The price I pay for vanity

I bought these shoes for Christine’s wedding:

Gorgeous shoes of death

They are really pretty, but I suspect that they might not be the most comfortable things ever. I’ve been wearing them for the last fifteen minutes just to get used to them, and I feel like they’re restricting the blood flow to my feet. AND I’M NOT EVEN WALKING AROUND IN THEM. This is not a good sign.

Keith, with the crying and the Utah

Keith is the most realistic crier in Project Runway history. Of course, unlike some reality program contestants who cry at the drop of a hat (Ricky, I’m looking your way), we only saw Keith bawl once he’d been eliminated from the competition. And cry he did. There was the scrunched up red face, fluid leaking from several places, and the choked up voice…it was enough to make me like him. I still don’t really like his stuff, but I liked him as a person. This show is at least 50% about personality (why else would Blayne still be there??), so I feel fine in saying that his likability should have been enough to keep him on the program. Plus, just about everybody else seems to find him hot, and while I definitely do not, I am shallow enough to also take that into consideration. During the episode, I almost felt really really bad for him, what with the self doubt and the Utah and all, but then he started talking about how much more he wanted this than everybody else, and I remembered why I used to find him insufferable. Why does every reality show person somehow think that their own desire is stronger or purer than that of everybody else? How exactly would one come to that conclusion? The self-absorption and sense of entitlement that I’ve seen this season is pretty staggering.

What is Kenley’s deal? She laughed at Daniel last week (ON THE RUNWAY) when he was talking about his taste, but then this week said that he was her best friend and she was sad he was gone. If Jerell thinks that Terri has two faces, how many does Kenley have?

Ha! Found it

The song that was stuck in my head was “Tarde o Temprano” by Tommy Torres. Who is completely adorable! Apparently that’s song #16 on the Nielson Latin Pop chart, but I would be super surprised if it didn’t go higher.

What is that song?

While we were in Puerto Rico, there was one song that we heard ALL THE TIME. In stores, every time we turned on the radio, just walking down the street. So now, of course, it’s stuck in my head, and I have no idea what it is or who sings it. Added to that, I don’t remember any of words, just that it sounded like a power ballad and has a lot of OOOOHHs in it. I’m on the case, though!

Best bug ever

I brought my iPod on vacation so that I would have something to listen to. While we really enjoyed listening to Puerto Rican stations, sometimes we needed a break. We listened to both Rodney’s and my iPods, but mine mostly, since his only holds 1 gig of music. I quickly learned that my general inclination of alternative stuff wasn’t really anybody else’s favorite, but that R&B/hip hop and pop were usually good choices. When Jess was in the front (which was 90% of the time, since I really enjoy the solitude of the back seat), she was good at finding songs on my iPod that I’d never listened to before. One such song was “If I Never See Your Face Again” by Maroon 5. They also did a version of it with Rihanna, but I didn’t have it then.

I downloaded it as soon as I got home, and have been playing it since then. I put it on my iPod and put it in a playlist that I made this morning. The playlist seemed funny thought, because it kept playing the Maroon 5/Rihanna song, even though there were a bunch of other songs in the list. Then I looked at the screen during the fourth time the song came up, and even thought that’s what was playing, it said “Babylon – David Gray” so then I realized that there might be something wrong with that track, or my iPod. If that’s a bug, it’s pretty much the coolest bug ever, and I’m not going to kill myself to fix it.

Puerto Rico!

I love Puerto Rico. The weather is nice, and I’m not really expected to do anything other than veg. Being with other people means that said vegging is a mite more coordinated than I might prefer, but we’re having a great time together. More when I get back!

Dr. Horrible: No False Advertising Here

I have tried several times to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. I don’t like it. Initially, a funky internet connection was to blame for my inability to get through a minute of it. Then, we got a new router. And I still wasn’t enjoying it. I try to support Joss Whedon because he created Buffy and I will forever love him for it, but UGH. I hate this show SO MUCH.

I’m done with it for tonight, but I’ll try again to watch it some time before I go on vacation, because I know that it will soon not be available online for free anymore, and I am definitely not paying for it.

Thursday thoughts

I hate spinning class so much. I enjoy knowing that I’m burning a gazillion calories, but I don’t enjoy feeling as though somebody has taken sandpaper to my crotch. Ouch. It’s not unbearable, but it’s definitely just another reason that I have to psych myself up to go at all.

Watching the Olympics has made me realize how much I miss playing a team sport. I think I should try to join a volleyball league. I know that I could ask Christine, but I think I’ll make it a personal project and see what there is around here.

What’s with the stupid China-themed commercials that everybody is doing for the Olympics? I don’t know, but it seems kind of shameless. I feel like it shouldn’t matter where you set your commercial, as long as it’s good and well-done, but these mostly aren’t. It seems as though they feel that as long as it’s set in China, the commercial can be just as stupid as they please. I started this to talk about a Crouching Tiger-themed McDonald’s commercial, but then some other stupid dragon-related hot tub commercial came on and made that one look like a masterpiece by comparison. Did innovative and smart ad people not make it out of the 60s?

So dumb

So Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey believes that ‘not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.’ How convenient that Mukasey, a Republican Bush appointee, doesn’t think it necessary to prosecute other Republican Bush appointees for systemically failing to hire those suspected of being: Democrats, otherwise liberal, or -gasp- homosexual! No crime’s been committed here, folks! I’m kind of pissed off anyway about people not accepting accountability for their actions, so this just makes me angrier. The No Justice Department can go suck an egg.

Dumb dumb dumb

I am one of those people who has always agreed with So I Married an Axe Murderer and Men in Black‘s assertions that tabloids often contain more truth than so-called respectable newspapers, so I believed the John Edwards story from the beginning. It seemed like too much of a left-field kind of story not to have some truth to it. Think about it: before this, the most damning story about Edwards was that he paid $300 for that haircut. Plus, the mental image of John Edwards running around a Beverly Hills hotel, trying to outrun The National Enquirer‘s journalist and photographers was too awesome not to be real.

There’s still so much more to this story, and I can’t see how there’s enough spin in the world to protect John Edwards from the fallout. Why would he have lied about this for weeks, only to admit it now? Why is he denying that the child is his? If he had really ended his relationship with this woman in 2006, why wouldn’t he just have owned up to it when all of this came to light? And if that is the case, why is he still visiting her in hotel rooms and playing with her baby? He’s a total moron, and his wife is such a class act. Not that anybody ever deserves to have a mate’s infidelity exposed in such a public manner, but that woman has gone through so much, you think this jerk would have considered that before cheating on her.

And how could he have run for PRESIDENT with this in his closet? What if he’d been the nominee? That is so selfish.