all of my change i spent on you.

Interesting day.

I can't believe it's only Tuesday, it feels like this week is eternal.

But I know that any complaint that I could possibly come up with could never compare to what people are going through on the East coast.

Thoughts and prayers are headed your way, that is craziness.

I feel like I just kept repeating that today. Like when something bad happened and I wanted to complain I shutup cause really, my life is paradise compared to someone who lost their home in a fire after it being flooded by the storm.

I am really curious about the effect it will have on the election.

So, trying to focus on the positive of today: Mom brought my cookies.

Pretty sure my coworkers love her more than me.

And the Boyfriend came up after work. We watched The Voice.

To be fair I did give him plenty of outs.

But yes, the Voice - it was the rest of the knockout round. Yesterday Adam and Cee-Lo's teams were cut in half, tonight it was Xtina and Blake's turn.

I'm happy to say my number 1 totally dominated - aka Cassadee Pope former lead singer of Hey Monday.

Who I was a diehard fan of before they exploded.

Blog is written proof.

Anyway, here's my top 20 after tonight's knockouts.

Cassadee Pope

Trevin Hunte

Nicole Nelson – knocked out by Loren

Aquile - knocked out by Sylvia

Avery Wilson – knocked out by Cody

Bryan Keith

Brandon Mahone – eliminated after first battle

Michelle Brooks-Thompson – knocked out by Amanda

Adriana Louise

Collin Mcloughlin - knocked out by Michaela

Terisa Griffin – knocked out by Trevin

Suzanna Choffel - knocked out by Cassadee

Nelly’s Echo – eliminated after first battle

Melanie Martinez

Gracia Harrison - knocked out by Liz

Celica Westbrook - knocked out by Adriana

Mycle Wastman – knocked out by Nicholas

Mackenzie Bourg

2Steel Girls – eliminated after first battle

Joe Kirkman – knocked out by Bryan

I know that the goal is to get it down to one winner and that only one of these people will be left, but still TONIGHT HURT. 

Lost Aquile, Collin, Suzanna, Gracia, and Celica. Granted Suzanna and Celica were both beaten out by other members of the top 20 higher than they were. 

Here are the teams as they go into the live rounds - for 3 LIVE SHOWS this week. 

Ads were hysterical. The biggest thing next week is THE ELECTION, but the next biggest thing....

ADAM:

Jocelyn

Bryan

Amanda

Loren

Melanie

CEELO:

Cody

Mackenzie

Trevin

Nicholas

Diego

X-TINA:

Devyn

Adriana

Dez

DeBorah

Sylvia

BLAKE:

Liz

Terry

Michaela

Julio

Cassadee

So only two from tonight survived, but I am starting to root for Liz Davis, Loren Allred and Amanda Brown as well. 

I feel like they didn't get their fair share of coverage - especially Loren so gotta share the love. 

Alright, I'm aware that really none of this matters as to what's going on in the world so I will now shut up. 

Song of the night:

Cassadee's version of Maroon 5's Payphone

Suzanna is awesome as well, but totally bizarre song choice for a competition.

Cassadee rocked it.


Legitimate pre-midnight post. Holy crap tag in use.

OUT

Rock, Chalk, SilverHawk

Went to watch Squirt play some volleyball tonight with my sisters.

She dominated, got some killer spikes and all that. Would have made Juwanna proud.

That was pretty much the highlight of the day, jamming with the family.

Not much happened during the day aside from the TAB meeting.

Which was not my favorite of meetings.

I like the kids, they're great, but it's a little difficult to keep some of them on task.

Especially the newer, younger ones.

And it tends to annoy the older ones.

So I'm trying to be understanding, but my new motto is if the story you're raising your hand to tell us has nothing to do with the meeting at hand it can wait until later.

We mostly talked over our art project that will take place on this upcoming Tuesday. We'll be decorating our young adult area with some cool homemade posters and bookmarks and all that. I'm excited, and they seemed excited, I think.

But they're teenagers, maybe they think it's totally lame and are humoring me.

I think making bookmarks would be fun. Got lots of cardstock stuff, will get them to do their own homemade designs, then laminate and cut them out. Just create like a stockpile of them in the YA are for people to use.

But again, they're teenagers, perhaps they think doing that and painting/sketching/etc posterboard and hanging it up is lame.

Guess we'll find out on Tuesday.

It was just one of those meetings, you know?

I don't know, maybe it was an off day for me or them or whatever, it just was weird. So I let them out like 10 minutes early after touring the YA area and the basement when I showed them our stock of supplies.

So the game helped, had a lot of fun and cheered loud.

Was amused that Oldest Sister and the King of Useless Knowledge - aka my eldest brother in law - were the loudest parents there.

After the game I bought some popcorn from my nephew - woohoo for fundraisers - and came home to watch The Voice. Some cool battle rounds tonight, all of my favorites that battled survived aka Aquile, Melanie and Celica.

Cassadee Pope

Trevin Hunte

Nicole Nelson

Aquile

Avery Wilson

Bryan Keith

Brandon Mahone

Michelle Brooks-Thompson

Adriana Louise

Collin Mcloughlin

Terisa Griffin

Suzanna Choffel

Nelly’s Echo – eliminated after first battle

Melanie Martinez

Gracia Harrison

Celica Westbrook

Mycle Wastman

Mackenzie Bourg

2Steel Girls – eliminated after first battle

Joe Kirkman

Think I'm up to 10,11,12 in videos so that puts me with Collin, Terisa and Suzanna - all on Team Blake now that Collin got saved after a battle elimination against Bryan Keith.

Wild World - Collin McLoughlin
first one i bought off itunes this season, awesome cover


Someone Like You - Terisa Griffin
my favorite blake moment of the season, gotta watch this one, she's hysterical
"just punch me in the face and get it over with"


Landslide - Suzanna Choffel
reminds me a bit of juliet simms
she's great. no smoke and mirrors here.


Out for the night.

Maybe some sleep with knock me back from this off-ness.