tiggerprr’s scratching post

Sounds kind of saucy doesn’t it? It’s not. Move along. LOL

This season has been a little less than great for me…I really wasn’t enthused with any of them really during Hollywood rounds. Not that I thought everyone sucked…just that no one really made me go WOW! Even through the top 36 I was not impressed and that’s the stage I found I favored David Cook last year. I think the Top “36″ is a bad idea…too many bad people still in the mix for drama…Tatiana… ugh… just … ugh!

So…yeah… I liked some of these folks that ended up top “13″ but still wasn’t really gung ho…but tonight…I really think separated the wheat from the chaff.

To me and the hubby… the top 5 SHOULD be (in no certain order): Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Danny Gokey, Allison Iraheta and Matt Giraud. I really like all of them, with Danny actually falling at the end of the list, for me anyway. We’ll see how it shakes out in the weeks to come.

Lil Rounds, while a good singer, isn’t any different than the host of other female R&B stars out there. Scott McIntyre, while it’s impressive how good he plays the piano blind, is really, to be honest not that great of a singer. Megan Corkrey…we liked her…but the quirkiness has begun to wear thin and last night was a train wreck. Anoop, good singer but not someone whose CD I would buy (the tween/teen vote may say otherwise). Michael Sarver…nice guy…won’t win.

I don’t have much of a readership out there anymore since I’ve all but stopped writing original material. I keep hoping to do that, but that’s another post for another day.

I’m writing this original post (hehe Desert Songbird) to tell you about a Act of Selflessness Project that my classmate from Yokota High School in Japan is doing. She’s waiting with her kids to move back to Hawaii and while at her parent’s she drove by an orphanage. She tells the story best at her blog, Mama’s a Mess!, so I won’t go into great detail here. But it touched her heart and called her to start a project where she wants to present the orphanage with 1,000 Bibs and Blankets by July (her target date for relocation to Hawaii).

Obviously, 1,000 in that amount of time will be hard for one person to craft by hand so she’s called out to the blogosphere to help her in this endeavor, if you’re so inclined. I’d love to help, but since I can’t sew to save my life, I’m going to hope that some of you out there are still reading, and more importantly can sew and feel like giving up some of your fabric and your time. If you can’t sew, maybe could you pimp this project on your sites? Please read read her story, and help out if you can.

Thanks!

(This isn’t a tiggerprr original, I borrowed it from a friend on Facebook who lifted it from somewhere else…etc… but it made me smile, and it’s oh so true.:))

FOR THOSE born 1920-1979 (and those who were not, you could learn something from this!)

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day, and we were O.K.!

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes after running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computer’s, no Internet or chat rooms….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them Congratulations!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?