All eyes on me in the center of the ring
just like a circus
Don't stand there watching me - follow me, show me what you can do!

I'm like the ring leader.. I call the shots
I'm like a fire cracker I make it HOT
when i put on a show

I feel the adrenaline moving through my veins
Spotlight on me and I'm ready to break....

Britney's Circus song has me hooked....

Both compliments of marriedtothesea.com

Fun Fun

Who cares about the article, that title is hilarious.

But if you do care, here is the link - and I didn't read it so I don't know how good it is/isn't - http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1601391/story.jhtml

Jennifer Aniston quotes from past and present Vogue interviews (as provided by ligaya):

Vogue 2008:

* What really rankled Aniston about the piece was that Jolie felt the need to recount a detailed timeline of exactly how her relationship developed on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while Aniston was still married to and living with Pitt. “There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” says Aniston.

Vanity Fair 2005:

* “She wasn’t naïve,” says Aniston pal Kristin Hahn. “She’s not suggesting she didn’t know there was an enchantment, and a friendship [between Pitt and Jolie].”

* “I don’t think he started an affair physically, but I think he was attracted to her,” says Courteney Cox, who vacationed with her husband, David Arquette, and the Pitts on Anguilla just before they announced their separation. “There was a connection, and he was honest about that with Jen. Most of the time, when people are attracted to other people, they don’t tell. At least he was honest about it. It was an attraction that he fought for a period of time.”

Vogue 2007, Angelina Jolie’s actual quote:

* “Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, ‘God, I can’t wait to get to work.’ … Anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair.”

Vogue 2008:

* “Well, it never was that bad,” she says, knowing that it will be hard for a lot of people to believe. “I mean, look, it’s not like divorce is something that you go, ‘Oooh, I can’t wait to get divorced!’ It doesn’t feel like a tickle. But I’ve got to tell you, it’s so vague at this point, it’s so faraway in my mind, I can’t even remember the darkness. I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split. It wasn’t mean and hateful and all of this stuff that they tried to create about Brad can’t talk to Jen and Jen can’t talk to Brad because this person won’t allow it. It just didn’t happen. The marriage didn’t work out. And pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we’ve been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other. Whoever said everything has to be forever, that’s setting your hopes too high.

Vanity Fair 2005:

* “Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
* “I don’t feel like a victim,” she says. “I’ve worked with this therapist for a long time, and her major focus is that you get one day of being a victim—and that’s it. Then we take responsibility for our own input. To live in a victim place is pointing a finger at someone else, as if you have no control. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart.
* “There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing,” she says.

Vogue 2008:

* These days, the public fascination with her relationship with Vince Vaughn seems almost quaint. I ask her if there’s anything else to be said about that time. “I call Vince my defibrillator,” she says with genuine affection. “He literally brought me back to life.

Vanity Fair 2005:

* When she arrived in Chicago to film The Break-Up, the gossip media, frantic for a new development, immediately plunged her into a torrid romance with her co-star, Vince Vaughn. This affair apparently does not exist.
* “I adore Vince Vaughn, but I’m not going out with Vince Vaughn,” she says. “I barely know the guy. We’ve exchanged a wine-and-cheese basket for the start of the movie, and we’ve gone out to dinner with the director and other people. We’ve got to get to know each other.”

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Look - a marriage breaking up is never easy for EITHER person, but Jen could have been classy about it and wasn't. Don't we remember how classy Nicole Kidman was about her break with Tom Cruise? And that completely blindsided her.

S'more Maniston hating....

Um, yea.

When is Jennifer Aniston going to get over that whole Brangelina thing?

Because here's my personal opinion - from everything I read, etc. it seems like the big breakup between her and Brad really occurred because he wanted children, as she knew from the beginning of the marriage, and she decided she didn't want them so she could make movies. Now, I don't think it's a woman's "job" to have children, and if she wanted a career instead at the time then good for her for not having children and then neglecting them, but she wasn't fair to her husband if that's the case... however, when she denies that that's the case and instead does all these interviews to get sympathy, it's so annoying. She even stated wayyyyy long ago that post-Friends tv show she wanted to begin a family - and guess what? It didn't happen, so that she could make such hits as Derailed and Rumor Has It.

Now, maybe Brad and Angie did get physical before the marriage ended, but it seems like if anything they fell in love on the set of their movie, then once he separated they began to really get involved. I can see why he was drawn to her - she had a child and wanted the same thing he did: a family. So, if they did cheat while he was married, was it really worse than what Jennifer did? She broke his heart in a way, too.

So really, why can't Jennifer Aniston just move on? Maybe she has moved on with John Mayer, but does she stilllllll need to harp on about Brad Pitt? It's over, it happened, and he was very classy - more than her - during the whole bit. He never spoke an ill word about her and barely addressed it in public (and I know some people might say that's because he was in the wrong, but remember, it takes TWO for a marriage to fail).

Whew. That was my rant.

The most talked about honoree of the 2008 Glamour Women of the Year awards was a small child of 10. Nujood Ali, who flew all the way from her native Yemen for the ritzy Carnegie Hall gala, was married off by impoverished parents to a 30-year-old man who raped and abused her.

Her father, who drew an annual salary equivalent to $900, had 18 children and couldn't afford to clothe and feed Ali so he gave her up for marriage. Though her older husband promised to wait years before becoming intimate with his child bride, he beat her and raped her on their wedding night. Ali had enough.

Taking a solo trip to a Yemen courthouse, she sat until a judge took notice and heard her pleas for help. After the lawyer linked her up with a human rights lawyer named Shada Nasser, the brave girl became the country's first child bride to legally end her marriage with a divorce.

"I didn't like my husband so my stepmother told me if I wasn't happy, I should go to court," Ali told The Daily News through a translator. "But no one was willing to take me. So I went on my own."

Praise for the pint-sized hero was flowing from some of the biggest names at Monday night's ceremony.

During her own acceptance speech, Senator Hillary Clinton told the audience, "one of the greatest women I have ever seen is Nujood. She set an example with her courage I hope will continue to challenge all of us."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The News, "I can't wait to meet [Ali]. What an incredible story. That's going to be a great inspiration to talk to her."

Glamour Editor in Chief Cindy Leive said, "how Nujood got the courage to do that at the age of nine, I'll never know. Sometimes you feel like some people are born to change the world and when I met her, I thought, 'You're one of them.'"

"It's my first time in New York City," Ali told The News. "I went to the Museum of Natural History, and to Central Park and I went on a cruise in the river. That was my favorite."

original link: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/10/2008-11-10_10yearold...

when the days are long and the thunder with the storm can always get me crying
well you can make my bed, i'll fall into it
shattered but not lonely
cause i never knew a home
until i found your hands and when i'm weathered you come to me
you're my best friend