I Heart myBloglog.com and Other Things

Let me just say that myBlogLog.com is such a cool site. It's basically a site for the blogging community. And as of late, it has been facilitating my search for good blogs to read. In the past, I would just go to my blog and hit the "next blog" button at the top and let chance bring me to my next reading adventure. But alas, doing that has brought me to many foreign blogs that I can't even read or understand and I've only found a handful of good blogs that way. Now, instead of doing the Russian Roulette blog search, I lurk around using myBlogLog.com.

Now, another reason why I heart myBloglog.com is that after joining last week, I decided to log on and look at it this morning. I looked at my stats and it made me feel all tingly inside when I saw my page stats. People actually have links to my blog!!! Okay-- so they were only for one post (on the House of Blues ). But hey-- links back are cool to me. One was from roccadeluca.com (A semi-famous band) and a site dedicated to Kiefer Sutherland (who apparently started his own record label and rocco is one of his bands). At first I thought it actually was the official Kiefer Sutherland page, but after signing up and seeing it, I think it's only a forum for Kiefer fans. Thanks for reading!

I want to mention some of the blogs I've been reading lately:

• Life Hacker (I read this RELIGIOUSLY!!)
• Parent Hacks
• It's a Numeric Life
• Greys Anatomy Insider
• Greys Anatomy News
• Suburban Turmoil
• Signs of the Week
• The Butrfly Garden
• Redneck Mommy
• Adventures in the 916
• Free Geek

FYI-- I subscribe to these feeds and my favorite RSS reader is... Google Reader. I Heart all things Google.

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In addition to reading the above mentioned blogs, I've started a book club in my neighborhood and our first book is My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Since I'm first to host, I picked the book. I'll let you know how it is.

Book Reviews (Photos from Amazon.com):

Waiting by Ha Jin

This book was good but somewhat of a disappointment because everyone told me how good it was. So I read it with very high expectations (On the bright side, it reads like a Hemingway book). It's about a Chinese military doctor that marries a woman his parents found for him (she's not very pretty and he's kind of ashamed of her). He meets another woman while stationed at a hospital and "falls in love" with her. He has to wait for a very long time to get a divorce from his wife in order to marry the new woman. And to prevent spoiling the book... he continues to wait in the end. The lesson learned here is...be careful what you wish for because just might get it.

A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

This was a book that my other book club picked. This book blows (so I won't describe it)...and don't read anything that Anita Shreve writes because everyone in my other book club said that her other books blow as well.

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I also, wanted to mention how I'm able to have time to blog right now when I have both kids home with me...my little girl is watching ice age next to my computer and my son is on the floor crawling after all the Cheerios I dropped on the floor for him. Gotta go... Cheerios only buy me tens of minutes (not thousands)... Thanks General Mills for inventing Cheerios.

Another Live Performance

We went to the House Of Blues in Hollywood last night to see Mat Kearney perform. I hadn't been to a performance at the HOB in years and forgot how tiresome it is being on your feet for four hours. I don't know how the women wearing heels survived the entire show. There were two bands that opened for him-- The Feeling and Rocco DeLuca. The Feeling was okay. Their last songs were decent but some of the other ones were a little cheesy. The lead singer looks a little psycho to me. But then most bands have at least one member that looks a little psycho. Rocco DeLuca was good. I actually liked their sound more than their singing. Earlier, I had seen one of the guitarists at the restaurant portion of the club and I was excited when I saw him on stage. We were walk ins but at the top of the list until he came in sporting a blue wrist band. We wound up eating at the bar anyway so it didn't matter. I've always been a star struck type person but I don't ask for autographs--I just like seeing stars. Although this band hasn't really hit it big time yet I feel like I can call him a star.

When the band was introduced by some woman from Star 98.7, she mentioned that Kiefer Sutherland and a bunny was in the crowd to watch Rocco. I didn't see Kiefer but I did see the bunny. The bunny was absolutely fascinating. He was dancing and grooving. It was kind of psychadelic and scary (Good thing I was stone cold sober otherwise I might have freaked out and got paranoid). I'm thinking he had to be someone famous (perhaps Kiefer?--BTW I looked up Kiefer's itunes list and Rocco is on his list several times) otherwise security would never have let him in. Here's some film of said bunny although it's dark and my cell phone blows when it comes to video. Bunny:

Mat Kearney was excellent. What I really liked about HOB was that it was a much smaller venue than the Gibson where we saw Snow Patrol. We got to see him up close (although in the "filmage" it looks like we're far away). He seems like a such a nice guy. He even introduced his parents and brother while he was on stage. I think he's was kind of a christian rocker(before he got radio time)-- at least that is the impression I get from reading some of the comments on his myspace page.

Mat Kearney:

As an aside, my husband made a comment about how a lot of white people dance funny. I told him that he's a good example of it seeing as how he himself is caucasion and he dances funny (cute but still funny). But when we were at the Snow Patrol concert we saw this lady dancing all crazy (she's on the right hand side and I'm pointing her out):

Here's a little bit from the concert that I posted here. I couldn't find my camera when I posted this entry. If you watch it, you'll notice that it pans to the left and shows people holding out their cell phones. I learned that instead of swaying to music waving their lighters, people now sway to the music holding their cell phones with the light/flashes on. Much safer than the days of lighter waving. So here it is: