Just a Simple Girl with a Dream

So I would strongly consider celebrating my birthday again if Tori and Co. were planning it.  (Seriously, I haven’t celebrated my birthday in two years…let’s be honest, I spend the whole day in bed feeling sorry for myself.  In retrospect though, a lot of that was because the guy I liked wasn’t good to me, I hated where I lived, and there was nothing to do where I lived, so watching reruns of reality shows in bed was actually the best option.)

Anyway, Tori finds herself in the perfect storm of wife/mother/author responsibilities as she has to go on her book tour while planning Liam’s first birthday party.  She enlists her friends Bill and Scout to help her and suddenly the idea of a small, intimate barbeque in the backyard turns into a Malibu bash with monkeys, bounce houses, and a train.  Cue Dean’s “Tori, I don’t know about this…”

How great did those Hansen Cakes look?  I love fancy, celebrity bakeries.  (For one of my friend’s birthdays, we had a fabulous dinner at Koi and then we drove over to Sweet Lady Jane’s for dessert.  It was awesome.  I’m going to a wedding in the 90210 on Saturday and I can only imagine how great the cake will taste!) One thing: what was up with the photographer shooting them from outside the bakery?  Was that staged?  God love Tori, but she’s not Jennifer Garner.  It still looked hella-annoying that the guy was still taking pictures as she was trying to pull out of a parking space.  I could never be famous in LA: first of all I can’t parallel park; I couldn’t imagine parking with camera flashed going off in my face.

Here’s something else that I’ve been meaning to address: Tori has really cute maternity clothes.  I read in her book that she doesn’t shop at the trendier, expensive stores as much anymore and favors stores like Forever 21 (me too!).  I wonder where she gets the maternity tops and dresses, though.  I loved that coral, ruffled halter she wore during her book tour.  I’d like to have that and I’m not even pregnant.

I felt for Tori when they showed the clips of her on The View.  I’m sorry, that show is a vile, trainwreck.   Kathy Griffin should count her blessings that she’s re-banned from it.  Honestly, Babs was throwing off questions like it was the Seventies and she was still a relevant journalist.  I thought Babs was just a self-promoter that just threw softballs at celebs but with Tori it was like she remembered that at one time, she was considered a paragon of journalism. 

I can’t imagine going on a whirlwind press tour (pregnant no less) and then coming home and hosting my child’s first birthday, so major props to Tori.  Although I question her guest list (Carmen Electra? Denise Richards?) and the fact that Liam won’t remember this (he’ll always have pictures) I thought it was a lovely party.  My friend JMTIV called me up and told me that he didn’t get why Denise was there.  Here’s my two cents: a) there was a camera there and DR has a camera radar detector in her SUV and b) I think people on reality shows stick together, which explains why the Kardassian sisters and Adrienne Curry and the Brady showed up at her book signing.  They may not be “friends” in the truest definition of the word, but I think they all understand the reality show hustle.  I honestly thought we would have seen Jennie Garth and her girls or at least Randy Spelling.  Speaking of whom, as a former reality show star, shouldn’t he ball up in the mix too (never mind the fact that he’s Tori’s sibling).  I just hope that this show is renewed for another season and we see some backstage antics from the new 90210.