"Top This" Quickie

Jason Lee - star of "My Name Is Earl" is going to have another baby

with his girlfriend.

Jason Lee has a son with his ex so this will be baby #2.

Wonder what he'll name this one?

His 4 yr old son is named Pilot Inspektor

Miley Who?? Whocares... that's who

Miley what's her name is showing her back in a photo taken by the amazing Annie Liebovitz! SO?!?!?!


This fabric (sheet) she's wearing is more than she'll be wearing this summer while she's out and about shopping....








I'm actually way more creeped out by this photo of her and her dad - eeeewwwww!






I know that I didn't come up with this but I have to say I agree: It's clearly Disney (her bread $ butter) that is freaking out so she's totally back pedaling as fast as she can to make things right. She's not on Girls Gone Wild or looking skanky... So what's the big deal?!

Don't forget it was Brooke Shields that told us that "nothing comes between her and her Cavlins."

Portland Trip....

It was a weekend of Books, Fabulous Food & Belly Dance....

My mini-vaca was great fun! Luckily the weather just knew I wasn't happy with the idea of 53 degree highs so they accommodated my desires and warmed up a bit.

Davina and I flew Thursday afternoon on a full but problem free flight out of San Jose on Southwest's new and improved on boarding number system. This so called New & Improved boarding number system may prevent some from getting in line ages before the plane arrives but now, instead, everyone is concerned that they are in the right order... I say whatever...

Anyhoo, we arrived on time found our luggage on the carousel and headed to the car rentals. After a little conversation I was doing a mini 2 minute belly dance for our customer service rep and our Economy car was upgraded to a Subaru Outback (what a nice car & even better surprise!) And then we were off to my sister Sara's house, she was letting us stay there that night, we had a fantastic feast of a dinner before turning in... big local/tourist day ahead!

FRIDAY - After a lazy wake up and a late breakfast/lunch we headed downtown -in the cool outback - and went to Powells. If you've never been Powell's Books is a huge multi floor, full city block of a book store. Each section is a color and it's kinda fun to get separated and try to find the rest of your group....
Sara sold some books, Davina found stuff she wanted and I found two recorded books that I wanted (gotta love Portland's no tax!).

We did some other window shopping in the area which was nice, found a great sale at one shop, and then decided it was time for dinner and there was Jake's Famous Crawfish. Sara had heard of Jake's but hadn't ever been there... So we went. It was 'old school' with white linens and dark mahogany wood and the food was delish! I practically licked the sauce off the plate after I ate all of the salmon and halibut saute with wild mushrooms in a sherry cream sauce - YUM!!! Then we each did the dangerous thing of ordering dessert - I ordered the Trio: which was three ramekins of berry cobbler w/ ice cream, chocolate pot d'creme and creme brule. It was fantastic but just put me over the top full!

After taking Sara back home Davina and I headed to Hillsboro where the Belly Dance Festival was and where we would be staying for the rest of the weekend with Kathi, who we were there to help vend at her booth. We went to the hotel got our room info and made our way to the elevator which was right next to the hot tub ~ said hot tub was full, and I mean FULL, of male high school water polo players. Davina and I couldn't help but feast our eyes with the young-man-hot-water-buffet while we waited for the elevator. Once in the privacy of the elevator we both just looked at one another and exclaimed "OMG!!!" practically in unison.

SATURDAY - up early to get the booth set up at the Belly Dance Event we made a quick trip for groceries. At the County Fair Complex the Belly Dance Festival is in a main building and in an attached building area there was a 'Husband's Nightmare Bazaar' - basically it was bazaar with vintage home-ware, carved wood animals, homemade soap, and

loads of other crap.... not anything at all Belly Dance but they had an Italian Ice vendor so we made a quick trip to get some!

On Saturday Sara drove out to see me dance, which was great fun ~ I haven't watched the DVD yet to see how it looks... hopefully it's good, it felt pretty good. Sara, who hadn't seen me dance in quite a while liked it and when a sister likes it that's good - because friends may soften a bad review but a sibling is the first to tell you if you suck.

The festival somehow got WAY off schedule and instead of ending at 9pm it ended at 11.30pm! We did not stay to the bitter end and escaped to go rest our feet and backs from a day of standing on cement floors and then went to dinner.

SUNDAY - wasn't quite as early a morning and Davina, who went down for the Breakfast Express earlier than we did, called to let us know that the water polo team was down stairs in case we wanted to partake in the young male testosterone fest... so we headed down for yogurt and tea.

The rest of the Belly Dance Festival was nice, I made time for henna and got to see a few dancers but mostly I worked at Kathi's booth. Davina and I had a 7pm-ish flight so we had to leave before the end so we helped partially breakdown before we left.

The drive to the airport, return of the rental car and flight were all uneventful. Once back home Davina and I wanted to get a late dinner and headed to a Denny's only to find that there were about 5 police cars in the parking lot which was odd... and as I walked up one police officer told me that the Denny's was closed (I really thought he was joking) but it turns out that the place had just been robbed and police were dusting for prints and the Denny's was closed until further notice so Davina and I each went our own ways home where I had a couple pieces of cold meat for dinner... not nearly quite as yummie as the amazing foods I ate over the weekend. That's okay it was a great trip!

Confused & Curious

So what is going on with the world? I mean really, Def Leopard is going to be on Dancing with the Stars!?!?!?!!!

So I'm really curious what they will be rockin' and what kind of dancing will ensue during the song... Maybe there'll be a little Rock of Ages. I really would love to see what they'd do with
Gunter glieben glauchen globen
Alright
I got something to say
Yeah, it's better to burn out
Yeah, than fade away
All right
Ow
Gonna start a fireC'mon!

Now for the Confused part:
Since I'm on the TV topic what the heck is going on with Reality TV? Okay I get it - Tila has another season of "Shot at Crabs".... But now there is Farmer Wants a Wife um... really?!?

And then I find out that this show is only new to the USA! Yes, this show is already a hit overseas! Not that we (the US) is entirely unique in our shows (see The Office, Coupling, Pop Idol, etc...) but now the newest import is the Bachelor but with Hay and Cows.

Think I'm gonna pass.....

Break A Zill!

Break A Zill is also known as: "Break a Leg" & "Good Luck".

So wish me some good luck! This afternoon I'm off to Portland, OR for a mini-vaca' with Davina.

The 3 day weekend get away includes a visit with my sister and a Belly Dance Festival. Friday Davina, Sara & I will hit downtown Portland with the #1 Goal being a visit to Powell's Books. If you've never been to Powell's Books it's an amazing book store that is HUGE ~ not "Louvre huge" but BIG! Not sure what else we are going to do for the day but it'll be fun I'm sure. Although I hear it's going to be cold and rainy.... :o(

Then Sat & Sun is the Belly Dance Festival & I'm dancing at 2pm. Should be fun! I just have to make sure not to buy stuff - not only don't I have room for more things but I honestly don't need any costuming right now.... So I must be strong - NO shopping for me!

Photo above is from the Rakkasah Belly Dance Festival in March 2008 - thanks Sarah of Wicked Smileys

Girl Can't Walk!

Can't stand up straight... and in fact acts so awkward she doesn't look like she wants to be there... I watched the whole show anticipating her to be sent home (back to America).
And then it was Judging time and Whitney and Lauren were in the bottom two..... and Lauren was sent home. She got far, geesh she got to Rome

Favorite part of the show: Ms J's Hell To The No sign

2nd Fav: Mr. J telling Whitney that she needs to watch her "Bitcherina" self.

Dinner with the Girls...

and one bottle of wine all to myself. (hic-up)

That was a lot of fun! Thanks Mol, Jules & Dodge!! & Jules thanks much for driving ~ I couldn't have driven myself.

It was a really GREAT evening with good food ~ the *stew* was quite Yumie!

And special for Mol: you made me laugh & laugh & laugh with your story ~ so here's a little "Shocker!, Shocker!, Shocker!" for you (sorry this joke is just WAY too hard to explain.....).