Rants from American Idol Addict: Shenanigans with a Top 7 Review

The great thing about last night is that I got back to the gym for some much needed, low-impact exercise.  The bad thing is that I didn’t have it setup to record the first 30 or so minutes of American Idol.  At least this week I remembered to record Criminal Minds and Law and Order: SVU (back on after a brief hiatus).  Looks like CBS is sweet enough to include full episodes so I can catch up on all things Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore squee!) and CM.

Oh, we are supposed to be chatting all things Idol here.  Yeah, yeah.  There’s no male eye candy to look at on the show this year.  We do have Steven Tyler though.  He’s more comforting to view than sexy.  He’s the guy who has been through some stuff in life, gets its reality, and made it out on the other end to talk about it.  That’s my type of peep.  Don’t give me nonsense banter and fluff like Randy or the pageantry feel of J-Lo.  Give me the straight talker. Continue reading

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First Round Two ROW80 Goals Check-In

Praise Him with the timbrel and dance,
Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet,
Praise Him with the psaltery and harp;
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.
~ “Anthem of Praise” Richard Smallwood

Happy Easter!  This has been a rocking and rolling week, from our ROW party on Wednesday to the focus of the holiday weekend.  I’ve been out and about and offline for most of the weekend and have some blog reading catch-up to do.  For the first week, I’ve been able to kick strong into some goals and simply wave from afar to some others.  Hey, it wouldn’t be a challenge if I was a rock star right out of the gate, right? Continue reading

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