SYTYCD: Top 8 Perform; 2 Eliminated

Overall thoughts: Remember a few weeks ago when I said my posts would get shorter once dancers started to be eliminated? Yeah, I forgot how they still fill the same amount of time by just making everyone dance more. So tonight everyone is performing twice: one solo and once with an all-star. I’m kind of awful at critiquing solos so I’ll probably just say that I loved it. Or I’ll start talking about that dancer’s “story.” Also can we just take a moment and say how awesome Jesse Tyler Ferguson is? He is the best guest judge. He actually knows what he’s talking about and just loves on the dancers. And to quote him, “how insane were the performances tonight??” Seriously, this is one of the best shows of the season. Let’s get to it!

SYTYCD: Top 10 Perform; 2 Eliminated

Wowzers this is a delayed post!! Apparently my summer has also been all about being busy on Wednesday nights. My latest excuse is actually a legit one (IMO). I had a job interview in a city 250 miles from my house and the place I was staying didn’t have T.V. (which was actually really nice to be honest. I really should shut down my electronics more often). Anyway, and then after I got back I was busy with life and well Monday is the first day I was able to sit down to watch and review the show.

Overall thoughts: ALL-STARS are back!!! I forgot to mention last week that it was finally announced that All-Stars were to be a part of this seasons show. I love the all-stars for two reasons. 1) It allows you to focus on the competing dancer instead of comparing/paying attention to two at the same time. 2) There are some dancers that are brilliant and I just want to watch them again and again (like Alex Wong for example.) Plus the all-star dancers aren’t competing and I think they dance better because of it. On to the show!

A sweet birthday surprise.

I’m so excited to share my latest completed crochet project (I always have at least 3 or 4 going on at one time!)

My sister’s birthday was last month and she is a pastry chef so it seemed only fitting to make her potholders with cupcakes on them! Sometimes when I get these super awesome ideas there are zero patterns to assist my creative muse. Not this time. Apparently cupcakes as potholders is a fairly popular idea (there are thousands of results on google image search!)

The pattern I settled on is this one (from ravelry). Doni Speigle’s potholders are incredibly cute and I couldn’t wait to make my own!

SYTYCD: Top 14 Perform/ 4 Eliminated

Overall thoughts: Double elimination tonight! Wasn’t expecting that :/ They also dedicated the show to Mia Michaels which I think is pretty sweet. It was interesting to have old routines re-imagined. I have not seen any of the originals so I did not struggle with separating the performances the way the judges did. However, I missed not knowing the story behind them so for many of the performances it was just a dance to me.

We all make mistakes :(

Wow, tonight is a night of epic fails. Well maybe "epic" is not the most appropriate word, but jeeze I sure made a lot of mistakes this week!

Mistake #1: I didn't watch SYTYCD! I know, what's wrong with me?!? I'll blame the Olympics for throwing off my T.V. viewing schedule. That and I was at a friend's house until 1:00am on Wednesday. woops. Normally I'd cram it in Thursday morning. Yeah forgot about that too. New plan is to watch it tomorrow and post asap.

Mistake #2: I'm realizing that my blog has been heavily devoted to SYTYCD reviews. Maybe some of you don't mind. But I'm all about diversity and I do have a lot of passions outside of sitting on my butt and watching T.V. (It always makes feel worse when the subject of my T.V. viewing is something super active. So, SYTYCD + Olympics haven't been helping the guilt factor much :/ ) I've had 3 or 4 other posts planned. And I've failed to finish them.