A Rare Sight

JPS = Metal Maniac

Chris Daughtry Rocks!!

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For her birthday, a little girl asks her mother for a Barbie and a G.I. Joe.

Confused, her mother mother asks, "G.I. Joe? Doesn't Barbie come with Ken?"

"No", says the little girl, "She comes with G.I. Joe. She fakes it with Ken."

I was witness to one of nature's rarest scenes earlier today...a hummingbird sitting still. I was making up the bed when I noticed this hummingbird taking a break on the Yucca tree right outside our bedroom window. I slowly crept out of the bedroom, grabbed the camera and then slowly crept back in and managed to get a few shots before another hummingbird came by and they both flew off together. At one point, I was probably within 3 feet of him/her separated by only the window. The pictures turned out ok considering they were shot thru a window that hasn't had it's spring cleaning yet but all in all, I consider myself lucky to have gotten these pics.

It's amazing how my website affects my reality sometimes. The other week a put a post on here about how much I've gotten into Kenny Chesney and how I'd love to see him if he ever came this way. As fate would have it, our good friends Janice & Mike read that post and learned that he's coming to LA this June so they're getting us tickets so we can all go together. This will be my first ever country concert but I am so looking forward to it. Guess I need to download all his songs now so I'm not that guy that only knows his hits. Mega thanks going out to Janice! You rock! :-)

I would have never guessed this in a million years, but Jada Pinket-Smith (Will Smith's wife, Ms Purdee in the Nutty Professor, etc.) is into heavy metal in a big way. She is currently on the Ozzfest Tour fronting her own metal band called Wicked Wisdom. She says she grew up on 80's metal and loves everything from Black Sabbath to Guns N' Roses.

There is hope in the world after all!

So yes, I have been too busy to update my website as of late. My New Year's resolution was to be totally out of debt by the end of this year and as such, I'm working on 3 or 4 of my biggest website projects ever. I'm also working on what is going to be my greatest masterpiece ever...my own revamped company site which hasn't been updated in about 2 years. After I get all these current projects done, I think I may take the month of June or July off. I am totally stressed out right now, but I admit the money is good.

I've paid off three credit cards in the first three months of this year and plan to pay off my Best Buy card by the end of April and pay my car off by mid summer at which point I will be 100% debt free! Talk about what a happy day that's gonna be!! I'll be my own boss, won't owe anyone jack, and it'll be summer! Yeah! It's gonna be a good year!!!

So what am I going to do once I get out of debt? Start saving for a house!

What a weekend! We spent almost the entire weekend shopping and eating out. Sometimes you just need to get out of the house and "buy yourself a little happiness" and that's exactly what we did. Instead of partying it up in a local bar on St. Patty's day, we had a nice dinner at Olive Garden followed by a few hours at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Talk about becoming domesticated!! Next weekend won't be so glamorous as it's laundry weekend. I just need my website empire to get a little bigger and I think I'm gonna hire someone to do those kinds of chores FOR me! Ha!

I'm not the only person who thinks George Bush sucks. Jessica Simpson declined an offer to meet with the President during her upcoming trip to Washington to promote her charity Operation Smile. She was given the chance to attend a Republican fundraiser and get some face time with the President afterwards but declined the offer. Go Jessica!

Of course, I wouldn't turn down a chance to meet the President cause I would relish the opportunity to tell him how much of a loser he is!

• http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/03/15/simpson.bush.reut/index.html

We are in full American Idol mode now that it's down to the final 12 and we've already picked our top 2 contestants! We're totally pulling for the rocker dude Chris Daughtry who has rocked the show virtually every week so far and last night's show was no exception. We were a little worried cause all the contestants had to sing a Stevie Wonder song but we forgot that the Red Hot Chili Peppers did a rock cover of Higher Ground back in the 90's and of course that's exactly what Chris did. He blew everyone else away!

Another interesting fact about Chris...after doing a Fuel song a few weeks ago the band offered him the job of being their new lead singer. He had no choice but to turn it down because he's under contract with American Idol. This dude is on his way and we couldn't be more excited.

Having lavished enough praise on this guy, our pic for runner up is Katharine McPhee who's right here from LA. She can definitely sing and she's also got the looks. So even though we just got into the top 12, we've already picked our top 2 finalists.

\m/  Chris Daughtry  \m/ Our pick for the next American Idol	Katherine McPhee Our pick for Runner Up

I bet you didn't know this but the U.S. used to make $10,000 bills. There are only a few in existence and there's a story about one of them on the link below.

This is what a $10,000 bill looks like!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_BIG_MONEY_WIOL-?SITE=WIFON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I know I've posted this on my website before before but in light of my previous post I think it bears repeating. If you do a search on the word "failure" in Google, the number one result is the homepage of George W. Bush.

It's also interesting to note that Jimmy Carter is # 2 and Michael Moore is # 3.