#iHeartConcertOnFOX

The iHeart Living Room Concert for America that took place last night on FOX.
Hosted by Elton John (who even performed on his kid’s keyboard!), performers and appearances included:

• Alicia Keyes, BSB, Russell Wilson & Ciara, DaveGrohl, Billie Eilish & Finneas, Ryan Seacrest, Camilla Cabello & Shawn Mendes Billie Joe Armstrong, Melissa McCarthy Ben Falcone, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Tim Mcgraw, Sam Smith, Demi Lovato, Dr. Elvis Francois from the Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, H.E.R. (Having Everything Revealed), Mariah Carey & Daniel Moore and Ellen Degeneras!

Even though they were ALL spectacular, I really held myself to snapping ONLY three photos that I’m including here...I’m most proud of the BSB one!

Go Alicia Keyes!!!

Yaaaassss BSB!!!

And that’s Lizzo chatting with Sir Elton John!!!

Streaming rabbit hole

Even though we’re all ‘self-isolating’ at home, I’ve been unable to binge-watch my taped shows successfully BECAUSE I’ve been watching too many live-streaming shows. For example, I’m currently watching a 12 hour Twitch Stream Aid 2020 that includes performances by Rita Ora, John Legend, Charlie Puth, Thomas Rhett, Scotty McCreery, Lady Antebellum, Cole Swindell, Jordin Sparks, Garth Brooks, One Republic, Luke Combs to name a few.

There’s binge-watching taped shows...ugh...

I’m also including some screen shots of other shows I’ve recently seen that I want to remember:

This is Chris Martin who started #TogetherAtHome

These three are David Foster and Katherine McPhee:

The following two are from Katherine’s birthday:

Also, one more of David, Kat and Buble & Louisiana:

These three are from John Legend’s performance which included drop ins from Chrissy Teigan and Luna:

These two are of Alicia Keyes

The last two are from Keith Urban’s performance with help from wifey, Nicole Kidman!

In this strange and weird ‘isolating’ time period, I’ve been enjoying the excessive amounts of television I’ve both taped and am watching ‘live’ shows.

I’ve really been happy watching this evening’s episodes of ‘Little Big Shots’ with Melissa McCarthy (it was a wonderful and fun musical one!) as well as the crazy antics on ‘American Idol’...and I’m not even halfway through yet!!! It’s made enough of an impression to pause the show to post about it!

Due to social distancing protocols, all recreational facilities in my building are closed...therefore I went for my first walk outside this year!

Even though it was a nice reminder as to why I like to exercise outside, it's still a leeeetle tooooo early in the year as my ears were definitely feeling it.

So if I go out tomorrow morning....earmuffs it is! ;p

Social distancing

Wikipedia’s definitely of ‘social distancing’ is a set of nonpharmaceutical infection control actions intended to stop or slow down the spread of a contagious disease. With the main point of social distancing is in hopes to reduce the probability of contact between persons carrying an infection, and others who are not infected, so as to minimize disease transmission, morbidity and ultimately, death.

Why this necessity at this time?

Unfortunately, the entire world is dealing with coronavirus (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by a new virus that had not been previously identified in humans. The virus causes respiratory illness (flu-like) with symptoms such as a cough, fever and in more severe cases, pneumonia.

It’s so debilitating as even though it doesn’t discriminate to any age, it seems to mainly affect older people and people with pre-existing medical conditions. (Note, parents in this category...even though I’m just past the second point.)

Therefore, even though it goes against my will...social distancing it is...for now.

'Leave a Light On'

Alex Karev's sendoff from the Grey's Anatomy Series March 5, 2020

I made the decision to not watch yesterday's episode that was another one of Grey's original character's closing storyline...partly because I had read some articles giving me an idea of what was to come but the reviews seemed to be negative.
However, after reading Ellen Pompeo's message:
Hi here I go again … Thank YOU! You are truly the best most passionate most loyal fans anyone could ever ask for. Because of you we got to make great tv... because of you we got to make television history! I say often life is hard and thank God it is because like I tell my kids... it shows us what we are made ...of how strong we really are and let's face it... without the lows there would be no dancing it out or celebrating this incredible experience we call life. Thanks to our national treasure @therealdebbieallen and the writers for giving Alex Karev the best send off. Thanks to @shondarhimes for creating the most amazing character. For me personally for Karev to go back to the beginning... was the best possible storyline. It pays homage to those incredible first years and the incredible case … that created a foundation so strong that the show is still standing. So let's not be sad. As our fearless leader DA always says let's PULL UP and celebrate the actors the writers and the fantastic crew who make this show come to life every week. No matter what the challenge or how tired we all are in the end... you keep us going..... That is worth dancing it out over! So much love and gratitude to you all. Xo E
it made me WANT to watch it to make my own judgement on how Justin Chamber's character was wrapped up.

I must say that I disagree with a lot of the negative comments. I'm mainly surprised by the reaction as I personally loved the flashbacks and approve of how they wrapped up the storyline for this character who's been on this journey with Meredith since the beginning. It really does give new meaning to leaving the light on!

This is my conclusion. I’m including a timeline of grey’s characters and the seasons they were on for:

as well as an image as to what happened to the characters:

...that is all!

Call of the wild

So I went to see this movie per mom’s request yesterday.
It’s a sweet movie about a big-hearted dog named Buck and how his domestic life as just a dog is turned upside down when he’s uprooted from his home in Cali and shipped to the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. Going through chapters in his life that included being part of a mail-delivery dog sled team, the movie shows how Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds where his place is in the world.

Definitely a bit of an emotional roller coaster seen through the eyes of a dog.
Plus there was this added bonus of seeing Harrison Ford as one of the main characters as well. Won’t spoil the ending. 😉

Totally worth seeing.

Leap year

Was spent wonderfully with the family as we went to the Bell lightbox for a dinner at Luma, with a wonderful display of seafood (I got the burger), finishing off with dessert and coffee with bailey's.

YUM!!!

I've included two photos of the cn tower as well, we had seats with the wonderful view!

Afterwards, we went to the Princess of Wales to see the fabulous River Dance!!!