Once again, the Happiness bloggers elected (begged) my mom to be our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

"Dancing with the Stars" isn't the only place with backstage drama
going on. My mom/correspondent was a little tired and cranky Monday night and tried to quit her unpaid job here on the blog. Fortunately, she decided if Tom DeLay can dance with two broken feet, she shouldn't be a quitter either.

Then Tom DeLay quit. And surprisingly, Tom wasn't the only dancer to exit last night...

Once again, the Happiness bloggers elected (begged) my mom to be our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

Last night was the first night the men and women danced on the same show together. Judge Len was not there, so Baz Luhrmann filled in for him. My mom reports that the dancers only had four days to learn the new dances, and it was a struggle because they had four-and-a-half weeks to learn the previous dances.

Here's what happened:

Once again, the Happiness bloggers elected my mom our Dancing with the Stars correspondent. After each show, she calls me with her report...

I think my mom is suffering from Gilles withdrawal, because her first comment on last night's all-male DWTS episode was this: "It's a pretty sad day when the sexiest one on the show is Donny Osmond."

Okay, so with a lineup like Donny Osmond, Tom DeLay, and Aaron Carter, this season may not have have a lot of beefcake for female viewers, but were there at least some burgeoning superstar dancers?

Apparently not.