Cassy In Her Own World

Sisters. Charming, aren't we? Miss Emma and Miss Alana: The Flower Girls. Or rather, The Leaf Girls... "You may kiss the bride." Ben Eager: Ringbearer (he was not a happy camper!) First dance as man and wife. l-r: Kristi Grandy, me, Dana Cardona (MoH), Phoebe Torrens(!)

As you may know (I'm not sure how many times I may or may not have mentioned it in the past year), my sister, Phoebe Chidester, married last Saturday on October 18th, 2008. Yes, the date is significant, but don't ask me why. I left for America on Wednesday in the morning (very early morning, dammit!) alone and arrived in New York's JFK Airport at around 7:30 at night (ECT). The flight was near to unbearable, but at least I got my reading done for the review I'm supposed to hand in on the 9th of November (why do publishers always pick horrible dates?). Anyway, arriving in JFK went smoothly, customs went by rapidly, I was one of the first people at the conveyer belt. So, of course, I had to wait 15 minutes for the cursed thing to start and then another half hour for my suitcase to come. I guess the unloading crew thought it would be funny to torment me (and yes, I'm fully aware that that's not anywhere near true, but let me be a drama queen!). So, after I got my l...

...make me sick. I wonder if any of my avid (HA!) readers have heard of Nikki Blonsky? If you haven't heard of her, you've definitely seen her - if you've seen the 2007 remake of the 1988 hit movie "Hairspray", that is. She was introduced into the glamorous world of Hollywood in the movie and I have to admit, she was a pretty good actress. I had high hopes for her (especially since she got to kiss Zac Efron...hehe). Unfortunately, she seems to be a big fan of actresses who destroy their careers (i.e. Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, ...). A few months ago, there were reports of her getting into a fight with Bianca Golden (America's Next Top Model, another mindless show made up to waste our time) in an airport over a place to sit . I don't know about you, but that's just a bit below the bar for me...Nikki was saving seats in the waiting room for her rather large family and Bianca wanted to have them, so she an Nikki got into a fight an apparently, Nikki...