what ARE they doing...

well, the good folks at abc have lost me as a viewer for next season's bachelor...

they named jason from the bachelorette. i think this is a really bad choice for many reasons. the most important being jason's son, but that is his personal decision and if he thinks its important then fine, i won't let that reason bother my choice on their decision. but i will let the fact that fred's personality is OUTSTANDING and awesome bother me! and the fact that i find jason kind of creepy, overbearing, etc. this goes back to my whole mr. big v. aiden thing i feel. and i guess its just...well...i find fred to be more of a manly man. on top of that he's funny....

if i knew any single friends in the chicago area, i would totally say, hey, you...go find fred...too bad fred didn't get to be the bachelor...i would have loved it :(

and yes, i know i'm a bit of a loser...

i apologize for my absence (prettybride). i have been quite busy with my new hobby which takes up a lot of time and energy. what is this new hobby, you ask. well, it is called non-recognization. i am not recognizing anything that i don't feel like recognizing, and it takes a lot of energy and thought. for example, one of my favorite people in the world moved, oh, about 3 months ago. and i have refused to recognize that he left me. i just pretend he has hideous boils on his face and refuses to leave his apartment. that is why he no longer meets me for breakfast at our little cafe on pennsylvania.

another one of my friends from law school "allegedly" moved too...i am refusing to recognize that as well...she even gathered things of mine she had and i pretended the reason she was giving them back to me because she was afraid i was going to start charging her interest on keeping them. she offered me some of her extra boxes; i pretended it was because she is a box collector and just no longer had room for them in her apartment.

and i refuse to recognize that the olympics are coming to an end (please refer to the last post....olympic fever has been running high over here). i watch it almost every night. i feel michael phelps is like my little brother; nastia luken is my new close friend. i hang out with olympians. i haven't come up with a reason on why they've stopped being on tv...if anyone can think of a way for me not to recognize this, props to you. all advice is welcome.

i did have to sort of recognize my irish princess, keegan, leaving me. the reason because i can't just pick up the phone and call her without incurring a large phone bill. however, that hasn't stopped me from avoiding logan when he brings it up (which he thinks my not recognizing things is SUPER healthy). at times, i pretend she is still just on her honeymoon, sitting in her cabana with drink in hand. or that she is living in texas on a ranch and can't get phone reception out there.

but i now must recognize i have laundry and work to do....don't be jealous!

olympic fever...

i feel like i'm a 13 year old again.

my entire life i have always LOVED LOVED LOVED the olympics. when i was 13 it was the 1996 summer olympics. that year i fell in love with gary hall, jr. (who later turned up on the side of one my best friend's shaving cream cans and i begged him for it...he thought i was nuts). i watched him swim every single meet. one night, while watching him swim, i got so excited for his win that in the midst of jumping up and down i somehow injured my calf muscle and had to sit out of volleyball practice the next day.

this was also the summer of the best women's gymnastics team. ever. i thought amanda borden and i could best friends forever. the talent of dominique dawes and shannon miller was just amazing to watch. i wanted dominque moceanu to be my little sister (even though she's older than me..). jaycee phelps is a hoosier...how could i not love a fellow hoosier? amy chow had the nickname, "the trickster," which is just awesome... and how could anyone ever forget when kerri strug stuck that landing with a sprained ankle and then bella carried her off the mats? i still tear up when i see that olympic commercial on now with that image in it..

ok, you may think i'm being a little overdramatic. but trust me, i loved that team. just ask prettybride. one night back in college we stayed up on the phone (when we lived 2 blocks from each other) naming all the members of the team.

so you can imagine my current excitement with this years olympics starting TODAY (technically, the opening ceremonies have already occurred, but i can't wait to watch myself tonight). so i'm sure over the next couple weeks i will find new swimmers to fall in love with, perhaps even a couple of soccer boys. i will stay up late again, just like when i was 13, to catch the women's gymnastics team kick some serious butt. and i'm sure i will shed some tears because of those little clips the olympics people put together with the sappy music and the heart breaking stories.
ahhh...it's great to 13 years old again...

in the election spirit...sort of..

i am still gently easing myself back into the real world, post bar, therefore, this election post is still filled with celebrities (because what better way to integrate into the real world than by reading gossip about people who don't actually function in the real world).

first off, for those of you who have not seen mccain's ad with paris hilton and britney spears, please, go ahead and google it. i think even most republicans (other than elizabeth hasselback) shook their heads at the sight of that ad...

but now, paris hilton has struck back. who knew she had it in her? not me. on funnyordie, there is this new ad where paris hilton announces her own presidency and, i am ashamed to say this, actually made me laugh out loud (i'm half blaming this on the bar-induced coma i have been in). however if you get a chance to check it out, actually quasi-amusing. good for her. now that she's dating a madden apparently she thinks she can have an edge. how cute.

and my last pop culture reference to the election...the tyra banks "obama" fashion shoot. for some reason i find this extremely tacky posing as someone's wife. now i realize that it's just an obama look-a-like, but there is just something unsettling and yucky to me about this ad. i get a very angelina jolie/brad pitt "W" photographs feeling with this. or maybe its just super creepy. i don't know.