New Favorite

Anyone who can sing this well live - has me for a lifelong fan.  I love Adele - she killed it at MTV video awards on Sunday but I couldn't find a good quality youtube.   This is my next song to learn on piano fo sho! 
xo, Brie

eta - found mtv version! I am having voice, hair, dress, eyelash, and talent envy. Shout it from the rooftops - I heart Adele :)

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Creep

I am a pop music princess.  I completely admit it, I love it,  and I eat it up with a spoon :)   I am in love with the choir version of Radiohead's Creep that they showed in the in movie trailer for The Social Network (which I can't wait to see)

In case you missed it, you have to see this... (warning: there is a naughty word in this song and it's not "Fudge." It's THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word! - name that movie and proceed with caution)




Available on itunes now - and it's the clean version too :) You're so VERY special ;)  How great is this?  If my choir sang my pop tunes, I made have stuck around longer than 5th grade - a person can really only sing the Baker Woman in her humble lodge so many times....

How about some Fall Out Boy, Sugar We're Going Down (on my personal top 10 faves of all time) to some strings?



Awesome, right? Just goes to show you, good music is good in any form! I feel so cultured and sophisticated now ;) Have a great weekend!! Don't forget to light that candle for me tomorrow night, I'm in complete denial that we're actually going through with this - thus the blogging while I should be baking and cleaning the house! xo, Brie

Holy Flashback

This song just came on my ipod - I had totally forgotten about it!  I had a flashback to my old college workplace Saxa Sundries :)  xo, Brie

itunes dl

I think I've heard this song close to 1 "millino" times this summer (Ladybugs - that one's for you :) but I LOVE it and never tire of it - great for the workout shuffle! xo, Brie

Loving this

new Pearl Jam song. It stops me in my tracks everytime I hear it - amazing! xo, Brie

My first Concert

Kay was fortunate enough to be invited by one her best buds to see the Jonas Brothers in concert this past Thursday night. It was quite the big deal!! This was actually her second concert because she accompanied me to see The Spice Girls back in Feb.

To say she loved the concert would be an understatement.

This got me thinking about MY first concert ever - I was 14, it was 1985 and my dad took my friend Katie and I to see Corey Hart's Boy in the Box tour. Remember him? I wear my sunglasses at night..... When I look back at some of my celebrity crushes I often cringe, but I've got to say - I was right on with Corey Hart. He's cute! Let's see if we can say the same for the Jonas' in 20 years!

As opposed to these guys (who I also loved at the time.....)

Dudes look like a lady, no? ;)

Finally for your listening and viewing pleasure... I give you the power ballad Never Surrender, excuse me while I go look for a lighter to hold up. xo, Brie

Slam your Body Down and Wind it All Around - My Weekend Part Deux

Ok, so as if the John Denver sing along wasn't enough excitement for one day.... that very night E is able to snag tix for none other than the SPICE GIRLS. These were hot tickets around here! We each brought our oldest daughters and E's 15 year old niece came too.


Here we experienced a full 180 from our afternoon earlier. Here we are no longer the "youngins" like at the JD sing along. We are now the "old ladies" in a sea of screaming teenage girls and young men wearing shirts that say "spice boy". Seats were awesome, we were 20 feet from the stage. It was seriously unreal... I think I knew 4 or 5 songs they did. I have to say though, they were great. Real entertainers these ladies are!!! They sounded and looked awesome! I felt 100 years old here but we all sprang out of seats for a little "Wannabe" which was one of their encores. Who can resist delicious pop like that? Certainly not me! We debated the whole way home who our favorite "spice" is and none of us agree. For me it's a no brainer - Scary Spice is the best, hands down! Hi Ci Ya - Hold Tight!



PS extra bonus was seeing Carson Kressley from Queer Eye! I love him! He had a great time too, was rockin out the whole time! Hey Carson, remember that crazy middle aged woman yelling and waving to you? That'd be me :D! E was horrified by my shameless adoring of Mr. Kressly, I can't help it, I ♥ him!

















Here's some pics! xo, Brie






Awwwww, that's my girl Scary's little baby girl, isn't she cute?

Country Roads - My Weekend Part 1

I mentioned to my friend E on New Year's Eve that I love John Denver. I do - I grew up in the 70's and would request his vinyl albums for a "good report card prize". If that's not incentive to do well in school, then I don't know what is! At 8 years old the drug referenced lyrics went right over my head. Anyone who doesn't love John Denver for his perfect pure poetic "fantasticness" is just missing out on something huge.

So E sees that our local community theatre is hosting an event called "Almost Heaven" a John Denver sing along. I'm usually up for anything (as long as someone else is planning), so we decide to give it a shot. It was interesting afternoon to say the least! The music was good but we were one of the youngest in attendance by far. It was a sea of white hair, wheel chairs, and even I'm sure I saw few oxygen tanks! The song selection was right on, they even played a few more obscure favorites like For Bobbi and Looking for Space (love them!). Calling it a sing a long was pushing it though and believe me, I wanted to! I have a feeling I may have been escorted out by security had I decided to join in :) While "Almost Heaven" is a cute play on words, that was not quite accurate either. "Almost Purgatory" would have been more like it :) xo, Brie

BLT anyone?

Another stinker picture here (notice how I was trying to be all photographer like with an interesting angle)! Kay had a basketball game and I wasn't going to count this in my Dinner Challenge, but they were so darn good I decided to take a picture and share anyway! I got this recipe from Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa at Home) I really love everything she does, I have never NOT liked one of her recipes and they are usually pretty easy to make. No kooky ingredients that you have to run to 10 different specialty stores etc etc. Here is the link to the recipe, and PS it's not just ANY old BLT - it's a CALIFORNIA BLT, and it was awesome. Also baking the bacon in the oven is the way to go!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_37083,00.html

I am back on track and my cold is gone. I am also back to spinning! Today was great, I like Thur teacher a lot. Her ipod is really good... some highlights included Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes and Squeezes' Another Nail in My Heart! Download them, you'll love them!

xo, Brie