I am doing a happy "dance"!!!

Julianne WILL be dancing this season-WOOHOO

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The Announcement

Yea!!! They have announced the new lineup for Dancing with the Stars. It looks to be fairly interesting, but of course not quite the same this season without Julianne.

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Everybody been busy?

Guess what, it's going to get worse. Yes, the holiday season is upon us. We had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner in St. Louis at Suzan's house with Robbie's family. And of course now is the countdown to Christmas, which is even shorter because Thanksgiving was late in the month. But we will persevere!

Well, dancing with the stars is over. Derek and Brooke definitely deserved their win. I sure will miss it until the next one starts and I have to keep reminding myself that Boston Legal is on also, So I don't miss out, since it's the last season.

Movie wise, there's been a few since my last report. Nancy and I had a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants marathon one weekend. The new one was out and we had never seen the first one. They are both cute. Worth watching, definite chick flicks. Here's a list of some more:

Tropic Thunder -- hysterical.
Wall-E -- slow starting, but worth watching, cute and has a message also
Hancock -- entertaining.
Fred Klaus -- I definitely like this one.
Meet Dave -- not the best out of these, but still okay.

Black Friday was different this year, seem like the deals were not as good, but we did need to get a new TV and go digital, and weirdly enough, our DVD player died the week before. So we decided to get a whole system, and luckily, the TV we picked out at Best Buy went on sale online Thanksgiving day so I didn't have to wait in line there. But I did go to eight stores on Black Friday starting at Lowe's at 5 a.m.

We have set up our new TV and DVD player but we haven't received our sound bar audio system yet. Hopefully it will arrive today, so we can complete our setup. We are still not getting all of the local channels, but the fact that I only had one static-y local channel before and now I'm getting several crystal-clear. It is fabulous!!!

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Summaries

Time is flying by fast! Sometimes I'm meeting myself coming as I am going :-(
Thanksgiving is almost here and then Black Friday!!!!! and then Christmas. I'm tired just thinking about it. Okay back to the summaries,

Movie Summaries:

Kung Fu Panda -- cute!
Iron Man -- surprisingly good.
This Christmas -- very good. Keep your Kleenex handy.

General summary -- Melissa starts her new job, December 1.
I've been crafting a lot (check here).
DWTS -- yes, my man Cody and Julianne are gone, but I knew it was time. Unfortunately, now it is Warren's time. But it was a good run for both of them.

Weather is cooling off, I have a pot of chili on the stove and getting ready to watch "Life on Mars".
Later Gators

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Wow, I need to catch up!

There has been some inquiries about the shed progress. It has obviously slowed down to a crawl (or actually a stop). It is not legally, totally all the way done, but it is usable. But I can't take a picture of it and say it's legally, totally done, because he needs to touch up the paint. Of course now it's turned cold and I'm wondering if I'm ever going to be able to post that it's done :-(

DWTS, this is going to be a very interesting results show to watch tonight. Julianne will be back, YEA!!! And were are obviously down to all good dancers. IMHO it is either going to be Lance or Maurice, and just as a process of elimination, I like Lance better. Maurice has a little bit of an attitude.

MOVIES, boy am I ever behind here! I think I'll just make a list:

War, Inc. (good and of course has my man Jon Cusack)
Argentina Tango (horrible, don't even ask)
The Visitor (it's a very good movie, with a not very satisfying ending)
A Guy Thing (very cute)
Get Smart (funny, of course)
The remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth (pretty darn good)
re-watched My Big Fat Greek wedding, Pretty Woman and Beauty Shop (of course all good)

Well, I guess that's enough for today from cold, rainy Southern Illinois. Be nice to a veteran today.

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Movie Reviews for the week

Of course with Dancing with the Stars (sorry to see Rocco go, he was nice, but couldn't dance) and my Wednesday Night Craft night, movie time is limited. BUT even more limited now with the new show Life on Mars!! So far it is good.

I was able to watch 3 movies this week :-)
--Over her dead body (with the Eva chick from Desperate Housewives) This was cute!
--The new Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford STILL rocks and I love they had Karen Allen back in it)
--Zohan (don't waste your time)

So much from your fav Movie Reviewer. I'm off to a fused glass class at SIU Craft shop today. Sounds like fun!!

Tomorrow is lunch out with some girlfriends and we are going to Vulture Fest!

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God Love her, Misty May

I feel so bad for her injury, my thoughts and prayers are with her recovery. She has such a upbeat and postive attitude, I'm sure she will recover very nicely.

My favs tonite were Brooke and Warren. Both fantastic!!! And there was alot of good dancing once again.

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I Love me some Warren!

And of course Brooke was fantastic, and I adore Cody.
Misty May deserves a special shout out-she did very good! And my Bro and SIL (both of them beach volleyball players in Santa Monica) will kill me if I don't. But she seriously did good. For the life of me, I don't understand why the judges bashed Cloris. I actually enjoyed watching her dance tonight, and she didn't act like such a fool. The first night she was funny, the second night she wore on my nerves. Oh well, we don't always agree with the Judges.

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Nights are getting chilly!

So armed last night with a big pot of soup and a stack of movies, I settled in to relax before a busy weekend.

Speaking of the weekend The Stokers will be playing here Saturday at 11 a.m.. Then we have our usual Saturday night get-together with the usual Saturday night suspects. Sunday is our last pool/patio party for the year. The pool will probably be just a little too cool, though, we can pretend and just sit on the patio in the sunshine.

Oh yes, where was I, movies. I watched an odd little movie with Jennifer Aniston called "The Good Girl". Not what I would call a happy movie. I followed that up with the new George Clooney called "The LeatherHeads". That was a little more lighthearted. It is an old-time comedy romance with Renée Zellweger. Not the greatest movie in the world, but I would definitely recommend it. Oh, and the soup was good.

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p.s. I am not very happy that Cloris is still on dancing with the stars :-(

Other stuff

You would think the only thing going on around here this week is a new shed. But oh no, there has been much more important things DANCING WITH THE STARS!!! This puts a crimp in my movie watching and I've got some new ones I am itching to watch, but I love me some dancing, so they will wait till Thursday night. My favs so far are Brooke Burke (she is very good) and the football guy Warren Sapp, he just lights up the dance floor and makes me smile!!! Julianne is my favorite "pro" so I tend to also like her partners. Cody is a cutey!

Speaking of movies I forgot to report 2 weeks ago (in a movie watching frenzy) my favorite that week, duh! Anyway, it was "Dan in Real Life". Very good movie. It was a library disk so it had a couple of bad spots at the end but I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything too important. Then last week I watched "Made of Honor" (very cute) and "No Reservations" (that one was real good) in addition to a TV series I'm in the middle of "Invasion".

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