Good stuff to numb our minds!

I love to watch television. I love to see other people's imagination come alive for my entertainment. It's hard to find good shows though. Lately, however, there have been some really goods shows coming out, truly imaginative pieces of work. One of my favorite is The Walking Dead. It is never too early to start preparing for the zombie apocalypse, and this is the perfect show to watch for pointers. The characters are great, the storyline is superb, it is a show that needs to stay on for a while.

 

Another show I enjoy is Terra Nova. It's still starting out, but the premise is terrific. if you haven't watched, it's about a group of people that have traveled back in time to prehistoric Earth. The twist is that it's a different timeline than our own, that way they can't do anything to alter the future. They traveled back because the future is so messed up, the human race is attempting to start over. At the same time, there is a separate group that is trying to sabotage everything that the original settlers are trying to accomplish. So the whole time you watch, you're wondering "who really are the good guys"?

 

Recently, a new show has started that completely blows me away with every new episode they air. That show would be American Horror Story. Each episode ends leaving more questions to answer than have been resolved. It's confusing, but not in a frustrating way. It's about a family (father, mother, daughter) that moved into a house in California. What they didn't know was that the house is haunted, and the ghosts are very real. It is the kind of show that you really have to pay attention to everything in order to have some idea of what is happening; are we in the past, in the present, is that person alive, are they all ghosts?

 

Once Upon A Time also recently started, and is proving to be a genuinely good show. I keep wanting to know more, but then I realize once all the secrets are revealed, the show will be over. To sum up, The Evil Queen did a spell causing all of the characters in our favorite children's tales to be brought into our world, hence no happy endings. (Wow that's kind of sad even coming from The Evil Queen) Now that they are in our world, they have no memory of who they were. A young boy works each week to try to get people to remember who they were, and get his real mother (long back story) to break the curse of The Evil Queen.

 

Currently not playing because they run on a different schedule, are shows that I enjoy from the BBC. Doctor Who and Torchwood are must see tv! If you haven't heard of either of these shows, rent them and catch up! I really can't say too much about either of these shows without giving everything away, but Torchwood is a spinoff of Doctor Who. Also, they are both Sci-fi shows, so if you don't like sci-fi, don't bother, you won't understand it!

 

Each season brings something new, some creative form of someone's imagination. I can't wait to see what 2012 brings!

 

 

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What's that in the air?? Must be craziness!

Sometimes I take entirely too much stuff onto my plate. This year I have decided to plan and make Christmas Eve dinner. Quite an enormous undertaking as it is. I blame Food Network. All their shows get my creative juices flowing, and usually it's a bit much for me to handle. So not only am I making our Friend's Christmas Dinner, but now I'm cooking for my family for Christmas Eve. Not my best plan. But I have my lists done.

Whenever I start to do something big, like cook dinner for a million, I start with making a list. What are the foods I want to prepare? Then I make an ingredients list, so I know what I need to buy at the store or if I already have it on hand in the kitchen. Then I shop. Then I prep. What item can I make first because it can sit, like cookies or cake, unlike soup which needs to be served hot? And this year I am making a lot of foods that I have never tried to make before so that should make things more interesting.

Plus, now that I have all the presents bought for Christmas, I have to wrap them. I suppose this week would be the best time to do that because after that I'll be cooking and baking for 2 weeks. I'm so excited for this year's Christmas, too. G is at a great age were she can really appreciate the magic of Christmas. 

Oi! I'm already tired and I haven't even started yet!

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I just don't know anymore

Life is great and then throws a friggin' curve ball at you. I could really do without the curve ball for a bit! Just when I thought my shoulder was felling better that I could tell my Doctor that it was fine to transfer me back to my PCP, it starts acting up! Pain to the point that I want to remove my arm at the shoulder. No rhyme or reason as to what sets the pain off. It just comes, sticks around for a while, and then leaves again. I think with all the chaos in my head it had to come out somewhere and my shoulders are my stress point.

 

And then we had another fish die. It was either frick or frack, we're not sure, but the other one is fine. So I take, whoever it was, out of the tank, and G is cracking up. This is totally not how she reacted when the albino died. I asked her if she wanted to flush the toilet, and she was like "oh yeah"! Then she said, "well we'll just have to get a new one". Four and a half and this kid has a good grip on life and death, although simplistic, she understands. 

 

Now for tomorrow,my niece and I are taking our girls to see Santa and take their picture with him. It should be interesting at the least. Then we are taking them shopping to buy the other kids presents. (Torture!) Maybe we'll get some snow in the valley and it will semi improve this shitty week. We shall see.

 

 

Next week: What's that in the air?? Must be craziness!