Jessica Simpson is living, breathing, and unfortunately singing, proof that it’s possible to achieve celebrity status as a pop star and not possess a shred of talent as long as you look good. I see her almost weekly on one mag cover or another when I’m standing in the grocery check out line. She always looks good—nice teeth and all that blonde hair and she’s skinny to boot. But yesterday I was in my car listening to the radio, enroute to pick The Girl up from day camp, and I actually heard her sing for the first time. :confused:

OMG. :crazy: :confused: :O :(It was a remake of Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking. I like that song. And I’m not biased against re-makes (I LOVE the remake of Roberta Flack’s Killing Me Softly). I was driving along, anticipating her fresh take on this song. At first, her vocals were so little-girl breathy that the music overpowered her, but I was still willing to roll with it (hey, I like Astrud Gilberto’s breathy, little-girl vocals). And then she started to really sing and I realized the instrumental overpowering her was a good thing. OMG (I know, I said that before, but…OMG) it was awful. I had to change the station. Jessica should stick with what she does best—looking good on mag covers. :doze:

RWA’s National conference is now less than a month away so of course, I’ve got to be thinking about what I’m going to wear (never mind the conundrum of why it matters what I wear for 2000 other women). I’m pretty set on the clothes front. I picked up the perfect black spandex cocktail dress a couple of months ago—decent brand, well-made, nice cut. It wouldn’t have broken anyone’s wallet to pay full retail but it had been marked down a gazillion times and I picked it up for…tah-dah…eight bucks. Is that a steal or what? But I want a new pair of KMDAFMQ shoes to go with it. So, I was doing a little on-line shopping yesterday – I swear it wasn’t revision procrastination…okay, well maybe it was a little procrastination on my part – and found just what I was looking for. A pair of Manola Blahnik’s at Neiman Marcus for only $475. I swear to you, they were lovely – simple, elegant with a stiletto heel, just what I wanted. And you know, the sheer perversity of paying $475 for a pair of shoes to wear with an $8 dress really appeals to me—sort of warped and twisted. :hehe:Alas, my bank account can’t accommodate that perversity. Plus, if the dh ever caught wind of it—even though it’s my money—he’d stroke right on out. Hmm. Guess I’d better go back to where I bought the dress and troll for equally discounted shoes. :O

But first, I need to quit procrastinating and get back to work….

Jen