I am addicted to many a TV show. You all know this. I can barely watch all the shows I record in a day, luckily I have the weekends to catch up. If I wasn't able to run and watch TV, I'd never watch anything! But I am fortunate enough to be able to do this. There are different levels of addictions for each show. You have your Psychs and your Leverages that I watch with all attention to the show, making sure I miss nothing. Then you have your Scrubs' and your Gossip Girls that you watch while you're doing something else. It's not that I don't like those shows, its just that they're not my favorites, so I don't have to pay complete attention. Lost used to be one of my beloved shows. I would wait every week for it to come on, watching it, making sure I have quiet around me, and nothing else is happening. The first season was amazing, and then, the second was pretty good. The third was awful, and the fourth seesawed between being really good and quite a load of garbage. It ended really well, so I had some high hopes for this season.
This season started, and I remembered, halfway during the show, the way I watch Lost now. I spend the entire episode going, "What the heck is happening? Should I know this person they're bringing on screen? Wait, what's going on now? Is this something I should have remembered from a previous season?" I swear I have no idea what that show is about now. But I am determined to stick it out. Every time I think about quitting, I remember the five years I've already put into this show, and I'll be damned if I give up on the show now that there's only two years left. I now NEED to know how this ends. I need to understand the island, and who everyone is, and the secrets. For every question that they've "answered" (I saw that with " " because I have yet to actually have something answered to my satisfaction) there's 20 more questions! And I am pretty sure that every person that watches it is the same as I. If you have a friend that tells you they "get" Lost and they understand everything going on, slap them in the face, because they are lying to you, and a slap is the best way to wake them up. Nobody understands this show. I'm pretty sure even the writers have no idea what's going on. They just keep putting stuff into the script, then they're probably laughing at all of us trying to figure it out! But I'm onto them, so they don't have me anymore. Ha!
I only have to hang on for a little bit longer to get every question answered, they tell me. I will finish, I will be victorious. But I'm telling you right now, if they leave it all cryptic and weird by the time it's over...there's really nothing I can do, lets be honest. Shoot.
Vieve's Place...Enjoy Your Visit
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Gentlemen prefer blondes? Oh, I'm putting that to the test.
All right, I know that everyone has exciting lives, and they blog quite often about their exciting adventures, but I have none of these. But instead of taking my things and making them separate entries, (which would take time and energy...) I have decided to just shove it all together, and do the highlights.
I have before lamented about hair stylists. I know that they have a very tough job, and that they have to do what people tell them, but holy crap why can't they just do what I tell them?! I tell my gal over the weekend to just cut off like a little bit, to get rid of the dead, and she ends up cutting off a bunch, then decides (of her own free will) to just cut the right side of hair all willy-nilly. Like I'm doing nothing with that hair? It's fine if that side is just bald? And for those of you who haven't seen me yet (is there such a person reading this?) I have gone back to blonde! It's a slow process, going from dark to blonde, but I'm in the middle. I'm still getting used to it, and so far, it's a fun, cute color, but I'm just getting used to it being light up there. But it'll be better! Pretty soon, I won't do the double take when I look at it.
This past Sunday, we had a family fiesta. After the fiesta, (I'm using fiesta because we made Mexican food. Delicioso!) we were cleaning up the kitchen when I hopped off the counter. I placed my hand on the oven...well, I thought it was the oven. Turns out, it was the oven handle, and when I put my hand on it and (simultaneously jumped down) the oven door opened, and I slammed into that with my leg. I now have a bruise the size of my cell phone on my leg, and it hurts when I walk. And bump into it. And lay on it. Or sit slightly wrong. To make the point clear, it just hurts. But I'm pretty sure I didn't break the oven door, so that's a victory in itself.
I have done something I didn't think I'd ever do. I have canceled my Netflix account. I love Netflix, don't get me wrong, but I just don't have time for it anymore! I have my 100 hours of Tivo that I do every week (ok, it's not that much...almost) and I have the movies that I (inexplicably!) keep borrowing from people. I have 2 Netflix movies that I've had for a month, just sitting here, unwatched, so I sent them back and just canceled it out. This makes me feel a whirl of emotions. I'm happy to get rid of the pressure of 2 movies always sitting there (yes, I feel a pressure from inanimate objects) and them taunting me every day I don't watch them. There is a load lifted from my shoulders. But I'm also sad-I love Netflix. Getting a surprise DVD in the mail every few days (when I actually have time) was so great! A little gift for me in the mail-and I do love surprises in the mail. But as soon as I get through TV season, I might try reactivating it, to see if I have the time to watch now. But even if I don't, I'll still hold my Tivo close to my heart.
In retrospect, I totally could have made three entries out of these things, but whatevs. I'm good with combining these all-and who knows, maybe I'll have more stuff happen, and actually write a few blog entries in a week!
I have before lamented about hair stylists. I know that they have a very tough job, and that they have to do what people tell them, but holy crap why can't they just do what I tell them?! I tell my gal over the weekend to just cut off like a little bit, to get rid of the dead, and she ends up cutting off a bunch, then decides (of her own free will) to just cut the right side of hair all willy-nilly. Like I'm doing nothing with that hair? It's fine if that side is just bald? And for those of you who haven't seen me yet (is there such a person reading this?) I have gone back to blonde! It's a slow process, going from dark to blonde, but I'm in the middle. I'm still getting used to it, and so far, it's a fun, cute color, but I'm just getting used to it being light up there. But it'll be better! Pretty soon, I won't do the double take when I look at it.
This past Sunday, we had a family fiesta. After the fiesta, (I'm using fiesta because we made Mexican food. Delicioso!) we were cleaning up the kitchen when I hopped off the counter. I placed my hand on the oven...well, I thought it was the oven. Turns out, it was the oven handle, and when I put my hand on it and (simultaneously jumped down) the oven door opened, and I slammed into that with my leg. I now have a bruise the size of my cell phone on my leg, and it hurts when I walk. And bump into it. And lay on it. Or sit slightly wrong. To make the point clear, it just hurts. But I'm pretty sure I didn't break the oven door, so that's a victory in itself.
I have done something I didn't think I'd ever do. I have canceled my Netflix account. I love Netflix, don't get me wrong, but I just don't have time for it anymore! I have my 100 hours of Tivo that I do every week (ok, it's not that much...almost) and I have the movies that I (inexplicably!) keep borrowing from people. I have 2 Netflix movies that I've had for a month, just sitting here, unwatched, so I sent them back and just canceled it out. This makes me feel a whirl of emotions. I'm happy to get rid of the pressure of 2 movies always sitting there (yes, I feel a pressure from inanimate objects) and them taunting me every day I don't watch them. There is a load lifted from my shoulders. But I'm also sad-I love Netflix. Getting a surprise DVD in the mail every few days (when I actually have time) was so great! A little gift for me in the mail-and I do love surprises in the mail. But as soon as I get through TV season, I might try reactivating it, to see if I have the time to watch now. But even if I don't, I'll still hold my Tivo close to my heart.
In retrospect, I totally could have made three entries out of these things, but whatevs. I'm good with combining these all-and who knows, maybe I'll have more stuff happen, and actually write a few blog entries in a week!
Monday, January 12, 2009
I speak six languages...
Ok, maybe not six. But I am learning many right now. Of course, I speak English, which I consider my "mother tongue". I can conjugate verbs, I can speak the slang, I'm pretty sure I've got the language down pat. I can do Spanish, not fluent, but I can hold my own. I can understand it and read it pretty well, but speaking it isn't my strong point.
My new languages I'm doing are Polish and German. I'm not professionally learning those though. (is that how you would describe it?) I got a German phrase of the day calender for 2009, and I'm using that to learn the language. You'd think that having my lil' German mama would have made me learn it sooner, but no dice. So far, I can say about three phrases in German. If you see me in the street, I'll happily say them for you! I'm sure my accent isn't the best ever, but I don't care. At least you can get the feel of what I'm trying to say. Plus, these phrases will really come in handy should I ever visit Germany and not have anybody there to translate for me. Of course, if someone answers me back in a phrase I don't know, I'm stuck, but at least I did half of the work!
The Polish isn't really coming along all that well. I know about six words, which I always forget until I speak to a friend of mine. He always laughs at me because I announce that I learned a new word over the weekend (from PJ, who learns it from a gal at work), but then I can't repeat or even remember what the word is until he repeats it for me. It's a hard language, I can't remember it all! But the words I'm working on remembering are ones that I would use a lot. But he helps me with the pronounciation, which he always does, no matter how many times I've "learned" it before!
I'm going to work really hard on all this stuff until I can hold a conversation with someone. But if I can't at some point, at least I know some of the languages, which will make me seem so learned!
My new languages I'm doing are Polish and German. I'm not professionally learning those though. (is that how you would describe it?) I got a German phrase of the day calender for 2009, and I'm using that to learn the language. You'd think that having my lil' German mama would have made me learn it sooner, but no dice. So far, I can say about three phrases in German. If you see me in the street, I'll happily say them for you! I'm sure my accent isn't the best ever, but I don't care. At least you can get the feel of what I'm trying to say. Plus, these phrases will really come in handy should I ever visit Germany and not have anybody there to translate for me. Of course, if someone answers me back in a phrase I don't know, I'm stuck, but at least I did half of the work!
The Polish isn't really coming along all that well. I know about six words, which I always forget until I speak to a friend of mine. He always laughs at me because I announce that I learned a new word over the weekend (from PJ, who learns it from a gal at work), but then I can't repeat or even remember what the word is until he repeats it for me. It's a hard language, I can't remember it all! But the words I'm working on remembering are ones that I would use a lot. But he helps me with the pronounciation, which he always does, no matter how many times I've "learned" it before!
I'm going to work really hard on all this stuff until I can hold a conversation with someone. But if I can't at some point, at least I know some of the languages, which will make me seem so learned!
Give em alcohol, and see what happens
I love awards shows. I have before professed my love for them, even though of late, they drive me a little crazy. I love watching for the superficiality of it, the dresses, etc, but I'm so over the movies that win. I get that it's the "movie snobs" who are in charge of picking the nominees, and it's always the serious movies that win, but come on! Pick a good movie for once to have it win the Oscar. But even if they throw in a movie that you're not expecting, for example, last years Juno, you know it won't win, because there are too many "artsy" movies that are nominated, crushing the chances of the good one. There seems to be an exception this year-The Dark Knight is nominated, but is it nominated because it's so awesome, or it is nominated because Heath Ledger was in it, and he died? I can argue both points of this, so I don't know the answer myself.
Last night was the Golden Globes, which is, I think, my favorite awards show. It's my fav because they give them food and loads of alcohol. I love so much that someone will get up to get their award, and they're buzzed, so their speech is just that much more funny. Most of the movies that won (and were nominated) last night I hadn't seen, which takes away some of the fun, but for the most part, people that won were great. There were some great acceptance speeches, a lot of fawning over dresses (even dresses that should not have been fawned over!) and just good times all around. Now that the Globes are over, it means the Oscars are just around the corner. I will of course be watching, and then the awards season is over for another year. And in that time, I'll try to watch all the winning movies, and see if they were deserving of the wins.
Last night was the Golden Globes, which is, I think, my favorite awards show. It's my fav because they give them food and loads of alcohol. I love so much that someone will get up to get their award, and they're buzzed, so their speech is just that much more funny. Most of the movies that won (and were nominated) last night I hadn't seen, which takes away some of the fun, but for the most part, people that won were great. There were some great acceptance speeches, a lot of fawning over dresses (even dresses that should not have been fawned over!) and just good times all around. Now that the Globes are over, it means the Oscars are just around the corner. I will of course be watching, and then the awards season is over for another year. And in that time, I'll try to watch all the winning movies, and see if they were deserving of the wins.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Snow belongs in its proper places: mountain tops, poetry and songs by Bing Crosby!
You know how in Finding Nemo, Nemo has that gimpy fin, smaller than the other? My car is like a Nemo right now. Yesterday, on my way to work, I turned on the windshield wipers, no big deal, but as it was going up, it broke! The bigger wiper, the one directly over what I see, just snapped right off! Of course, I'm freaking out, and thank goodness it wasn't snowing yesterday morning. I spent the drive willing nothing to happen, that it would stay where it was, and nothing would flip up onto my windshield, causing me to die. Luckily, nothing did, and I made it work safely.
When I got to work, luckily, I work with Pops, who grabbed the broken wiper and just snapped it back on. I left that night, worried about how it would do, seeing as how it had been snowing all day long. It worked! No problems, things were good. And also, an amigo from work scraped all the snow off of my car before I got out there, so shout out to him. Although, he doesn't read this, so he doesn't know about the shout out, but I'm sure he's picking up the vibes I'm putting out there.
Today, as everyone knows, it snowed all day again! I made my way out to the car after work, only to find another amigo at work scraping off my car! I have some fabulous guys working with me who are nice enough to do this stuff for us. A shout out to him, also.
I'm trying to take all this goodness that people are doing to me and pass it on to others, (A la Pay it Forward) but so far, I haven't had any good opportunities. I'm going to keep looking, and if you can see any opportunities come your way, take them. You can make someone's day just by the littlest thing!
When I got to work, luckily, I work with Pops, who grabbed the broken wiper and just snapped it back on. I left that night, worried about how it would do, seeing as how it had been snowing all day long. It worked! No problems, things were good. And also, an amigo from work scraped all the snow off of my car before I got out there, so shout out to him. Although, he doesn't read this, so he doesn't know about the shout out, but I'm sure he's picking up the vibes I'm putting out there.
Today, as everyone knows, it snowed all day again! I made my way out to the car after work, only to find another amigo at work scraping off my car! I have some fabulous guys working with me who are nice enough to do this stuff for us. A shout out to him, also.
I'm trying to take all this goodness that people are doing to me and pass it on to others, (A la Pay it Forward) but so far, I haven't had any good opportunities. I'm going to keep looking, and if you can see any opportunities come your way, take them. You can make someone's day just by the littlest thing!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I'm back!
Well, it's been a bit of a hiatus since the last post, but I am back! The vacation was fab, but I am glad to be home. At Disneyland, we partied in Fantasyland for New Years Eve, and by the end of the night, I was definitely dragging. Dancing for 5 hours straight definitely takes it out of you! We rode a bunch of the rides, even though lines were crazy long. That's what we get for going over a holiday weekend, though. It was a lot colder than I was anticipating, I was wearing two sweatshirts pretty much the entire time. I was doing pretty good, I was pretty injury-free, until the last day or so, when my calf muscles started to hurt when I took steps, and by the end of the day, my feet were feeling it too. But I am not complaining-I loved the weekend. I'm just going to nurse my injuries right now, and take it sorta easy.
Sorry to make the "I'm back" post short, but I am feeling pretty beat. Who knew that being in a car for about 10 hours could take it out of you like this? All I want to do is lie down! I'll do more details and stories later, most likely.
Sorry to make the "I'm back" post short, but I am feeling pretty beat. Who knew that being in a car for about 10 hours could take it out of you like this? All I want to do is lie down! I'll do more details and stories later, most likely.
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