Dear Mike Brown

You, sir, are an ass!

You have taken everything that your great father, the late Paul Brown, has worked for his whole life, and flushed it down the toilet. He started this team from nothing, and worked tooth and nail to make the team something to be proud of. You, on the other hand, are nothing but a spoiled rich kid who inherited daddy's hard work. You don't know how to run it, you don't know what hard work is. The only thing you know is that you already have millions, and you make more millions because the NFL dictates that you get a certain cut every year, and that is all you care about. You don't care about the team, you don't care about the fans, and you don't care about Cincinnati. Personally I think you should be ASHAMED of yourself. Instead of taking that money and investing it well to make The Bengals into a team that you can be proud of, you simply sit back and make your millions and do nothing more for the team. Bravo, sir, bravo.

Your father is turning over in his grave. I'm sure he's ashamed of you himself. Way to go.....jackass.

It Shines and Sparkles!!

Well, I have some wonderful news!

Chris and I are really, officially, finally...ENGAGED!!!

Yeah, I know...we've been referring to each other as "fiance" for a while now, we already bought the house together, and already booked the church so that we wouldn't lose the wedding date we wanted. But on Christmas morning, he got down on one knee and woke me up with a question and a shiny, beautiful, sparkly ring! It's the most beautiful ring ever!!! White gold, 1-carat diamond with emeralds on either side of it, and a Celtic design around the band. It's perfect!! I always catch myself looking at it because it's just that hard to take your eyes off of.

So, now I have all of 6 months to plan a wedding and a big after-party / pig roast. And to make a wedding dress...with the help of some artistic friends of mine that is ;)

I cannot wait!!

My favorite holiday movies

With the holidays upon us, I've been listening to a radio station that plays all Christmas, all day, until the holiday season is over. They've been discussing their favorite holiday movies, and I thought to myself...I've actually never written up a list and shared it with anyone. So for those few of you that read my blog, I've decided to share my favorite holiday movies with you. And if this inspires you, please do the same on your blog too and tell your readers what Christmas time movies you love the best.

1) White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (always the classic!)
2) Elf
3) Miracle on 34th Street with Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood (made in 1947)
4) Holiday Inn
5) A Christmas Story
6) The Polar Express
7) Jesus of Nazareth (more of a mini-series, but still good to watch over the holidays)
8) A Christmas Carol
9) The Nutcracker with Mikhail Baryshnikov

I wish the list was longer, and I'm sure I'll catch some flack for not putting It's a Wonderful Life on my list, but it's not really one of my favorites. I love the message in that movie however, so maybe one day it will appear on this list, but not yet.

So how about you? What are your favorite holiday movies? The ones that you just can't do without. :)

The Women of Nefrew

So, I've been bellydancing for right at three years now. Finally had my first performance last week. Friends and family showed up to give their support. And we all had so much fun that we are definitely going to do this again.


















Are we hot or what?

Halloween 2009

Well, it came and went. We Thrilled the World dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller attemting to get ourselves into the Guiness Book of World Records for the most people dancing Thriller simultaneously around the world. From what I understand, last year only 4,000 people around the world participated. This year, it was 23,000. So who knows...you just might see my name in that book someday.


This year was the 10th year that Scott and Donna held their party. Each year there has been a theme, and this year the theme was to revisit the past themes. So we could pick our favorite theme from the past and do a new costume, or use a past costume and re-imagine it a little for this year. So, I sat and jotted down all of the past themes, then started writing down costume ideas based on those themes. Once I wrote down Big Trouble in Little China, I stopped. Brilliant! Perfect! A movie so bad it's awesome, and both Chris and I love this movie. Besides, I've already got the green eyes!


We only got a couple of votes in the costume contest, but it was awesome that pretty much everyone knew exactly who we were; Jack Burton and Grace Law. But, then again, all of our friends are a bunch of geeks just like us, so of course everyone is going to understand, LOL. So here are the results, pictures from the movie...followed by us. Tell me what you think??

Tribute to a fellow dancer.

I'm not sure if he'd ever remember, but I met him once. Very humble and kind to all these 13-16 year old girls hyperventilating in his presence. Right around the time the movie, Dirty Dancing came out, a few of us girls from Debbie's Dance Place were enrolled in a dance caravan. Well known choreographers from all over went all over the US, teaching us the newest dance moves for the better part of a week. It was a yearly event, held at the Drawbridge Inn in Florence, Ky. One of the choreographers? Bambi Swayze...his sister. He came to visit her...and we bumped into him at the restaurant inside the Inn. The name of the restaurant now escapes me, but I'll never forget the experience. He signed my napkin, which I've unfortunately lost over time, he laughed, thanked us for being fans, gave us all hugs, and almost seemed embarrassed over the attention he garnered, but he was gracious and kind through it all. A Hollywood star with a heart of gold.



To borrow a quote from The Outsiders, stay gold Patrick...stay gold.

Tai Chi

So, on the advice of a friend (ahem, Jen!!), I took my first Tai Chi class on Sunday.

Picked up my first 4 moves pretty quickly, sweated my ass off, and thoroughly loved every minute of it. Can't wait for class number 2!