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 was bored at work today and browsing online for daily deals and coupons as usual when I stumbled across the latest in the news story of Brittany Murphy’s death.

I figured she had drugs in her system, but I never would have thought she died from pneumonia! These accidental overdose stories of otherwise young and healthy stars has led me to seriously worry about taking cough syrups and cold medicines. I even hesitate to take pain relievers because we just don’t know what’s in all this crap. It’s so sad that Brittany passed away-I thought she was so adorable. I think I loved her the most in Just Married. 2009 was a rough year for celebrities. Hopefully we don’t lose any of our favorite stars this year!

Was it just me or did anyone else think that Taylor Swift’s dancing last night at the CMT Awards was atrocious? First off, I blame her stylist and her choreographer, not her. She’s a tall, incredibly thing girl without an ounce of belly fat on her. Because of this, they should never have put her in black tight pants, which just made her legs look like a spider legs instead of sexy in any way. Then there was her long flowing tunic, which again, just made her look like a spider.

Let’s not forget her dance moves. She lifted those spider legs and sort of skittered around onstage in a very jerky, almost freaky fashion. I was laughing and yelling at the screen, “Girl you look ridiculous!” Too bad she couldn’t hear me.
I won’t even get into the fact that Taylor Swift’s voice is nothing to brag about. Her songs are catchy and fun, but she has a weak voice and her voice breaks on the tough verses. But that’s just my opinion. Did anyone catch the CMT awards? What did you think?

Have I mentioned that since we moved we have an extra bedroom? I’m so excited about it. We don’t have it all fixed up yet, because it’s been the place we shoved all the crap while trying to sort through the rest of the house.

Between midterms, social obligations, work, and getting the rest of the house situated there just hasn’t been time to work on it. I did manage to clear a spot so I could take a picture of the work in progress.

Not so bad at first glance right? It’s got a love seat, with the book shelf full of my favorite books to curl up with. Little reading lamp, kind of fun and relaxing right?

Oh right…there’s all the junk! I managed to hang up that painting plus a map of the US last night. I still have to sort through those bags and find a decent filing cabinet. This is also going to be the office, in addition to the reading room/the project room, and the whiskey bar. Yes…whiskey bar. D rolled in his kitchen island (which won’t fit in our kitchen) and put his different alcohols on it, and annouced that he’ll have poker nights in here at the table, and be able to serve his guests at the bar. I think it’s actually kind of cute, and I’ll post pictures when that’s all organized. But in reality, I’m betting it’s going to be the reading room, 90% of the time.

Is anyone else sick of hearing about these idiots? I get why they started the show, to help make money and provide for their ridiculous amount of kids. They racked in the money and then watched as their marriage collapsed on national television. Now Jon has emptied the bank account and left Kate with a thousand bucks to live off of. Now she’s on the Today show with her sob story about not knowing what she’s going to do, and how she can’t pay her bills, and she’s probably already looking for dental care discounts and other hand outs for the kids. I agree that Jon has been a real sleazebag lately, but isn’t there money set aside for the kids since THEY are the ones who earned it? I’m sure there is legal action she can take. Plus when they were going through this divorce stuff, didn’t she set some money aside?
It just bugs me that they’ve gotten so out of hand with their spending, that she doesn’t know if she can pay her bills? Come on, you make MILLIONS. I don’t feel sorry for this woman, who is too busy going on every talk show on the planet, exploiting her kids on tv, and not willing to let go of the golden paycheck when enough already. The kids need the cameras out of their face. I don’t care if Kate decides to have her own talk show (which will eventually bomb after the hype fades out), but take those poor kids off the air. I’m glad the show is temporarily on hold, let’s hope it’s permanent.

I love how now Kate is all high fashion, and blackberry weilding. The money was for the kids, right?

And this guy. How he got so many nannies, 20 somethings to sleep with him I’ll never know!

There are so many reasons to be happy it’s October.

-The Fall season with it’s beautiful leaves and cool crisp days.
-Halloween and all the fun parties to attend, and costume ideas to think about
-Dandy’s Halloween Giveaway (Which I really hope to win, because I can make cupcakes for the annual Halloween Party that my friends T&M host every year). Go sign up for the giveaway, and check out Dandy’s website, Spontaneous Clapping. It’s one of my favorite blogs. I warn you though, do not look at it when you’re hungry. There are way too many appetizing pictures of food on there. It’s torture!

This Halloween D and I have a great costume idea picked out. We’re once again doing the couple costumes because I think they’re a hoot. Hopefully we find everything for the costumes. I’m not going to tell you what it is yet, you’ll just have to be surprised. I will give you a hint though, it has to do with our favorite show, The Office. Care to make a guess?

We’re all moved into the new place! It’s so nice to be done with all that work. And we’ve got our internet back (that was a rough couple of days, let me tell you!) so I’m able to blog away to my heart’s content. We love the new place so much. It’s like night and day from our old neighborhood. It’s just so quiet where we are now. We’re in the college town I used to live in when I was in school, and I had forgotten how much I loved it there. There’s a smaller popular so the traffic is not nearly as bad. Some of our favorite restaurants are here, and it’s 15 minutes closer to work, which is so nice. Though when I have a great book on cd I long for the longer drive, haha.
The new place has lots of storage-so much in fact that D gets to hang up his clothes. At the old one bedroom I took the closet, he got the floor. The appliances are nice too, the bathroom looks as nice as one of those Hansgrohe faucets and we finally have a gas range for cooking! I have yet to make a nice meal though, because we’ve been so busy unpacking. Soon though. I might even get around to posting a few pics of the new place too!

I love Neil Patrick Harris (NPH!) first of all. I love that he hosted The Emmys and I hope he gets to do it again next year. Now, I will confess, I didn’t even watch this year’s Emmys, I just watched clips online after the fact. I rarely know when things air, and I rely on the internet to catch all the shows that I miss. So I thought it was pretty ironic that a lot of talk on this year’s Emmys was concerning “Broadcast Television” and how it’s becoming a thing of the past because of streaming video online.
On the one hand I can see why those in the television business are concerned about it. They rely on advertising, and advertisers pay big bucks for their commercials, and here a lot of viewers just tune into the network’s webpage and opt for the limited commercial edition.
Still, were it not for TIVO, digital recorders, or the internet, many of us wouldn’t watch our favorite shows.

Let’s face it, life is just too busy to watch tv during regularly scheduled time slots. Now, I still love to catch my favorite shows right when they air, but it doesn’t always happen. That or D and I don’t agree on a tv show, and I won’t force him to suffer through Grey’s Anatomy if he hates it (Plus when I do watch it with him there, he just makes fun of it, and I miss all the good parts!!) And how many of us would love to just fast forward through those awkward colon cleanse reviews commercials given the choice? Of course we would! So we are in the age of techology, that gives us options instead of becoming a slave to the television programming schedule.

So what do you think? Do you think broadcast tv is becoming phased out for streaming videos online? Do you catch up on your favorite shows, record them, or do you watch them as they air?

Here’s a little clip of NPH’s opening act. Isn’t he adorable?

Even though it’s still super hot outside, it’s definitely fall because I’ve just caught my first cold of the season. I found myself wishing for fall weather yet again, as I tried to choke down hot tea for my sore throat, with the heat sweltering at about 99 degrees out, bleck. Having a cold is no picnic, but when it’s hot out and you can’t even get comfortable to take a nap, all cozy under the blankets and instead are sweating in your apartment, it’s not fun, let me tell you. The only good thing about a cold is that it’s better than a lot of diet products because I have virtually no appetite because I can’t taste anything. I think I’d rather work out though, so let’s hope I get over this bug quickly. I’ve got packing to do!!

On Labor Day, D and I were celebrating his new job, and in an act of spontaneity, which I never have, I decided to go out and buy a wii. It was sort of a birthday present for me/ yay for the new job for Match. I’ve played the Wii with my friends before, and I’ve always found it fun, so I was stoked to get one. I’m also hoping to buy the new wii fit plus when it comes out next month. I think it’d be a fun way to keep active, especially on those nights when I just don’t have the energy to go to the gym. Anyone out there have a Wii Fit? Does it work better than Stimerex ES or some of these other diet pills out there? Let me know your thoughts!