Kristin's Grammy Recap

First off some business... Congrats to by blogger friend Nicole, her sister had her baby over this past week and he is adorable.. Good for the whole family, you guys are all growing so fast.

Now on to my Grammy Review

I am a child of pop culture so it shouldn't surprise many of you faithful readers that about midway through watching the Grammy's I was inspired for a blog post.  So I decided it was time for you all to delve a little into the mind if Kristin when it comes pop.... are here we go, lets start at the beginning

Note 1: I plan to sorta glaze over the portion of the show where they gave out award as that is what the producers actually did on the show... Clearly Adele was going to win every single award because she is amazing (and I am not a bandwagoner, I actually own her other album and I have for years 19 (her other album) is also outstanding)

Note 2: I am legally dependent on my DVR, and I actually watched the show Monday morning. I took out all the commercials and other silly portions and it took half the time. If you watched it live with all the commercials... don't be a sucker next time.

Springsteen--- is he still relevant? I respect the fact that he is a American icon, but like Abraham Lincoln he did a lot of really good stuff a long time ago but to be honest Abe take a seat.

Also in this category of people who attempted to sing on national television last night:

• Beach Boys--- a very awkward moment overall, am I the only one who thought they were kinda reminiscent of animatronics from Disney World. 
• Rihanna -- I believe she is really hard worker, and I believe she is a really good dancer but she really brings truth to the old adage, "pretty people really have it easy" because lets be honest, she can't sing. She can't sing at all, she can dance around the stage repeating the same line over and over but none of this can cover the fact that she can't sing. To be honest I felt bad for Coldplay because they were spectacular just like they always are.
• Paul McCarthy-- we get it, you were a Beatle and now everybody loves you. Now shouldn't you be in NYC this week supporting your daughter Stella at Fashion Week because she is amazing.
• Tony Bennett/Carri Underwood --- I feel bad about this but it wasn't a highlight (your dress was pretty Carri)

Whitney Houston was kinda the predominant theme of the evening. So I can't really not acknowledge it. I am not a mean person per say but I do know this. She was a really great artist many years ago, this has got to be incredibly difficult for her family, but the truth of the matter is this (and I hope for her sake I wrong) but drugs kill... so don't do them.

Bruno Mars--- That guy is the shiz-nit and he killed it. If you are not on the Bruno Mars train. What is stopping you, jump on already... TOOT TOOT

Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson --- the bedazzled microphone looked pretty sweet Kelly. Poor Jason Aldean I have seen him live several times and he is normally way better then that.

Foo Fighters and Coldplay-- as always you are amazing. You make T-shirts on old dudes look cool, keep doing what you do.

Katy Perry---Good for you and your blue hair and hair crimper. I am sad to say but I have a soft spot for her music.

Adele--- Your awesome, that is why they gave you all those awards. 

Glen Campbell--- I got no beef with you, good luck man.

Jennifer Hudson --- She has some pipes on her. I didn't really much care for her dress thought, but whateves she managed to get through that song without messing up her mascara so props to her.

In the category of people I am not particularly concerned about

• Alisha Keys/Bonnie Riatt--- how did they end up together on stage? Is there a possibility the producers were inspired by Food TV Chopped when they partnered people up
• Chris Brown --- good ol' VA boy, but I still don't really care about him or his music. Plus his background dancers look like Snookie-style squirrel monkeys.  
• Maroon 5--- I am not sure they could have looked any more awkward or uncomfortable then they did playing with the Beach Boys... yet another time when I stand by my Chopped reference
• Taylor Swift--- usually a fan (don't judge me, you likely are too... it is like J. Biebs if everybody wasn't a secret fan they wouldn't be famous) but for the Grammy's she kinda looked like a hobo when she performed and I can't endorse that. Come on Taylor I know you got the bucks put on a nice dress.
• The Band Perry--- Are you aware that one of your members has a 70's style mullet?... just saying

• Dead Maus --- Maybe I am too old, but I just don't get it.
• Nikki Minaj --- I really don't understand this one at all... the outfit, the pope, the whole thing was overdone, take some pointers from Beyonce, sing well, dance well, don't make yourself look silly. 

11-11-11

So my friend Nicole challenged some of her blogger friends to complete a questionaire. Since I am constantly suffering from bloggers-block I decided to go ahead and fill it out. I have 11 Fun Facts, answered 11 Questions, posted 11 Questions for my other friends, and I tagged what should have been 11, but I don't have that many blogger friends yet.

Here you go enjoy!

11 Fun Facts:

1. I think it is funny when I talk like a "rap star." It probably isn't really funny, but I giggle every time.
2. I am a very pale white girl... that might actually be the polar opposite of a rap star.
3. I kinda have a dorky problem with the desire to play Wii Lego video games, I own several of them (Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Pirate of the Caribbean, and Batman) ... (feel free to judge me)
4. I love to shop but I hate spending money, which tends to limit the amount of items I come home with.
5. St. Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday of the year. (I married a Patrick, you do the math.)
6. I am a really good loser at board games.
7. I am a really horrible-no good-rotten winner, don't play games with me.
8. I am a ketchup-a-phobe. (I hate it please don't put in anywhere near anything I am going to eat.)
9. I have been waiting 3 weeks for a pair of Hot Booties... these are microwavable slippers... every single day I drive home and think to myself, "Today is the day, I know my Hot Booties are here"... everyday I get disappointed.
10. I cry at everything, commercials, bad TV, bad dreams, I am a wimp.
11. I still have every birthday, anniversary, and friendship card that anybody have ever given me. 

11 Answers:

1. Which is the celebrity or actor you would want to date?----- I guess if I had to pick one it would be have to say Andy Sandberg, that guy is a laugh a second.
2. Describe yourself in a single sentence? --- I might be a little weird, but I am definately a fun friend, fo-sure.
3. What is your favorite song? --- Favorite song, that is hard to pick... anything by Augustana but Kenny Chesney, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" would by far be the winner. 
4. If you were to be reborn who would you want to be born as? --- Good question, no idea
5. Name the one household chore you would never do again if you didn't have to. ---- Litterbox, I hate it. I love my cat but the little box is the worst. I would consider teaching her to use the toilet like in "Meet the Fockers" but I would be really pissed to have to wait to go to the bathroom because my cat is using the toilet.
6. What is your favorite TV show? --- Mad Men, no doubt the best show on TV.
7. What is the furthest you've traveled?--- Hard to figure out, I have been a lot of places, either Alaska or Denmark
8. What is something you would do if you were more daring?--- Skydiving or bungie jumping, Patrick really wants to go but I am too scared.
9. What is you're idea of the perfect date.--- Dinner and You Made It. I don't care what we do I just want to make sure we are hanging out.
10. What is the grossest thing you've ever consumed?--- Rattlesnake/Roadkill. It was fresh roadkill trust me... but this is a tale for another blog post.
11. Do you have any weird obsessions? --- You have already read about the Lego games and ketchup issues, clearly I don't need any other issues.

11 Questions:

1. What is your biggest pet peeve?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. How old where you when you had your first kiss?
4. What is your favorite hobby?
5. Whats is your favorite childhood memory?
6. Cat/Dog/ or both?
7. What is you idea of a perfect day?
8. Do believe in eating cranberry sauce from a can?
9. Where is your family originally from?
10. What's your favorite time of year?
11. Would you do it all again if you could?

Tagged Blogger Buddies 

1. Nicole @ Pampers & Pumps
2. Heather @ My Uneventful Life
3. Jessica @ Heart on Homestead
4. Michelle @ Left on Wishing Well
5. Jessica @ Jess's Delight

If you want to jump in-- go ahead, the more the merrier.

Cats/Dogs that look like __________?

Well my last post was pretty intense, so I figured with my next post I would really mix it up and do something a lot more chipper/perky and just generally up my alley. Sadly I had a wicked form of blogger's block. I have spend that last several days trying to come up with something great, something truly spectacular to follow up with (and while I believe I have another couple good blogs in me) nothing really jumped out at me as THE ONE.

But then while having a conversation with my darling husband (who is my inspiration) for this post my blogger's block was lifted. To give you the full effect let me take you back... Picture it Rockingham County 2012 I was sitting on the sofa.... (Please take a second to appreciate the Golden Girls reference.)

Patrick and I are discussing another fine young fairly pet obsessed gentleman that he works with, let call him The Doode. You see The Doode has this habit of posting pictures of his weird cats with clever captions on his Facebook. Unfortunately The Doode has not been posting pictures lately and I asked what had happened to cause this Facebook tragedy. (The next words that came out of my husband's mouth stunned me... so please prepare yourself)

Patrick: "The Doode has been too busy to post pictures on Facebook, he has been chasing this cat around to take a picture of because it looks like Hilter and he wants to post it on their site."
Kristin: !?!?!?!?!? WHA-WHAT????

Consider my mind blown, so I decided that this deserved some exploration. I had to see this, and in this process of the investigation I turn to my most trusted source for discovery of new things ...Google: these were my results

It turns out there is a site called Cats That Look Like Hitler, and it was funny, but that is just the beginning, you see this fateful Google seach lead me to no doubt the 2 greatest web sites ever created and they are:

CATS THAT LOOK LIKE RON SWANSON

and

DOGS THAT LOOK LIKE TOM HAVERFORD

If you watch Parks and Rec (and if we are friends you likely do) you will appreciate this post and these sites, the Ron Swanson site literally brought me to tears) The cats are referred to as Roncats, I am sure Ron would not appreciate that at all, but he has learned to tolerate many things with the 2 Tammy's and all.

The Doode--- keep doing your good work, find that cat and post his pic, but if you can find me a Roncat that would be great too. Godspeed

Bethany Side-Note of the Day: Bethany's favorite color when she was little was purple.

Please Help Us Save Lives!!!

Today I am blogging for a cause. This year the RHH (Team RHH&CO) have decided to team up and participate in Relay for Life. When we started talking about who would would be walking for so many of us knew so many others that had been touched by cancer over their lives. I am no different.

We all have our stories about how cancer has changed us, these are mine:

Mom with Chloe

I come from a family that has been marred by cancer for a long time. I was just a kid when my mother and father sat my sister and I down and told us mom had thyroid cancer and that there would be a lot of changes happening. I don't know how long they had known about the cancer but soon after my mother was going to be having surgery to have her entire thyroid removed. I don't remember much about that day, Bethany and I had to go to school and then our grandparents picked us up and took us to there home. I am pretty sure we were too young to understand what our parents were going through.  But I do know that after years of treatments and therapies mom was feeling better, she went into remission some years later. My mother is more then a cancer surviver, she is the kindest most giving person I have ever known. When I see how my mother helps others, I hope and pray that I could have the same kind of gentle giving heart that she has.

Dorothy with Bethany and Mom many years ago

My mother had 2 siblings a brother David, and a sister Dorothy. Dorothy pasted away in December 2009 after suffering for years with breast, brain and liver cancer. My mother cared for her as she would a child during the last several months of her life. Dorothy was first diagnosed with breast cancer years earlier and was treated and went into remission. Sadly her breast cancer reappeared several years after. Dorothy wasn't ready to do conventional treatments a second time. So she participated in alternative treatments around the county, unfortunately the treatments did stop the cancer and it spread to her brain, liver and other places around her body. Sometimes it is hard to see past the last several years when she was in so much pain to the times when she was happy and healthy. (That is the reason the picture is so old) But as I child and teen I remember her taking me out for special birthday treats, shopping, and fun little trips.

Everybody deals with pain differently, Dorothy's passing was a very difficult time in my life (and for the rest of my family.) I poured my pain into working at the time but to express myself and to remind myself of where I came from I choose to get a tattoo.

This is why I walk.

Please join our team and help us raise funds for research to save lives in the future.

JOIN OUR TEAM!!!!! Anything help!!!!

And to read stories from my other teammates check out Jessica and Michelle's blogs 

New Year, New Years Resolution... and Where Have I Been?!??!

So I know that I have been a bit absent from the blog scene for a while. But alas, I have great news, my news years resolution is to be a consistent blogger again, (and to use my Cricut to scrapbook a lot this year, which means I will need to take a lot of pictures.)

I am not going to spend a whole ton of time telling you what I have been up to over the past several months  but I will give you all a quick run down because there have been a lot of changes that I need to share.

Top 10 Things That Have Happened To Distract Me From Blogging:
10. Sadly, I am a football addict and I must admit that this time of year it is pretty tough to keep up with everything else in life and know every stat about the Green Bay Packers. I have been doing my best to keep up. 

\9. Christmas... I don't think this bears much explanation, but you should know that my husbands birthday is 12/24 (Christmas Eve) so I have twice as much holiday to prep and shop for.
8. I have been cooking A LOT, in fact I feel like I may have perfected my versions of twice baked potatoes and chicken enchilada soup.
7. RHH celebrations, the RHH has been very busy this year multiple baby showers resulting in multiple babies, lots of dinners out to spend time together, 2 more bridal showers on the way and 2 big weddings in the works..#wowzers

6. Patrick and I carved a ridiculously awesome pumpkin.... be jealous, PS Patrick did way more of the work then me.

5. I had my last day of working at Massanutten. I miss my friends from there a lot. I cried and cried as I was packing my desk. This is what it looked like when I was leaving.

4. I bought a car, if you are a consistent reader, (and God bless you) you know the Saturn I had been driving had been on borrowed time for a very long time, Patrick bought me a 2012 Jetta TDI. I love it, my favorite part is the heated seats. (I like it when my butt is hot in the literal sense)

3. My cousin Marley got married, (and it was beautiful) and Patrick and I had so much fun playing in South Florida. She only has about 1,000,000 pictures to pick from to post, and I tried really hard to find one with my cousins and Ted but I was out of luck so sorry Ted. I love this picture though. What a great day!

2. In addition to the wedding craziness, Patrick and I took some time to vacation. We had not had a real vaca in several years and we had so much fun. We hit the beach, went up a lighthouse, met some sea turtles, and spent a lot of time chillaxing (yep I said it)

Drumroll please
1.  I started a new job!!!! This has been a crazy but good change. I will give you all more details in the next couple weeks.

What's on tap for this weekend: heading up north with some RHH buddies to visit their family and celebrate more babies. Going to be a great time, I will be sure to have plenty of pictures of the current babies when I get back.

Bethany Side-Note of the Day: since she still refuses to read. Bethany couldn't make it to Florida this time around because of work....#sadface