i watch too much tv to update

sunday:

must love dogs with jules. i really fell hard for this movie. but to be honest john cusack can do no wrong in my book. not as good as serendipity, but it came very very close. and elizabeth perkins, i forgot how much i loved her twisted sense of humor. between this movie and weeds i'm rediscovering my love for her. sunday night brought the return of the creepy old man on family guy, and that had me smiling all night. then i watched fascination. even with adam garcia shirtless for 90% it still was hard to sit through. i kept forgetting that it was a rental, it felt more like a lifetime tv movie.

monday:

okay, i'm just gonna put this out there, as much as i resisted getting hooked on laguna beach last season, i find myself addicted to the latest installment. jason is the biggest tool ever, and yet i'm so attracted to him. earlier in the night i checked out how i met your mother. it was one of the two shows on my new additions list and i really liked it. the main guy is adorkable. willow, yeah i know she has a real name but she'll always be willow to me, was hilarious. it just really worked. even with the lame intro of "story hour" or whatever and the annoying bob saget voice-overs i still liked it. it's a keeper.

tuesday:

i had to say goodbye to janelle. i love that even with losing she got more air-time than the two finalists. that was so fitting. there were too many amazing parts in the finale of this fun season of big brother 6 to just pick one, so i'll name them all. i loved the look on ivette's face when she got janey's vote, you could just see that she knew she won the whole thing when she got her vote. and then she lost! i loathe both maggie and ivette beyond words but if i had to pick one i'm glad the money went to maghag. i loved how the audience went insane for howie and janey, and even james to some degree, and the nerd herd got shunned. king kaysar got cheers, troll eric got booed! and how much of a total douche is beau? mainly because he spells his name that way, but also because he told james that it's "not all about the money." um hello, you're on a game show to win $500,000 it really is all about the money you jackass. and howie tell ivette and maggie that they were america's least favorites? i LOVED it.

wednesday:

lost. wow. yeah that made the ho-hum finale from last year worth the wait. when it opened i hoped that we were seeing another sawyer flashback. it had me laughing at the thought of mr. hard ass working out to a little mama cass. but when they refused to show his face i realized we were dealing with someone else. once desmond was introduced a bit later there was no doubt in my mind that he was in the hatch. then my mind went crazy with the thought that maybe desmond would start popping up in more flashbacks, a where's waldo lost style. i loved this episode, i was a nervous wreck the entire time. but i need to know that sawyer is okay. after that i decided to give invasion a spin. it was okay. i fell asleep for ten or so minutes so i'm not really sure what's going on with the creepy sheriff from go. i dunno, it was okay. i could watch eddie cibrian's dimples for days, but i'm not sure if i really liked the show. and to be honest i'm not even sure if i'm willing to stick with it long enough to get me to the point where i even care.

thursday:

dinner and the exorcism of emily rose with nikki1. the movie wasn't really scary but it was extremely disturbing. i had a blair witch moment driving home alone after dropping her off and that wasn't good. that was the last time i was creeped out while driving home alone. it didn't help that i was driving into a thunderstorm and i couldn't stop thinking about the thunderstorms in the movie and what that meant. i had some messed up dreams. i woke up thinking someone was in my room. i kept hearing things. and i one point i had a feeling that it was 3am but i absolutely refused to look at the clock to confirm that notion. creepy.

today:

breakfast at the IHOP with my mom, aunt, cousin and his wife. i haven't been able to see my aunt since before my surgery in may and i feel horrible about that. it was good to see her and spend some time with the family. my uncle's been gone for a little over a year now and my aunt still seems so lost without him. her kids are convinced that moving her south to be closer to them will be best for her, but she doesn't want to go. they're making all of the decisions for her and it just seems like she's given up and that breaks my heart. i know when all of my mom's brothers decided it was best to move my grandpa he ended up going from being healthy, to being in the hospital, to being gone in the span of a month and i don't want to see something like that happen to her.

rockstar party v.2.0

sometimes i feel as if we have entirely too much history between us. i sometimes get overwhelmed by it all and feel like running as far away from them as i possibly can. knowing a person from five to thirty isn't always such an amazing thing. i see her hand where i want mine to be. thirteen years is a long time to have a crush on someone. three weeks apart and i feel like a lifetime has passed. maybe it's just a progression of all the years and she really is becoming more of a stranger and less of a best friend. maybe we never really were the great friends that our minds and memories have tricked us into believing that we are. i've loved them all for several different reasons and at several different times. we come and go so much from one anothers' lives, sometimes the revolving door brings us back stronger than we were, and sometimes i'm left feeling like something huge is missing. maybe it's so easy to quit them and simply walk away because i know in my heart that it's not real. a week or a month or even a year will pass and we'll eventually make our way back to one another. the end isn't so much of an end, it's more of a pause.

we had a great time last night, i'm really glad i talked myself into going to the party. one hour before we left i was still undecided, and usually when that happens that means i won't go. the postal service and coldplay. watching cars and trees fly by as i looked out the window from the back seat. an insanely strong and over-mixed margarita. one, two, fifty beers. "is it warm in here?" "oh man i'm dying, i thought it was just me." nikki and i getting scolded for leaning up against P's car. kissing that married girl, yeah i have no idea. taking a million pictures. egging on the angry republican. ms. k and i deciding at 4am that we'd had enough so we found a nice little corner to pass out in, while the party carried on at our feet. waking up long enough to tell the angry republican that he was full of shit, and then going back to sleep. praying a silent prayer from the back seat, on the way home this time, that i wouldn't throw up all over his car. at least we didn't have to go through two huge bags of trash looking for my keys while hung over in the morning this year. the one thing that is puzzling is the fact that i woke up with my pants unbuttoned and my zipper was down. i'm pretty sure i didn't do that myself, so i'm wondering what drunk fool attempted to molest me in my sleep.

thursday

reunion was interesting. i think i wanted to like it more than i really did, but i'll give it a few more chances. it was a bit heavy-handed with all of the music being played, i get it, this episode was supposed to be 1986. and the girls all look so much alike, to me anyway, that it was hard to tell who was talking to the cop in the present day scene.

big brother 6. this is me still LOVING Janelle. okay, so "Tushy" hates Cappy, likes Janelle, realizes that Ivette is wicked jealous of Janey, and isn't really ugly afterall. oh and Ivette's mom calling April sketchy? i loved it. Janelle got HOH again, i couldn't breathe and i was watching with one eye closed, but she did it. now if she could just bust open that last safe and somehow bring Howie back i'd be happy, but she's in the final three and that's all that matters. oh and another america's choice? i smell yet another oportunity to make the nerd heard cry. awesome.

tv talk that doesn't mention BB6's janelle once

first matthew fox was on the cover of details looking all poured into his shirt, and now he's wet on the cover of entertainment weekly. all i can say is thank you to whomever is responsible.

i think jensen ackles is beautiful, i have since i first saw him on days of our lives years ago, but i'm not sure if that's enough to get me to watch his new show supernatural. the same goes for bradley cooper on kitchen confidential. see also eddie cibrian in invasion.

the two shows that do look promising for me are:

cbs' how i met your mother.

a) if only to see willow weekly again.
b) because cbs is promoting the crap out of it during big brother.
c) the lead guy actually seems kind of charming in that dorky smart-ass sort of way.

and fox's reunion.

i won't lie, i was first drawn to it thanks to sean faris, the star of the too-soon cancelled show from last season life as we know it, which i loved. granted when i first read about this show it was promoted as a drama that unfolded over the span of twenty years, and now it's taken on a darker tone and has become a murder mystery. i'm not sure if the late changes are a good thing or a bad thing, but i still will be looking into it.

i swore going into last year that i wasn't going to watch any new shows, i planned to cut back on my time spent on my fat ass in front of the tv. and that didn't work out so well considering that i got hooked on lost, the office and grey's anatomy from day one. at the end of last season i made the same vow. it appears that i have very little will-power.

this year it will be:

grey's anatomy
family guy
arrested development
how i met your mother
the office
lost
alias
will & grace
reunion
everwood
what i like about you
scrubs
(whenever nbc decides to put it back on the air)