Breaking The Dress Code

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So far… favorite new show of the season. Elizabeth Reaser is perfection on a stick in this this role of the whacky Bella Bloom – who is told she has a year to reconnect with an old love or spend the rest of her life single.

But what really makes this show for me is the supporting cast. Love the roommates and the sister! And the dialogue – think Grey’s Anatomy Season 1 – before they fell in love with themselves. Seriously.

I’m hooked, HOOKED, after one show. But I’m sitting here wondering… the most obviously question …. what happens with season 2 if she only has a year to find Mr Right?

Of course it has the same crappy timeslot that Moonlight had – and that was the death knell for that show so maybe the one year thing might not be an issue.

So if you liked Grey’s from the beginning, check this show out. It’s funny and fun and smart and sweet. She’s kind of the anti-Merideth. She’s so open it’s frightening. But hilarious and you hey I learned what a merkin was!

Watch the entire episode here

Like I need more stress in my life

Am I the only crazy person who gets totally stressed watching Pushing Daisies?

I just sit there and flinch every time Net and Chuck get within three feet of each other. Then I forget she can touch other people and I flinch when she touches anyone.

By the time the show is over I’m just exhausted from all the worry. I need to get a life.

Hi, my name is Melissa and I’m a TV Addict

The thing that made me finally agree that we would not be selling the old HDTV and would instead stick that way-way-too-big-for-a-bedroom-projection-tv in the guest bedroom and hook up an additional HD DVR cablebox for an additional $15.00 per month:

Monday Night

8:00

Gossip Girl

Heros

Sarah Connor Chronicles

and

wait for it …

How I Met Your Mother

We Watch Too Much TV - Season Opener Opinions

So the new TV season is off, with a barely audible bang. So far from me it seems everything is just mewh, whatever at least it's new. Here's what we've watched so far.

 

Gossip Girl:  Two shows in and I still feel like I'm waiting for the season to start. Nothing too exciting and some really cheesy stuff. Blair carries off the uber bitch routine around her school age cronnies but up against a older woman she just looks silly and childish. Everything else that has gone on was just sort of uninteresting.. Serena and Nate back together immediately, whatever. Rufus home lovin his kids, duh.. that's the premise. Come on GG, excite me! The Mrs Robinson plot is cliche and tired. The kids are getting predictable. Even Chuck was lame this week.

90210: Watched the two hour opener - skipped the show this week. I was interested in the old returning characters even if their run was limited. And it didn't spend enough time on them to draw me back. I wanted to see more than just polite conversation between Brenda and Kelly.

Entourage: Couldn't have been more boring. Granted I like this show for it's snappy dialogue and not the hot chicks. If you watch for the hot chicks then you were happy with the season opener. The folks at Entourage clearly phoned the first episode in because they didn't want to come home from vacation. Here's hoping they are back in town now and back at work being all snappy.

Sara Conner/Terminator: Okay they ended this one with a serious violation as far as I'm concerned... you do not let the cute boy shave his head! Suddenly he is no longer cute. The good Cameron/bad Cameron thing is a deal breaker for me. If she's not good Cameron then I'm not interested. And I still have a problem with the fact that they have never addressed one unavoidable fact. If they are successful: John will cease to exist.

John exists because his father was sent back in time after the machines took over to protect Sarah they get it on, John is created. The current show's objective is to prevent the machine's from ever taking over. If they destroy the Turk before Judgement Day then Kyle will never need to travel through time and he will never impregnate Sarah. By altering the future as they are trying to do.. John ceases to exist.

 

Nothing else new for us this week until Saturday when I can't wait for SNL to take on the politicians!!

This one time at band camp...

I'm one of those people who remember an embarrassing about of useless things from the past. Things that are better left forgotten. If we walked into my old elementary school today I could walk you to each classroom I was ever in, and show you the placement of a good many of my desks.. third grade, 2nd row from the door, 3rd seat.

I really tend to remember the things that other people would like to forget....

• I can tell you which girl in my class was the first to get her period. And where she was standing in the cafeteria when everyone noticed.
• I remember the names of all eight girls who got busted for being drunk during gym class in junior high.
• I could take you to New Orleans and show you all four spots where my college roommate puked during Mardi Gras in 1988. Yeah I'm fun like that.

I also tend to remember people who I never really knew. You know, friends of friends, random people that were at a particular event but not "with" me specifically. The kind ofpeople you laugh and drink with but know you'll never see again. Yeah I remember them. I've learned over the years to stop saying "Hello" when I run into them later because remembering the guy you were at a 4th of July boat party with 2 summers ago in the grocery store.. kind of screams STALKER.

For all these reasons, sites like Facebook freak me out a little. Of course I remember everyone on the damn high school list. Doesn't mean they remember me, geeked out introvert that I am was. Or what about all the friends of friends that I might "know" - heck yeah I've met them but I don't "know" them.

And let's not even get into the whole I've-read-you-blog-for-years-but-you-don't-know-me-from-Adam level of friendship.

Facebook makes me jumpy and nervous. I just don't want to be that person who over reaches and embarrasses themselves attempting to connect with people from the past and have them be all - "who are you again?"

But then last week something happened that made me laugh and laugh and laugh at myself.

This boy who sat next to me in my 11th grade civics class, the one who was cute and funny that I never could get the nerve to look directly at because I might just turn into a great big poof of dust.. yeah that one. HE sent ME a friend request. Hell I didn't even think he knew who I was then much less now.

Great Facebook .... Could have used you 25 years ago ....and Big Thanks 'cause now you've got me REALLY over-thinking the  "Do You Know" suggestions ... '

... like do you think the girl who went to dance with me in 2nd grade and hid my ballet shoes the last day before recital so I couldn't be in the show will know who I am if I "Friend" her? ...Wonder if she ever found out I totally got her back with a bad sorority rec. 11 years later ......

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90210

If you would have told me I would have spend another two hours of my life watching 90210 I would have laughed at you. Now you can laugh at me.

My opinion - Gossip Girl is the new 90210. I'll be sticking with it. However I'll admit to being mildly interested in the older historical characters until they run their course.

I giggle in the face of disaster...

Every time the weatherman says "Cone of Concern" I giggle because I can't help but think of the SpongeBob episode where Patrick stands too close to the "Orb of Confusion."

Instant Role Model

As heard in the backyard pool Sunday afternoon: 5 kids younger than 7

"Who's turn is it to be Michael Phelps"

"Mine"

"No, it's mine"

The thing that I learned that made me feel 80

So I was cruising along reading blogs and came across the information that the the two people in that LG Shine commercial (guy, girl, narcissistic reflective cell phones) are actually "famous" people that we're supposed to know on site. Not just two half ass commercial actors/esses.

I suppose the commercial at least makes a little more sense now that I understand that the idiots staring at their own reflection in the cell phones are supposed to be famous for being famous.. ala Paris Hilton. Is this LG's attempt to be ironic or just promote the phone?

And tomorrow I'll be investigating my preferred nursing home.

Make It Work

I'm watching too much Project Runway when I see this fellow at this conference and I think I know I'm from somewhere and I'm racking my brain ... then I realize he just a dead ringer for Tim Gunn.