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·         Spoiler Alert! If you want to see the finale and enjoy it, don’t read this yet.

This season of Project Runway I only missed one episode. Although I think the designers weren’t as talented as those in past seasons, it was still suspenseful and fun to watch.

Irina became the hated designer of the season. I think that she had some good ideas but I was really getting sick of her sweater pieces and stuff with hoods. I was just so angry when she won!

Irina’s Bryant Park collection was based on surviving in New York which reflected “battle woman” pieces. Mostly all of the pieces were in black and she made weird hats. During one episode, Tim Gunn called her to tell her she had to redo her T-shirts. She had been using someone else’s design. It’s like Duh! Get your own ideas!

Althea was very fashion forward. Her niche was business style things, things I think people could wear to work and then go out to a bar afterward.

The person I really wanted to win was Carol Hannah. I could picture myself wearing most of her pieces to formal events.

For more articles and photos about the show, go to Project Runway’s Web site,  http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/shows/project-runway

I’m sure all teen “hunks” or even boybands who are not even in their teens have their crazy tween and teen fans.

“Twilight” is known to attract fans of all ages. I’ve read the books and I’m 25. My mother-in-law has read them too as well as her friends. Even elementary kids love “Twilight.”

Taylor Lautner who plays Jacob in the “Twilight” movies was on Jay Leno recently. Check out what he had to say about a crazy fan.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zua6vg4AHCk&feature=popular

 Taylor is good looking but I’m still for Team Edward though.

While you are spending time at a movie theater, you have probably seen the messages that are shown on the screen about turning off your cell phones.

It’s very courteous to make sure you are quiet when you are watching a movie in a theater. People go out to escape from their stressful lives and be entertained. And it’s not cheap either. Most theaters charge $10 a ticket.

Recently I went to the movies with my significant other. These teen guys in the front went over and started chatting up two teen girls who were sitting by themselves. I admit the beginning of the movie was a little slow. That doesn’t mean you can be disruptive.

The one boy dropped a pocketful of change all over the floor. The girls would giggle and slap the guys. I don’t know if they knew each other before the movies, but nonetheless, it was annoying!

I don’t remember being that disrespectful at the movies when I was a teenager. Sure, I know that we talked or whispered during movies but I don’t think that people could hear us and we sure didn’t do it throughout the entire movie.

If those teens didn’t like the movie, they didn’t have to stay. There was a pizza place and mall across the street they could have gone to instead. But no, of course they had to sit and keep on talking for 75 percent of the movie.

I also get annoyed when people talk on their cell phones during movies. Or even text for that matter. I make sure that my phone is either off or on vibrate. What’s the point of going to the movies when you care more about who is going to call you?

Going through the experience of annoying teens this past movie theater trip reminded me of why it’s great to rent a movie at home. It’s cheaper. You can hit pause and rewind. You usually don’t have annoying people trying to talk over the movie. Popcorn and other snacks don’t cost an arm and a leg.

We live in a society in which when we want to relax, we turn on the TV.

I am somewhat guilty of this too, but I don’t really think I watch that much TV. Thursday night is when I watch The Office and Project Runway.

Although reading books makes you think and seems like a lot of work, it’s still a great pastime.

After college, I started to get into reading again. I didn’t read as a hobby in college because I was already reading items for other classes.

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Twilight series books are testaments that people still like to read. The key thing nowadays is staying ahead on your reading before the movies come out. Then when the movies come out, you can pick them apart. Or in some cases be pleased with how the movie did a good job of following the book.

Going to the movies is a great way to get out of the house and is great for date night. But if you want to go on an adventure from the comfort of your own home, then books are great!

I say books are still in.

Right now I am reading “Marshmallows for Breakfast.” What are you reading?

I realized I have a little more than 200. Most of them are people I met in college. Others are work friends, excoworkers and friends I went to middle and high school with. One of them is a close relative and a few others are cousins.

 How many of them do I see on a regular basis? Well, I see my fiancé on a regular basis and the close relative I see every couple of weeks. The work friends I see basically every day.

Some of my Facebook friends I have not spoken to in a long time. Some of them I don’t even like anymore.

You may be asking why I still keep these people as friends? I like to Facebook stalk them.

I think we are all guilty of Facebook stalking. Yeah, you haven’t talked to Joe Schmoe or Mrs. Joe Schmoe in a long long time, but you  want to see what he/she is up to.

It’s amazing how many of my Facebook friends have kids. Some have two and others are on their third. This makes me feel quite old!

I’ll just settle for four-legged kids (pets) at this point.

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I am a big fan of the show, Project Runway. Recently, I found out that the Web site, www.projectrunwaysweeps.com,  is offering a chance to win $1,000, or you could win $25,000 and have lunch with Tim Gunn. 

You can enter many times. All you have to do is watch a clip of last week’s episode and vote on who you thought should have gone home. They pick the bottom two from the week before to choose from.

It would be so exciting to meet Tim Gunn! I wonder what kind of restaurant you’d be able to go to in NYC and what he would order. Is he a martini man? Or is he a mixed drink man? What would we talk about? Would he tell Heidi about me? Would I get a chance to meet Heidi too?

And of course, the big question, “WHAT WOULD I WEAR?”

I’d have to get a whole new outfit!

I would also be happy with winning $1,000. That could pay for a lot of nice things.

My chances are probably slim with either of the prizes but oh well. It’s fun to dream, right?!

Well, it’s been some time since I updated my blog.

My theme of my blog is to concentrate mostly on issues that affect young people. I am now 25 and consider myself a young person. I don’t always feel like it though.

What do some young people do? Get married. I am not there quite yet but slowly getting there. I became engaged last year and I will be getting married not this fall but next fall. I have my dress and I’m pretty excited about that.

If you are getting married, go to David’s Bridal. They have a great variety of styles and decent prices.

We just booked our photographer. We are using the same one my brother and sister-in-law used. I feel pretty confident in that choice because they did an awesome job. We decided to get a videographer from the same place. Several people I know don’t remember their weddings. My fiancé and I would like to remember ours.

Wedding planning is stressful and exciting. Everything is so expensive but there are ways to be frugal. Time always helps that.

I’ve been seeing a lot of promos for “The Principal’s Office” and I really wanted to watch it. This weekend I had a chance to see several episodes.

If you haven’t seen the show, basically it’s a reality show, giving viewers an inside look of what happens in various principals’ offices.

Watching this show reminds me why I didn’t get a job in education. Kids seem so much worse than when I went to school.

In this one episode I was watching, this kid got in trouble for making a “sexist comment.” He said, “How can women be bad at sex? All they have to do is lay there.”

He defended what he said by admitting he was taking a quiz in a girl’s magazine.

I wanted to slap him across the face.

Another girl didn’t want to go outside for gym because the humidity messes up her hair. I can understand this annoyance, but I was thinking, “Get over it.” What made it worse is she was telling the principal “People depend on me to look good.” Her face was plastered with makeup. There was so much eyeliner I could hardly see her real eyes.

There was also a principal who gives students the option of three “licks” from a paddle. It looked fake though because he paddled a student behind a closed door.

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So I got sucked in to watching “The City,” a spinoff show of “The Hills” on MTV.

I will never consider Whitney as a Carrie Bradshaw but I can say that Whitney is learning to be tougher.

Since she moved to New York, she’s had to deal with a spoiled, stuck up co-worker at Diane Von Furstenberg and rumors that Jay, the guy she’s interested in, likes another girl.

Does anyone else want to punch Olivia, the stuck up co-worker, in the face? She bragged about having Manolo Blahniks at age 15 or 16. She’s definitely the villain of the reality show. I’m glad that I don’t work with anyone like her.

Although I don’t dislike Jay, I don’t think he’s good for Whitney. They’ve been hanging out for a month and he still doesn’t want a relationship. Then from previews, he seems like he gets jealous when Whitney hangs out with other guys. Sorry bud, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. I like that Whitney’s been straight up honest with Jay like when she told him about the rumor floating around and in the most recent episode when she tells him she doesn’t want to date someone that doesn’t make her a priority.

It should be an interesting season.

This fall my boyfriend of four years proposed to me on his birthday. What a wonderful surprise that was!

That week as we told family and friends we faced the big question: “Have you set a date?”

That’s very overwhelming. We thought “just let us enjoy this time.”

We chose October 2010 as our time to get married. I am waiting on my mother-in-law’s list of people she would like to invite.

I started looking at prices for some food and  man, it’s overwhelming. I had trouble sleeping last night and half of the reason was because I was worrying about how we’re going to afford a wedding. My parents are going to help of course but I feel bad making them pay for everything especially with all of the help they have given me throughout the years.

People are putting pressure on us to move up the date of our wedding but what they don’t realize is that it’s better to have a long engagement. That was it is easier to budget. I want us to have a nice wedding but I don’t need to have it at the fanciest place.