oh, TRL, how I miss you

To avoid trudging around NYC in snow (and avoiding a majorly delayed flight), my friend and I pushed back our trip a few weeks.

I didn't end up seeing how much snow NYC received but I did know that  I wasn't interested in spending any more time than necessary inside of LGA or any airport for that matter. So, let's hope in a few weeks there aren't any snow storm threats from Cleveland to NYC.

Instead of living it up in NY, I got back on the workout wagon and spent hours inside of at least five T.J. Maxx's and Marshall's looking for artwork and bedding. I found one I loved at Restoration Hardware and then on West Elm but I don't want a duvet - I want a big, comfy hotel-like comforter.

Anyway, the boys had their night out, which wasn't getting canceled the BF informed me on Friday just because we weren't going to NYC. Oh, you better believe boys night happened!

But that's beside the point. Let's get to the important things this Monday. Let's talk about B. Spears new single - Hold It Against me.If you have Palladia, they've been playing the Lady Gaga and Britney Spears takeover the couple of weeks. That's 4-6 hours straight of Gaga and Britney. When I was off over Christmas, I owned the TV singing at the top of my lungs to every song. Oh, how it brought me back to TRL and my sophomore year of high school.

The BF (god bless the kid) stared at me in amazement (and probably utter shock) as I danced around singing, "she's so lucky, she's a star, but she cries cries cries in her lonely heart thinking...."

 "Ooooohhhh, I love this song," I said as I danced around the room.
 "You say that about EVERY song that's come on. They can't all be your favorite."
"I remember when MTV's Making the Video showed behind-the-scenes to Slave 4 U and watched it over and over to learn the dance routine."

And, I give you, the next song to annoy every male on the planet and bring the 17-year-old teenager in all of us.

Reliving my teen years part 2

Ok, Ok, Ok, everyone has been asking how the concert was?

Did she look good?
Did she sing live?
Were your seats good?



First off, the girl never sings live - EVER. Did I mention she was chomping on gum during Womanizer? I guess you can't go to her concerts ever thinking you are going to get live vocals because you will be thoroughly disappointed.

Me: I don't understand why the Pussycat Dolls can dance their behinds off and sing live. Why can't she at least try and do that?



My friend Maureen put it best. "Allison, you are missing one key point. She can't sing and never really could. She can only dance."

Britney didn't even count to 10 live when her dancers did push ups for her. Why can you not count to 10 live? How hard is that?

And my other pet peeve was the fact that she didn't engage with the audience until after 5 or 6 songs, said hello Pittsburgh and she was going to slow things down and sing Everytime. Look, can you not talk to the audience at all? We all know you aren't singing so could you at least yell something random like Merry Christmas again or Happy New Year? Ugh.

What was entertaining were all the outfits at the concert. Clearly, it was overflowing with girls and gay men of all ages - girls dressed as Britney from the Toxic video, wearing short pink wigs and big sunglasses, dressed like hookers and then girls like us who were rocking homemade Britney t-shirts.

Overall, we all had a really great time reliving our teen years and singing along to her songs like ...Baby One More Time, Toxic and Slave For You. We had amazing seats, 6 rows from the floor and could really see her and her dancers, circus performers and the Pussycat Dolls up close.



The after party was the best part of the whole trip. After hitting a few bars and seeing some of the grossest make out sessions of our lives, we ended the trip with a cab ride home. No big deal, right? WRONG, when your cabby has a keyboard in the front seat.

If you think texting and driving is bad, you've never witnessed playing the keyboard and driving.



We asked him to play Britney Spears. He didn't know who she was. We asked him to play "Ain't too proud to beg" and he burst into the strangest version of it we've ever heard. (Truthfully, I don't even think he was playing Ain't too proud to beg, but we were laughing so hard we didn't care at that point.) A keyboard? In the front seat?

Only in Pittsburgh I guess.

Friday Fodder

Well, today is the day! I'll be joining thousands of screaming mid-twenty ladies in Pittsburgh tonight to see the one, the only, queen of lip-synching.

I'm going not to lie...we created t-shirts and if you are following me on Twitter, you knew all of this already.

We picked our favorite image of Ms. Spears and put it on fitted tees from Forever21. The six of us are even wearing them out to a martini bar before the concert and will probably get strange looks from other people.

Do we care?

Well, not really because we are going to relive our teen years all over again for one night only with $140 tickets to the Circus.

So, what are your weekend plans?