Christmas Time in Tennessee

As everyone knows, Christmas is about six days away now! One week from right now, Christmas will be completely over with. Everyone is probably frantically Christmas shopping and grocery shopping for family feasts, and they are probably stressing out. It's the Christmas season. Everyone should be smiling and having a wonderful time with friends they haven't seen in a while and family. I know I love this season!

With the Christmas season comes the usual: lights, egg nog, trees, music, you name it! In regards to music, it's usually the same types of songs. Of course several music artists record their own versions of songs and that makes them even more popular. Everyone has a favorite and mine is "Last Christmas."

It was only three years ago or so when I first heard that song. I was working at the mall and I heard Ashley Tisdale's version of the song and fell in love with it! I would hear it play over and over again so I learned to love it! And recently, I have been listening to Taylor Swift's version of it. Taylor Swift is my absolute favorite artist! However, I really like Ashley's version - maybe because I heard it first and that is my memory of that song. Anyway, Glee had its Christmas episode a couple weeks ago and the characters Finn and Rachel, Cory Monteith and Lea Michele, sing it. I really enjoyed the way they sang it because they both have beautiful voices and the song really fit the situation they were in. It was nice hearing that song with both a girl and guy's voice.

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End Relationships Like the Year

It seems like everyone in Hollywood is breaking up or getting divorced. That does not really help the Hollywood love curse very much.

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens called it quits after five years of dating! I will admit, I have faithfully watched all of the "High School Musical" movies, and they seem to fit well together. Vanessa was not always my favorite person, but over the years, she laid low enough that I began to like her more. It is Zac that I like. So I guess I should be happy that he is single now...

The other break-up, soon to be divorce, that I am sincerely sad about is that of "Sexiest Man Alive 2010" Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson. They have only been married for about one year. So sad! I had high hopes for them, however, I did think they were an odd couple to begin with - but that is why I thought they would last. They WERE a gorgeous couple!

Let's see... who else? Well, there are those couples that no one really knows what will happen. I don't even think the stars themselves know. Exhibit 1: David Arquette and Courteney Cox. They sure made a big buzz about separating. But they keep getting photographed together and are apparently not wanting to divorce. Who really knows? Technically, they have been married around 11 years or so, so maybe they just want to stick with what they know.

Exhibit 2: Eva Longoria and husband Tony Parker. Apparently they are separating also, but they keep getting photographed together and do not want things to end. Again, I have no idea what to think about that. Honestly, I never really liked them as a couple. He is really just not that cute. I said it. She always seemed happy with him though. Plus their height difference makes me laugh. Seriously tall guy, you should date a tall girl because if all the tall guys are taken, then that leaves tall girls with squat.

I'm sure there will be a million more break-ups before 2011 - at least maybe five more. It is so sad. Why is it that Hollywood relationships have low hope for working out?

But on the up side, there have been marriages and new couples emerging lately, so I will have to watch E! News closely to keep my tabs on them!

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So Close, Yet So Far Away

The red carpet premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was in Knoxville, Tenn., on Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Being a Knoxvillian, I decided I would go. To be honest, I have never read the books, although I have now decided to read them over the holidays. I have seen the movies, but it was so long ago that I do not remember it at all. So it is safe to say that I went because I am attracted to red carpets...

From what I have heard, this was the first USA red carpet for the Narnia movies (they are based out of London). Their next stop is to NYC. The two actors from the movie to attend the premiere were Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley who play Edmund and Lucy.

Anyway, I showed up about an hour before the reception started. Just so you know, it was below freezing outside. I could not feel my fingers or toes. That is not even the sad part about the night. I had to leave early because I had a final at school. Yep, a night final that started at 7:15 which is an inconvient time when there is a red carpet happening. I made it up in my mind to leave by 6:30 to get to school in time. It wound up being about an hour that I was there and I crossed my fingers that I would get to see the celebrities. Nope! I had to leave before they got there! DISAPPOINTED! I was so sad. Even though I'm not the biggest Narnia fan, I got excited standing there waiting that I want to get more into it now.

It is just too too bad because I was front and center waiting outside the theater. I knew I had a small chance of seeing them. At least I tried!