Last night, American Idol dwindled down to the final 12, the 12 that will move on to perform on the big stage. I can’t believe I still watch this show sometimes. The talent this season is awful compared to previous seasons overall. There are some standouts, like Melinda Doolitle and LaKisha Jones…and I agree: the women are smokin’ the men. I was utterly shocked last night when Sanjaya and Sundance were standing as the last two…and Sanjaya moved on. Come on! Really?! He admitted he can hula dance last week! His vocals are no where up to par.

hot damn. it’s been a really long time since i’ve blogged. I mean, there was the random blog post from my dot but that was testing out one of Blue Dot’s features as I’d probably blog more often if I converted some of my dots into blog posts. I mentioned this feature sitting at the Pyramid Brewery one summer with some of the Blue Dot folks…and now they’ve finally launched the ability to do this–woo hoo. anyhoo–let me do some quick updating on totally random stuff that you wouldn’t care about unless you really knew me. um…. So yes, still wedding planning. Working out invitations now and it’s all little…

i’m making a difference This is neat–beginning today, there’s a new charitable initiative from Windows Live Messenger. Join the inititative by going to this site, select the organization you wish to support (i.e. Red Cross, Boys & Girls Club, Aids Fund, etc…) and download v8.1 of Windows Live Messenger. Then, everytime you have an IM conversation, Microsoft will share a portion of the advertising revenue with the organization you’ve indicated. If you already have 8.1, just add the following codes next to your display name to select the organization of your choice:Text Code Cause*red+u American Red Cross*bgca Boys & Girls Club*naf National AIDS Fund*mssoc National Multiple Sclerosis Society*9mil ninemillion.org*sierra Sierra…