Back To the 80s on American Idol- Theme Songs From The Year You Were Born

 Last night's American Idol  theme was  Songs from the year were born.  Overall good theme though some performances were better than others

Top  Three: Alison;Danny; Matt
Bottom 3:  Anoop   Lil  Scott
Middle: Adam and Kris

Summary and Ratings of Last Night's Performances 
Ratings on 1-10    1= horrible and hurts my ears 10- Totally and completely awesome
 ( I can't remember all the song titles)
Danny 
Birthyear 1980
Danny's performances keep getting better and better  each week. He is definitely  a contender  for the top 3 in my opinion.
Rating:  9
Adam
Birthyear   1982
Song: Mad World
Not a huge fan of this song in the first place. His performance was so-so.  Everything he sings is kind of starting to sound the same and I think he is better suited for  Musical Theatre then for American Idol.
Rating; 4
Lil 
Birthyear 1984
Song: What's Love Got To With It - Tina Turner
Not her best performance.  Loved the song choice and I found myself singing along however  I do not feel she did the song justice. She may go home this week
Rating: 4
Matt  
Birthyear 1985
Song: Part Time Lover
Like Danny his performances keep getting better and better and continue to impress me. I think he will definitely make it into the top 5. If he is in  bottom three  I will cry. Same thing with Allison and Danny. 
Rating:8 
Scott
Birthyear 1985
Good song choice  and I liked how he finally got out of his comfort zone from playing the piano. He has good stage prescene. However, all his songs are starting to sound the same. 
Rating 4
Kris
Birthyear: 1985
He had a really high energy performance this week. I truly enjoyed it.
Rating: 7
Anoop
Birthyear: 1986
Song- True Colors  by Cyndi  Lauper
I don't know what to think of Anoop anymore. There are some weeks when I think he is  really good and some weeks when I think he will most likely end up going home.  This week I am sort of border line because while I thought he had an excellent song choice and did really good vocally  like I said for Scott and Adam everything is kind of starting to sound the same
Rating:4.5
Allison
Birthyear:1992
The youngest one in the comppetion surely has high stakes for her older compettiors to follow.  She is very talented for   sixteen years old and  I predict she will make it all the way to the top three.  I will definitely by her records. I plan on buying Danny's and Kris's too. Possibly even Scott's. If she  is in the bottom three again  I will cry. She has been in the bottom three for the past two weeks so things don't really look too good for her.
Rating:8

Reviewing the situation

Today I went to a job fair for people with disabilities @ the Marriot Hotel in Boston. I picked up a lot of pamphlets that I need to look over about stuff in Massachuetts that are hiring. Quite frankly Massachuetts seems to have a bigger variety amount of jobs than NH does. If things do not turn around considerably in terms of full or part time employment soon I may have to consider reloacting to Boston for awhile to work down there and live with my grandparents during the week and live at home during the weekends.. kind of similar to what Thomas Rossi is doing. I have been incredibly discouraged lately with the amount of full time or part time work I have been able to find locally so it might be beneficial for me to broaden my horizions a little bit. I have been playing phone tag with the managers from Fridays and Black Forest Cafe to set up interviews and the Public Relations department woman at Gateways for a volunteer job working on thier newsletter to set up a schedule for that quite frusturating. I also had a job interview at Southern NH Medical Center yesterday for a volunteer job. Complete disappointment as they had no opportunties I was interested in. I wonder what kind of opportunities I will find for jobs at the job fair at Southern NH University on Thursday. Hopefully there are more places hiring then I think there are.. perhaps I am just looking in the wrong places for work. We willl see.
So needless to say I have a ton of stuff to do in the coming days

• Fill out online job apps for Home Depot, The Social Secruity Adminstration

Follow up with the following places about job apps/setting up interviews (these may have to wait til Monday.

1. Fridays (7th attempt)
2. Black Forest Cafe (5th attempt)
3. Unos
4. Camp Sargent
5. Hampton Inn

• Work on my next article for the Milford Cabinet.

A 48 hour hiatus from Facebook seems most appropriate.. maybe a while longer.

Megan got voted off American Idol. Sweet justice to my ears. She could not sing and whoever kept voting for her (clearly she had a bigger fan base than Alexis Grace who got voted off two weeks ago) were totally tone deaf. She was totally and completley a sore loser being all immature and saying " I don't care what you think" and having an over all bad attitude. Thank god she is finally gone. I think that either Anoop or Scott will be next to go. Allison was in the bottom 3 again this week... not a very good sign.. that could potentiallly be an indicator that she could go home next. I think is is a close contender for the top 3.

Well Seinfeld is on in 10 minutes so I gotta go.. i will probably go to bed early tonight. A lot needs to be done tomorrow before Heather and Erin come over... mostly cleaning my room and working on my article so I can get that sent off by Sunday night.

Janine

Above All

I am very frusturated because I still don't have a job yet... stressed and kind of getting depressed. It seems like everywhere I turn there seems to be a roadblock. I did turn a few job applications at summer camps and the Hampton Inn but I won't hear back from them for another couple weeks. I have also applied at Fridays and the Black Forest Cafe for hostesting jobs and I am supposed to be hearing back from them sometime today to set up an interview. I am going out with my job coach @ 2 to go pick up some more applications. Friday I might go to a job fair in Boston and see what kinds of opportunities they have there for me. If I end up getting a job down there then I will most likely end up moving in with my grandparents. I wouldn't mind that actually because there seem to be almost no jobs around here whatsoever.
STRESS CITY! OMG!! I'm going so insane with stress.. and also i am quite stir crazy because I am so bored out my wits at home.

As of tomorrow there will be 23 days til I go to New York! I am getting so excited and anxious. I hope the plans for the Barn Playhouse reunion that my friend Colleen and I are organizing will start fall into place soon. People are supposed to rsvp by April 16th so they still have a little under two weeks to let Colleen or I know they are coming. Hopefully the party will have a big turnout. I am getting so excited to see HAIR and get the backstage tour from my friend Jay. It's gonna be wicked awesome!!! YAY YAY YAY!!

I have two volunteer job interviews this week one tomorrow at Parkhurst Place a senior citizen home in Amherst and one at Southern NH Medical Center in Nashua on Thursday at 1. I figured volunteering is a good way to get my face out in the community and hopefully get a job at place like that.

So I am totally hoping Megan goes home on American Idol tonight. In my opinion she is only in the compettion for her looks and her singing voice is not that great. She should have gone home two weeks ago instead of Alexis. I can't wait for this week's theme top 100 songs. I can't wait to see who gets what song and hope one of the guys gets a Rascal Flatts song.. I think that either Scott or Kris would do really good at a Rascal Flatts song!
My NCAA basketball bracket totally and completely sucks. Out of the teams in my bracket the only teams that made it to Final Four were Louisville and UConn. I hope UConn wins it all.. that would be one point for New England since BU got out in the quarterfinals. For men's hockey UNH got beaten by BU so I was pretty bummed out about that but out of New England teams Vermont and BU are in the slots to go to the Frozen 4 so I'm stoked. A couple more weeks and the the Red Sox start their regular season! I am so excited!!

Time for lunch
Love
Janine

My bracket kind of sucks..

NCAA Basketball   Semi Finals

Teams  I am following are in bold

For the most part my bracket is pretty screwed

East Divison
Pittsburgh 60    Xavier 55
Villianova 67  Duke 55
Final Game Prediction:  Pittsburgh  wins 60-49

South Division
Oaklahoma 84  Syracuse 71
North Carolina 88   Gonzaga 77

Final  Game Prediction: N. Carolina wins  57-49

Midwest Division
Louisville 103  Arizona  69
Michigan State 67  Kansas 62
Final Game Prediction:  Louisville  wins 104-72
West Regional
UCONN 72  Purdue 60
Missouri 102   Memphis  91
Final Game Prediction: UConn 103  Missouri 90

Men's Hockey

Teams I am following is in bold

Northeast

BU 8 Ohio State  3

UNH 6  North Dakota 5 (OT)

East

 Air Force  2 Michigan  0

Vermont 4 Yale 1

West 

Miami Ohio  4  Denver 2

Minnesota-Deluth 5 Princeton 4 (OT)

Cornell 3 Northeastern  2

Notre Dame vs Bemidji State was a late game so the score wasn't in the paper

NEXT Round

 It is tough to predict who will win the BU-UNH game because they are both really good teams in their respective divisions

Vermont will beat Air Force 4-2

Miami Ohio will beat Minnesota Deluth 6-5

So excited!!

I love you Matt!

My  plans for my trip to New York at the end of April with my boyfriend for our one year anniversary   are starting to fall into place.   I am so excited.   The hotel room has been brought, the tickets for HAIR  has been reserved, the restaurant for the Barn reunion has been selected.  The details that need to be worked out are transportation too and  from the city and reservations at the restaurant for the Barn reunion  Colleen Fee and I are keeping track of the RSVPS and  the week before I go  I will have a final head count to make the reservation at the Barn reunion. Hopefully it will have  a big turn out but  it's hard to tell because I don't know what people's schedules are going to be like.

Job search is still continually stressfull. This week I dropped of an application @  The Hampton Inn, The Black Forest Cafe and Fridays.   I also heard back from the lady in charge of the summer camp in Merrimack and she said they don't start scheduling interviews til the second week of April and interviews for the Hampton  Inn don't start til May 1st. Hopefully  I get a job soon I am getting so tired of looking.

I do not have much else to update on. 

Until later farewell

Janine

Update!

So it's been awhile since I updated... actually updated not just posted a filler post about American Idol or March Madness.
Last weekend was pretty boring Matt was away for the weekend visiting family and Heather was in North Carolina visiting her brother who just came from Iraq. I made the best of it though. Friday evening I ushered at the play at the Boys And Girls Club No Sex Please We're Bittish. You can see my brief review of it at my theatre reviews blog http://theatrereviewer826.blogspot.com. Saturday I went to my sister's dance team compettion at Souhegan. It was long but fun. Souhegan won first place overall.
Now it's back to my griping about job searching.
So when it boils down to it there are not a lot of jobs out there right now. I can't even beleive i've almost been out of school for a year and looking for a job for almost just as long. The freelance job at the Cabinet and subbing provide me with some spending money but the issue at hand is finding a second job to pay back my loans from NEC. I have applied to pretty much every place imaginable and there are very few places that seem to be hiring. I am thinking of applying for a job at Seasonal Pools and Spas on Rt 101A and hostess jobs at local resturants just so I can get a bit more money coming in. Since I can't seem to find much full-time/part time work I have decided to do some volunteering just to get me out of the house. I am going to be working at Gateways in Nashua helping out with their newsletter and also trying to get an in with voulteering at Southern NH Medical Center doing anything I possibly can. I was supposed to have an interview yesterday with the volunteer coordinator but she has been sick all week so we rescheduled our appointment for sometime next week.

American Idol Update
Here is how I rate last nights perfomances on a scale of 1-10
Adam -8
Allison 7
Anoop 7.5
Danny 7.5
Kris 7.5
Lil 6.5
Matt 9
Megan 3
Michael 3
Scott 6.5

Top 3 Adam; Allison Matt
Bottom 3 Megan Michael Scott


Off to write cover letters.

Janine

American Idol Week 2 Summary and Week Three Predictions

Okay so week two of American Idol has passed. Last week's theme for songs was country. I was quite excited becaue country is one of my favorite genres of music besides showtumes and classic rock. Here is how I would rate last weeks's performances on a scale of 1-10(In alphabetical order)
Adam- In my opinion I think Adam will be the next one to go. I am getting quite bored with him. I think he is better suited for musical theatre and not American Idol . Apparently he was in Wicked. I have no idea what character he played though. 4
Alexis- I am not really familiar with Dolly Parton's music at all but I thought she did a pretty good job. I was sad that she got voted off. Michael or Adam should have gone home. 6.5
Allison- She is a powerhouse! I was shocked that she was in the bottom three. I think she is one of the best contestants this season. 7
Anoop- He's been one of my favorites since the beginning when they were auditioning. I think he has a good shot at getting a record deal. He really bounced back from his performance last week. As Simon said he went from Zero to Hero. 7
Kris- I think he is one of the better male contestants this season. He has a wonderful voice and I liked his song choice. 6
Danny- He totally rocked Jesus Take The Wheel. Loved his performance 9
Lil- Her performance was pretty good. It shows she can add some variety to what she sings. I love how Simon comments on her wardrobe all the time when he doesn't even know anything at all about fashion. 6
Matt- Clearly he is one of my favorite guys this season other than Danny. He really reminds me of Justin Timberlake. 8
Megan- She is the complete opposite of Anoop and has my least favorite contestant from the beginning of show other than Tatianna Deltoro who luckily got voted off during wildcard week. In my opinion she doesn't have that great of a voice while she has had her good moments.. like a few songs she sang during Hollywood week. She totally butcherd Can't Help Lovin That Man of Mine from Showboat which she sang for her audition and Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline which she sang last week, During Michael Jackon week her renditon of Rockin' Robin was also pretty horrid. If Adam is not the next person to go then she willl be. 3
Michael- I personally didn't feel that his performance was the memorable at all. 3
Scott- While I sort of agree with Paula's critique that he uses the piano as a crutch I do think he is really talented and will probably end up making it to the top 5. 6.5

This weeek's theme is MoTown. Prelimilarly here is who are in my top and bottom three. Tomorrow I will post who I think will go home after having seen the performances.
Top 3: Scott Lil Allison
Bottom 3: Adam Megan Michael

Job Search To Do List
Tomorrow I have a volunteer job interview @ St Joesph's Hospital. I will also find out if they have any available positions open
Fill out TJ Maxx application Currently they are not hiring but I will apply anyway and if they start hiring in the summer
Complete Camp Naticook Application and send it off
Fill out Panera Application