I just started reading the Sookie Stackhouse series. These are the books that sparked the True Blood series and they are yet another vampire series so of course I had to read them. I’m still a bit up in the air on this series. They are a very quick read
(I’m already on to Club Dead), and the author writes Sookie as sort of a wise cracking southern belle. She’s telepathic which is pretty cool. I like her more than the ever complaining Miss Bella from the Twilight Series. I think what I don’t like is that in this series, the vampires are all kind of perverted and not all that great. In a way, the books are a lot more realistic because the vampires aren’t these perfect, shiny creatures who smell great all the time. While I don’t think I’ll be buying this series as mothers day gifts like I did the Twilight series for my mom, I do think I will finish the series and see what happens to the quirky Miss Stackhouse and her very odd world. I’ll give this one a B because it’s interesting, but the grammar and writing abilities of the author Charlaine Harris a C-.

I can’t believe this is considered an Olympic Sport. Ice dancing in general seems like the pathetic little brother of figure skating. Makes you wonder if the figure skaters ever bully the ice dancers. If you’ve never tuned into ice dancing, it’s basically couples figure skating without any of the cool moves. I’ve seen it a few times and always thought it was a bit silly, but last night took the cake when Russian champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin skated their controversial Aboriginal dance. It seemed pretty offensive to Aborigine culture, but also just plain ridiculous. I mean…look at this picture! Does this look like they’re taking the sport even remotely seriously? At least it was good for a laugh. D and I were cracking UP watching it.

The Awakening is the continuation of Chloe’s story in The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. Here’s a summary from the author’s website:

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl—someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. I’m a living science experiment—not only can I see ghosts, but I can raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends and we have to find someone who can help us gain our freedom back before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

So Chloe, Derek, Tori, and Simon are becoming professional fat burners as they’re on the run from the Edison Group. I wasn’t as impressed with The Awakening as I had been with The Summoning. I felt like the second book was a lot of filler, and not a lot of problem solving. There were only a few scenes that were really intense. One was where Chloe almost gets her face cut up by a street girl. Then later when a bullet grazes her as they run from the Edison Group. I found Tory even more annoying than she was in the first book, probably because she got a lot more dialogue. She basically whines and complains the entire time. I was hoping she’d get shot honestly. I’m hoping for more out of the third book. Even though this book felt like filler, it was still decent. I’m giving it a C grade. It still helps make my commute entertaining.

Hmmm…it was a decent episode I suppose. I really liked the Bailey and Richard stories, but I wasn’t a huge fan of Callie’s. I mean, it was amazing what she did for that poor patient with the messed up legs. Just looking at how they were twisted caused me some joint pain. But Callie and Alex? Seriously? These flash back episodes cause nothing but loop holes. Oh, and would she really tell that part to the audience during her speech? I also didn’t like the forced stage fright. She’s not that awkward.

I do like Derek as Chief-he’s making a lot of positive changes at Seattle Grace. Hopefully Richard takes Derek’s offer to go back to being a general surgeon. Didn’t he like that job better anyways? Oh, and whatever happened to his wife Adel? I’m so confused by that. Did they end things? I feel like it was never mentioned.
And will someone please tell me if Izzie is coming back or not? Her just running away was kind of weak. Though I did read an old interview with her and David Letterman. Katherine Heigl is a bit of an ungrateful brat if you ask me. This show MADE her. She should be honored to be part of it. Even if it’s not nearly as great a show as it used to be. I miss Burke…
I’ll still be watching the show til the end though, because despite its flaws, it’s still entertaining. Hopefully the show won’t go the way of Friends. The first five seasons being awesome, and then it just tanked. I’m still waiting for a resurrection of Grey’s back to its original glory.

So I guess because of the Olympics we’ve got reruns going on this week. I suppose that’s OK (if the coverage of the Olympics wasn’t so damn frustrating) but I am anxious for a couple of story lines to develop.
1. The Office-Pam’s gonna have the baby! AHHHHH, so exciting. I wonder what’s going to happen there. Are they going to take her off the show for a little while, or are we going to see her and Jim develop as new parents? I miss her and Jim being cute together. I feel like they haven’t been so much lately.

2. Flash Forward-are they ever going to have new episodes? Or was that just the teaser? Grrr.

3. Grey’s Anatomy-apparently I don’t have to wait long. There is a new episode tonight, and they do a flashback of some of the doctor’s at the beginnings of their career. Hmm…I have very mixed feelings on this. I’ve been rewatching all the first few seasons, and it was just so much better then. I miss Old Grey’s.

But still, watching a new Grey’s will be better than tuning into the Olympics and having to sift through http://www.dietpillcomparison.net ads and waiting for the show to come on. Seriously, why are there commercials every five minutes??

The tomb was opened, and Damon finally got to take his Catherine. Only…she wasn’t there. There were a bunch of truly messed up vampires though, that looked like they could use about ten gallons of night cream. Anna manages to get her mother out, after using Elena as a little pick me up for her mom. YUCK.

The scene where Jeremy searches for vampires was intriguing. My theory? The memory trick didn’t work on him, and he’s on to Anna, and the rest of them. Go Jeremy, way to get a clue!

I was sad for Bonnie’s loss of her Gram, but amazed by her acting. She’s a great little crier that one. Definitely believable.

As for Elena and Damon’s little moments…that’s a sticky one. Poor Stefan-he’s always competing with his brother over a girl. Why can’t he just be the only one? I feel for him. At the same time, Damon is so sexy, I can see Elena’s struggle with that. Hmmmmm. The love triangle is developing further.

This weekend I took advantage of all the free time I had and started organizing our spare room. I worked on building a desk and clearing out the clutter. Now I have big open space in the back that I’m going to use as a workout room/office. I’m hoping to set up my laptop there, streaming workout dvds. I may just get into wedding shape by October without having to resort to harmful, yet effective weight loss supplements I’m always hearing about. I figure if I have a workout room, I can stop all the excuses like not having the time or energy to drive to the gym. Plus D’s excited about it, since he no longer has as much time to get to the gym. Wish me luck, hopefully the new room will be the motivation I needed. That or I need to print a bunch of my worst looking photos and put them all over the room to motivate myself to get back in shape.

I don’t like to watch sports, I like to play them, with one exception, the Olympics. I like both summer and winter, but winter is definitely my favorite. I think it takes me back to a time when I was a little girl and I loved the figure skaters. They were so beautiful in their sparkly, flamboyantly gay costumes, leaping through the air and gliding over the ice. And the couples skaters, especially ones that were dating or husband and wife! My little romantic heart would soar watching them. The glamor has faded a little bit as I get older, but part of me still loves watching them.
I am also getting into the other winter sports, including the crazy trick skiiing. The way they zoom down the mountains. Wow!
So with all the cool sports to watch, can I just bitch for a minute about the horrible coverage that NBC is doing? Why are they airing everything at odd hours, and then when prime time hits I see fluff pieces about polar bears instead of the actual sports? Don’t get me wrong, I love me some polar bears, but come on. At least their website has almost everything posted to re-watch. But is it so much to ask that when we tune into the olympics it’s not 50 minutes of some guy blabbering about what went wrong during the opening ceremony. WHO CARES?! Oh, and PS all this Olympics watching really makes me motivated to find some sort of fat burner program that works. I guess if my job was to train non stop I’d be looking pretty fantastic too.
One more thing about the Olympics-those damn commercials. They are such tear jerkers. I know I’m a sap, but who didn’t get a little teary eyed watching this one? It still gets me, sniff.

The world has gone Vampire crazy! As a lover of all things Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and now the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series, I can relate. This episode of Private Practice where a 13 year old tells other girls he’s a vampire is kind of funny. Isn’t it scary that even young men are learning to manipulate women?! I mean, 13? Yikes.
Then there’s poor Naomi and Sam and their 15 year old knocked up kid. I wish I could say this only happens on tv but it is the reality of our world.
All I will say is there is no way that when I have kids that my 13 year old is reading Twilight til she’s older and can separate fantasy from fiction.

Oh, and I absolutely hate the storyline between Addison and Sam. Ew. Ew. Ew. The writers are making Addison so incredibly unlikeable! I still can’t believe that her and Sam shut the blinds in her office and made out, with her best friend/his ex WIFE a floor below them. Bleck.

Violet needs to take responsibility for her son. I really hope she does soon. Grrr….she’s soooo annoying.

This show is funny because it is intriguing yet infuriating. I miss it when Dell was just this sexy guy who’d take his shirt off to go to the beach, and Addison wasn’t such a ho. But Addison did look stunning in her dress, even if a bit like the statue of liberty. PS: I can’t BELIEVE she slept with Pete…she’s so repulsive. What the hell?! And then afterwards the way they both admit they’re in love with other people. I feel like sometimes these people are horny teenagers, not professional, adult doctors.
But if they were grownups, the show wouldn’t be that interesting would it?
I’m curious to see what will happen next for this group. All of their lives seem to be headed in a downward spiral.

Last night’s HIMYM was funny, but I was frustrated. Ted gives Marshall and Lily the green light to set him up for an “arranged marriage”. He says he’ll let them pick someone for him, and if he likes her, he will MARRY her. But instead of getting excited, which they totally should have, they forget about it, and then find him a random hottie cast off by Barney at the last minute. WTH?

The Marshal and Lily I know would have jumped at the chance to set up Ted, to control who will be with them on The Porch. But instead they just shrugged it off. Weak sauce.

And what happened to the student that Ted met? I thought they were going out on dates? I’m so confused! Did I miss an episode where they explained that? I think I need to go back and re-watch a few.

I did like Robin’s story and the whole rabbit versus duck theory. Personally I’m with Robin and Ted, Duck is the best. Maybe that’s because I always tell D I like his duck butt (because it’s cute). Either way, I like the theory behind it. You may see someone at first and you look at them one way, but then eventually, they look like something else, and you realize you’re into them. And Marshal is right, she’s going to marry her coworker’s butt off.

I liked Barney’s little side story with being obsessed with his phone and the calls. I was so excited to see his little promo at the superbowl, and I loved how they tied it into the show. Freaking brilliant!