{"id":1267,"date":"2008-05-12T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T18:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/survivor-baby\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T18:13:23","slug":"survivor-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/survivor-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was it just me, or was that one of the best seasons &#8211; and most satisfying finales &#8211; of Survivor in a long, long time?  And wouldn&#8217;t you just LOVE to see Ozzy and Amanda do the Amazing Race together just like Rob and Amber did?<\/p>\n<p>I usually find the first hour and a half of the Survivor finale rather tedious.  They tend to recap and rehash just a little bit too much; even with my shoddy memory, I can remember what happened eight weeks ago.  Mostly.  But I really enjoyed watching it last night, mostly because it was like replaying our lives with Lucas so far.<\/p>\n<p>You might remember that my water broke the morning of the season debut, but Lucas held off arriving until the next day just so we could watch Survivor that night.   Seeing Jonny Fairplay and Mary again reminded me of how I&#8217;d missed a lot of the details of those earliest episodes as I paced in and out of the room with a wailing babe against my shoulder, trying anything to get him to settle down.  By the time Jonathan Penner had to leave the game, we were giving Lucas his extra bottle at night, and he was starting to settle in to a workable routine.  By the time Jason found the fake immunity idol, my little angel was sleeping rather reliably (shhhh!) through the night.  And by last night&#8217;s finale, I could no longer remember what it was like to not have Lucas in our lives.  Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/why-i-will-always-think-of-jeff-probst-when-i-think-of-my-childbearing-years\/\">Survivor and my life as a mother are inextricably intertwined<\/a> &#8212; so it seems plenty appropriate that the Fans versus Faves series ended on Mother&#8217;s Day.  <\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or is Jeff Probst getting hotter by the season?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">***<\/div>\n<p>Speaking of celebrity crushes, I&#8217;ve finally figured out why I find American Idol&#8217;s David Cook so compelling.  I said before that I had a crush on him, but even then I knew &#8220;crush&#8221; was the wrong word.  In watching the dual performances last week, I realized why I like David Cook so much:  looking at him, I can imagine what my grown-up Tristan might be like.  I don&#8217;t know what it is, but there is something in his face, his build, and even his demeanor that is so evocative of Tristan that once I noticed it I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/graygreenblue.jpg'  title='graygreenblue.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/graygreenblue.thumbnail.jpg' alt='graygreenblue.jpg' \/style=\"float:left; margin-right: 5px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/699221505\/\"  title=\"Watching for the ferry by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1360\/699221505_9a02716853_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Watching for the ferry\" \/style=\"float:right; margin-right: 5px;\" \/><\/a>It might be the eye colour.  Like Tristan, David&#8217;s eyes seem to shift from gray to green to blue.  I stole this photo from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/myidol\/forums\/topic\/?tid=856701\">fan site<\/a>.  And David is tall and broad-shouldered, like Tristan will be.  And he has reddish brown hair that doesn&#8217;t really behave.  Tristan is genetically predisposed to all these things, thanks to Beloved and I.  My father was a professional musician when I was a kid, and Beloved&#8217;s cousin was the lead singer of the moderately popular Canadian band, The Tea Party, so he definitely has the potential for some musical chops.  The more I think about it, the more similarities there are.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not too weird, is it?  <\/p>\n<p>Good thing the nice weather is here.  I think I need to get away from the TV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it just me, or was that one of the best seasons &#8211; and most satisfying finales &#8211; of Survivor in a long, long time? And wouldn&#8217;t you just LOVE to see Ozzy and Amanda do the Amazing Race together just like Rob and Amber did? I usually find the first hour and a half &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/survivor-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Survivor, baby!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}