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Kellie Pickler - double the fun

Kellie is doing what any self-respecting, unmarried young woman should do for the holidays, she's gone to Mexico - and changed her profile picture on her MySpace to the above.  She's also taken to her blog - twice - to let us know what's going on. 

First, she wants us to get healthy...

SkinnyB*tch

Ok girls, this book is about getting HEALTHY and EDUCATING you on the foods that you are putting into your body....after all, "you are what you eat" so you should KNOW what you eat. :o)

*note to parents* explicit language used.

Second, she lets us in on her Mexico fun!

Snorkel & Guacomole :o)

2008 has been a CrAzy year, so many wonderful things have happened and work has kept me pretty busy. Luckily I had thanksgiving week off and what better place to spend Thanksgiving then in MEXICO! Instead of the traditional american thanksgiving meal....I ate my fair share of Guacamole!! I LOVE THIS STUFF!! When I wasn't shoving my face full of guacamole I was in the water with my goggles & flippers Snorkeling! This was my first time ever snorkeling and let me just say it is one of the most incredible things ever!! I think I have snorkeled almost everyday this week. It's one thing to see tropical fish in a pet store....but to actually swim with them and see them in their natural habitat, priceless. If ever you doubt that God exists, go snorkeling.....no one but God could create such amazing creatures. You can't see that beauty and not think that there is a God. I feel like I discovered a whole other world. If Im being honest I will say that it did scare the sh*t outta me when I saw an eel swim right underneath my feet.
I also went Kayaking to the Cabo San Lucas Arch....it was so beautiful...and of course I had to snorkel there too. ha ha...and being the daredevil I am...I talked the tour guide into letting me climb up and jump off of a 25 ft rock into the water. ;)
I have had an incredible week and I'm so sad to be leaving tomorrow. I love love love love love it here and I cannot wait to come back!

Happy Holidays,
xoxo pickler :)

Oh and sorry all you Kellie Pickler bikini fans, I checked and she only has the one new picture of her ala the beach. 

Taylor news for the day

I had thought maybe once her CD came out the media bombardment would stop, but that doesn't appear to be the case.  Seems Taylor Swift is still everywhere, absolutely everywhere.  January she'll grace the cover of Vanity Fair which is sort of exciting because they're always getting in trouble for what they put on the cover, or at least it makes people talk.  They were the magazine who famously got a lot of hullabaloo going for the whole Miley Cyrus debacle and they just had Kate Winslet on the cover looking very glamorous and very nearly naked.  Kind of interested what they'll manage with Miss Swift. 

Update:  Alright, I'm not so excited anymore.  Taylor's not on the cover of the mag (Tina Fey is), she just has an article about her in it.  Disappointing.  Oh well, I'm sure there will be Vanity Fair covers in her future. 

Taylor also made it in at #10 on the AOL 2008 Year End Hot Searches meaning that people Googled her a lot, only they used AOL to do it.  I know that sounds funny, but saying people AOL'd her a lot sounded even funnier.  They say about Taylor:

Her career is taking off but she is still trying to live the life of a normal 18 year old. The Grammy nominee searched for a prom date on the MTV show ‘Once Upon a Prom.’ In November, she released her latest album, ‘Fearless.’

Thanks always to Taylor Swift Online for keeping such good tabs on the girl. 

Okay guys, I'm wayyyyy behind

I'm going through my feed reader right now and have nearly 700 news items to go through in just the country section and over 3000 news items in my other sections.  Ay carumba.  That'll teach me to take two whole days off, sheesh.  I'll be adding stuff ALL day and playing catch up so keep checking back for more stuff.   

Tim tops this weekend

It was a lucky weekend for the country folk.  The Blake Shelton song inspired horse, Somebeachsomewhere, won his race and Tim's movie won the box office.  Of course Four Christmases got a jump start on the competition by opening on Wednesday, but no matter, it was tops this weekend and that's all I care about.  Here are the numbers.

1. "Four Christmases," $31.7 million. – co-starring Tim McGraw
2. "Bolt," $26.6 million.
3. "Twilight," $26.4 million.
4. "Quantum of Solace," $19.5 million.
5. "Australia," $14.8 million.
6. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," $14.5 million.
7. "Transporter 3," $12.3 million.
8. "Role Models," $5.3 million.
9. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," $1.7 million.
10. "Milk," $1.4 million.

Would you go Undercovers for Underwood?

How much do you love Carrie Underwood?  What would you do for some tickets to one of her concerts? 

At 9 a.m. on Friday about half a dozen of those carazzy Canadian fans took HANK FM's challenge for the "Undercovers for Underwood" contest and crawled into bed to see who could stay in it the longest in order to win floor seats to Carrie's concert on Tuesday in Winnipeg.  Four king-sized beds were pushed together and that was to be the contestants home for a few hours.

"I didn't think lying in bed all day would be so hard," said Justin Cameron.

Justin Cameron was declared the winner shortly before 6 p.m. on Sunday.  He also won a king-sized mattress and gets to meet Underwood in person before her concert.

"I don't even care about the concert seats, it's about getting to meet her. It's a dream come true," said competitor Richard Lush, who failed to make the final two.

But don't worry about bed-wetting problems, the contestants were given a few "break cards" which allowed them to eat and use the facilities.  They weren't allowed to bring anything such as cell phones into bed with them which just seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me.  The contest wasn't all just fun and games, though, they also had a bed auction on Friday to raise money for the Children's Wish Foundation.

Holy crap, the winner stayed in bed for 57 hours.  When I first read about this I originally thought he stayed in bed until 6 p.m. the same day and I had called them amateurs, but after reading the radio station's website and seeing that it was actually 57 hours, I must definitely bow down.  Can you imagine staying in bed for 57 hours?  I sure hope he was wearing pajamas or something and not jeans, how uncomfortable that would be.  Seems like after that length of time in bed he'd start having bed sores or something.  Ouch. 

The Blake Shelton horse takes the win

Well technically he's not a Blake Shelton horse, but he is named after Blake's song. 

As I told youa couple of days ago, a trotter named Somebeachsomewhere was the favorite for the Saturday $500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Pace.  Well Blake must be good luck because the horse won and now has 20 wins out of 21 starts and career winnings of  $3,221,299. 

Not only is the horse a winner, but he's also a record holder, being the fastest 3-year-old trotter in history with a 1:46.4 victory at The Red Mile in Lexington. 

If you'd like to own a little piece of Beach, you can get your own "sample" for a little fee of $20,000 when he stands at stud at Hanover Shoe Farms next season. 

I'm thinking Blake's on a roll, first he's one of the sexiest men alive, now his music has inspired a winning race horse, I'm starting to think I should change my name to It Ain't Easy Being Me or some other Blake song to take advantage of some of his magic dust. 

Rest of the story here.  More videos of Beach here.

Just in case you haven't noticed

I took two whole days off.  Ahhhhh!!!! I've never done that since I started this blog and it felt extremely odd.  Okay, I did take two days off when I went to Seattle so I just lied.  Anyhoo, we ran around all day yesterday and I planned to take the day off, but today was a complete surprise.  I slept in until nearly 9 AM which felt great and then I jumped up and went grocery shopping and then my kids cleaned their rooms and so I ended up with about 10 loads of laundry to do.  I then spent an hour or two cleaning house and then this afternoon I had a totally nasty stomach thing hit me.  Too much partying I guess.  Anyway, everyone was down with it but the weird thing was we all had different symptoms.  Mine was a horrible headache, chills, and stomach crap, my husband has a cough, headache, sniffles, sneezes, my daughter has a headache and a sore throat, and my son's is all in his chest and nose and it sounds like he has croup, which is odd because he's 8.  I'm starting to think Carl's Jr. poisoned us last night, DAMN YOU CARL'S JR!!!!!

Ha, yes, I had fast food for my birthday dinner, I'm totally a winner that way.  Actually the kids completely love Carl's Jr. because it has the monster of all play areas.  It's like three stories high and takes about 20 minutes to find your kids once they go inside.  You have to get all commando and crap to find them once they've infiltrated "The Play Area."  The hubby and I stayed out in the main area while the kids ran off about 10,000 calories swinging, jumping, climbing, sliding, and all that.  Does anyone else ever feel deprived because they didn't have play areas like that when you were a kid?  I mean when I was a kid we had the metal McDonald's play toys that when you climbed up the hamburger treehouse thing with the bars it was about 135 degrees in the summer and it burnt all the skin off your knees, but it was awesome and it was always exciting to visit McDonald's so we could play.  But now they have these huge play things with balls and little plastic Habitrail looking tubes and cages and rope swings and all of that.  I seriously want to play on them, but don't suppose the kids would like to share their space with me.  Sigh. 

Anyway, thank you everyone who gave birthday wishes, that was so sweet.  I'm glad another birthday is come and gone.  I'm not a big birthday person and mine usually involves a lot of sulking and cussing.  I'm sorry I wasn't here to post today like I had promised, but really all I wanted to do once the blahs hit this afternoon was sleep, so I did just that.  My son is now running around doing numchucks with a homemade contraption because we watched Kung Fu Panda tonight so I'm guessing maybe he feels better, that or he's still on a Dayquil high.  Husband's laying on the couch in a semi-concious state and daughter is barricaded in her room.  I'm getting ready to put in a little time at my regular transcription day job to finish up the pay period and then I'm hitting the sack so I can get up early and tackle some of the news sitting in my feed reader.  I'm sure tons has happened this weekend and I'm going to kick myself for having neglected my gossip duties for two whole days instead of just the planned one day.  Again, DAMN YOU CARL'S JR.!!!  

Night all.  See you all bright and early! 

I'm taking the day off

Good morning everyone.  Today is my birthday and as a gift to myself, I'm taking the day off.  Yayyyyy.  Have a great day everyone, we'll chat tomorrow.

It's on Bitches!

They didn't have text or email or even cell phones when I was in high school so I completely missed out on the technology that makes teenage girl fights so, well, so technical these days.  Luckily I have blogs and magazines to keep me up-to-date on who's fighting with whom via text and emails.

The latest techy fight appears to be between Miley Cyrus and another Disney girl, Selena Gomez, and the two appear to be fighting over Taylor Swift of all people. 

The Enquirer is reporting that Selena, who is reportedly dating Joe’s kid brother Nick, made a comment that Miss Miley took as a snide remark about Taylor and her penchant for writing songs about boys.  Selena reportedly said, “if a boy hurts me, I don’t write a song about it.”

“When Miley heard Selena was attacking one of her closest friends, she bombarded her with nasty text messages and e-mails,” a gabby chatterbox says in this week’s edition of The National Enquirer.

“Miley reminded Selena that what comes around goes around-and declared it will only be a matter of time before she joins the ranks of girls who have been dumped by a Jonas brother!”

“‘And when that happens,’”Miley wrote in one e-mail, “‘me and Taylor will be right there to offer you a Kleenex while we sing a song about your broken heart!’”

Maybe if Taylor doesn't find a new man-boy to break her heart soon, she can start writing songs about the teenage girl drama and mean emails.   

Alan Jackson is a victim of the economy

Back in 2006, Alan Jackson had helped to break groundon a condo project in Panama City Beach, Florida.  Now that Ronnie Gilley Properties project has ground to a halt amid worries about the economy. 

Alan Jackson was an official endorser of the project and even appeared on billboards for the condos. 

Developers of the 14.5 acre project say it has put the development on hold until market conditions improve, but don't plan to sell the property anytime soon.  Yeah, probably because they couldn't sell the property.  Another one bites the dust.