I'm Really Bad at This

So, the whole idea was that I would post regularly to this, but I'm finding it's harder and harder to do. I'm going to try...so here it is....another "WEEK IN REVIEW"!

Last week was pretty standard for the most part. Work and clients and vacuuming, etc. But we did go see Dolly Parton! Kurt and my friends Brian, Travis, and Jay all went. She was amazing! Here's the complete set list:

Two Doors Down / Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That? / Jolene / Thank God I’m a Country Girl / I’m Little But I’m Loud / Backwoods Barbie / Drives Me Crazy / Shattered Image / Coat of Many Colors / Only Dreamin’ / Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show (into gospel medley) / (Intermission) / Baby I’m Burning / Better Get to Livin’ / Shinola / Do I Ever Cross Your Mind / Little Sparrow / Here You Come Again / Islands in the Stream / 9 to 5 / I Will Always Love You / Jesus and Gravity

She danced and joked and told stories. She actually did make you feel like she was only performing for you. Very impressive and it makes me love her even more!

What else happened last week? Let's see.....work mostly. I was supposed to have a reflexology class over the weekend but it was cancelled due to low enrollment. I managed to squeeze in a couple clients instead though, so that was good.

The opening ceremonies of the Olympics were great if you missed them. Very impressive. But they did spend 300 million dollars on them, so they better be. The big controversy now is that the little 7 year old who "sang" the Chinese National Anthem actually didn't. She was lip-syncing to a recording sung by another little girl who was deemed too "ugly" by the Chinese officials to represent their country. Eeek! Poor little girl. But overall, they were quite a site to see. Saturday night we went to not one, but two drag shows. I got my fill for the year....of that and alcohol. I was quite hung over on Sunday.

I also worked out my legs on Saturday and they still hurt today. I've been hobbling around all week because they are so sore. I don't know what I did, but let me tell you that massaging four clients (two each the last two nights) on these wobbly legs was harder than you might think. Now my lower back is killing me!

I baked yummy scones last week for work. It was such an easy recipe from Alton Brown on Food Network. I would definitely make them again. I made a batch of cranberry ones and chocolate chip ones. And I swear, it was almost as easy as making something from a box mix.

The scones and the drag shows might have clued you in, but my plan to alter my diet by cutting out alcohol, cheese and fried things hasn't really worked. I'm going to try again though - we'll see. Last night, Kurt and I actually got a cheese plate as part of our dinner at a new place on Haight Street called Uva Enoteca. Eating cheese! With a fork! This is hardly eliminating cheese from my diet. But go there...it's good but pricey. It's all very small plate/sharing/charcuterie type stuff. But good.

In other big news, Kurt and I are going to visit my family in September for a long weekend. Virgin America was having a pretty good flight sale, so we jumped on it. Should be fun to visit the family. It was my birthday gift to Daisey (what better gift than to see me!). And speaking of Daisey....you better look out Alan O! You're on her S**T list for suggesting I get a motorcycle! How dare you suggest something so dangerous for her favorite son. Tsk, tsk!

That's all from here...for now! Will try to write more regularly.

Yaz!!!

Monday we flew back and our flight was a little delayed, but not so much so that we missed our Monday night concert to see Yaz. Kurt had really wanted to see this concert, but the tickets sold out quickly and we missed out. But last week, my friend Jay had extra tickets so we jumped on them and it was a great concert at the Oakland Paramount Theater.

Yazoo (as they are known in the UK) are the two people in the picture: Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke. They formed Yaz after Vince left Depeche Mode and released two albums in 1982 and 1983. Apparently, they never got along very well and split up before the second album's release. Alison continued with a solo career mostly in the UK and Vince went on to form Erasure with Andy Bell. They decided to tour again this year to mark the 25th year of the band's split.

Anyway, I knew none of this before we got the tickets. I didn't know any of the music until I downloaded it from Itunes! But it's very electro-pop like and the concert was amazing. Alison has a really powerful voice and the crowd was really into it, most dancing the whole time. Check them out on Itunes if you're a fan of the '80's.

He's Your Man

Thursday night, Kurt and I traveled to San Jose for the George Michael concert. It was great! George looked a bit older, but he still had the same hair, signature sunglasses and perfect stubble. And his voice sounded great. He didn't use a lot of back up tracks, instead opting for 6 backup singers and the band on a tiered scaffolding behind him. This to me, shows he doesn't need a lot of techno gizmos to cover up for his voice.

To the best of my recollection, here was the set list:
I'm Your Man
Fast Love
Father Figure
Everything She Wants
One More Try
Teacher
Roxanne (cover)
Too Funky

20 minute intermission

Faith
Kissing a Fool
Spinning the Wheel
Feeling Good (cover)
Different Corner
Flawless
Amazing
Outside

1st encore: Praying for Time and Careless Whisper

2nd Encore: Freedom

The crowd really was into it and on it's feet most of the time. The stage was really cool. The whole backdrop was one big monitor which then curved down and became the floor of the stage as well. All sorts of graphics, images, and videos were displayed throughout. It was very well produced. If you get a chance, go see him. Here are some pictures! We actually had good seats but only had cell phone cameras so the pictures aren't great. :-(

Kurt - very excited to be at the concert! :-)

Waiting for it to start.

George on the very cool stage.

George on screen.