Happy New Something!

Seeing as I haven't posted a blog in a while, I feel compelled to write something that will first usher out 2007 and welcome in 2008.  And in what better way than with a little announcement and some celb gossip?

First of all, the little annoucement.  On Christmas day, my boyfriend proposed.  Of course I said yes, because only an idiot says no to a 1.5 carat ring.  Well, rings seeing as I was presented with not only the engagement ring (which boasts a .7 carat center diamond) but the wedding band as well.  It was a set, so naturally I was presented with both.  In all reality though, this man is the love of my life and I'm not just marrying him because 1) he makes good money and 2) he's good in bed.  We've known each other for years, and for a long time he was my best friend above anyone else.  Now he's my best friend and the love of my life and all is good.   I'm planning on setting up a blog to chronicle the wedding, which I plan on posting either here on LJ or on MySpace.  Pretty much the only bonus of MySpace is the fact that I can have a photoalbum.  But I can also post pictures here, so I'm not too terribly worried about that aspect.

To ring in 2008, I'm going to ponder the phenomenon that is the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears.  First of all, she actually had the cajones to say that she's surprised that she's pregnant.  She had sex.  The main purpose of sex, besides to make Jenna Jameson richer than God, is to procreate (read: make babies!).  Where the hell was the disconnect?  Was she on the pill?  Was he wearing a condom?  Were they using any sort of birth control at all?

But I digress.  You can't fix some things.  Stupid being one of them.

At anyrate, I think my big hang up comes from the fact that despite all of strange Britney behavior, Jamie Lynn wasn't a part of it.  No wild parties, no super sexy clothes on her teenaged body.  She was always fashionable, but not trashy.  (Hit Me Baby One More Time anyone?)  She seemed like the normal one compared to Brit's whacked out behavior post K-Fed.  Her life was not lived out in Trashloid headlines.  She was the good kid with the wholesome show, the one that taught girls to be independent and free thinkers, to go after the dreams.  And now that perfectly coifed and made up tweeny-bopper role model has just sunk to Trashloid hell to keep dear older sister company.  Wow.

Now she's made the decision to keep the baby so it will have a normal life.  With an aunt like Britney, I think I'd want to be pruned from the Spears family tree.  This kid will never know normal, because let's face it, little in Hollywood is normal.  Or real.  I mean, there's another reason they call it the Silicone Valley, you know.  I feel sorry for this kid because its life will be so screwed up.  I never thought I'd actually say this, but thank God for Keven Federline, or Sean Preston and Jaden would probably need super intensive therapy (instead of just the intensive therapy) to get over the horrors of their childhoods.  I can't imagine that Jamie Lynn, who is still technically a child in the eyes of the American government,  is actually mature enough to be a parent.  Exhibit A: Britney, who even as an "adult" and being married still managed to know nil about the basics of parenthood.  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, folks.  Occasionally one manages to roll away, but most of the time they just land with a loud thunk and then stay where they are to rot.  Exhibit B: earlier comment about being surprised about the pregnancy.  Uh, yeah, last time I checked pregnancy was a by-product of sex.

Man, sometimes I think that Hollywood's standards are even too low.