A Little Thing Called Hope

To all those Alias Fans...This just in from the ShowBiz Top 5 on Kidd Kraddick...

Jennifer Garner is now on maternity leave. But she spent the next to last day on the set of "Alias" making out with her real life ex-boyfriend Michael Vartan. The scene was the first time Michael has been back on set since his character, agent Michael Vaughn, was gunned down in the season premiere. Witnesses say the scene looked like a wedding and according to sources, it's a dream Jen's character Sydney is having where she's dreaming about being with the father of her baby again. Despite what you might think, sources say there was little on-set tension between the former luv-uhs. Jen and Michael enjoyed a little chit-chat between steamy takes, and then Jen headed home to hubby Ben Affleck. While waiting for baby to arrive, Jen's been going to yagoa classes. Ben sneaked a ciggie while waiting for her -- going back on his promise to quit. Jennifer caught him and he was seen apologizing profusely.

Lost Sneak Peak...

For those of you into LOST, if you look at Kidd Kraddick's website...
www.kiddlive.com and scroll down you can find a link to the LOST website with a password and it will link you then to a page of the actual script...You might want to read it for some insider info...If this is old news - sorry - I am behind on my TV investigating!

First and Last

Tagged!

First Memory: Laying in my bed staring at my little slide and thinking there was a wild monkey hiding underneath it and I didn't know how I could run out without it getting me!



First Kiss: Brad Meyer in 4th grade by the fence at Shannon Ruppman's house. First Real kiss was Justin Gibbs my first night as a freshman at ACU in James Mayo's dorm room. RANDOM!



First Concert: Every Brothers at Starplex where you could sit out on the grass-it was great!



First Love: let's just count true love: Brad - no question



First Thing You Think in the Morning: Ugh, why is it still dark outside?



First Book You Remember: Oh Say Can You Say by Dr. Suess - My dad used to read this backwards to me - it is a book of tongue twisters - and I would laugh so hard that I would start having asthma attacks & mom would get mad at us! One of my most favorite childhood memories!



First Pet: Freckles, a cocker spaniel that was MEAN-bit me and got 6 stitches in my lip-still have a scar.



First Question You Will Ask in Heaven: I can't even imagine - I have so many...



First Thing You Think of When You Hear Vacation: 3 months-we'll be in Maui!!! Happy Birthday Dad!



First Best Friend: Kathy Hurley



Last Time You Dressed Up: Church on Sunday-not too fancy though-church is too COLD



Last Time You Cried: Saturday when I got lost returning our rental car :( I only cry when I'm frustrated...



Last Time You Told Someone You Loved Them: Today to Brad of course and to Mallory & Macy-my upline



Last Really Fun Thing You Did: I spontaneously went to the movies with my friend Kristin from work and we saw In Her Shoes...other than that Las Vegas and Kentucky



Last Thing You Watched on TV: Amazing Race



Last Halloween Costume: 7th grade Cheerleading Uniform-I was chubby in 7th grade!



Last Concert: CELINE DION-the BEST!!!



Last CD I bought: Amy Stroup - incredible



Last Thing I ate: Sonic-naughty but it was 1/2 price burger night!! who wants to cook after the movies??

The Bad Luck Continues...

Thursday morning I went to DFW to catch a flight to Louisville, Kentucky with one of my good friends Mallory and her sister, Macy for an Arbonne convention that was fantastic!!!
Here is how it went...
10:30 AM Arrived at airport, checked bags (which I NEVER do) wait to board
11:40 AM Scheduled departure
12:00 PM First announcement of water in a closet of the airplane
12:15 PM Deboard the plane as they are tearing up the floorboards
12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:00 - All times we watched on the screen of new departure times
2:05 PM Originally scheduled time of arrival in Louisville and we are still at gate B15 waiting
3:15 PM Moved to new gate to get on a new plane to take off
3:30 PM Announcement that the new plane has Instrumentation problems-wait another 15 min.
3:45 PM Announcement from the pilot that the flight has been CANCELLED!!!!
4:45 PM Rebooked on a flight to Nashville, TN because all other flights to Louisville are booked and the earliest we would get there direct would be Friday afternoon.
7:45 PM Arrived in Nashville however our bags did not
8:00 PM Picked up the rental car and GPS that Brad reserved for us and drove 3 hours to Louisville
11:30 PM Arrived at the Hyatt in Louisville-again with no bags

Friday morning:
6:45 AM Rolled out of bed and went to the conference-the hotel gave us toothbrushes-we didn't even brush our hair.
12 noon Got lost returning rent car because the GPS navigation didn't work
5 PM - Conference over for the day and Mallory & I had luggage waiting at the hotel-Macy's was still missing. Ugh-it was awful but at least we could all share and Macy and I can wear the same size!
5:25 PM - Never happier to be clean in my life!!! :) And I will NEVER again check bags!

Saturday morning:
7:00 AM - Macy's bag finally arrives
5:52 flight to DFW- I had one foot on the plane, Mal & Macy already are seated, and they stopped boarding because someone on the flight before threw up all over two rows-including the walls and seat pockets and the cleaning guy just wiped it off with a paper towel! GROSS! It was actually the row behind mine too!
6:02 PM Take off and home to Dallas! THANK GOODNESS!!!

Although the travel part was the biggest nightmare, our conference was incredible. It was a very motivating, encouraging, even spiritual experience. Arbonne and the opportunity it gives people is such a gift.
Hope you all had a great weekend and it was a little less nuts than mine!

Viva Las Vegas

Whew-I'm tired!!! I am not complaining by any means-I am just exhausted from our whirlwind trip! Las Vegas...Sin City...I would agree with that! We had fun but were also ready to come home too!
We got there Friday morning at 9:15, checked in, walked around, and hit In & Out by 11 am. Brad couldn't wait to sink his teeth into a Double-Double. YUMMY-they have the best burgers in the West-if only they would come to Texas.
The rest of the weekend was spent walking, walking, walking! I got the best exercise ever for vacation-we must have walked 7-8 miles a day...my dogs were barkin!

Here's the highlight of the trip...Friday night my mother-in-law and I went to see Celine Dion! Now keep in mind that I like her in the very low key since not a member of the fan club by any means! However, this was THE best show I have ever seen. Actually it is tied with seeing Beauty and the Beast on Broadway when Tony Braxton was Belle, but that is another trip.
So, back to the incredible show...she was amazing...I actually cried (heavy tearing of the eyes no boo-hooing) TWICE because it was so moving. The first time was when she was singing "I'm Alive" - so awesome. And the second time was during her encore when she sang "What a Wonderful World". Everything was so beautiful and the dancers were excellent-they are choreographed by the same choreographer for Cirque De Soliel so they were very unusual but neat and extremely talented!

Well, that was just Friday and I could have gone home after that I was done! We did also see Danny Gans-very funny I just got sick and missed part of the show (which I think was because I ate a 2 lb lobster entree that was DELICIOUS but who eats that good on a daily basis??) We got to ride in a limo to that show because we went with a highroller friend of the Moore family. Finally we saw Cirque's "O"-very very amazing. How they do all that I will never know!

Vegas was fun and I am glad that I went but I can officially scratch it off my list and not go back - that is until Celine signs a new contract and has a new show...then I'm there. Maybe by then my lungs will have cleared and we will be emphysema free-man those casinos are smokey and we didn't even play that much! We came home with about ehh $30?? Nothing exciting but we didn't lose money!

When my mom-in-law sends me pics I will post some-we are so backwards and don't have a digital camera yet...not til kids...so give me a couple of days to get them posted!