Lost

I'm not one of those people who can just sit and watch a TV show or movie - I have to be doing other things.  So this week I'm off work (yay!) and I decided to finally get around to watching the last season of Lost.  I set up my Wii to stream Netflix (so cool!) and I've spent the last few days watching this very exciting, very stressful and at times horribly sad TV show.

I have two more episodes to watch and I still can't believe I've remained "unspoiled" and really have no idea what's going to happen in the end. I thankfully can send my sister text messages when shocking things happen but I want to talk to you, dear readers, as well.  In case you are still planning to watch, I'll speak in code.  Why oh why did X, Y, and Z have to die?  How did I not know that a certain West Wing actress was going to play a pivotal role? And what they did with a main character this season just kills me. Kills me, I tell you!

Anyway, I have to say, it's excellent TV but it's painful TV which makes it even harder to watch without something else to do.  So here's a list of what I've been doing whilst watching Lost:

1. Laundry. Three loads today, in fact. Clean sheets tonight = heaven.

2. Eating.  Christmas leftovers put Thanksgiving leftovers to shame.  From ham sandwiches on homemade bread to my mom's best she's ever made peanut brittle, January 1st can't get here soon enough.

3. Throwing out piles of paper.  I need to be better about throwing stuff out in 2011.  I keep way too much stuff.

4. Playing Fruit Ninja, Scrabble and Cut the Rope on my iPhone.  Seriously, such fun games. My high score on Fruit Ninja/arcade is 430.  How about you?

Hope you all are enjoying your holiday break as much as I am.

Oprah is OOC*!

OOC = Out Of Control.  Yeah, I'm sick again, it snowed a bunch and paralyzed all of Western WA, I'm obsessed with all things Harry Potter, and we moved to a new office at work, but instead of blogging about any of those exciting topics, I'm gonna blog about Ms. Winfrey and her fantastic shows of late.

Almost every day, I'm amazed at what Oprah has on her show.  Sure, I still have the shows I delete without watching but for the most part, I turn on the TV and cannot believe what she has to show us.  Also, I'm totally loving the softer hairstyle these days.

Interested in seeing a reunion of the cast of Sound of Music?

Well, of course they would be on Oprah. And yes, I cried while watching it.  I will freely admit that I'm a dork.

How about Marie Osmond talking for the first and only time about her son who committed suicide?

Check.  Did you catch Marie's comment about her previous marriage where she said "you marry at the level of your self-esteem.  You have to have self-worth."?  Simply brilliant - like, I got goosebumps listening to her say that.

Wondering about the Cast of the Color Purple 25 years after the movie first came out?

Wonder no more.  I loved the very beginning where Oprah and Whoopi talked about how they thought the other was mad so that's why they hadn't spoken in years.  Such a good reminder to not let time pass without communicating with your loved ones.

Ever dream about seeing an interview with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford together?

Yep, she had them on too.  I only watched The Way We Were for the first time about 5 years ago and loved it. And the tour of Barbra's home?  Wow.

Have you been wondering whatever happened to Phil Donahue and other former talk show hosts?

Well, here they are! My friend went to see Phil's show back in the day...it was about adults who liked to dress up like babies, for, um, fun. I have forever imprinted in my mind my friend and her sister's look of disgust when they were shown onscreen.  Hilarious.

How about Shaun Cassidy?

Oh my goodness - a big ol' check.  Seriously?  I loved Shaun Cassidy.  I subscribed to Tiger Beat and I thought he was just dreamy.  He sounded great singing a medley of his hit songs - watch the video here.

I could talk more about other shows I loved (Oprah and Gayle go camping!  Makeovers with Carson where one of the ladies comes out looking like a red-headed Cruella DeVille! Two whole days of Favorite Things (and the only two things I really wanted were the shiny red Coach bag and the Garrett's popcorn tin!)

But really, I can hardly wait until tomorrow's show with Garth Brooks.  Love. Him. His concert was one of the best I've ever seen.  Yes, ever.

I'm gonna really miss Oprah when she fake-retires and goes to her new network. How about you?

Sister Wives - for real this time

Okay, I've given you all a few days to watch it...so have you?  Sister Wives is a new TV show on TLC on Sunday nights.  It's a reality show about a polygamist family:  one husband, three wives (soon to be 4) and 13 children (soon to be plus 3 stepchildren.)

Here's is the main man...Kody:

I cannot get past the hair.  At.  All. Especially when they show him first thing in the morning and his hair is all over the place.  Cut it, Kody.  Let.  It.  Go.  Short hair doesn't make you less of a man, Kody.  I promise.  Anyway, he also drives a mid-life crisis sports car, which struck me as kind of funny (and cheesy) for a dad of 13.

Here are the wives (the one with the dark hair is the new one that Kody is "courting" right now.)

The original three wives and Kody have been together 15+ years.  They live in a big house (built by other polygs) with lots of doors and kitchens so the three wives all have their own homes within the home.  Kody's stuff is spread all over the house because he moves from wife #1's bedroom to wife #2's bedroom etc. every night.

Kody has some sort of sales job.  Two of the wives work and one of them (the pregnant one, 2nd from left) stays home with the kids.  The older kids go to polyg schools and everyone sort of co-parents everybody's kids.  We see them praying together, eating meals together, working in the yard together, etc.  Very very "normal" except for the whole polygamy thing.  Oh and they also point out that they aren't LDS.  Instead they call themselves fundamentalist Mormons.  All but one were raised in plural families (so crazy that there are so many out there.)

I have been thinking about this show all week...especially since the news this week said they were being investigated for bigamy.  I think I have a hard time with the police coming after them because, hello, there are a lot of things that should be being investigated out there.  HOWEVER, if they are getting welfare benefits or whatever, yeah, throw the book at them.  But with three of the parents working full time outside the home, wouldn't they be  making enough money to pay their own way without government assistance?  Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are breaking the law I guess but did he legally marry wives 2, 3 and 4 or did he just ceremonially "marry" them?  I guess you can also make a case that their life may be hurting those children but it's also all they know and they seemed pretty happy and well cared for...but I don't know what to think.

What do YOU think?

And hello, could I possibly have used more " " marks in this post? 

A mini blog hop

Rather than repeat/copy everything my dear friend Kim put on her blog earlier today, I want all of you to go here and see the pictures from our Biggest Loser finale evening together. 

Please note the following:

• My blank stares in the first couple of pictures. 
• The really bad fake-sleeping. 
• The inappropriate pointing. 
• Koli's stupid pink pants

There is nothing like a good friend, is there???

TV Talk

You all know that I enjoy the TV.  A lot.  Here are some TV-related thoughts I've been having lately:

• The Bachelorette starts tomorrow night!  But here is the even better news:  Holly, Lindsey and I have joined forces this season and each week, one of us will recap the show on our blogs and the other two will send our readers to that particular blog for the update.  I'm SO excited about this arrangement!   The only pressure I will feel is to be almost as funny and clever as these fabulous women and even then I will only feel that every third week.  I can totally handle that!  Holly is taking the first shift but please go easy on her - she's now on pregnancy-induced bedrest so she will need lots of love and compliments (Holly, you're so pretty!) to ward off the annoyance of being stuck in a bed for the next couple of months while her two small children run amok. (I know they aren't really doing that - I just wanted to use amok in a sentence.)
• This is an old thought but did you watch Rielle Hunter on Oprah awhile back?  And did I talk about this here or did I mention it only on Twitter?  I can't recall but I'm still disturbed by that interview and the stupidity of that ridiculous, adulterous woman.  If you want to be as annoyed as me, read more here. So glad we didn't elect John Edwards!
• I think Lee DeWyze is going to win American Idol, even though I've only bought music by Crystal Bowersox. I think he's more Idol'ish than Crystal and you know how the little girls love a cute boy who cries easily. I think it'll be a landslide unless he totally bombs this week.
• I still cannot turn away from watching the Real Housewives.  I think the entire cast of NYC are total nutjobs.  I cannot stand Kelly and Jill!  I love the NJ ladies with the exception of  Danielle.  Do you think she says as she looks at herself in the mirror, "Today I'm going to permanently scar my children and make them hate me forever" because seriously, that's what she's doing.
• I still haven't watched a single episode of this season's Lost.  I plan to, I just haven't. 
• So excited for So You Think You Can Dance! However, I am not excited about Mia Michaels as a judge (love her choreography, hate listening to her talk.)
• And finally, Biggest Loser.  I want Koli to win because I love the Polys and I don't care who knows it. However, I expect Michael or Ashley to win just because they had so much more to lose. I've loved this season because of the minimal game play -- so much more enjoyable to watch.

What are YOU watching these days??

Reality Show Catch Phrases

You know I enjoy the reality TV, right? These shows generally provide a nice escape and watching them almost always make me feel better about my own little life because everyone on these shows are basically freaks.

Besides the fact that most of the shows contain lots of crazies, they almost always have a little catch phrase each week. Some are good, some are embarassingly bad.

We all love Survivor's "the tribe has spoken" right? (Can't wait to see tonight's premiere!)

Heidi's "you're out" also works well on Project Runway. And hello, who doesn't love Tim Gunn's "make it work?"

But am I the only one who rolls her eyes when Tyra says "you're no longer in the running towards being America's Next Top Model?" Sigh. Tyra is hard for me to take. I still can't believe she's actually won Emmys for her obnoxious talk show.

But I digress.

So has anyone watched Shear Genius on Bravo?

They got rid of Jaclyn Smith as the host and it's now hosted by Matthew McConaughey's baby mama Camilla Alves.

The show is really pretty bad. It's filled with these annoying and obnoxious people who give people mostly really scary haircuts and styles. But to me, the absolute worst part of this show is the way Camilla ends it every week.

I hope you're sitting down because this is some deep, moving stuff.

Are you ready? It's so deep. I really hope you're ready.

She says, "And remember, hair is important."

What the heck?

Sure hair is important but in the big scheme of things, is it really? Is that the best they could come up with?????

I'm sure she has more meaningful thoughts going around her head than "hair is important." I feel bad she has to say something so embarassingly dumb. Well, not that bad because just look at what she sees when she wakes up every morning:

Yum.

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Want to know why? Okay, I'll tell you. There are actually two reasons.

1. Duh. You knew what my first reason was going to be, didn't you? Fall TV!

The Office? Hilarious! Who wants to be on my poopball team with me? And seriously, can Jim and Pam be any cuter?

Biggest Loser? Heartbreaking! However, does yelling & swearing at people like that really make them want to work out, Jillian? Come on, really?

Parks & Recreation? Hysterical! Leslie doing her DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince best at the beginning was so awesome.

Glee? Okay, I don't have an H word for this one because I'm struggling with the naughtiness of this show. I adore the music, hate a lot of the rest. Why do they have to do that with this show? Lots of kids watch it!! :(

So You Think You Can Dance? Happiness! I heard that Adam Shankman is the permanent 3rd judge and that thrills me. I heart him so much.

And the #2 reason why it's the most wonderful time of the year?

It's frog time, Jasmine! (You may have moved away but I wanted you to see what you were missing...hope this doesn't make you too homesick!)

Every year about this time, I come home at night and find frogs hanging out around my front door. In past years, I've even had lizards waiting for me. They kind of freak me out because I'm always afraid they are going to try and hop inside after I unlock my door and then what will I do?

This week, I've had a total of 6 frogs awaiting my arrival home at night. Thursday night, this guy was on the wall/siding, pointed toward my front door, ready to hop in and watch The Office with me.

Please ignore the grossness around him -- I don't even want to know what he was doing before I came home but I'm getting the hose out later.

Quotes of the Night -- Wes from the Bachelorette edition

When asked about the Barcelona music scene, Wes had this little gem to offer: "I had a song on my second album hit number 1 in Chihuahua, Mexico so I feel at home with the Spanish people." Because Mexico and Spain are exactly the same because they both speak Spanish, right??

When Jillian was grilling him about not being affectionate or into her he said, "You know, numero uno is most important here" (meaning himself.) Nice...you're really out to embark on a relationship with someone, aren't ya???

The big slip...when he referred to his "ex" girlfriend as his girlfriend...caught ya! Jake was right!

I loved it when he didn't get a rose and he just stood there, hanging on to what little camera time he had left.

The best part of the night was the limo interview. Holy cow. Alcohol is not your friend, Wes. Hope your family and especially your girlfriend are proud of you for being a big fake and phony on TV in hopes your singing career takes off. All of you radio programmers out there, do not book the guy on your station. Please.

Wes, you are a complete tool. Keep on recording songs that hit #1 in Chihuahua and please don't let the limo door hit you as you skulk out of Barcelona.

Why I love New Jersey

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to a Botox party?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to completely furnish your brand new, ginormous, designed by you home with furniture you bought with cold hard cash?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be BFFs with a former/alleged actress slash model slash drug dealer slash stripper slash convicted felon?

Well, if you yelled YES to any of the above questions, you are probably obsessed with "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" just like me. Here's a little background for you...

Pictured above is Caroline. She's sort of the head of the family, the godmother if you will. She has three grown children and owns a scary dog.

This is Dina (probably my favorite.) Dina and Caroline are sisters who are married to brothers. Dina's husband doesn't appear on the show and she has a normal/healthy relationship with her daughter Lexi.Next is Jacqueline. She's married to Dina & Caroline's brother (are you still with me here?) On this season of the show, she was shown trying to get pregnant. She has since given birth to a baby boy - yay.

This is Teresa (not the best picture of her.) She's the one who pays cash for everything. She's a married, stage mother of three little girls. She has a ton of clothes. Her husband's job is listed as "entrepreneur." Um, right. Oh and she's pregnant in real life.

And finally, my least favorite. Danielle. She's the one who has allegedly done all of the bad stuff I mentioned above. She's part of the group because she's friends with Jacqueline (and because they needed a villain on the show) and she's just a horrible, icky woman. She has two daughters whom she tells everything to (stuff most normal mothers would not tell their teen/tween daughters.) She's had too much plastic surgery (she was the hostess of the Botox party.)

The season was only six episodes, which was not nearly enough. Seriously, last night's season finale was probably the best reality TV I've ever seen. It will be repeated a few dozen times this week so if you need an escape from your life, look for it and watch it. The last 15 minutes are so delicious. I can't wait for next week's reunion!

I want to be on the hot tamale train.

I so very much love this show. So much so that I deleted last night's show on my TiVo and came home tonight and retrieved it from the deleted file so I could watch the performances again. I just love it! Here's exactly what I love about the show...

I love the music and I love that it's not performed by cheesy lounge singers. I also love that they include the titles and artists so I can buy the stuff I love.

I love Nigel, especially now that he's cut his hair. I love that he is always kind even when giving criticism.

I adore Mary and her fakeouts that she hated the performance but then turns into her screaming that she loved it. She's a little too free with the OMGs but she is just sweet and kind and you know what? She knows what she's talking about. Did you see her dance on the finale last year? Wow.
I love that darling Cat Deeley and the way she says "jidges." (Sorry Chrissy.) I think she's a great host and so much more watchable than that lame Ryan Seacrest.

I love the choreographers. Wade Robson's crash test dummy number? So out there but so cool. Mandy Moore is phenomenal too. Oh but that brings me to the one thing I don't like about this show -- Mia Michaels.

Okay, her choreography is amazing but as soon as she opens her mouth I want to tell her to shut it. She's just rude and mean and really, this show does NOT need a Simon (who seems mean but you know he's not.)

I'm having the hardest time figuring out which dancers I love the most because they were all seriously phenomenal last night. I know for a fact I love Melissa & Ade (she's the 29 year old ballerina.) That lift they did last night -- holy cow! Until I watched this show last year, I had no idea I could ever like contemporary dance and I absolutely adore it. It's my favorite to watch with hip hop being a close second.

If you haven't watched this show yet, please start so we can talk about it! Here's Melissa & Ade's performance from last night...let me know if you loved it as much as me.

The I'm Sick Entry

I'm sick.

Cough. Sniff.

Have I mentioned that I'm sick?

I don't think it's "that" flu but it's the low grade fever/sneezy/coughing kind of sick. The kind of sick that keeps you home from work because you want to be healthy for the long, sunny, holiday weekend kind of sick.

What I've been doing while I've been sick: catching up on my TiVo'd shows, downloading stuff from iTunes, a little bit of work, sleeping, doing laundry and playing Peggle on my iPod. I haven't felt much like reading, strangely enough. Maybe after I finish this.

I loved the AI Finale last night. The performances were so great and it was such a fun surprise to see Kris win. I'm not worried about Adam's career - he'll be fine.

Did anyone watch Glee? I'm thinking I'm going to love it based solely on the music. I already bought the two songs (Rehab and Don't Stop Believin') and I downloaded the premiere for free (love iTunes.)

I'm very excited for So You Think You Can Dance which premieres tonight. If you haven't watched it before, try it out tonight.

I'm going on a little trip this weekend with my friend Michelle. This Sunday would have been/should have been her husband Rick's 51st birthday so we're getting away to celebrate. We'll be seeing Star Trek because he would love that. We'll also shop, soak up the sun and watch movies in our hotel room because what he would love most is for Michelle to be happy.

So let me know...did you watch Glee? Are you going to watch SYTYCD? Are you doing anything fun this weekend? Entertain me while I'm in my sickbed, please.

How to get through a 2 hour American Idol in about 45 minutes

I know I'm going out on a limb here but really, American Idol bugs me. Yes, it's a cultural phenomenon and I usually love me a cultural phenomenon. Yes, 30 kajillion people vote each week so that means everyone else loves it. I usually end up buying songs from the winner and runners up but most of the time, I fast forward (FF) nearly the whole show and here's why:

• I think Ryan Seacrest is smarmy and I really don't like to listen to him talk. I especially hate it when he and Simon "fight." It comes across so mean most of the time. When Ryan opens his mouth, FF!
• Whenever Randy doesn't like someone's performance, he usually starts out with a "how are you feeling tonight, dawg? You feeling alright?" If you hear that, you have just given a horrible performance. You'd think after all of these years, he'd come up with new material. Whenever Randy starts to talk, FF!
• Paula, Paula, Paula. I really try hard to like her because she's all kinds of crazy and I sort of feel bad for her. But she is such a train wreck and cannot speak in complete sentences most of the time. It's just sad and I'm embarrassed to even watch her. Whenever Paula starts to talk, FF!
• The cheesy commercials the contestants do are lame! FF!

With all of that being said, my favorite contestants are Adam and Danny and I will continue to zip through watching the show each week just because I want to hear their performances. Hopefully, my FF tips will help you make better use of your time in the future.

The Bachelor - the aftermath

I didn't get to sleep until almost 12:30 and I'm an irritated, irritable, bleary-eyed mess today. I'm even breaking my personal rule by blogging at work because I just have to get my thoughts out of my head. When my boss saw me this morning he said, "you're emotionally spent." And I totally am. I know it was just a ridiculously stupid (and scripted) reality TV show but it was all just so CRUEL! I think that's what I hated the most.

Okay, here's my list of thoughts...

• Jason is a total loser. If he didn't want to marry Melissa, why didn't he break up with her off camera instead of subjecting her to such a humiliating public dumping? I couldn't even watch the screen, it was that horrible. I'm glad she was more angry and hurt than emotional. I would have walked off the stage sobbing, if I were her.
• How much more money did he get to stage the break up in front of the cameras, do you think? I saw a Jimmy Kimmel clip where Jimmy asked why Jason broke up with her like that and Jason said "I had to." Um, "Jay?" No you didn't. You could have been a man and broke up with her one on one or even via email, fax, text whatever. Any of those ways would have been less cruel than what you subjected Melissa to last night.
• The crap he spewed to Melissa during the break up was SO scripted. I have worked in PR departments and I know people don't write the stuff they are quoted as saying. That's just the way it is. So people, everything that came out of Jason's mouth on the after the rose show was fed to him by producers, a shrink, or a PR person. They told him what to say to try and convince the viewers he was not being a complete douchebag by breaking up with a nice girl on national TV.
• And really, I don't begrudge him wanting to be with the girl he loves the most. Wait, I meant to say "loves" the most, because we know how real his "love" is. I just think Jason/ABC should have been decent human beings and left Melissa out of the after the rose show altogether.
• I have nothing against Molly either. Well, I didn't until her hand went on his knee with about 10 minutes left to watch last night. If she would have just stopped at the "let's see what happens" or whatever, I would have been fine. But no, her hand went to his knee and then the stupid kissing began. Again, could Jason/ABC have been more cruel to Melissa? Seriously???
• And Jason crying. Oy vey. I am a sensitive, romantic girl who appreciates a man who cries but when Jason cried throughout the three hour debacle of last night, I just rolled my eyes. I have zero sympathy for him and again, do not believe him at all.
• ABC -- is Jerry Springer now the president of your network? Maybe Maury Povich? That's what last night felt like to us -- a 3 hour, primetime Springer/Povich extravaganza.
• The DeAnna visit was just a waste. Did you notice they didn't show his face when she came in the door? Her arrival obviously wasn't a surprise to him. And it was just to set us up for the public breakup, which really does sort of seal the whole conspiracy theory: that Jason likely proposed to the one he didn't really want so he could do this whole after the rose breakup and rekindle the relationship with Molly.
• His ridiculous suits are still too small.
• Melissa's dress at the final rose ceremony was BEAUTIFUL! I liked Molly's purple but Melissa's was stunningly gorgeous. And her hair was (slightly) better. I can't remember who said it last night (either Jaylene or Kim) but you don't wear a bad pony tail with a formal dress!
• Melissa's acceptance of the proposal was probably the most darling thing I've ever seen. Everyone at our viewing party said "I want to marry Melissa now" (and yes, we're all hetero females.) She was so sweet and real. Melissa, you had us at "can I wear my stretchy pants?"

I really just wanted to blog about the Bachelor but...

I started writing my thoughts about this week's Bachelor but was interrupted with some bad news a bit ago. My dad is in surgery in a hospital in AZ right now. He has a blockage to half of his heart and both of his legs and internal bleeding that doctors are currently operating on to try and fix. I'm not close with my dad so I don't know exactly how I feel. I know I'm sad for my sisters because they're sad but I feel mostly empty. My relationship with him hasn't been great since he and my mom started having troubles, eventually divorcing when I was in my 20s. I also wasn't expecting (or wanting) to have to deal with hospitals and stuff like that so soon after Rick's passing. So rather than dwell on what's occupying most of my thoughts, I'm going to finish the Bachelor portion and just hope I can ignore the knots in my stomach.

So last night, I had the great pleasure of going to my friend Jazzy's house to watch this week's episode of "The Bachelor." Today, Jazzy, Holly, Lindsey, Jill & I emailed a whole bunch of our thoughts and observations. This is the best show to analyze and discuss. Maybe because it's really so meaningless and just nothing?? But we love it all the same! Here are my random thoughts:

• Do we really need to see a full 15 minute season recap before we start the show??
• How long has it been between the Seattle dates and these New Zealand dates? They all acted like it's been months and months the way they all jumped in his arms and wrapped their legs around him.
• The first date with Jillian was almost painful to watch. She was pouring out her heart and soul (apparently) and every statement sounded like a question. She kept talking and talking and talking like she was trying to talk the both of them into admitting something was really happening between them. I just wanted her to shut up. I think Jason did too. He looked pained when she said she was falling for him. The guy cannot hide his emotions at all (mad props to Jazzy's husband for pointing that out to us!!) We knew from their first real conversation that she was a goner. But then there was the porn scene while they were in the hot tub. I kept saying "um, people, this is an 8 PM show!" Ick ick ick.
• Molly has horrible hair throughout this episode. We'll of course forgive her the bad hair after the bungee but not for the rest of the episode. And her clothing choices. ICK! The sweater vest with the cami underneath! The dress at the end! Not good. Jason didn't look as pained talking to her but he still didn't look that into her, in my opinion.
• I love Melissa. He seems smitten but really, who even knows.
• Why is it that Jason's response to the deep, love-filled speeches from the girls is to just kiss them. Do the producers either edit out his response or tell him not to respond?
• Why does he wear such horrible clothes? The girls are all dressed up for their dinners out and he's in jeans and long sleeved t-shirts!? And that suit at the end! It looked like it probably would have fit him when he was in high school. It was horrible!
• I really want to believe they don't ALL sleep with him. I mean really. How could the girl who gets the final rose feel knowing he just slept with two other girls the week before? Seriously.
• We have to wait two weeks to see what personal thing happens at the after the rose taping? I read a theory online where they said that maybe he proposed and they brought in Melissa's family without an audience so they could meet him? But then I read another theory about STDs and unplanned pregnancies so who knows.
• DeAnna. Sigh. I will be so hacked if she gets added into the mix. I just hope she's a red herring or whatever. Please. Let her be a red herring.

Okay, this only took me 4 hours to write. Was it worth the effort? Oh probably not.

TV Report

I haven't been sleeping much so I've had some time to catch up on TV. To pull myself out of my funk, here's a list of what I've been watching & what I think about it:

• The Bachelor: thank GOODNESS Naomi is gone. Did you notice how she was SO fakey when Jason greeted her at her house? She was so not into him at all. She was into the idea of him and the potential for a People magazine story, in my opinion. Plus her family was odd. Next on my list for snarky comments, Jillian's cousin? I hated her scripted question at dinner about Jason being on the other side this time around or whatever -- you know she totally practiced that in the mirror beforehand. I honestly don't think it was that big a deal for Melissa to only have him meeting her friends. I can totally see parents not wanting to be on TV. Molly's parents seemed okay but the hats were so weak. Lame, lame lame. I'm not excited about New Zealand as the fantasy date site. And the DeAnna stuff? They fly her to New Zealand? Puh leaze. I still like Melissa the best. And you should go to ew.com to read Chris Harrison's entertaining morning after the show blog if you enjoy this show as much as me.
• Grey's Anatomy: I'm a sucker for romance. I loved Sloane & Little Grey holding pinkies in the elevator and then Hunt telling Yang to wear her hair up. I didn't like the whole explosion of roses for Derek's proposal to Meredith. I'm really thinking he needs to go low-key. And how do you think they're going to write out Izzy??
• The Grammys: we watched a little on Sunday night at Michelle's house. Whitney? Um, what's the deal? Is it too much plastic surgery? A bad Tina Turner wig? Happy pills? What was wrong with her?
• The Closer: this is such a great show. Are you watching it? I love it. It's a cop show so it might not be up your alley but I think it's so well done.
• Survivor starts this Thursday and Amazing Race on Sunday!
• I am SO out of my head right now that I completely forgot to watch my "happy place" show last night. You will never in a million years guess what show that is but it's the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. I'm so sad I forgot to record it. Quit laughing. I am serious! At least I can watch the finale tonight.

And a non TV note, Chris Brown? Hope you have a backup plan because I'm thinking your career is toast.

The Bachelor -- my two cents

You all know I'm a Washington girl so I watched last night's show with great interest. Okay, I watch every episode with great interest - whatever! Thank you J&P for the fun TV party last night. I highly recommend watching this show with friends - it's much more fun to make sarcastic comments to others than just to the TV. Here are some tidbits I found interesting:

• Like Kelley blogged today, that was SO not Jason's house. I'm sorry to burst your bubble! They always say Jason lives in Kirkland which is across the water (via a busy, traffic-filled bridge) from downtown Seattle. There's no way they would be taking the time to transport him between the two locations so they must have rented him a houseboat in Seattle. Also, Jason's sister-in-law (who was briefly featured last night) basically admitted on the radio this morning that that wasn't where he really lives. Ah, the magic of television.
• Speaking of the radio, I'm a regular listener of the radio station & morning show DJs who interviewed Jason and the girls last night. Jackie & Bender talked a lot about the shoot this morning. They said they had to come in at night to do it and it took 4 hours to film but they ended up only showing roughly 10 minutes of footage. They also weren't told there were still two more contestants who we saw in the hotel listening to the show.
• Bender said he spent most of the time commenting (sarcastically) about how the girls all have headshots. He thought it was interesting that girls who claim to be on this show to fall in love would have professional headshots. He accused them all of trying to be the next Bachelorette. Bender also called Jillian an "attention whore." He said she was just obnoxious during their filming. Jackie said despite that, the girls were as sweet and nice as they appeared and that Stephanie's makeup is even worse in person (way too heavy.)
• Speaking of Stephanie, I hate the whole kissing him anywhere but on his lips thing that she keeps on doing. Jasmine and I were covering our eyes. ICK! We think she needs a nice, 50 year old, rich husband who will dote on her & her daughter. Hopefully she finds him soon because she's really such a nice person - just not right for Jason.
• They totally lucked out on the weather. We rarely get nice fall days like that here!

My favorite to win is still Melissa but I like the others as well, except Naomi. I just see Naomi leaving him in a couple of years -- no long term potential there at all.

Where is DeAnna??? And doesn't this season seem to be FLYING by? It just started the first of January and we're down to the final four already. Wow!

It's over!

I hope you're all sitting down for this breaking news but Bachelor Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas have ended their engagement. They were apparently "heading in different directions."

I know!

Like you, I am in utter shock. I mean, he's a finance guy from London and she's a wannabe actress from Malibu? Don't those two lifestyles just scream "same direction?"

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Oh Jesse...

I stayed up to watch because I went walking with Kim and got all energized. (Thanks, Kim!)

I'm still a little shocked that DeAnna didn't pick Jason but I could tell it was headed that way because of all of the family love towards him. The whole show was just so pro-Jason that I knew it had to be Jesse at the end and it made me so sad for him. Since Jason and I both live in the same general vicinity, maybe I can swoop in and help heal his broken heart. ha.

Random thoughts:

• Jesse has huge feet! Did you notice that overhead shot of him walking to DeAnna at the end? HUGE FEET! Maybe it looks like that since he's kinda short? But seriously HUGE!
• I really enjoyed DeAnna's family - they seemed very cool and normal. Her grandparents were darling.
• I just don't know how you declare your love for someone on national TV, not really knowing how the other one feels, not knowing them for more than a few weeks or whatever. Just weird.
• Having Jesse & Jason at her family's house together was just kind of gross & Polyg. like with them both holding her hand at the same time. Ick.
• I agree with Jason - she shouldn't have let him kneel like that. Bad form, DeAnna.
• However, I liked that DeAnna was so heartfelt & honest in her explanation/apology to Jason on the after show. Made me like her a little bit more.
• Matt & Shayne? whatever.
• I really hope they don't end up putting the wedding on TV. Nice honeymoon though!

The Bachelorette -- we have our final 2

I still dislike DeAnna. She is so not a nice person and it's more and more evident each week. Sweet, normal, single dad Jason and cute snowboarder Jesse are her final two. Here are my random thoughts about last night's way too long (THREE HOURS??? SERIOUSLY???) extravaganza:

• I still hate the stupid "if you want to forgo your own room and have sex all night you're free to do so" aspect of these next-to-last episodes. I know I'm "peculiar" but ick. Oh but maybe they just hold hands and talk all night.
• Sad for poor broken-hearted Jeremy but he does seem a little odd to me. He seems sad and detached from everything around him. And I figured that out from watching him on TV for several weeks.

• Jesse wants to be a sports agent? Does he have a degree? I thought sports agents were primarily attorneys, not professional snowboarders. But maybe it's an easier field to get into than I think? And I didn't get the impression that "D" is crazy about the moving around thing so he can do all of his "shredding." However, I think personality wise, they'd be a better match. Maybe it's a sign that she'll choose him because he's shortened her name into a nickname. Hmm.

• Jason is too nice for DeAnna but maybe that will work for them -- she's bad cop, he's good cop? But really I just see her chewing him up and spitting him out and leaving him a broken man. Oh and he needs to shave. Stubble is not a good look for him.

• Graham should have dropped the put-upon act after the first time he used it instead of going back to it over and over again.
• I LOVE CHRIS HARRISON! He just cracked me up during last night's reunion show. The mullet stuff, when he reminded DeAnna that she was surrounded by guys who are, well, GUYS and then when he chastized Graham for not kissing DeAnna that first time when she practically begged him to were all fabulous moments. Chris is just a great host.
• Did you see that girl ask Fred out over the closing credits? I want to start a petition to have Fred be the next Bachelor. He just seems darling and fun.

So next week will be the huge (bloated) finale and the TV listings say there will be an update on Matt & his pet monkey Shayne.

My prediction, you ask? I'm thinking she's going to pick Jason but I'm always wrong about these things so it'll probably be Jesse.

Awards Shows

I got home last night from a fun night with my stamp club (love those girls) and watched the news and went to bed. I just woke up, turned on my computer and read who won the daytime Emmys last night. As a former soap opera watcher, I always kind of wonder how "my" show, General Hospital, did (they won a bunch.) But two things caught my eye in the list of winners:

1. The View ladies did NOT win for best talk show host - Ellen did. This makes me a little happy because of my strong dislike for Barbara Walters. And Ellen is really the best anyway, even if the View ladies have never won.
2. The Tyra Banks show won for best talk show???????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????? I am just floored and wonder if it was a typo. I'm sure Oprah has taken her show out of the running after so many wins. Did Ellen take hers out too? And how could Tyra have beaten Reege??? I like trashy TV just as much as the next girl but the Tyra show is just yuck. Awards shows are so dumb.

Camp meeting this AM -- hope people show up!