Weekend Update...TV update with some spoilers, BE WARNED!
I gotta remember to update this more often!
Anyway, had a busy weekend this past weekend. Probably the busiest day though was Sunday since we headed down to Kentucky to do the whole cemetery thing.
Of course it was raining like crazy all through Indiana, so that made for a fun drive. Once we down down to the first cemetery, my sister and I rolled out of the car and immediately wanted to roll back in. It was so thick outside it was like being slapped in the face with a frying pan. So of course then I was WISHING for rain!
At the second cemetery we decided to cut back an ugly looking vine that was growing through a rose bush someone stupidly planted at one of the graves. Ok it wouldn't be so stupid if said person bothered to take care of it (if they are even still six feet above ground). But as it had gone years without any kind of maintenance it just looked like a hot mess.
So we started cutting it back. And yes there was poison oak in there somewhere. My sister got that all well and good on her arms. Me however? I don't know what the hell is on my arm. I used some gloves to transport the cut vines out into the woods, but along the way some brown stuff dripped onto my forearm. Fearing it might have been oil from a poison ivy/oak plant I didn't wipe at it. I finished what I was doing, got in the car and then put some germ-x on the spot (cause...germ-x fixes EVERYTHING!). I dabbed it off and it appeared fine.
About an hour later a purple spot start coming up on my skin in that area. Four hours later it turned dark red/brown. So that night I put some Cortizone on it, fearing it was some kind of allergic reaction to whatever dripped on my arm.
Next day it's turned black in colour. It's very odd. Three days later it's still the same colour, no better no worse. It doesn't itch, it isn't irritated, my arm feels fine and it doesn't hurt. It just looks really nasty and weird. So I have no idea what the hell went wrong but I took a picture of it with my phone. I'll be sure to post them later!
Work is work. There is always something going wrong, and of course these past few weeks anything that CAN go wrong seems to have done just that. Granted when you are using 100 year old equipment what do you expect!
The drama llama's are still being bred like tribbles at our house as well. Not a week goes by without drama, it's ridiculous.
Hmm...TV update. We loved the opener of Fringe, that show seems to have definitely hit it's stride, but it's still very X-Files-lite. Not that I mind, if it can be like the glory days of X-Files (everything before season 6 when Chris Carter sold his soul to the devil) I'm in for the long haul on this show then. Plus Walter and his craziness cracks me up. I was disappointed in the predictability of the first episode though, but as long as it goes UP from here and not down I can forgive it.
Glee. Glee charms me, but it still seems to be finding it's footing. Some episodes are totally zany with off the wall humour and I love it. Then other episodes it tries to get all deep and dramatic, and that I don't love so much. I like the lighthearted goofiness that is no where near real world.
Oh, and as an aside. If they make a Wicked movie, seriously, the lead actress in Glee needs the part, it will probably pacify every fan who wants Idina but know she'll be too old. This girl really is Idina's mini-me, especially with her voice. I have no doubts this girl could belt "Defying Gravity" with the best of them.
Modern Family. It didn't do it for me. Like I said I like off the wall type of humour, but this just fell flat for 90 percent of it's jokes. I thought it would be hilarious and when it wasn't cringe inducing it was chuckle worthy. Perhaps my hopes were too high, but this series was immediately taken off my DVR.
The Vampire Diaries. It's less irritating than the Twilight crap (and thank you that he doesn't freaking sparkle even if I hate the "ring protects from daylight" crap). The series has a lot of potential as long as they don't crap it away the way that True Blood seems to do at every corner. If anything, it's at least entertaining enough to provide for some good snark time between Steph and I. We do love ourselves a good snark!
Speaking of True Blood, colour me unimpressed by the finale. As much as I hated the Maryanne fiasco, I loved Michelle Forbes so was hoping that they'd just get Maryanne to leave Bon Temps. Boy was I wrong, and boy was it anti-climactic. For one don't spend all season telling me that so and so is god like and immortal, than in the 11th hour tell me "As long as she believes she's seeing her god and getting ultimate death then she can die".
Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It was the lamest kill off of a big bad since the days of Buffy (and yes, I'm talking about The First here considering it was a very similar situation. Granted Season 7, while incredibly flawed was way more interesting than this storyline on True Blood). Not to mention that the big "saving" of the day had to deal with a lot of circumstances playing out JUST SO. When your plan is based on so many circumstances where any one going differently could make it shatter, well then it's NOT a good plan.
Though I'm sure it was so the world could get it's quota of man butt at the end of the episode (and seriously, a little warning before boy parts fills up the ENTIRE television screen would be much better!).
I was really let down by how this whole season ended. The cliffhanger was stupid (I'm putting money on Bill's maker being the kidnapper). And once again Bill shows how incredibly assy he can be. Seriously dude Sookie has been held hostage, nearly raped, nearly blown up, thought her brother was blown up, saw her whole town and people she cared about as zombies including her best friend, saw her house defiled, saw her gran's things destroyed, again held hostage, witnessed someone she dated being murdered right in front of her, then she herself chased and nearly killed all within like a couple weeks of each other. So a day after everything dies down that's when you choose to propose and are TAKEN ABACK that she doesn't immediately say yes? Douche.
Granted I'm not entirely sure that his motives are 100 percent pure. Part of me thinks that he had an incredible "D'oh" moment when Sam mentioned not hiding everything any more because it just causes more pain. I think he wants to marry Sookie so she'll be a little trapped if she ever uses her brain and starts putting things together. The Stackhouse clan might be good at breeding pretty, but it's awful at breeding intelligence.
I'm not even excited about next season, and if it isn't close to as good as the Godric storyline this season (man I wish the series had ended on THAT note, it was an actual MOVING storyline that was entertaining to watch) I may give up on it. Which sucks because Alan Ball is generally pretty good. I had MUCH MUCH love for Six Feet Under (and the last ten minutes of the last episode can STILL make me choke up, it was THAT freaking perfect).
Oh well, looking forward to FlashForward tonight, and definitely looking forward to watching Season/Series 2 of Doctor Who (no matter how much I don't like Rose). Also looking forward to V, and I'm SO hoping it's as awesome as the 80's miniseries.
Anyway, had a busy weekend this past weekend. Probably the busiest day though was Sunday since we headed down to Kentucky to do the whole cemetery thing.
Of course it was raining like crazy all through Indiana, so that made for a fun drive. Once we down down to the first cemetery, my sister and I rolled out of the car and immediately wanted to roll back in. It was so thick outside it was like being slapped in the face with a frying pan. So of course then I was WISHING for rain!
At the second cemetery we decided to cut back an ugly looking vine that was growing through a rose bush someone stupidly planted at one of the graves. Ok it wouldn't be so stupid if said person bothered to take care of it (if they are even still six feet above ground). But as it had gone years without any kind of maintenance it just looked like a hot mess.
So we started cutting it back. And yes there was poison oak in there somewhere. My sister got that all well and good on her arms. Me however? I don't know what the hell is on my arm. I used some gloves to transport the cut vines out into the woods, but along the way some brown stuff dripped onto my forearm. Fearing it might have been oil from a poison ivy/oak plant I didn't wipe at it. I finished what I was doing, got in the car and then put some germ-x on the spot (cause...germ-x fixes EVERYTHING!). I dabbed it off and it appeared fine.
About an hour later a purple spot start coming up on my skin in that area. Four hours later it turned dark red/brown. So that night I put some Cortizone on it, fearing it was some kind of allergic reaction to whatever dripped on my arm.
Next day it's turned black in colour. It's very odd. Three days later it's still the same colour, no better no worse. It doesn't itch, it isn't irritated, my arm feels fine and it doesn't hurt. It just looks really nasty and weird. So I have no idea what the hell went wrong but I took a picture of it with my phone. I'll be sure to post them later!
Work is work. There is always something going wrong, and of course these past few weeks anything that CAN go wrong seems to have done just that. Granted when you are using 100 year old equipment what do you expect!
The drama llama's are still being bred like tribbles at our house as well. Not a week goes by without drama, it's ridiculous.
Hmm...TV update. We loved the opener of Fringe, that show seems to have definitely hit it's stride, but it's still very X-Files-lite. Not that I mind, if it can be like the glory days of X-Files (everything before season 6 when Chris Carter sold his soul to the devil) I'm in for the long haul on this show then. Plus Walter and his craziness cracks me up. I was disappointed in the predictability of the first episode though, but as long as it goes UP from here and not down I can forgive it.
Glee. Glee charms me, but it still seems to be finding it's footing. Some episodes are totally zany with off the wall humour and I love it. Then other episodes it tries to get all deep and dramatic, and that I don't love so much. I like the lighthearted goofiness that is no where near real world.
Oh, and as an aside. If they make a Wicked movie, seriously, the lead actress in Glee needs the part, it will probably pacify every fan who wants Idina but know she'll be too old. This girl really is Idina's mini-me, especially with her voice. I have no doubts this girl could belt "Defying Gravity" with the best of them.
Modern Family. It didn't do it for me. Like I said I like off the wall type of humour, but this just fell flat for 90 percent of it's jokes. I thought it would be hilarious and when it wasn't cringe inducing it was chuckle worthy. Perhaps my hopes were too high, but this series was immediately taken off my DVR.
The Vampire Diaries. It's less irritating than the Twilight crap (and thank you that he doesn't freaking sparkle even if I hate the "ring protects from daylight" crap). The series has a lot of potential as long as they don't crap it away the way that True Blood seems to do at every corner. If anything, it's at least entertaining enough to provide for some good snark time between Steph and I. We do love ourselves a good snark!
Speaking of True Blood, colour me unimpressed by the finale. As much as I hated the Maryanne fiasco, I loved Michelle Forbes so was hoping that they'd just get Maryanne to leave Bon Temps. Boy was I wrong, and boy was it anti-climactic. For one don't spend all season telling me that so and so is god like and immortal, than in the 11th hour tell me "As long as she believes she's seeing her god and getting ultimate death then she can die".
Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It was the lamest kill off of a big bad since the days of Buffy (and yes, I'm talking about The First here considering it was a very similar situation. Granted Season 7, while incredibly flawed was way more interesting than this storyline on True Blood). Not to mention that the big "saving" of the day had to deal with a lot of circumstances playing out JUST SO. When your plan is based on so many circumstances where any one going differently could make it shatter, well then it's NOT a good plan.
Though I'm sure it was so the world could get it's quota of man butt at the end of the episode (and seriously, a little warning before boy parts fills up the ENTIRE television screen would be much better!).
I was really let down by how this whole season ended. The cliffhanger was stupid (I'm putting money on Bill's maker being the kidnapper). And once again Bill shows how incredibly assy he can be. Seriously dude Sookie has been held hostage, nearly raped, nearly blown up, thought her brother was blown up, saw her whole town and people she cared about as zombies including her best friend, saw her house defiled, saw her gran's things destroyed, again held hostage, witnessed someone she dated being murdered right in front of her, then she herself chased and nearly killed all within like a couple weeks of each other. So a day after everything dies down that's when you choose to propose and are TAKEN ABACK that she doesn't immediately say yes? Douche.
Granted I'm not entirely sure that his motives are 100 percent pure. Part of me thinks that he had an incredible "D'oh" moment when Sam mentioned not hiding everything any more because it just causes more pain. I think he wants to marry Sookie so she'll be a little trapped if she ever uses her brain and starts putting things together. The Stackhouse clan might be good at breeding pretty, but it's awful at breeding intelligence.
I'm not even excited about next season, and if it isn't close to as good as the Godric storyline this season (man I wish the series had ended on THAT note, it was an actual MOVING storyline that was entertaining to watch) I may give up on it. Which sucks because Alan Ball is generally pretty good. I had MUCH MUCH love for Six Feet Under (and the last ten minutes of the last episode can STILL make me choke up, it was THAT freaking perfect).
Oh well, looking forward to FlashForward tonight, and definitely looking forward to watching Season/Series 2 of Doctor Who (no matter how much I don't like Rose). Also looking forward to V, and I'm SO hoping it's as awesome as the 80's miniseries.