You wouldn’t know it by looking at my DVR,
but I swear I’m not twelve…
Besides the normal Monday night programming I have recorded ( House, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, Gossip Girl) here is what else is currently on my DVR ( in case you had any doubts about how cool I am)
Bridge to Terabithia (the new one – I’m a little nervous it will not be as good as the book or the original movie so I haven’t watched it yet)
Camp Rock (sadly, I’ve already seen this, but I recorded it anyways)
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana
Hocus Pocus (Only, the best Halloween movie EVER – a muck, a muck, a muck, a muck)
Robin Hood (the cartoon – recorded 2/1/09, still waiting for my brother to come over and watch it with me – maybe Thanksgiving)
Shrek the Third
The Santa Clause
Wizards of Waverly Place
Wizards of Waverly Place
Wizards of Waverly Place
My Week in TV 11-20-09
I might as well not even date them anymore – I haven’t been very good at keeping this weekly, and today, everything I’m going to write is from yesterday, so really this is more like “My Thursday in TV” (to appease my sister, I’m adding this warning – this is all about shows from last night. If you don’t want to know what happened, stop reading)
Community – I absolutely loved the scene that wrapped up all the story lines while Troy and Abed sang “Somewhere Out There” If you are not watching this show, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Parks & Recreation – I don’t usually like the multiple takes thing, but I about died when Leslie was trying to convince the Ranger that she shot Ron. I still can’t get over how much better this show is than it was last year.
Grey’s Anatomy – Come on. First we have to get use to the idea that McSteamy is a Dad and then they just throw in that his 18 year old daughter is pregnant. I don’t know if I can buy him as a grandpa. That’s just weird.
Private Practice – Reverand Camden as the philandering Captain. As much as I like Stephen Collins, I’m not buying this either. Way to bum me out this week ABC.
Most notable absence: Vampire Diaries – Big Shock – I didn’t even watch this one yet. I didn’t get home from work until almost 8 so I went with the comedies instead to lighten things up.
Cool News: Chuck – It may not be the best present I could think of for my 29th birthday, but I’m super super excited that Chuck is coming back on Jan 10th/11th instead of after the Olympics in March. Way to go NBC – this is totally worth having to revise the programming on all my 1Q buys (and that is saying a lot about how much I love this show)
I don’t really care, but you might: Lost is coming back Tuesdays at 9 on February 2nd.
This time of year is always a bit confusing…
It’s fall. That means I’m killing myself at work estimating ratings for one of our clients. We place annual buys for them that go from April until March, which means right now I’m estimating ratings for 2q10-1q11. To do this, I’m looking at ratings from Oct08 through Sep09. So many years are in the equation that sometimes it’s hard to keep track of which one is current. I mean it’s really anyone’s guess what will be running in March 2011, but we do the best we can with what we’ve got.
So even though it is currently 2009, after working with all these dates all day every day, things get a little confusing. When it hits late December/early January it gets really bad. I sometimes get a little confused about where I am. During these fall months, when I think 1q, I’m always over a year out. I’ll be thinking about 1q11 so much, that when the year rolls over, it is likely that I will forget sometimes that it’s only 2010.
The reason this came up is because I just had to search around our office for a 2011 calendar so I could figure out what date the Superbowl and Oscars will be on. Seriously 2011 – I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around it yet.
An example of my confusion: Every year I make my Grandpa a yearly planner for Christmas* and for Christmas 2007, I put 2009 on the cover, put it all together, took it to Kinkos (where no one said anything), had it bound and then got home to realize my mistake. That was fun. Luckily it was pretty easy to change the 9 into an 8.
My birthday also falls right in the middle of this since it’s in January. It’s also a week right after my friend’s birthday, who is a year older than me, so I also usually think I’m going to be a year older than I am (except this next one because I do not even want to think about being 30, so I’m focusing really hard on the fact that I will only be 29).
Needless to say, this is probably really confusing you guys right now. Welcome to my club.
* Because what else do you get someone in their eighties – besides maybe a book from someone at Fox News, and my cousins usually take care of that.
Yum-O
Ever since Katie over at you are what you eat…or reheat posted this recipe on Wednesday I have been craving Chicken Piccata, so since tonight was my first night home all week and it’s been ages since I’ve cooked for myself, I went for it.
I forgot how relaxing it is to cook. It was a nice way to wind down from this busy week.
Looks good doesn’t it? It was delicious!
Now if there was only someone here that could clean up…
He had me at “Booty, God, Booty”
So if you’ve never read Stuff Christians Like, you should. If you’ve never heard Jon Acuff speak and you have the chance, you should go.
That being said, this post really isn’t about that, well not really.This post is about stepping out of your comfort zone – kind of. Well, I’ll just say it’s a little glimpse into my head.
Some things to know about me:
1. I do not like going places by myself, even if I know people will be there. It doesn’t matter, I still want to walk in with someone. This probably stems from years of my punctuality and other’s lack of.
2. I REALLY don’t like going places by myself when I don’t know anyone that will be there and/or have no idea what to expect. (This was hard when I started going to church, and this is still hard now)
3. I’m trying out a life philosophy if you will – do stuff that I want to do, don’t do things I don’t want to do. Yeah, it’s simple, but who cares.
Ok, so if I still have you, here goes…
I wanted to go hear him talk tonight because I’ve been reading his blog for a while, I think he’s great, and I’ve never heard him speak. All I knew about his talk was the description on his blog “come see me speak about how to have a wicked awesome dating life” When this is all you can say to your friends when you ask them to go with you, you get these responses: “hahahaha,” “I’d rather be drinking,” “No, I don’t want to go,” “I can’t go, but why don’t you go and take notes for me,” “hahahaha, no”
So, besides needing new friends, I also had to talk myself into going by myself. I really didn’t know what to expect, and I imagined the worst. What’s he going to do? Is this going to be interactive? Am I going to have to make small talk? Am I going to be the oldest person there?
But then I thought, screw this, I want to hear him talk and I’m going to go. What’s the worst that will happen? It’ll suck and I’ll waste a Wednesday night – Modern Family isn’t on anyways. I’m not going to lie though, there was a little bit of traffic on 400N and I was kind of half hoping that maybe it would be so bad that I’d be a little too late and have to skip it, because then I could blame it on traffic instead of being chicken to go by myself – Hey at least I tried right?
Well, traffic wasn’t too bad, so I made it in time, walked in and my first reaction was, “tables really? so much for it not being awkward that I’m by myself” So I sat down at the table closest to me and chatted with a girl who was also there because she reads the blog, and not because like most of the people, there because this was the third week of a series on dating (which by the way, I’m not judging, just noticing – really) Then I looked around and you know what, I wasn’t the oldest one there, by a long shot, so that was nice. Then he started on time, and it was a great talk about honesty followed by some good texted in questions.*
So, let’s review – My friends suck. (J/K) I went anyways. Lots of great stuff to think about. I wasn’t the oldest one there. You should read his blog.
* I was pretty impressed with this technology. Instead of having to raise your hand and ask a question, you just texted it and then it popped up on one of the computers and he answered it. If I had had any questions and/or knew how to text non phone numbers (ie. 42647, etc) then I would have appreciated being able to do so without having to raise my hand.
Running over your toe, and other excuses
So today the weather is CRUMMY and I’ve heard no less than four people say something along the lines of “It’s so rainy, I just want to sleep and not do any work.” This made me think that no matter what the weather is like, it can and will be used as an excuse:
“It’s so sunny outside, I don’t want to be here. I want to play outside”
“They thought it would ice over today so they will closed schools, so since everyone who has kids is not at work today, then well I’m not going to do anything either”
“Sorry I’m late, there were sun delays on my way to work” (This makes me laugh every time they say it in a traffic report)
By all means though, excuses to talk yourself out of working should not be limited to just the weather. Feel free to use at your leisure…
“I need to go home, I just ran over my toe with my chair” (one hazard of never wearing my shoes at my desk – I’ve done this at least a dozen times, but I’ve never really left because of it)
“I can’t focus today- why have their doors been closed all day. What’s going on? Do you know?” (repeat at least 10 times to 7 people)
“The printer’s broken? Well then, if I can’t print anything, I’m just going to get on Facebook”
“Well I have a meeting in 30 minutes, but if I start something now, I’ll just have to stop. I’ll just wait until after they leave”
“Sorry C, I can’t help you right now, I’ve got to come up with hints for my playlist contest” (haha not really)
TV Spoilers – how do you feel about them?
I personally try to avoid them when they involve the plot. I don’t mind casting spoilers or finding out that someone is leaving a show because you still don’t know how they are going to do it. I do try to avoid finding out what’s going to happen in the show. I like not knowing, so I generally keep my Internet reading to post show reviews instead of pre show spoilers, but I just couldn’t resist this morning.
If you watch Vampire Diaries and don’t want to know anything about the future of the show, then stop reading now.
I followed a link to TV Guide and read a scoop on Vampire Diaries. I know I shouldn’t have, but I did, and now I’m disappointed. Essentially it said that there are going to be werewolves. No big revelation or anything so as far as spoilers go it’s pretty tame, but I don’t like this. Vampire Diaries is the first vampire thing I’ve gotten into. My friend is really pushing me to read Twilight, but I have held out. Now I’m seeing all these previews for New Moon (right?) and it has to do with werewolves and in my head I’m like, “Really werewolves, I thought this was about vampires, werewolves stink. This is stupid.”
And now Vampire Diaries is going to have werewolves. Is this a requirement for vampire stories; do they always come in pairs; is it an epic struggle? I have no idea, but this news disappointed me. I don’t want a werewolf in my vampire story. And besides I’m pretty sure it’s hard to make a werewolf sexy.
Don’t worry though, I’ll probably continue to skew the CW’s average viewer age by watching Vampire Diaries. But now maybe you see why I don’t like spoilers.
Weekend Re-do
This weekend was great – partly because it included today…
Friday night, Blondie and I went to a friends Halloween party. I played a pathetic game of beer pong, but it was okay because I somehow managed to convince my partner to drink all the beer, so really I just threw the ping-pong ball in the right direction a few times. The only one I actually made bounced off the competitor’s hand and into the cup.
Since Saturday was so yucky I spent most of it inside until a last-minute shopping spree to help my brother finish his costume. Saturday night, I met up with some friends at B&LH’s house. We watched a little bit of some special on the scariest movie scenes and the beginning of Hellraiser, and finally headed out around midnight. We headed down to L5P for Halloween and listened to a band named The Howlies at Star Bar and then the boys wanted to hit up The Porter for last call. Somewhere along the way we came across a discarded doll in the street and spent our time at The Porter using LH’s plastic knife to kill the baby over and over again.
We left when they kicked us out and then hit up the dance floor at Corner Tavern. They closed down at 3 and we thought the night was over, but lo and behold Star Bar decided to give us the extra hour so we went in there and danced until 4 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). The boys were pretty patient with us girls. By the time I got home it was 5. I’m pretty sure the last time I stayed out that late I was probably 19 or 20. I paid for it yesterday though with a complete lack of motivation to do anything productive. The only time I changed out of my pj’s was when I went to get the last week’s worth of mail, so…
Today I didn’t go to work. I felt like I needed to have a do-over for Sunday, so I spent the day running some errands including finally getting new tennis shoes. Then because it was such a pretty day I decided to take a nice afternoon run since I had some daylight; did some household chores and made spaghetti for dinner. Now I’m just waiting for Gossip Girl to come on. It’s been a nice day. I guess I’ll have to go back to the real world tomorrow…
