My Girl Tuesday: Kate Hudson

My girl Tuesday was the fantastic idea from my partner in crime, Miss Shelby of shelbylately.com
As she put it, "I suffer from too many girl crushes to count, so every Tuesday I'm going to share one with you."

Such a marvelous idea, I only wish I would have come up with it myself. I'm working on convincing her to do a link up of it every Tuesday! Wouldn't that be fun? ;)

Kate Hudson

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I first fell head over heels for Kate when I saw her in Almost Famous the weekend of my Make A Wish trip way back when. It was the perfect setting and circumstances to view said movie, as I had come to the teenage conclusion my only wish in life was to travel to a different country (hey, Canada is another country) to meet three blonde boys from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Well, Canada wasn't exactly part of my wish but a very important person who had to be with me on that trip lives there so it is kind of kismet how it all worked out.

I'm getting off track. One of these days I will write about the whole entirely magical experience and how my dad was nearly arrested because he was simply trying to make it as memorable as possible for me. Haha, I kid you not! ;)

Kate Hudson. Yes, I do have quite the girl crush on her. So much so that I continually forgive her for all of the horrible movies she continues to do since her stunning performance as Penny Lane in Almost Famous. Now that is love, baby. Honestly she was enigmatic as the queen of the bandaids and I haven't seen her even come close since. But I think that her oscar nominated role was so filled with fabulous-ness that it makes up for all of the mediocre parts that have followed.

One of my favorite scenes; it gives me chills.



Kate, I will continue to love you no matter how many awful movies you do because you captured what it is to truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts and you reminded us (in our oh so delicate and hormone laden adolescence) to ...never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously, you never get hurt, if you never get hurt, you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends.

My Girl Tuesday: Jennifer Nettles

My stunning friend Shelby, of shelbylately.com recently started a new feature on Tuesdays titled 'My Girl Tuesday'. In her words: "I suffer from too many girl crushes to count, so every Tuesday I'm going to share one with you."

Brilliant.

Which is why I'm participating this week.

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Jennifer Nettles (of Sugarland) is one of the most effervescent women I've ever seen. Granted, I've never actually met her, but she has inspired me beyond what I can articulately portray. She's bubbly, she's vivacious, her enthusiasm for life and everything in it is so outrageously potent that it is contagious. And her voice? Incredible.

Sugarland's songs have a way of recapturing that magic of summer love and the hope of youth we all crave to always keep clutched in our hearts. They inject much needed energy and light into my (toughest) days.

Plus, I adored the outfit she wore on American Idol last week. She has killer style.

Their song 'Little Miss' has motivated the The Little Miss Project. Here's the video:




I fell in love with what Jennifer had to say about the song. The best part, is when she belts out it's alright, it's all right, it's all right...it'll be all right again, you believe her.

"She is a woman coming to terms with the fact that just because you CAN do everything doesn't mean you SHOULD do everything. She is a woman who often forgets herself in her attempts to try and do for everyone else. She is a woman who has learned the hard way that often when we try to do everything for everybody all the time, we can wind up losing ourselves. And when that happens, everybody loses. But all is not lost in "Little Miss!" Oh no! "Little Miss" has a spark of hope. She has had enough life experience and loss to know that anything forgotten can just as well be remembered. That anything she has tossed aside in a fog of perfectionist martyr bullshit can be reclaimed, including her sense of self, her body, her passion, her inspiration, and her desire to savor the marrow of life. While "Little Miss" was written in the voice of a woman, the disappointments of being under appreciated and the pressure to be perfect are struggles that are often felt by men as well. The emotion we each feel within these struggles is the same…whether male or female, our tears all taste of salt, my dear ones."

“I hope this song holds up a mirror. If you happen to catch a glimpse of yourself there, I hope you are reminded that you are enough, that you are worthy, that perfect is completely boring and, most of all, that it'll be all right again.”


I just want to give her a big bear hug.