I absolutely LOVE dancing. I wish I could dance like the dancers I see on TV! When I was a kid we just didn’t have enough money for me to take dance lessons. I remember going with my best friend Kathy to her ballet class and wishing I was out there with her. But that’s neither here nor there really. What I’m actually trying to get to is asking you if you watched the season finale of So You Think You Can Dance? last week. So, did you? It was absolutely brilliant and SO much fun! If you missed it, there is an excellent review at My Reality Television, but I’d also like to share with you a couple (or three ) of my favorite parts of the show. They are:

The first ever televised popping competition! What is popping, you ask? It’s … WOW. It’s amazing!

My next favorite was Katee and Will dancing the Pas De Deux to “Imagine” by David Archuleta. It was impeccable …. truly heavenly perfection. It will give you chills it’s so beautiful!

And finally, we actually got to see Nigel Lythgoe dancing with some of Debbie Allen’s best and brightest students from her dance academy. It was so much fun to watch! Plus I just love Debbie Allen.

So there you have it — my favorite parts of the show, although the whole thing was tremendous. And congratulations to Joshua for winning the title of America’s Favorite Dancer! (even though many people thought it should have been Katee) Regardless, a big thank you to all the dancers who kept us hugely entertained and let people like me who always wished they could dance live vicariously through them every week!

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This was fun! Not quite half and half, but close enough. I think I really like that. (originally seen at Cromely)

You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don’t actively fight them. You’re just you. You don’t try to be what people expect you to be.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you’ve been unable to comment on the last few blog entries, thanks to my web host migrating their accounts to a new platform, which totally screwed up my blog. When I called tech support — and I must admit here they actually did try to help — they ended the conversation with the never-before-uttered phrase “We don’t support Movable Type, only Wordpress”. Ugh! Oh well, I’ve been wanting to change this blog over to Wordpress for a while now, anyway, so I guess the time really has come. I will be attempting that monumental task this week sometime. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Meanwhile, back to my life in the real world, my family and I have been traveling, taking a couple of trips over the last two weeks. It’s been so much fun! Our first trip was to Estes Park here in Colorado, which is one of our most favorite places to go. This time, however, I would have to say it was the best one ever — except for the fact that our daughter came down with the flu the first night we were there. The next day she was feeling better, so we managed to still salvage a good time! I took a bunch of pictures and have posted them to my flickr, so please go and enjoy! I’ve added a little of the history of Estes in there for you, too. ;) Oh, and just wait until you see the pictures of those beautiful Elk that walked through our “back yard”!

Our other trip was to Lake McConaughy in Nebraska (in my opinion, the only thing that redeems Nebraska — sorry Nebraskans. GO BUFFS!). We LOVE this lake! To begin with, it’s huge and has a sand bottom so there’s no muddy mess like a lot of lakes/reservoirs, and the beaches are beautiful white sand! The closest thing to the ocean near us, that’s for sure. LOL I don’t have the pictures downloaded from my camera yet, but when I do I’ll post the link. We took our daughter’s best friend with us, who had never been there, along with two of our dogs — the tiniest, Riley, and the biggest, Cheyenne. Now, Cheyenne is a Lab through-and-through and adores the water, so she had a FABULOUS time. Riley, on the other hand, is terrified of water, so I thought bringing him was a mistake, but Hubs insisted. Well, much to my surprise, he really enjoyed the beach and playing ball with us. What he didn’t like, of course, was ALL THAT WATER! He got on Callie’s back while she was on the tube and she took him for a little ride, but he hated it. LOL Later I got in the water which, by the way, is still very cold, and started making those kind of noises you make when you dip yourself into cold water, you know? lol Anyway, Riley heard me and thought I was in trouble, so he mustered up all his courage and jumped down the little “cliff” alongside the water and was all set to come rescue me. He jumped onto Callie’s back once again and she began paddling toward me. The whole time he was staring at me with this “I’m coming! I’m coming!” look in his little eyes. It was SO CUTE! I couldn’t believe he would face his worst fear to save little old me. He is absolutely my hero! All seven pounds of him!

I best get a move on and see about all this changing over to Wordpress thing. It makes me shudder to think of importing all of what’s here, but a gal has to do what a gal has to do for the love of her blog. ;) Oh, and by the way –

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all of you fathers out there!

Speaking of Reality Shows (see previous post), I just found a very cool site where you can get all kinds of Reality TV Updates. I admit it, I’m a reality TV junkie. Shows like Deadliest Catch, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Paranormal State, Hell’s Kitchen ….. yes, I watch them all. There are more, but I won’t bore you. LOL Anyway, if you’re a reality junkie, too, and need to get caught up on some of them, be sure to check out RealityBug.com!

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I don’t know how many of you watch Survivor, but I almost fell out of my chair tonight when Erik actually believed what the evil women told him and was STUPID enough to hand over his immunity necklace to Natalie! Didn’t he learn anything from watching the last three or four voted off the island be completely blindsided by those same women? What a friggin’ idiot! He’s sweet, though. ;)

OK, I feel better now that I got that off my chest. lol

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