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Tim McGraw makes me thankful for mustaches

These stills from Tim's upcoming movie, The Blind Side, makes me want to say one thing...thank goodness for facial hair. 

I'm on a mission, let's all make this happen

 
Wow, nothing like reading Twitter and finding something that makes you stop and count your blessings.  From my friends at Wow 104.3's Twitter.....

WowCountry1043 RT @JennyQ: Send Christmas cards to: Noah Biorkman, 1141 Fountain View Circle, South Lyon, MI 48178. by next week! (See previous tweets 3

WowCountry1043 RT @JennyQ: Noah's request is to get a lot of Christmas cards. Lets send the little guy some (Continued 3 Tweets total)

WowCountry1043 RT @JennyQ: 5 yr old little boy named Noah is in last stages of Nueroblastoma cancer. family is celebrating Christmas nxt week (cont

I checked it out on Snopes (just because I'm a skeptic sometimes) and it's true.  You can read more about his story here.

You can send your cards to:

Noah Biorkman
c/o 99.5 WYCD
2201 Woodward Heights Blvd.
Ferndale, MI  48220-1511

Zac Brown says no to debt, yes to his dreams

Today is apparently the day to talk debt and being debt free.  First we had Blake Shelton talking about being unafraid to speak his mind now that all his stuff was paid off.  Now we have Zac Brown talking very passionately about how living debt free gives a person the freedom to follow their dreams. 

Love this video, if only I had heard it like 15 years ago I may have done things differently.  Okay, probably not, but it's still a great video.

{via Country Music News Blog}

Tim says Faith kept him from dying

Awww, I love, love, love seeing a guy who appreciates what he has.  Well Tim gives credit where credit is due and actually credits Faith Hill with saving his life.

He tells People magazine {via MSN Music}, "Right before I got married, I was a full-fledged rock star... (If I hadn't met Hill), I'd be dead...

"I would have partied too hard. I might have caught myself somewhere along the way and put the brakes on. I don't know if I would have gone (to rehab); I don't think I could have been talked into that during those times.

"Faith saved my life in a lot of ways -- from myself more than anything. I can go down a dark road sometimes, when you're not feeling good about yourself, and she pulls me out. My wife makes me a better man."

I'm not a moderate kind of guy. My last drink was probably a year and nine months ago. I didn't do a 12-step program (rehab); I just stopped... It was the right thing to do."

Taylor Swift to fill in for Ryan Seacrest

  

News from Ryan Seacrest's Twitter....@taylorswift13 is filling in for me on @AmericanTop40over Thanksgiving wknd. Call w/ ur ?s for her...she'll answer on show! 1-877-AT40-FAN

For all you out there who aren't fluent in Twit-speak, Taylor Swift will be taking over Ryan Seacrest's job on the radio program American Top 40over Thanksgiving weekend and you can call and ask her a question at 1-877-AT40-Fan. 

{Photo via RyanSeacrest.com}

What goes around, comes around....battle of the cheaters edition

Uh oh, there appears to be trouble in the fairy tale that is Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes' love life.

Anyone surprised? 

Life&Style Magazine has the newest scoop in this love triangle that just doesn't seem to go away.

Apparently  before Eddie cheated on his wife with LeAnn he had another lady in his life that he was cheating with.  The first other woman, was a 24-year-old aspiring actress named Scheana Marie Jancan who Eddie had reportedly been carrying on with for three years. 

And Eddie's reportedly not done with his first other woman, despite still being with LeAnn.

Since then, Eddie's slyly been playing the role of faithful boyfriend to rich and famous LeAnn. But Life & Stylecan once again expose him for the serial cheater he is. "Eddie has recently started seeing Scheana again," an insider tells Life & Style exclusively, noting that they were together on Oct. 21 around 1 a.m. "He told her he's only with LeAnn for the publicity and that he plans to end things with her soon."

Yeah, I'd feel bad for LeAnn if I wasn't so busy giggling. 

Carrie's a Lucky gal

Carrie Underwood's on the cover of this month's Lucky Magazine. 

And here's a couple of other pics from the magazine via People.com.

 

 

Guess the gams - really gams this time

 

I started out "guess the gams" to have readers guess the celebrity shoes, but in the last year or so it's become an all-around guess who section with pets, backs of heads, bad angles, etc.  Well this go around we have a photo that is a true guess the gams photo. 

Care to take a guess and which lovely lady wore some seriously space-age shoes?  Answer after the jump...

Taylor's SNL promos

Winning Wednesday brought to you, surprisingly, on Wednesday

Yay, I'm finally doing a Winning Wednesday on Wednesday.  I'm being surprisingly good this go around.  Anyway, the two lucky winners of the two Zac Brown Band Cracker Barrel CDsare:  Scheyenne and Smithe and the winner of the ZBB CD and $50 Cracker Barrel gift card was Donna.  Congrats to everyone. 

This week's contest (besides the Carrie Underwood contest here) is an absolutely awesome prize pack courtesy of Whitney Duncan and Warner Bros. Nashville.  Listen to what you could win....

• A large autographed Whitney Duncan poster.
• A Whitney cardboard cutout for your shelf or table top.
• A signed Whitney six-song EP that features her wonderful song Skinny Dippin' along with an extra CD because the other CD reportedly only plays on computers. 

I have two of the above packs to give away on the site here.  But if you follow me on Twitter I'll also be giving away a third pack that will include one of the new 2G iPod Shuffles which has "Right Road Now...Whitney Duncan" engraved on the back and is filled with Whitney's music. 

Be sure to follow me on www.twitter.com/nashvillegab and email me at blogginmomma@hotmail.com to be entered to win one of the great prize packs above.