SYTYCD: Top 4 Perform

Overall thoughts: Still bummed that I missed last weeks show and since I was out of town this weekend, I still haven’t had a chance to watch it. :( However, this was a fun performance and I’m glad that final four all got a chance to dance in their own style. I’m not going to comment on the solo performances separately. They were all beautiful and showcased what amazing dancers they all are.

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!

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.

SYTYCD: Top 16 Perform, Second Elimination

So normally I sit down to watch the show on Wednesday nights as soon I as I get home, but since that was 1:00am this week, I decided to delay my viewing until Thursday afternoon. Luckily I managed to watch it before SYTCD updated their cover photo on facebook. Spoilers are not my favorite. Again, I will reveal the bottom 3/eliminated dancers at the end of the post.

Overall thoughts: There were some phenomenal moments on the show tonight, however it felt like a lot of couples had some low performances tonight :(

Still not sure if I like the new format for dance selection, but we’ll have to go with it. 

SYTYCD: Top 20 Perform, Part 2

Overall thoughts: I was a bit underwhelmed with this episode. Last week, I kept saying THIS is my favorite performance. And then the next couple would get up there and I would change my mind. I had so many favorites last week, I couldn’t decide who to vote for! (And I kind of forgot they close the voting after the show, so I missed it and never voted. Oops!) This week, a few were really well done, but a lot of them just fell flat.

**In the interest of being spoiler-ish free, I won’t reveal the eliminated dancers until the end of my post. Although if you follow SYTYCD on facebook, they already took care of that for you.

SYTYCD: Top 20 Perform, Part 1

Yikes this is a long post! I know it will shrink as *sniff* dancers get eliminated :(

This week the top 20 performed again, but this time they were matched up as partners and competing.

This year, for the first time, there will be two winners—one boy & one girl, but FOUR contestants will be eliminated next week. That is going to be a rough cut next week.

Summertime!

I love summer.

Actually I love all the seasons for different reasons (oh a crack myself up!) but since the first day of summer was last week, right now, I love summer!

I love it for all the regular reasons: warm weather, sunshine, beach trips, lots of free time, traveling, etc. As a teacher I still get summer vacation like the kids do. So I really love summer. I’m listening to one of Pandora’s “summer stations,” drinking my favorite coffee enjoying the warm CA sunshine streaming through my window. I’ll probably take a book out to the patio this afternoon, because I can!

Another reason I love summer?

If I had a penny for every time I started to exercise...

A few months ago I decided that I was finally going to get serious about working out. I’ve made this promise to myself dozens of times before so I can’t guarantee that THIS will be the time but you got to start somewhere.

I’ve joined the Zumba craze via the wonderful world of a DVD player. Logic? It was more expensive than the monthly gym membership but I paid it once instead of every month. Plus I have no faith nor desire to see my booty shaking at all in a public atmosphere (neither do you, trust me!) So I felt it best to save other’s eyes and suffer my living room walls to my “dancing” (if these walls could talk…)

Do you know what Zumba is? A simple google search will tell you all that you need to know. Youtube it if you want to watch others acting crazy. Or read my blurb below: