Us at the Idols concert...

Here we are at the Idols concert. We were walking to our seats, and Debi pulls us over to get our picture taken. How she saw them doing this with all those people around, I'll never know. She is amazing!!

Pictured from left to right is me, Joanne, Debi, and Debi's future daughter-in-law Denne'.

Debi and I have been going since season 2, and Joanne joined us last year. This year Denne' joined us!! It was so fun going out with them all!!

Idols Concert...

OMG, that show was the best! I've been to 4 seasons of idols concerts, (missed the first one) and this one was by far the best! I think it was because it was more of a rock concert than in previous years, plus I loved most of the contestants this year!!

Mandeesa started the show. I love her! She sang, "I'm every woman". And she rocked the house! It was a great start.

Ace came on to sing with her after her two songs. He is so dang cute! Of course he sang Father Figure!! I love his version of that song.

I can't remember all the songs they sang, I'll try to look it up later.

Lisa was next, and OMG, she was voted off too soon! She was awesome!! You can tell she has had much more experience with the tour, her voice was so much better, and her stage presence has improved so much!! She sang the song that is on the Idols CD, plus 2 Elton John songs.

Paris came on and sang Waterfall with her. And then started her set. Lisa SO blew her away!!

Bucky did well, I did like him on the show, just didn't want him to be my idol. LOL He sang You're the ONe that I want with Kellie too. I thought that was just ok. I think knowing that Kellie really isn't as naive as she projects kind of ruined her performance for me. :)

Then there was an intermission

THe second half really rocked!! Chris came on and blew everyone away!! He sang that whole lotta love by Led Zeppelin, Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi, and then Renegade by Styx. He was AWESOME!!!!

HE then sang a song with Elliott, and then Elliott sang. He is one of my favorites!! He sang Never too much by Luther. OMG, he should sing other Luther Vandross songs, cause he does them so well!! And then sang his song from the CD. He brought out Ace, Chris, and Bucky to sing with him, which was really cool. they sang a Guns and Roses song. It was cool!

Then Katherine came on to sing that song she sings on the floor. But she actually stood and walked around, which was cool.

And then Taylor came on. I just LOVE Taylor. He came out through the audience and sang and Elvis tune. Then sang 3 other songs. Hollywood Knights by Bob Seger, his song from his CD, and then Takin' it to the streets for an encore.

They all came out to sing we are the champions too.

I know I forgot some of the tunes, it was an AWESOME Show!!

Idols!

Tomorrow night is the American Idols Concert!! Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a big big idols fan. Debi B and I go to the concert every year...Thanks Debi!!

This year was the best year so far, and the person I voted for actually won! How amazing is that! I loved Taylor from the auditions, and I'm so glad he won!

So, will update you on the concert after tomorrow night!

Cleaning cleaning cleaning...

This week I've been cleaning up the crap room...I mean Craft room. LOL Of course I won't admit it to Phil, but there is stuff in there I forgot I had, don't know where it came from, why I needed it, and/or why do I have so much of it.

Not even going through some magazines at this point, I figure, if I haven't looked through it in awhile, means I won't get to it. And Kristen, here they come! LOL

I'm still looking for those faux asian coin charms that I have somewhere in there. Now they could be in two places. Got the bookshelf moved, my LP's. Yep, LP's. For you young'uns, they're those BIG vinyl round things with the tiny hole in it that sound WAY better than CD's. But CD's are better to store. I forgot I had every Van Halen album made before CD's. And the REAL Van Halen with David, not Sammy.

I mean I LOVE Sammy, but Love him better as a solo artist, not as Van Halen.

Tomorrow I'm tackling the Electronics bench....

Heaven help me!!

Jewelry

Another one of my hobbies is jewelry making. Well, pretty simple jewelry making. My friend Cindyann is a 100 times better than I!! I have always loved beads, and made simple earrings and bracelets in the 80's. Just got back into it not too long ago.

Lucky for me there is a great bead store near me, the Bead Asylum. And of course I love the Gem and Jewelry show too. One of my wishes is to take some jewelry making classes to make some really big pieces. It would be cool to cast my own jewelry. Make my own charms. Maybe some day...

Phil's birthday party

Phil turned 50 this year. And we had a big party for him. I finally got some pictures of the party from my sister, cause I'm a dork and didn't get my pictures developed yet. ;)

Phil of course had to BBQ. He loves to BBQ. His friend from work, Cesar made carnitas for us, and they were delish! My dad had never had carnitas before, and was really interested in how they were cooked.

We tried getting different people here from Phil's life. A lot of people from his work came to the party, his family, and even one of his softball buddies came to the party too. It was nice to have them all over, and we hope to have another party again.

San Mateo County Fair

We all went to the SM county fair yesterday to see Sadie perform. She sang on the outdoors stage. And it was really neat, cause people were enjoying her singing, more people were there listening to her sing than the previous band. It was really neat to see people go up to her and talk to her after she sang.

She didn't win the California Finals of the Colgate country showdown. Bummer. We all thought she was the best female singer there, but a boy band won. I thought it was weird to have the singers go up against bands, cause they are different categories. But what do I know. She was really great though.

She got to meet Charlie Daniels at the show. He performed after they all did. :)

And it was neat seeing all the changes to the fair. I don't think I've been to the SM county fair in eons! The last time I went I think Chris and I went in college. And that was too many years ago!!

We ate a lot of fair food, corn dogs, killer brownies, ice cream, nachos, caramel apples. I could have SO ate more, but we didn't have a ton of time. Or I really would have ate that brick of curly fries!! LOL

Raccoon snot...

Today I fed the raccoon by hand. Phil has been doing that for a little bit now. So, he tells me to go out there and feed her to see how soft her hands are. So I did, and since Cheeser doesn't know me very well, she had to smell my hands with her wet nose....ICK.

Raccoons really do have soft hands. They are really cool. The one that has been coming around, Cheeser, is funny. Philip (phil's son) was feeding her Cheese Its (hence the name), and she's become pretty used to us. She now checks to see if we left any food out on the game board. And finds Philip's stash of various snacks. It's pretty funny.

Tonight she decided to knock on the screen door since I wasn't paying attention to her.

Raccoons are cute!

Go A's!

We went to the A's game today and they won! YAY! And we didn't have ticket issues either! Even better! LOL My sister gave us some tickets from her company, so we went today. And the A's won!!

I love going to the games. And yes, I like both the A's and the Giants. Although, I used to like the A's cause my sisters are both Giant's fans, and I just had to be different.

Debi and I have a great time just chatting away. We get to comment on the players ages, how they were born when we were in high school or just graduating. How Milton Bradley is the coolest name, but can you imagine how he must have been ribbed in school?

We have a couple more games to go to this season. Next week we'll be there again. It's funny cause Debi's brother bought tickets for the guys, and didn't get them for the girls. And Cheryl sent us tickets for that same night, so we get to go too!!! YAY! It's going to be a girl's night out for us!!

Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho

Ok, so at my parent's house, they have been watching this show on the JapaneseTV station called Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho (Central Ikegami Police). And of course I got sucked into it while I was there. Luckily it's in subtitles or I would be truly lost. Really sad if you think about it. LOL

It is a really fun show. I loved it in one episode, they're showing these street punks, and in the background they start doing the boyband dancing. LOL Real tough guys! ;)

I really didn't think I'd watch any of the "Japanese Programs" as we used to always call them. But I think I'll have to start watching this one.

Sadie

We're very proud of Phil's niece Sadie. She made it to the California State finals of the Colgate Country Showdown. The finals are going to be at the San Mateo County Fair! I am cracking up cause it's such a small fair, you'd think that they'd have it at like the state fair or something. But it's cool that San Mateo will have something like that! :)

She's really awesome, and really a sweet girl. Glad that things are going so well for her! Go Sadie!