He likes me, he really likes me!

Some of these are a little blurry due to Cuba moving around a lot lol

Snuggles :D

It has now been over 2 months entering into a third since we got our little feather head:D. After 2 whole months of feeding him and playing nice, my birdie is slowly but surely coming around and starting to accept me (yay!).

I can finally pet him and give him kisses, took me a while to gain his trust, but it was well worth it. He still has his moody days, but he's warmed up to me:).

Hingis through to the 3rd round of U.S. Open

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Well, since I am still waiting to see the 1st round match I thought I would comment on the 2nd. Hingis was up against Pauline Parmentie of France. And miracle of miracles USA Network actually showed almost the entire match!.

The match started off with her opponent winning the opening game and Hingis holding to level at 1/all. Then winning the next 2 games for a 3/1 lead. Her competitor managed to get only one game back before Hingis closed the set at 6/2.

The second set started much like the first with Hingis leveling things at 1/all after losing the opening game. Hingis proceeded to win the next game on her 3rd break chance for 2/1. Her opponent broke right back for 2/all. Hingis broke again for 3/2 but so did her opponent leveling the match at 3/all.

Hingis broke back for 4/3, but her opponent broke her at love for 4 games all. Towards the end of this set her opponent picked up her game a lot more perhaps surprising Hingis a little, making it tougher for her to close out the match. Hingis had to battle for 5/all after losing the game at love to win the set at 7/5.

Overall it was good match, a nice test towards the end. Though from what I read she seemed to play a little better in her first match. At this point it's still hard to judge exactly how she's playing, there is definitely an improvement compared to last year's U.S. Open.

She'll of course have to play better if she wants to make it past Kuznetsova in the 4th round, but I'm taking it one match at a time. So again the verdict is she played well, thus avoiding last year's embarrassing loss to Verginie Rozzano in the second round.

Right now I'm just glad she's finally playing. It's never the same without her in any tournament. So I'm wishing her all the luck and hoping her body holds up. Especially since she's pulling double duty playing singles and doubles with Daniela Hantuchova.

In the first set the commentators thought she may have hurt herself, or felt a twinge in her back, but it didn't seem to bother her the rest of the match so I'm hoping it was nothing.

She was also swinging her racket a lot which was a little unusual for her, but I honestly think it was just her trying to stay nice and loose. Anyway, congrats to Martina and here's hoping she can keep the momentum going.

Hingis off to a good start at U.S. Open

Well the first round match went quite well for Hingis, but due to poor coverage by the USA Network (big surprise)


Hingis fans got to see all of 3 games ( a total of 15 minutes) before the wonderful people at the network switched to a different match, because of course unless it is an American player the network doesn't give a hoot. This is something that occurs every year, so it's not a shocker but it just really pisses me off.

I have no doubt Eurosport will prove much more reliable and I will give a full recount of the match once I've seen it. Which will hopefully be sometime tomorrow so stay tuned;). Until then enjoy some pics of Hingis sightseeing in NY :).









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*Gasp* it's an update!

Yeah, I know I have been a total slacker this past week, what can I say? it's August. Haven't had much to write about. But the drought is finally over at least for the next couple of weeks lol. The U.S. Open Championships begun today so it should provide me with plenty of fodder.

I'm glad it is underway, I have been suffering some serious tennis withdrawal lol. But let's get down to the important stuff, I'm sure every Martina Hingis fan out there is wondering how she's feeling physically but most of all mentally. And if she's ready to compete.

With the break-up of her engagement, and the constant plaguing injuries, it's hard to say how she'll perform in New York. Keeping all that in mind I'm not holding out much hope of her actually winning the tournament (even though her draw is favourable).

As with the last few tournaments I'm going to take it one match at a time with no expectations. Well, ok maybe just one small hope of her actually winning in the first round and perhaps making it into the second week.

Here are some photos of Hingis at Arthur Ashe Kids Day which took place this past Saturday, to tie us all over until tomorrow (when Martina will hopefully play). Which should give us an indication of how she's feeling these days. Gotta say it's nice to see her happy and smiling, especially since she hasn't had much reason to recently.

Martina Hingis having a blast with Ana Ivanovic

Friendly competition of men vs. women

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Celebrity baby news update

Earlier this year I mentioned that Sarah Gilbert (Darlene on Roseanne) was pregnant.

Well she give birth on August 2nd so this is actually really late, but she give birth to a little girl named Sawyer.

Who joins her 3-year-old brother Levi. So congratulations to her :).

"Dead Like Me" movie update

Last month I mentioned that there was going to be a straight to dvd movie based on this t.v. series. Well, the movie has wrapped and is expected to hit the shelves sometime next year, yay!.

I also mentioned there were going to be possible cast changes. Unfortunately they replaced 2 of my favourite characters. Mandy Patinkin's character Rube (the most integral character aside from Georgia Lass) and Laura Harris character Daisy Adair.

She has a new t.v. show and I guess Mandy couldn't get out of his "Criminal Minds" contract in time. The rest of the original cast is back though, so if you can over look those changes it should still be a fairly enjoyable movie.

I just hope the 2 replacements gel well with the rest of the cast. It will be interesting to see if this show does return to t.v. how Bryan Fuller will juggle the responsibilities of 3 shows (Heroes, Pushing Daisies) assuming "Pushing Daisies" works out.

Anyone else find it weird that both of his series have a title that refers to death?.

Splish, splash, we were taking a bath

I figure you can never have enough cute pet photos so here are some pics of Cuba and I after taking a bath:), well for him it's a weekly mist shower ;). As you can see from the photos he's very content. :)