stumble and switching partners.  In the end...Natalee went home breaking the streak of Olympiad winners.  It was time...she peaked early and then fell apart!  The results show I only watch for about a total of 15 minutes but the MJ tribute was pretty good and I really like the dancers who did the routine for Norah Jones' first song.  Bruno gets quoted for the byte of the week, the show is "Sublime and ridiculous at the same time."

Heading out to take in a local theatre company's play...something cultural!  I'll be back to blog about it and the rest of the shows tomorrow.