Eurovision 2007

My votes for Eurovision 2007 go to any of the following:

FRANCE
LES FATALS PICARDS - L'amour À La Française
They are just goofy and I love it, the absolute fave in my brain... who can go wrong with a vespa (wait, was it a vespa? I was laughing too hard)

PAIN
D'NASH - I Love You Mi Vida
They make American Boy Bands look like a bunch of thugs

ROMANIA
TODOMONDO - Liubi, Liubi, I Love You
Uhm, it just cracks me up - singing "I love you" in a gazillion euro-ways with floating planets, or is it humans floating among planets?

BULGARIA
Elitsa TODOROVA & Stoyan YANKOULOV - Water
I am just intrigued, not sure what else to say it is tribal and dark.

ARMENIA
Hayko - Anytime You Need
lip-sinking anyone? and ONLY for that reason... I kept trying to figure out what they were saying in the non-English version that was in the video... it made me want to make up things that they were "really saying".

MOLDOVA
Natalia BARBU - Fight
A pretty girl, a violin and a wanna-be 80's hair metal feel (must be the upcoming reunion that influenced this)


and after looking through the Semi-Finalists I think this group should have not been cut...
ANDORRA
ANONYMOUS - Salvem El Món
because they did a pretty good job of looking like an American Red Dead Day Surfers (yeah, that is a bunch of words from some of the American Bands that I think influenced them).

UPDATE: The winner is -
SERBIA
Marija ŠERIFOVIĆ - Molitva
It was a nice song, but had the feel of "just another dramatic ballad" so I did not even listen to the whole thing until the winner was announced... I still think it is just another dramatic ballad and further proof how how Europe has eclectic music taste very unlike ours here in America... only there could I hear a zippy Tom Jones-esque song right after the Ramones, and just before something like Perry Como... which I did. once. unforgettable
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Thursday Thirteen

because sometimes I need some form of inspiration...

Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME 1. I am apparently named after one of my father's girlfriends in college (not my first name though) 2. My first name is unbelievably hard to pronounce in Spanish and that created problems for me growing up, so I would go by other names... 3. My brother and I have a "not exactly elegant" pair of initials together, which some of my fathers people (aka family) like to state every time I see them... I am almost 40, it has been old for a while. 4. A translation of my first name says that it means field or plain 5. My middle name means lord or goddess of the sea 6. Both are originally boy's names though that has apparently changed since the 1980's 7. I like that I can make several puns with my first name - ahem the name of this blog. 8. I hated my name growing up (though probably because no one could pronounce it more than I just plain ol' didn't like it) and had a sit down talk with my dad at age 8 about changing it, I actually suggested the following names as options; Reina and Isabella. (I am still trying to figure out where that came from) 9. I get called Claire an awful lot 10. 25247 - my first name using phone code 11. IFF people get my name right, they try to put an e on the end of it... there isn't one, hasn't been... ever. 12. I have many aliases, all legal. This makes filling out some legal forms a bit of a trial though. 13. I know very few women that share my name, and I love that when someone calls out "Blair" within hearing distance, it is 99.97% of the time directed at me. Bonus: I hate references to the TV show "Facts of Life"... for those that knew me way back when also know that "the other name", when the show was running, was a bit to close for comfort. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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I start with this Thursday and these Thirteen because I thought there was a "weekly theme" and the code I had to paste in was updated to show that... but really when I read more of the directions, it just says to write about whatever... but I am leaving this like it is,because for one brief shining moment, there was a theme and it was about our name and not where I was supposed to insert mine.

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I think I may have invented a new blogging genre

Reunion Blogging!

At least I have not been able to find one, except the reunion committee who copied ours because we share the same planner.

I set one up for my high school reunion...

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Strawberry season for inanimate objects

Strawberry season for inanimate objects, originally uploaded by Blair Necessities.

I built myself a white box / light box, and tried out a few shots... I thought this one a bit clever.

Here is what my handmade white box / light box looks like.. I have no idea if I did it right, I think I may have to put something on top but I am not sure I need to during the day! Will try later and experiment by adding tissue paper over the top when I actually use the clamp light I have.

Kids Are Natural Cooks

Kids Are Natural Cooks was one of my favorite cookbooks growing up, I found a hard cover for sale and it arrived today!
I love it, the illustrations are just as fascinating to me as I remember them being over 30 years ago.

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