Meastfest 2011

good grief it's next Sunday and what am I doing..cleaning? organizing? menu planing? shopping? um nope I'm catching up on my DVR's Real Housewives programs, Fingers crossed it all comes together at some point this week!

hoarder in training

my garage is moments away from being declared a national emergency site and yet I managed 3 bags of trash in less than a 1/2 hour this morning! Imagine what I could do with a whole hour? Ah who knows it's coffee and catch up on my DVR time now

hulu rocks

okay so late to that club I suppose..I have heard about it but never really had cause to go to the site or watch anything but as I screwed up my DVR this past week and was sorely disappointed to find only 1 minute of a show taped so I drug out the computer and went hulu-ing and yay good to know it's available in a pinch

life without people

interesting enough the first time I watched but a series? really?!?
Do they ever explain exactly where all the people go? There does not appear to be any corpses or anything hanging about are all the people abducted by space aliens? Inquiring minds wanna know.

heading towards the finale..

the latest Top Chef season is drawing to a close and what with Project Runway having finished this past week I am about to enter a reality/competition conundrum!
Eli my favorite chef to start out with was eliminated just this week and his former boss and former Top Chef-er Richard Blais wrote a really great blog about him. I still really want to try out ENO and will hopefully get the chance in the not too distant future. As the season has progressed my loyalties did change and I have been a devoted fan of Kevin Gillespie whose restaurant I will be dining at as part of my birthday weekend in Atlanta and hopefully again when the girls road trip again in the new year!

where are all the game shows?

boy daytime tv is horrible and you'd think with all of the channels at my disposal I could have found something to watch this week. I miss old games shows, Sale of the Century, Card sharks the no Whammy one even Wheel of Fortune remember the Chuck Woolery version where you would take your winnings and go shopping at the end of the round?
I did manage to catch up on all my DVR'd shows and I rediscovered West Wing. I really liked that show when it was on and enjoyed watching a few this past week while home nursing this whatever this was. I was disappointed when the show went off the air I had hoped maybe they wee going to let the republican character so adeptly played by Alan Alda win and spend he next administration portraying the other side of the coin.

stalking Richard Blais

I really don't mean to but being addicted to Top Chef and all one of the ulterior motives of the girls trip to Atlanta was to dine at a Richard Blais restaurant which we did twice in fact-Flip being the one he is currently involved with as well as Home which he had been involved with in the past. Fast forward to this season with 3 Atlanta based chefs making my list of favorites after the first episode and coincidentally my favorite chef thus far worked under Richard Blais, leaving me feeling sort of weird and stalkerish and yet eager to return to Atlanta to dine at ENO

have I run out of things to blog about?

maybe so because I am about to weigh in on the whole Jon & Kate controversy because yes I watch the damn show and I have watched for forever now. It is a show I have loved to hate it since the first viewing but I find myself about to bid it a found adieu. Not for any moral reasons I like bad television-there said it and you know what millions of other folks do too otherwise this drivel would not make onto the airwaves to begin with. I am sorry they are having problems in their marriage it happens but quite frankly what do you expect when you choose to live your life as a reality show not just be on one. The show use to be about 2 crazy people raising their litter of children and the day to day challenges they faced. Now well good grief now it seems to be about all the free stuff they get trips, spa visits, playhouses, a motorcycle & scooter plus hanging out with Duff, Emeril as well as the boys from OCC. They don't even have to work anymore although have managed to find a whole lot great land with a great house but boo-hoo they have to do a book tour every now and again. I'll tell you what TLC give my family a show "David & Paula plus 1" for all the money, endorsements & free stuff I too can nag the hell out of my husband.

what to do

the power outage has left us with a not working any longer DVR box
tragic really for starters
-we can't tell what time it is in the living room
-we can't hit a button and see what we are watching
-we can't rewind or pause anything we are watching
-we had episodes of Bourdain & Burn Notice-the season finale to watch still that are now lost....

unusual turn of events

somehow I find myself with nothing to do this evening and an empty house....
how long till I am in pajama pants & in front of the television catching up on my DVR stuff?

some more SNL fun

cannot remember

last time I watched SNL but this is some funny stuff

does anyone else

watch television shows that just annoy the crap out of you but you watch anyway?
I have more than one-Rachel Ray $40 a day girlfriend never leaves a decent tip and gets my nerves with the mmm noises and yet I watch anytime it's on.
Tonight's annoyance du jour would be Jon & Kate plus 8 which I not only watched I watched on demand.
I need to go to bed!

good grief

sorry I was soo very whiney yesterday even annoyed myself after a while.
-Made it through class-only 2 left both of which involve exams so fingers crossed people.
-Looking forward to a lunch date with the girls at Crown & Goose again with the added benefit of Magpie's just across the street. cupcakes will be involved
-Just 9 days from travel to CT to see the parental units
-work is less well, Monday so far and I plan on a leisurely lunch so hopefully not so much stress there today
-new season of Project Runway starts tomorrow
so all in all much improved mood today but it is only 11:00 am

wasted day #2?

that remains to be seen I suppose...I completely enjoy those weekends when we have an absolutely do nothing stay in your pjs all day sort of day but when I am tethered to the house waiting on something it drives me batty(yes yes short trip I know). So repairman was suppose to come yesterday between 8-12 no biggie take a 1/2 off work-except I got a call on Wed night telling me I needed to reschedule damn it ok fine wait around for them on Friday instead...Really convenient thanks so very much
I did however have to wait around for Fed Ex all freaking day they did not deliver until after 4...
With all of the fancy tracking etc they seem to have these days could they not come up with an estimated time of arrival? I could have worked a full day and still been home to sign for the package....or could have had it delivered to work there is always someone there.
No instead I did nothing all day, could not even do laundry which is piling up in an alarming sort of way. At least I caught up on all my DVR'd shows, watched the most recent Harry Potter film so I am caught up on those for now and grabbed a nap on the couch not the most productive of days and now I am working on Saturday at least I will be well rested!

latest and greatest in bad reality tv

I think it has been on for some time now but I have just discovered and become addicted to the Kimora Lee Simmons one. And I am ok with that.
The really horrible train wreck of a show I caught yesterday afternoon
OMG poor Denise...
was Charlie the normal one in the relationship?
It really makes me wonder why celebrities and faux celebrities would want their lives opened up for public consumption more so than they already are?

girl's night out

looking forward to a girlie night out on the town organized by Anna of the Retro-Moderns fame
I am going to miss out on cosmo hour (damn kid and dog and the fact that we live across town) but I will meet the girls to see Sex & the City and I think a late supper after.
Out on a Friday evening why that is just crazy for me! I will be out waaay past my bed time. Been looking forward to seeing the film for awhile now but I must admit to being tired of the deconstructing and over analyzing of the series and the film and yes I did indulge myself a few months back on that but bottom line is it's fiction for crying out loud! Enjoy people it's called escapism! And I am indulging this evening.

rediscovering an old friend

Masterpiece Theatre!
PBS fell off my radar but I found Pride & Prejudice several weeks back-the BBC one, the good one thank you very much, the one with Colin Firth. nuff said!
Who knew it was still around? now that we have 90 million channels poor 'ol PBS.
P & P was followed by Sense & Sensibility which I had not seen and then this past Sunday Cranford began based on several novels by Elizabeth Gaskell. I missed a bunch of other Jane Austen adaptations along the way and I believe they move on to Dickens next...

faabulous

after one viewing I am hooked on the Real Housewives of NYC. It's horrible these women just scream new money! Of course I have no money so maybe I'm just jealous????
After watching the preview episode a month or so ago I told D none of these women are actual New Yorkers they might live there now but they were raised someplace else and sure enough...
A real New Yorker with old money would not be on this show.
So this travesty along with Top Chef till Project Runway comes back.

Saturday was spa day for all

well sort of D & C went to the barber and got hair cuts(photos of C's part to follow when I download the camera)
I went and got a facial and massage and even Oscar got a bath and glands squeezed. A good day was had by all!
Then in the evening C had a date-thanks to the retromoderns for taking him to the Blue Man Group! After sushi what did D & I do? did we go to the movies and see one of several films that look pretty good right now? Why no we went home and watched Dragon Wars which is horrible and not even in the Sci-Fi network good and cheesy sort of way..maybe if Lance Henriksen had been in it...
oops forgot the amusing MIL story-so D calls his mother just to chat Sat. morning and mentions C's plans for the evening. Several hours later he gets a return phone call grilling him on just how well we know these people that are taking her grandson for the evening?
and as Anna correctly pointed out we did spend a night in the woods with them and did not get axe murdered which is a point in their favor