Girl In The City

Hello, my name is Anna and I’m a serial series watcher.

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Anna, As seen on WWW, Babbling, Geek | No Comments

I get REALLY HOOKED on a show, usually after it’s already either 1) well into the the season, or a 2nd or 3rd, etc., or 2) it’s already off the air. So what I do is find a way to watch them online. For a long time this meant having to download them using not so very legal means. Just about a month ago I deleted all six seasons of Sex and The City of my desktop’s hard drive. Right after the end of the last season I suddenly realized it was THE BEST SHOW EVER and then downloaded all six seasons and watched them in order and cried like a baby at the end. I still haven’t gone to see the movie because I’m worried about the emotional damage it might do.

And I don’t know if you remember that time that both Ben and I got somewhat COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY OBSESSED with 24 after it had been on the air for three seasons already? And we watched three seasons in a few weeks by watching it every single night and I actually blogged about possibly needing methadone and counseling when it was over.

Then last February we decided we should check out this LOST show that everybody keeps yammering about and: INSTANTLY HOOKED. We watched the first two seasons on DVD from Netflix when Season three had already started so we DVR’d the third season then watched them when we were done with one and two. Then we died from embarrassment and shame.

Then, dear internet, then about two weeks ago I finally took the time to take a look at Hulu and it was like I hit the mother load. Bones, Fringe, Nip/Tuck… all shows I never really took the time to watch before and now I’ve caught up on all of them… while at work. heh

But the best, BEST, OMGBEST!!!! They have all 14 original episodes of Firefly in the correct order. *swoon* I had never really gotten the chance to watch the show properly and after seeing Serenity (LOVE that movie and it still gets the most play on my iPhone) then watching some of the shows out of order, it was really confusing. But not anymore! I watched all 14 episodes in TWO DAYS, then started watching them AGAIN today because: HEART

I can’t believe this show was taken off the air. Given the massive fan base of the TV show, then the movie, it’s just a SHAME. After I finished the season I did more reading about it and Joss Whedon originally planned for it to be a seven year series and my poor broken heart aches to know what WOULD have happened. How long would it have taken them to realize River’s full potential? When were Mal and Inara FINALLY going to stop being stubborn and just DO IT ALREADY? What was the real deal with Shepherd Book and why DOES he know so much about crime and it’s major players? These are questions that I’ll never get answered! NEVER! How am I supposed to go on with no resolution!? No ENDING!? No Mal and Inara DOING IT?!

Anyway, in case you’re, like, into that kinda stuff, you can follow all my obsessing via my hulu feed. But I warn you, if you intend to be the least bit productive, DO NOT CHECK IT OUT AT WORK.

Tags: firefly, Geek, Hulu, TV

Save, save, save.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

January I was SUPPOSED to be getting a pretty substancial raise because I’ll be moving up a bit in positions here. The problem is that now that the USA is in such a financial toilet bomb I’m not sure how that’s going to go… which sucks because we could really use the extra money right now. Couldn’t everybody? I think what’s going to need to happen is that I’ll need to seem my car. We can get something that’s cheaper on gass, cheap auto insurance, cheaper tires, cheaper for common wear items. If something goes seriously wrong with my car it could get pretty expensive pretty quickly. *le sigh*

Vacation needed. Movie optional, nap necessary.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Man, it’s been a really stressful few weeks. You know what I need? I need to go home to a nice, clean quiet house, dark room, candles burning, movie on, some comfy home theater seating to sit in, a nice glass of champagne, and Ben to cuddle with. And… maybe some chocolate cake and ice cream.

I need a vacation from the stress, seriously. I CAN HAZ?

Need: Swift kick in the pants.

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

UGH. Taco Bell is sitting heavy in my belly from lunch. I really wish that knitting could be considered a rigorous form of exercise. I wonder how many calories it takes to knit an entire scarf?

I SERIOUSLY need to start losing weight and really now is the time to do it. Everybody kinda hibernates during the winter. So if I lose a lot over the holidays then I’d be ready to step out next summer all BAM! Look at my hot body! I just wish I had more ENERGY. Getting up at 4AM really doesn’t leave me with a lot of energy left over at the end of the work day to then get to a gym. Usually I’m ready for a nap! I need some other routine or a plan that doesn’t resort to something harmful. Are there any REALLY TRULY SAFE diet pills? I dunno. Maybe I just need a tummy tuck and lipo. That would eliminate my need for more energy!

KIDDING! I’d not ever get lipo done after watching it once on TV. *shudder*

Tags: diet, exercise, help, motivation, personal

Relaxed.

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

After all the work on Saturday (NOT just cutting down the tree. I deep cleaned the downstairs bathroom, did some laundry, cleaned the kitchen, etc) I took a LOOOOOOOONG hot bath. I seriously love our mater bath so much. I’ve never had anything but the normal standard tub and it’s nice to have a more “spa like” tub to soak in. Filled up with bubble and then surrounded by Votive candle holders filled with sented candles and some clam music playing… it can seriously relax you. It’s probably my most favorite place in the house. Well, it’s a tie between that and my end of the couch where I can hear the water trickling in the fountain and the birds chirping and fighting over food.

Tags: bathtub, bubbles, candles, House, relaxed

PROGRESS!

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

We cut down the last bits of the Dirtiest Tree In The History of All Trees™ last weekend. I think I had posted here about it before but it dropped these little yellow flowers BY THE MILLIONS. To keep it all cleaned up, you’d have to go back there at least twice a week and spend two hours blowing and bagging and raking and working and it was just a MESS. We were both worried about how it would effect the pond since the tree was directly over it. Well, we don’t have to worry any more! Lumberjack Ben went to work cutting with a chainsaw then dragged the branches over to me and I broke up the smaller bits and shoved them into the compost bin which will be picked up today. We lost quite a bit of shade but the ENTIRE back yard was shade and it’s nice to have some sun back there now. We have a few more bushes and plants that need to be aggressively cut back, then get some nice outdoor lighting under the arbor, and the spa hauled away and we’ll be pretty much set for the winter months I think!

Tags: back yard, House, maintenance, repair, tree, upgrade

This zit’s under pressure.

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Anna, Babbling, Uncategorized | No Comments

I have been extremely stressed out to the max lately. Like, FAMILY stress so it’s the worst kind. Not only has my exema been completely out of control, which it bad enough on it’s own, but I’ve had this massive, horrible, ugly, monsterous zit right in the middle of my left cheek. It’s like a flashing billboard that warns anybody near buy to NOT MESS WITH THE STRESSED GIRL or risk perminant damage. heh

I finally am feeling better though so I picked up some blackhead remover at the store and now people aren’t walking around me while giving me a 10 foot girth.

Tags: acne, drama, real life, stress, zit

10

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I’m sorry for not posting more than I have. I have things on my mind that I don’t really want to talk about openly, out here, for everybody to see. So I’ve added a plugin to the site that allows me to set posts as viewable to registered members only. I also set up a nice registration page to stop the billions of spam bots that were registering and allowing me to have to verify all registration before they have access. I hate to have to be restrictive but, better safe then sorry…

Anyway!

Cassidy turned 10 yesterday. I still can’t believe that my little baby girl is TEN YEARS OLD. She had made plans to go to her dad’s house for the weekend, was counting down the days, then two days before the big day he called and said that his mother had died and he was too sad to have the party. She was pretty crushed (because of not getting to go down there, not because of the death which she actually hasn’t really responded to at all but that’s a whole other blog for a whole other time) and it left me with only two days to hustle some kind of celebration together. I had planned on doing all the shopping and party prep this weekend while she was gone. We ended up having her bff over for a Saturday night sleep over and went to see The Beverly Hills Chihuahua, decorated cake, had chocolate chip pancakes and all that good slumber party stuff.

Favorite presents? Pink iPod Nano, the wrist warmers from one of the outfits that her Nana and Papa gave her and the knock off American Girls doll that I found at Target for 1/10th the price of the actual American Girls dolls but can still wear all the AG stuff. YAY!

I’m really sorry my writing isn’t the LOLerific, punny, awesomesauce that it normally is. Sometimes I feel like I have this standard to live up to… people tell me they love to read the blog because of the writing but I’ve just not been in my groove lately. I really think that once I can get the ‘other stuff’ worked out, written down, out of my emotional pipelines I’ll be able to get back to my normal dorky self around here.

The Christmas season starts now! heh

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I’ve decided that I’m either going to hand make all my Christmas gifts. Or! Buy hand made items from places like Etsy. No big box stores for me this year. We don’t have a lot of money to spend and I think that items made my hand are so much more appreciate and valuable to people. I’m going to be knitting a LOT, hats, scarves, etc and then maybe wrap them up with some Christmas cookies and ship them off.

The only bad part is that I want to post pictures of everything as they go out and I can’t because they have to be a surprise!

You’re in, I’m out.

Sunday, September 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I FORGOT! ANOTHER reason I’m down is because my boss gets back from a two week long vacation tomorrow. DIZZAM! I had gotten used to coming in 30 minutes late everyday and then leaving 30 minuted early! I guess it won’t be too bad at first because he’ll be too busy catching up on work and email that he probably won’t even have time to look up but maybe now would be a good time for me to look into my OWN Brazil vacation packages. Except we are broke so NO VACATION FOR ME. BOO.