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Dancing With the Stars...again!!

Yes, Amanda, I am back to watching "Dancing with the Stars." I love this show! I had so much fun watching everyone dance. Jason Taylor (NFL player for Miami) was fantastic and fun to watch. Kristi Yamaguchi was near perfect and Shannon Elizabeth was so graceful. But, my favorite performance to watch was that of Marlee Matlin. Wow. For those of you who don't watch the show, she's deaf. Yeah, it's pretty cool. She's a fabulous dancer and even the judges talked about how she had good "musicality."

My in-laws are deaf, so it's even more special to watch her dance. (Actually, this is my mother-in-law's favorite TV show!) I have been incredibly impressed and hope that she goes far. I tried to vote last night, but my email was super slow and by the time I decided to text message (couldn't remember the numbers, so had to go online to get them), it was too late.

On the other side, as sweet as she is, Monica Seles is by far the worst of the female dancers and for the men, both Penn Jillette and Adam Corolla need to go soon.

I've noticed that the judges are harder this year. Although I think Kristi should have gotten at least one 10 last night (they all told her that her performance was perfect and couldn't find anything wrong), the judges had definitely gotten a little too generous the last time I watched it. Two seasons ago, it seemed like they were constantly giving away 9s and 10s.

Oh yeah, and Priscilla Presley has had WAY too much botox. Her face doesn't even more. The sad thing is that I would really like to see how she would look without the botox. She's the kind of person who will always look beautiful as she ages. It's too bad she's let the botox "deform" her face. :( I'm not trying to be critical, it just really saddened me... (the funny thing is, everyone knows she was married to Elvis Presley, so we all know her approximate age -- the botox isn't fooling anyone!).

Anyways, one male and one female are eliminated tonight -- they changed it up this year! Can't wait to find out!

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Anonymous said…
I agree with everything you just said!!
I love the women this year but Priscilla Presley is SCARY! I think it's definitely botched plastic surgery that she had to have fixed. Yikes!!

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