I'm starting my weekend off early by posting one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite performers : Tom Petty. I love the Crystal Gayle intro...
I'll be hanging out at a beer festival with friends, having barbeque, and spending time with friends and family. Have a relaxing and fun weekend everyone!
Banana Republic might just have my perfect jean, in the perfect wash and fit that I need for work. Here's the thing, I absolutely hate shopping for jeans, but since I've recently dropped a waist size, my saggy bottom jeans needed to be replaced. I was putting off the dreaded shopping trip for quite a while because it's the 3-way mirror, florescent lighting, pull the jeans up as strong as you can because they will stretch out to the perfect fit later, nightmare I did not want to face. They (the fashion world) want you to believe that you'll feel like Brooke Shields in the classic Calvin Klein pre-pubescent jeans ad.
Why do they tease us so? Most women have real bodies that include the following in no particular order: boobs, hips, thighs in various sizes, and the dreaded butt, bootay, buttocks, ass, whatever you want to call it. If you are ethnic, like myself, you have been blessed with all of the above. Congratulations!
Michael Jackson is very sentimental to me for many reasons. He was the first performer I ever had the privilege to see live in concert. I'll never forget it. The extreme excitement of the crowd, the large volume of screams, the range of ages who came to see him live, and myself standing on the stadium chair straining to see him when he walked on stage. It was definitely a family event. That experience has never been replicated for me since.
He also reminds me of meeting Jon for the first time on New Year's Eve. We had previously met at a friend's 70's themed party and briefly spoke, but it was New Year's Eve where we met again and I had him all to myself. We danced to "Rock With You" and lots of other Michael Jackson songs that night. Dancing with him for the first time was so much fun...we've been told by friends who were there that we were very "cute" that night. I also knew that any boy who could play in a really loud rock band and dance to a Michael Jackson song like that was a boy after my grade school and teenage heart. Love at first sight happens in funny ways sometimes...
I searched a long time tonight for the perfect video, but this just happens to be one of my favorite MJ songs and it also reminds me of that New Year's Eve party a bit.
