Miscellaneous Monday

Saturday, as I was at home, doing nothing in particular, the doorbell rang. Since it was a Saturday night, and people usually don’t come over on the weekend, I had no idea who it would be. When I opened it, it was someone from my ward, asking me if I would substitute for her for Primary the next day. I’ll be honest, I absolutely didn’t want to, but since she was right in my face asking, I couldn’t think of an excuse quickly enough, so I had to say yes. That was the weirdest thing to me – I’ve never had someone come to my house before to ask me to sub, so now I need to know how to deflect that. I’ll work on it.

On Friday night when I got home, I had given myself the goal to do my laundry before I went to sleep that night. I got home from seeing the new Star Trek movie (great film, everyone) at about 9:30, and got to work. I threw some clothes into the washing machine, then killed time by cleaning the kitchen, including wiping the counters, sweeping, mopping. Then I vacuumed the whole house, threw in another load, dusted the house, and folded the clothes before, finally, it turned 12:30, and I thought, I really should get some sleep. I felt so productive! I encourage everyone to stay up for hours and hours to clean your house. (I don’t)

TV shows are coming to end. The finales are here, the shows are all wrapping up, and that makes me happy, I think now I can finally feel like my DVR isn’t completely full all the time of a hundred shows. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m caught up on stuff, I’m still at least 2 weeks behind on every single show, but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel…I know that things are very nearly over.

Lost... Yes, quite literally,

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.