It all started with a panda...

So, today I had to go outside and do some grownup stuff (my spell check didn’t like the way I phrased things so offered to change it to ‘do some grownups’ no thanks), you know, like an adult!
And then when I came home I got the lovely message that a package had been delivered to our house while I was gone! (My friend from Northern Ireland told me she'd sent me a little gift last week).
I hopped up and down like a bunny on acid and ripped open the envelope like a kid on Christmas morning (or in my family, the second Christmas day after dinner).
In, there was, the greatest gift of all. A stuffed animal, but not just ANY stuffed animal, a RED PANDA.
If you don’t know what a red panda is, it’s only the cutest little buggar out there. It’s like a fox, or a cat, only not because it’s a panda, only not! He’s got the cutest little face too. I mean just look at that!

Come on man, it has EYEBROWS doesn’t get much cuter than that.

So here I am, with my panda, happy as happy can be.


But wait! There’s more! (ha!) Something heavy in the envelope! But what?!
I slide my hand in and pull out….


OH NO! The horror! The agony! The pain! The illiteracy!
Now that I got it as a (gag)gift, I have to read it right?
I guess I have no choice but to get out them dusty glasses out and read up.


I’m sure I will read many shocking things


And some serious things


I am sure I will read and read and read


And then realize WHAT I just read


And, it is clear that I will be amused.


And, last but not least, I will probably remain unimpressed.


Thank you for the red panda Maggie! <3

ÄÇÉÌÑÖÛÝ!

I have my accents back! I got this wonderful laptop from my father which only had one flaw, no accents. For a while I was ok, I googled whatever word I needed and copy pasted to go on my way. But the other day I figured I would have to find out how to make it work USA style. Let me tell you, doing it USA style? SUCKS. When I finally got a list of what you have to do for each letter I wanted to DIE. When I typed in the numbers to get a simple 'É', I felt like I was putting in a secret code for the government (ok, maybe not quite as dramatic).
So I went hunting, and found out that it’s hilariously easy to change your laptop to a European.
So, my dear laptop finally got its green card for my country, so to speak and can now type accents with ease.
Let me reflect on how great life is with accents.
I can now type:
Adéchiké!
Café
Björk
Fiancé(e)
Cliché
Amélie
Época
Naïve
Fräulein
Blasé
And that's just a fraction, just wait 'till I start blogging in French! (I most certainly will not)

ok fine, I use approximately one of these ‘words’ regularly but that’s not my point.
Yay for accents! (or what google tells me I should be calling them, 'diacritical marks', doesn't really have the same ring to it does it?)

SYTYCD Season 7, week 6, results

The results!

The opening dance is, Jazz or does it count as Broadway because it’s a Broadway song. It looks more Broadway-ey now. Someone who I’ve never heard of before choreographed this.
Oh my GOD Cat, yes we’re live, we KNOW.
Aww Denise Jefferson died. This is sad.

Our dancers are coming up, all five at once (and Billy in the audience).
Lauren is safe. Kent is safe, uh oh, there goes my little theory.
So it’ll be two out of these three: Adechike, Robert or Jose. I’m not really pleased with this.
Two dancers are dancing the Pas de Deux, gorgeous. They keep doing this really cool move where the girl is en pointe and he just spins her around.

Now, on with the results. Adechike, Robert and Jose back for the slaughter.
The Adechike/Jose Paso Doble still pisses me off, haha.
The one safe is… Adechike! Oh I like this result. He’s really grown in the past weeks so I think he deserves to go through.

So it’s Jose, Robert and Billy in the bottom three. Did I mention that I love Billy? I hope he goes through.]
Some person from the auditions that I’m supposed to remember is performing, he’s really good but I really don’t have a clue who he is.

It’s all star time!
Lauren and Neil’s turn. Their Jazz number. Only now there aren’t any bloody steps to dance on like last time, yes I’m still bitter about the stage change.

Apparently Russell is going on tour with some of the others, err, not impressed.

Robert is dancing first. Very nice.
now Jose, he’s reusing a song Dominic used for one of his solos. But you know what, he’s not as good as Dominic and neither is his choreography, so there we go.

So… Enrique Iglesias these days goes by one name? He thinks he’s like Madonna? Or Cher? No honey, you’re not. Well now I wonder if I should keep watching for Allison and Lauren but it’s just not worth it. I doubt I missed much.

It’s decision time. Nobody is going home this week; two people are leaving next week. Fuck off Nigel.

Well this is an anticlimax if I ever saw one. And it seems like we had some time left at the end or something because I think I just watched five minutes of the contestants' happy dance.

SYTYCD Season 7, week 6

We’re starting! For some reason I’m irrationally excited to see this episode. I really have no reason for this but I am. So lets savor the moment.

Ha, the video doesn’t agree with me because it just stopped right in the middle of the intros. Or maybe my video is a perv because it also stopped right in the middle of Lauren hoisting her leg up in the air. I guess we’ll never know.
Wait a second…. Where the hell is Billy! WTF is going on here?! Who the heck is sabotaging the damn stage?
Kenny Ortega is joining the judges today.

Man SYTYCD must have some damn voodoo up in its business because this injury business is getting ridiculous.

Lauren and Twitch are dancing hip hop.
Some kind of western theme.
Lauren really is too cute to be gangster, haha, but she did a good job.

Jose will be dancing with Allison.
A Sonya routine, yay!
I loved that! It was very different (though with obvious Sonya moments) but really nice and cute.

Robert and Lauren are dancing some Tasty Oreo Jazz.
Man Lauren is really getting to all of the boys isn’t she.
Oh a sexy sexy piece this is. Aaaaand Robert just licked her leg. That was just, wow, just wow.
I liked it aside from the leg licking which was just weird.
Robert still kind of reminds me of Mark, only better.
Adechike’s solo is up, I hate the song he’s dancing to, it will forever be the ‘Cancer Dance’ song.

Kent and Kathryn are dancing Jazz by Sonya. Two jazz routines right on top of each other? Who picked this lineup?
This is very different from Robert and Lauren’s routine so I guess it’s all right.
It’s funny because usually you can see the little moves Sonya always uses (shaking, type of lifts, etc.) but I think she left them out this time, either that or I just missed them. If anything it has more of a Mandy Moore vibe to it if I had to guess.

Robert’s solo is up, it was nice.

Now Lauren, very nice, I liked it!

Adechike’s turn to dance with an all star. He’s dancing hip hop with Comfort.
This was wonderful. Go Adechike, he’s rocking it!
Oh they’re feeling it, Adechike’s crying and right now Comfort’s hiding her face so I’m guessing tears on that end as well. Amazing that hip hop can give people such a reaction.

Jose’s turn to dance!
Oh I quite liked this actually, the best solo he’s done if you ask me.

Anddddd Kenttttt! His mom kind of reminds me of Sarah Palin? (sorry Kent’s mom)
Kent wins epic points for dancing to Boyz II Men, I loved it.

Lauren and Robert are dancing together now.
A Samba, woo, can’t wait.
It’s nicely done but I can see them having some troubles at some parts.

Adechike and Jose are dancing, but what? A Paso Doble. Erm. Excuse you? *cries*
I mean, I know it’ll probably be all right but I like my Paso Dobles with one of each gender.
Again with the bloody Trojan war music. Does sytycd have patent on them or something? That and Libertango.
Errr, I’m not a fan, though the ‘no shirt’ part is nice…
The Paso Doble high pants kill me.

Kent and Billy(or not) will be Stepping(OR NOT). Ha, Billy and Kent stepping together is like, no, just no. They are the totally wrong types for this dance, haha. Twitch is stepping in, interesting, haha.
Twitch knows his business. Kent wasn’t super strong but he worked it.

Ok my guess for the bottom three? Err, well Billy…. And… I guess maybe Jose, though I LOVED his contemporary. My guess is that Robert is safe this week and Adechike as well. So either Kent or Lauren? That doesn’t sound right though… Can’t we just have a bottom two?