Gleeking Out

I was in a “no good mood” after a day of cleaning. I’m just AT MY LIMIT with the sickness, and the allergies. It’d be SO MUCH BETTER if maybe the Yellow Death had just taken me hostage, but no. It has Conner by the throat - sinus infection and all.

With my bitching rant out of the way, I can move on to tell you that I didn’t want to work out. I NEVER want to work out, but I sucked it up and went anyways.

No need for applause.

Once at the gym, I realized I’d left my iphone (music!) at home, so I sulked on over to the biking machines, plopped my pissy butt down, and started a slow peddle. I was pathetic, but keeping my whines and moans to myself, thankyouverymuch.

Plan: sit and spin (LOL) for 30 minutes, retrieve offspring, go home.

So I plugged my earbuds into the fancy TV Listening Box. First channel - Glenn Bleck. After I cleaned up the vomit spewing from my ears, I clicked to Oprah.

The sky opened up and chirrpy birds flew about my head, y’all. Mother Effin Glee Cast on Oprah.

BE STILL MY FREAKING HEART.

I caught it right before a commercial break with a 45 to 60 second clip of the show singing/dancing/performing and I biked right along. Funny enough, music from Glee consists of at least 50% of my “workout songs” list. Oh, it was glorious.

So I biked and biked and watched and watched and eventually, Oprah turned her questions to the creator of the show, Ryan Murphy. She asked him why he made the show and he gave her a straightforward answer - to put something optimistic on tv because he felt nothing on tv was.

BRILLIANT.

He didn’t expect it to get picked up, much less become the sensation that it is.

As I sat there, listening and biking and longing for Oprah to stop taking so many dang commercial breaks, I realized I was smiling. BIG TIME SMILING while EXCERSING when I was IN A MOOD ABOUT IT - the show, the cast, the creators and everything Glee just makes me giddy.

It’s heart-warming and funny. The creator achieved exactly what he went after - I was OPTIMISTIC and HAPPY while biking 4 miles.

At some point 10 minutes before Oprah was set to end, I looked down. I had biked past my set time and I was… wait for it - EXERCISING EXTRA. Dying to see the last 10 minutes, I reset the bike and peddled. 

Here’s MTVs summary: (shrug)

MTV Shows

AND HERE’S A live blog (I typed “blow” the first time. lol) of the show. Pretty good!

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/07/glee-cast-oprah-live-blog/

Here’s the teaser for Glee on Oprah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVQE_yZWVs

(embedded sharing disabled :( )

Two epic moments towards the end of the show:

Matthew Morrison (Mr. S) break dancing (to Bust A Move - which they did on the show last season - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fezdYWwF1xE … sadly, not the video - just the song.)

and

Seeing the show choir from the John Burroughs show choir - so CRAZY AWESOME. The performed “Vogue” and I’d like to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

6 days, Gleeks!

(I had spacing here ^^^, but um… squarespace ate it and I can’t get it back. Sorry)

Oh, and this: http://fuckyeahglee.tumblr.com/

7 Quick Takes - First For The New Blog!

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Whoa. It’s Friday. I’ve got to say, this week has been so busy for me! Last week being Spring Break, no one in this town wanted to take an appointment for the week, so somehow they ALL ended up smushed into the week after.

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You all know what I did Monday. Then Tuesday I went for my LASIK consultation. I KNOW, RIGHT? I can’t even began to express my sheer joy and absolute elation over the possibility of correcting my vision.

In my worst nightmares, I’d wake up in the middle of the night with someone trying to murder/rape/rob my family and I’d be too blind to a) be of any use and b) unable to identify them in a lineup. BUT, in just a few short days, that will be fixed.

Note: to those who wish to murder/rape/rob me (or my family): We have an alarm. A LOUD ONE. And a gun. THAT WE KNOW HOW TO USE. AND animals. With teeth. SHARP teeth. Also noteworthy: I’ll kick you in the nuts. Twice.

I have to do a certain amount of time without contacts in (read: only glasses), so I’m a little concerned about the prospect of migraines in my near future. BUT OH WELL.

—3—

The contest for the BlogHer ‘10 sponsorship is going quite well. Kelly is such a wonderful person to work with and she really cares about those interested in her business. It also helps that she’s just SO MUCH FUN. If you still haven’t entered the contest, please stop by her site and take a look around. 

She’s doing wonderful things for the blogging community!

—4—

I also had a dentist appointment this week. I know, I know - I don’t care either. Then we did something? Wednesday? Oh, I don’t remember. Thursday was speech for Conner, and the ReceptioNazi wasn’t there.

I thanked God no less than 10 times.

That link goes to my old blog [themomjob.net] - for some reason, that post didn’t transfer over. Looking into that now.

—5—

I want to start making bread, but I don’t have a bread machine. Any thoughts/recipes? Gracias!

—6—

Last week we went to Birmingham for a pulmonology check-up for Conner. We stayed overnight and went to the Galleria the next day.

First, let me just say that the Galleria has really stepped it up! There’s several shoe stores upstairs that I would have easily signed my life over for (ok, I’d just GLADLY take those shoes off their hands) (forever). If anyone from Birmingham wishes to let me know the name of said store (upstairs and close to Jessica McClintock, Bakers, etc), PLEASE DO SO.

The boys enjoyed the Lego Store too!

But, they didn’t so much enjoy the carousel. Like, at all. Ok, Conner kinda did, but Chase? HAHAHHANo.

 

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GLEE!

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