So my least favorite performer did my most favorite song (You've Got to Hide Your Love Away). I didn't think she was as awful as the judges seemed to think. Or maybe it's because she was sooooo much better than the bluegrass nightmare from last week. Don't get me wrong, it did not lead to a standing ovation from me, but I didn't get growly. She should have done Rocky Raccoon if she likes country. Or Don't Pass Me By.

Hey, wait. Did MLR just say her favorite song was You've Got to Hide Your Love Away?

Yes, those of you who know me well will say "I thought your fave Beatles song was Dear Prudence" Others will say "I thought your fave Beatles song was A Day in the Life." Still others will say "I thought your fave Beatles song was In My Life." Well you are all right. I have about 5 or 6 songs that are my absolute favorite Beatles song ever of all times and then the rest of them, except one, fall loosely into what I call "my second favorite Beatles song". Then there's Good Night from the White Album which is pretty much my least favorite Beatles song.
( More Beatles and AI ramblings )

EDITED like mad because I couldn't get my tags right and because I was writing as I was watching. Also I stopped in the middle to make coffee.

Oh - I made my own version of Corned Beef and Cabbage for St Pat's day and it was soooo good! So easy, too. I steamed some cabbage and carrots. I boiled some Red Potatoes with salt. (Cuz I know how to do that.) Then I got a tin of that awful canned Corned Beef and mixed it in with the cabbage, smushed that in a casserole dish and mixed in some dried mustard and more fresh ground pepper. I put the carrots and the potatoes on top and baked it all to kind of get the flavor of the beef in with everything else and bam - easy peasey corned beef and cabbage. Mom and I had gotten some Irish Soda Bread at Publix (not as good as the stuff magnet5 makes - he does amazing stuff!!) that I was worried about because it was really fruitcakey but it was really good together! Yay!

It's Lennon McCartney night on American Idol so I have no choice but to watch it.
I have a problem with peolple covering Beatles songs. The Beatles are soooooo much a powerful part of my life. I am unable to express the depth of my connection to their music. If I were to name two things that define me as a person I would probably pick red hair and the Beatles. So when people sing their songs they either need to sound EXACTLY like them or they need to make it so much their own that I don't care it's a Beatles song. (I would qualify that saying it has to be in tune, nice arrangement, doesn't defame them in any way...) I probably hate 90% of non-traditional Beatles covers. I own a lot of Beatles cover CD's in my compulsion to have every Beatle-related thing that crosses my path (Chet Atkins picks on the Beatles; Snoopy sings the Beatles; classical Beatles; Nashville Beatles; Motown Beatles; blah blah blah) despite my pickiness. Oddly enough, I actually like most of the Target commercials. Regardless, since I do have protective issues with their songs I'm a bit worried as the AI kids are pretty much newbies and most of them too young to really know them. I'm too young to know them! How can a 17 year old? Then again, I've been a dedicated fan since I was 13 so maybe I'm prejudging.

( So while it's on I am making up a list of which ones I'm going to have find on YouTube. )

THE FULL "IN MY LIFE" UPDATE
Pottery is still fun. John tried out the wheel tonight and made a beautiful vase on his first try. I was too scared to wheel so I started another slab vase thing. I also raku glazed two pieces for next Tuesday to go into the kiln. I put some high-glazed pieces in the stacks and cannot wait to see how they turn out. And I worked some more on the incense burner I started the week before but it needs to get a little drier before I can finish it. It's still too bendy when I try to carve into it. My glass experiment has to wait - the pieces are still not dry enough to bisque fire. Argh!!

My job is getting ( really busy. )

Oh, and I'm sure I will not get the other job. The more I hear about that job the more it sounds like they want someone with a doctorate and my wee little masters will not be good enough. I will probably still apply but I'm not even expecting an interview. What the heck. I'm also looking into what's required for a doctorate degree. If possible, I would do my thesis somehow on use of gaming in education. (D&D teaches you math skills, leadership & teamwork skills, communication skills, creative writing skills, improvisation skills, survival skills (ha!) and more... Atlas Games "Once Upon a Time" could easily be used in a classroom.)

hey! so the pair of jeans with red paint on the bottom that i talked about before? that was MY pair of jeans. i found your jeans and t-shirt and a pair of purple socks in a bag elsewhere in the house. so that explains why i could not find the shirt when i had the pants. and how funny is it we both have jeans with red paint stains along the hem. what a bizarre thing to have in common. add that to the power of three connection.

and american idol is ROCKEN tonight. i get embarrassed over watching it but man they are really good this year! of course, it's 60's music so i'm a bit biased...

oh, and there was a competing show on PBS about monkeys (of course) that was really interesting. i missed some songs because i couldn't stop watching it. they were conducting various experiments on monkeys/great apes and doing the same experiments on 3 year old to 5 year old children to see how we were different and the same. pointing eludes monkey babies. apparently the fact that even very young children can point is important. interestingly enough, dogs totally get pointing. they did a cute test with a 2 year old, a dog, and a baby monkey. for each they had two cups and a treat which they covered with one of the cups when the participant was not looking. they then pointed at the treat cup and the baby and the dog immediately ran to that cup and got the treat. the baby monkey was sooooooo cute. he never grabbed the right cup no matter how many times they repeated the experiment. at one point he just flopped between the cups on his back and rolled around with his feet in the air. it was adorable!!! if i am ever in that situation that's totally what i'm going to do. teamwork didn't come naturally to apes, either. but there was a really sweet section on how monkeys will help humans (say picking up something the person can't quite reach) if they understand the human's desire (and it's not a banana, because monkey ain't gonna share...) i would babble more about it but i'll screw it up. i'm hoping it will rerun so i can catch the whole show.

yeah yeah yeah...it's american idol. but it's cool!!!!!!!