Michael Buble

So as many of you know, I'm a big fan of this guy....





and we got to go to this show last night.....



Let me tell you-it was AMAZING!!! He was soo stinking HILARIOUS!! Seriously, I wish I could have video taped the entire show cause he was having everyone dying of laughter. He made fun of several other celebrities-which is always an easy target but you get good laughs out of it. He did poke fun at Bieber ("I'll try to do my Beiber hair swoop for you" then proceeded to throw his head back like his hair was in his face, like this kid:)


he also made fun of Tiger and his wife and that whole mess-he talked about how he's engaged to a South American (Argintine) and how a situation like Tiger's would never happen if he had married a latin lady-the voice impression was horrible yet hilarious. At some point he also made fun of Robert Pattinson from Twilight-which oddly didn't get as many laughs as the others which I thought was hilarious-stupid super hardcore Twilight fans need to lighten up some! And he did poke fun at Gaga for a millisecond. I think some of the funniest moments were when he poked fun at the fans-squealing and jumping up and down like them-it was quite funny. Also, when he introduced his band he gave nice little anecdotes about each one-some true, some not. It started out very sweetly, one guy from Haiti, one just having a baby, then it turned funny and a little raunchy rather quickly. But he rounded it out nicely at the end and had nothing but wonderful things to really say about it very very talented band.

Of course he played some classic Michael Buble-including this very special song to us.....
(it's not letting me download the video right now...I'll try again later!)



If you listen really hard, you can hear Matt singing in the background-it was so special to get to hear this song live-it made me want to dance! Sorry the video quality isn't that great, I was more concerned with hearing than seeing. And we were kinda far away!

He also played another song very special to my bff Jacki and her hubs-their first song was also a Buble and it was Save the Last Dance-it was fun to remember their first dance while he sang it. It was also our last song at our wedding so that was fun too!

We went to the show with our good friends and neighbors Joel and Julie, who is actually about to have another baby girl any day now-we were a little worried for her last night but she stayed until the end! It was fun to get to go with them-they have been a huge blessing to us while we've lived here. Aren't they cute?

We had such a fun time!! Hopefully we'll get to enjoy amazing concerts on the other side of the world too!

Packing....

So I have love hate relationship with packing. The good thing about moving every year (at this rate, that's what's gonna happen w/us! We've only been here a year and a half-got here April 2009-it is now 2010, new year to move!) is you get to go through all your crap and purge a little. Some call this type of activity "spring cleaning" or "sweeps" in England (or so I've heard, via Michael Sheen when he was on 30 Rock, possibly one of the best shows I've ever seen in my short life!). I like to call it "moving cleaning" since we didn't purge in the spring, mainly because we weren't really here. But, every time we move, it's time to figure out what crap you don't need and move on. So far we have a very large and full black garbage bag full of goodwill items! Mainly clothes at this point but I haven't hit the kitchen yet! All books (except for cooking) have been accounted for and are in either a box to go with us (the lucky ones I say!) or to go to storage to not be seen for quite some time I suspect. It's amazing to me how one's home can go from this.....

nice, neat and tidy...


to this....

like the apocalypse has happened in your home alone....



in such a short amount of time! Ours is slowly yet very, very surely going to look like we live out of boxes and not have anything else here! Stuff has already come off the walls, things are taped away, and it's starting to smell a little musky because our boxes have been living in the garage and attic since we last emptied them. Sometimes I wish I could just do this for a while....



I still may....