Saturday, May 23, 2009
Evie's rolling
I didn't catch the actual roll on film, but today Evie rolled over onto her stomach and explored her jungle gym from a new angle.
Evie hearts Finchley
Much to Finchley's dismay, Evie has finally started noticing him. He is a patient cat and will put up with a little hair pulling before he vacates the premises.
Eurovision 2009
Perhaps you remember my blog about Eurovision last year, which three or four Russian guys clad in white suits and singing a terribly cheesy song, ultimately won the contest when they threw in the really cool move of ice skating on stage on a piece of circular plastic. It was outrageous!
Anyway, this year, inspired by last year's drama and ridiculousness, we planned again to watch Eurovision. Unfortunately I have to say that it wasn't AS cheesy as last year, but it was still pretty bad.
The following is a brief description of some of the Eurovision highlights, complete with comments that Jim made that I found to be pretty funny. Apologies for the misspelling of some of the country names. Time is limited on this blog and I can't waste the precious few minutes I have to write it looking up country spellings (as ignorant as that sounds!)
Greece put on a pretty Ricky Martin-esque performance, with very tan and fit dancers in white outfits dancing on a moving sidewalk and, at one point Jim exclaimed, "Whoah...do they have MAGNETS on their shoes?!"
Azerbaijan's performance threw him into a moment of great conflict as he uttered, "Ahh...horrible song, but really sexy lady...beautiful singer, really bad song...but I might have to vote for her."
During Moldovia's performance Jim rated the male dancers as "prance-like." (which was actually a pretty good description of the moves they were doing).
Albania's performance was just weird. The lead singer had on a dress that made her look like Barbie meets Cinderella and dancing in the background were two little people and a man in a shiny green body suit (which covered his face...think Blue Man Group, but no eyes or mouth showing).
The Ukraine's singer, mortgaged her flat to buy the set for her performance, which turned out to be a stripper scene, with her writhing and poling and guys dressed as Trojans dancing along with her. She also sang things like "Baby You're so fine; be my valentine", "I'm your anti-crisis girl" and "you have sexy bum."
This year Norway won with a cute guy playing violin and singing about how he fell in love with a fairytale, which perfect Norwegian women in Heidi dresses danced around the stage and sang backup.
Until next year....
Anyway, this year, inspired by last year's drama and ridiculousness, we planned again to watch Eurovision. Unfortunately I have to say that it wasn't AS cheesy as last year, but it was still pretty bad.
The following is a brief description of some of the Eurovision highlights, complete with comments that Jim made that I found to be pretty funny. Apologies for the misspelling of some of the country names. Time is limited on this blog and I can't waste the precious few minutes I have to write it looking up country spellings (as ignorant as that sounds!)
Greece put on a pretty Ricky Martin-esque performance, with very tan and fit dancers in white outfits dancing on a moving sidewalk and, at one point Jim exclaimed, "Whoah...do they have MAGNETS on their shoes?!"
Azerbaijan's performance threw him into a moment of great conflict as he uttered, "Ahh...horrible song, but really sexy lady...beautiful singer, really bad song...but I might have to vote for her."
During Moldovia's performance Jim rated the male dancers as "prance-like." (which was actually a pretty good description of the moves they were doing).
Albania's performance was just weird. The lead singer had on a dress that made her look like Barbie meets Cinderella and dancing in the background were two little people and a man in a shiny green body suit (which covered his face...think Blue Man Group, but no eyes or mouth showing).
The Ukraine's singer, mortgaged her flat to buy the set for her performance, which turned out to be a stripper scene, with her writhing and poling and guys dressed as Trojans dancing along with her. She also sang things like "Baby You're so fine; be my valentine", "I'm your anti-crisis girl" and "you have sexy bum."
This year Norway won with a cute guy playing violin and singing about how he fell in love with a fairytale, which perfect Norwegian women in Heidi dresses danced around the stage and sang backup.
Until next year....
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