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Friday Fives – Five Things That Make Me Happy

June 8, 2012 · by · 4 Comments
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Welcome to Friday Fives, the weekly meme where I post a list of five anythings! This week, I’m making myself think of five things that make me happy because I had a bad day yesterday and want to embrace the positives.  Feel free to play along with Friday Fives by posting your own list on your blog, on your Facebook wall, your Google + stream, on Twitter – or even by leaving your list in my comments!

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FIVE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY TODAY:

 

1. My real-life and Facebook friends. I had a bad day yesterday, starting with a huge fight with my husband and ending with the realization that I had FORGOT that I agreed to co-host a Twitter party with Megan Calhoun of SocialMoms on behalf of Together Counts. I was devastated.  I posted about it on Facebook (a/k/a my personal therapist) and had 19 friends, most of whom I personally know, shower me with all kinds of lovely and kind words. It was like getting a big group hug, and there’s no feeling like knowing that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.  And also? That you aren’t the only one that occasionally f*cks up. So once again, thank you thank you THANK YOU all my wonderful friends.

2. International Delight Iced Mocha, which I discovered when an opportunity came up to review it through Collective Bias/Social Fabric. If you are a fan of those fancy iced coffee drinks at coffee places and take-out restaurants that cost four or five dollars each, you really need to head to Meijer or Walmart or Kroger (put in your zip code at http://www.internationaldelight.com/Where-To-Buy to find stores close to you) and pick up Original, Vanilla or Mocha. It’s $3.99 for half a gallon which is eight servings! Sorry Biggby Coffee, Starbucks,  and McDonalds, but I’m on a budget and quite frankly, International Delight’s Iced Mocha tastes EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOURS.  p.s. posting this is not part of the compensated campaign I’m doing for CB. I swear.

3. My daughter teaching herself to tie her shoes. Kaitlyn requested her first pair of “shoes that tie” a couple of months ago, and as Chris or I tied them for her in the morning, we explained step-by-step what we were doing. And then about two weeks ago, she came running up to the front door off the bus and said “Mom, guess what? I tied my own shoes today!”  She decided she was going to do it by herself and so she just put her mind to it and did it.  Her feet did one of those I-swear-they-grew-overnight things that kids’ feet do and yesterday I realized she had little red marks on the tops of all her toes where the shoes were rubbing, so last night we stopped in at Payless and she requested “shoes that will help me run fast AND that tie.” No more velcro for my girl!

4. My kids finishing up Freshman year, Seventh grade, and Kindergarten having kicked butt in all their classes.  Ryan has a 3.89 GPA that would have been higher but he chose to take Sophomore math instead of Freshman math. And I am very happy with 3.89!  And Nathan, my sweet son with the math learning disability, is getting a B+ in Math, a B in Science, and A’s in everything else!  Kaitlyn was a model kindergartener, and loves school so much that when her teacher told the kids to practice math, reading, spelling and writing over the summer, she set up a “desk” in the playroom by turning a big cardboard box upside down and setting out paper, crayons and markers. She’ll probably know all the 1st grade skills before the new school year even starts. We always end the school year by going out for ice cream, and I am happily spending that money because all three of them deserve it!

5. New seasons of some of my favorite TV shows. Summer used to mean endless reruns of sitcoms and not much else, but thanks to cable, networks like HBO, TNT, and USA now have shows that start in the summer, and there are some really good ones. Last week’s Friday Fives was Five TV Shows I’ll Be Watching This Summer, all but True Blood had their season premieres this past week, and I was once again reminded why I love summer TV! One show I didn’t have room for in that post was Franklin & Bash, which airs Tuesdays at 10 eastern on TNT. Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer play old friends and lawyers who will do anything to represent their clients, while also being hilariously funny and sometimes naughty, not to mention gorgeous. I have had a huge crush on Breckin ever since “Clueless”, and he just gets hotter every year. Mark-Paul’s not too bad either. Malcom McDowell plays the head of the law firm they technically work for and he’s brilliant. A good hour of TV makes me happy, six good hours of TV a week makes me even happier :)

So there you have it, this week’s Friday Fives. Have a great weekend everybody!

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Tonight on TV – The start of the 2010 Fall TV Season!

September 20, 2010 · by · 4 Comments
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Tonight begins the Fall TV Season, and as usual, the networks are putting more shows on at the same time than is humanly possible to watch. Unless you have a house full of DVRs, which I don’t. We have one, even though I’ve begged Chris to let me rent a second one from Comcast, but he doesn’t want to spend the five bucks. Grumble, Grumble.

8:00 PM EST kicks things off with new episodes of five returning shows that are all insanely popular:

ABC- Dancing With The Stars LIVE

CBS- How I Met Your Mother, followed by Rules of Engagement at 8:30

FOX- House

NBC- Chuck

CW- 90210

I’ll be watching HIMYM and recording DWTS. I gave up on House a couple of seasons ago, and have never seen Chuck or the new 90210.

At 9:00 PM EST, things start to heat up with the premieres of new shows that have been getting good buzz, at least in Entertainment Weekly, which is my primary arbiter of whether something is worth seeing:

ABC- DWTS continues

CBS- Two and a Half Men, followed by the new Mike & Molly, which could either be funny or get tired fast

FOX- Premiere of Lone Star – A con artist plans to steal money from his wife, but which one?

NBC- Premiere of The Event – A video game programmer stumbles upon the biggest cover-up in U.S. history

CW- Gossip Girl

And then at 10:00 PM EST, there are more shows I want to watch than is physically possible:

ABC- New “Castle” (mmm, I’ve been missing Nathan Fillion)

CBS- Premiere of “Hawaii Five-O (Daniel Dae Kim! Grace Park! SCOTT CAAN, people)

NBC- Premiere of “Chase” – A U.S. Marshall tracks down vicious, wanted fugitives.

A&E- New “Hoarders”

Bravo- New “Thintervention with Jackie Warner” (yes, I watched it last week. Yes, I got hooked)

We have one DVR, even though I’ve begged Chris to let me get a second one from Comcast, but he doesn’t want to pay the five extra bucks a month or whatever it would cost. Grumble, grumble.

So, I can record two shows but can’t watch a third. The Bravo and A&E shows should be available on Comcast OnDemand. A lot of the NBC shows end up available to watch at NBC.com, same with ABC.  I think at 10:00, I’ll record Hawaii Five-O and watch Chase, and then watch Castle later on the website.

What about you? What are you looking forward to watching tonight?

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Things I’m Thinking About Today, the LOST Edition – 5/25/10

May 25, 2010 · by · 11 Comments
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The LOST finale – was that ever an emotional episode!  Significant moments for me were when Sawyer realized who Juliet was by the vending machine, and they held each other and cried. When he said “I had you, baby. I had you” – WAAAAHHHHH.    Also, when Hurley, Jack and Ben were at the yellow tunnel, and Jack told Hurley he was going to be the island protector and Jack was going down into the tunnel. Hurley had tears rolling down his face – WAAAAAHHHHH.  But, the ending has me all confused.  If the Sideways-World was like purgatory or some kind of Defending Your Life type waiting area, then how could Jack have performed surgery on Locke? Or was the hospital and the whole scene with Locke just part of Jack’s awakening but didn’t really happen in the “real” world?

The church scene, when Christian opened the doors and the white light flooded in, were they all “moving on” to heaven, or were they moving on to their LIVES, moving on from what happened to them on the island?  Chris thinks they weren’t all really dead, but I think they were. Jack definitely looked dead on the island – and OMG the DOG, laying down next to him, sniff sniff.  When Christian said “everyone dies, Jack, some before you, some after you”, I think he was referring to characters who were already dead and waiting in this purgatory world for everyone to move on together, and to the characters who died after Jack but had caught up with him in purgatory world (namely, Hurley and Ben, Rose and Bernard).

In the flash-sideways world, remember that it started with the plane actually landing. Each character was then left to re-confront their old life and fix whatever wasn’t right.Desmond had to hit Locke with his car so Locke would go to the hospital and connect with Jack.  Jack had to perform surgery on Locke but not be drunk, and have the surgery work, so that he could finally forgive both himself and his father. Kate had to make sure Claire met Charlie and gave birth to Aaron.

Sawyer had to find Juliet and vice versa, Ben had to help Alex have the life she was denied by growing up on the island and, of course, dying because Ben did nothing to stop it.  Sayid had to make sure Nadia was safe, Sun and Jin had to remember that he chose to stay with her and die in the submarine. And finally, Kate had to convince Jack that they knew each other and get him to come to the church. It was odd that Jack only had a flash of the island, that he didn’t get his full memory back.  And didn’t it seem, in the hospital, that Jack and Juliet were the parents of Jack’s son, that they were maybe divorced?

So, this whole past season, this is what I think has been going on – Juliet said “it worked”. She detonated the bomb and everyone still on the island died. However, because they had unfinished business both on and off the island, their spirits or souls or whatever you want to call them were split in two.  Part of them stayed on the island to help finish up the LockeMonster/Jacob/Samuel storyline, and part of them each went into an alternate world where they took care of unfinished life business.  Everyone we saw in the church at the end had died at different times, but once all of them were ready to move on, to accept that they were dead, once they had each found the person that had been most important to them on the island, once they had tied up all their loose ends from their lives, they were all ready to move into the light together. Together, just like they all had to be together to get to the island in the first place.

Talk to me about the LOST finale in the comments, people. What was your favorite moment? What questions did you think were left unanswered? Let’s discuss!

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