Anthony Fedorov - I Surrender

Another of my FAVORITES from my boy, Anthony during Season 4. (Notice the new look, sans glasses)

Anthony Fedorov - I Want To Know What Love Is

THIS is the performance I was talking about in my last post. Still gives me goosebumps...3 years later.

The judges never really raved about my boy, but he came in 4th that year! (Behind Vonzell Solomon, Bo Bice and Carrie Underwood) Somebody out there liked him besides me!

Thanks for the link, Coby!

Found this "Mixwit" link on Coby's blog and had some fun finding some old friends from American Idol. All these songs (with the exception of Elliott's) are from the show...no remixing; all live, under pressure. The first song by Anthony Fedorov is what COMPLETELY hooked me. I had never seen American Idol before and while channel surfing one evening, I saw this young Ukrainian boy (with a hole in his throat from a surgery which the doctors said he might never even speak again), belt out one of my favorite songs of all time and I was hooked! Hasn't been the same excitement since...(haven't "power-voted" for 2 hrs. straight since the Bo/Carrie finale in Season IV) but I watch every year, hoping...

I have met Bo, Taylor and Chris D., but haven't gotten to meet my little Anthony...YET!

Don't forget to pause my playlist over on the right.


ETA: Well, bummer, looks like it isn't working...At least Chris Daughtry is still there...I will try again later on...

Jim ROCKS!

My husband was REALLY busy this weekend. First of all, we turned down a trip to TN because he wanted to get the gutters back on our house. And as anybody who knows Jim is aware, he would rather be in TN than anywhere else!!!
So Friday morning as the rain was POURING down... and you can't put gutters up when it is raining... Jim decides to start cleaning our porch. (I think Emily's porch cleaning must have inspired him)The rain helped clean some stuff...Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of the finished product, but believe me, it looks great! By then the rain had stopped so Jim decides to go ahead and WASH OUR HOUSE. Yes, he scrubbed the siding on the whole house! Fast forward to Saturday. The weather was beautiful, so Jim starts on the gutters. He had been telling me that it is really a 2 man job, so when he came in later and asked me if I wanted to come meet his helper, I thought, "Cool. He got somebody to help him!" Meet the helper: Here is Jim and his helper hard at work. (notice Scooby on the porch, supervising):Now, just so you won't think I wasn't doing anything while Jim was hard at work, here are a few shots of what I was doing between house cleaning...and this:So a good weekend was had by all, except for the helper who discovered his services were no longer needed. Here is the dismanteling process:
Seriously, I thank God everyday for giving me a wonderful Christian husband! We also thanked God that he did all that work without getting hurt (if you remember, he took a NASTY fall from an 8 ft ladder a couple months ago).
Hope everybody's holiday weekend was productive, relaxing, entertaining or whatever you needed it to be, well-spent with family and friends!

Ahhhhh, Nostalgia...

The other day I had an oldies station on the radio. It was a beautiful day. Sun shining brightly...no humidity. I had the volume a TAD bit up. LOL This song came on unexpectedly and immediately I was transported back to my youth. I remember even taping this song from the radio (WLS in Chicago) onto a cassette tape by holding the microphone up to the radio speaker. (WOW! We really had technology down pat, back in the day!) This all happened in 1970 when I was a Jr. in High School. I LOVED this song back then, found it on You Tube and decided to post. It is really cool also, because it even has a real live turntable in action! For anybody who loves oldies, check out this guy's (Morasch) other videos. He has a lot of obscure stuff.
Don't forget to pause my playlist over on the right before clicking on the video.

Nothing new under the sun...

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV

This verse came to mind when I read this article entitled "Men's Paris Fashions Blur Gender Boundaries".

Apparently the Christian Dior 2009 Spring - Summer line is full of gender bending fashions. Here is an example:
and this fetching little number: So that made me think that this kind of thing has already been done before as in this:Then again, this "Louie the 14th look" just might have been the height of masculinity in France in the 1600 - 1700s...

What is occupying my mind these days...

...other than the fact that Lauren is moving to Bloomington in a month...has been this

It has taken me about 2 years to finally "embrace" my new job. It was hard for me to go from an 8 year stint as a Pediatric office manager where I was surrounded by people all day, everyday (SCREAMING children, drug reps, irrate parents...you get the picture), to where I just sit in front of a computer ALL DAY LONG. But, the time has finally come for me to buckle down and get my certification.

Needless to say, this summer I will be as busy as a ...


(Sorry if that isn't politically correct anymore. I have a hard time keeping up...)