Gossip Girl - CW - Wednesday

Cry count: 0

Okay ... so this show was not on my "Fall line-up", but I didn't know any thing about this coming on until about four days ago. I ended up reading the series (or some of it) Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar, it held my attention for a bit, I really like the actress Blake Lively who plays the lead good girl/bad girl(??) Serena Van de Woodsen, and it's written or directed or produced or something by the guy that did the O.C. (which I loved pre Marisa death)

It seems like the premise of the show is like any high school meets rich people show. Private school students ... doing way more stuff than I ever did in high school ... and getting away with everything. Just another one of those "oh poor me ... I'm rich but I still have problems" type affairs. However, it held my attention for the hour long broadcast ... and I plan on coming back for more next Wednesday. ((This means that my Wednesday schedule is going to be even MORE packed))

Serena (Or S as we will refer to her in true Gossip Girl form) is back from boarding school, much to the surprise of her old friends ... and everyone else in the town. S left in a hurry, telling no one where she was going or why (including her best friend Blair) and came back in the same fashion. She was the typical bad girl ... underage drinking, affairs with her friend B's boyfriend, and other dirt that hasn't quite been dug up yet. Surprise Surprise ... she comes back completely different, trying not to get wasted drunk, trying to re-patch the damage that her leaving caused her friends, and even making new (cuter) friends in the process.

One big mistake ... she never told B that she slept with her boyfriend (Nathan, or N).

B is shocked, and not very excited about seeing S come back into their lives ... she had always had a huge suspicion that S & N had a thing for each other and after N denies her sex attempt and spills the beans ... it's a war path.

As for the cute new friends ... there's Jenny & Dan (J & D) who seem to be something like the out casts that get a second chance. J did the invitations for B's party, therefore got invited ... and D just happened to be in the right place at the right time and ended up with a date with the coveted S. (The girl that he has crushed on since probably kindergarten)

There wouldn't be a show by the creator's of the O.C. without a sex scandal ... and besides N cheating on B with S ... N's friend Chuck (C) is the ultimate snake ... and tries to get with J during the Kiss on the Lips Party. Bad move, C.

J & D have a very close relationship for brothers and sisters that are that close in age ... and D comes to her rescue just as soon as his phone dings from the emergency text. Cutting the date short, S & D rush off to the party to save J from the evil C. Finding J & C on the roof, with C ignoring the poor J's protests ... D punches the guy in the face and S, D, & J head off in a cab.

But not before the ominous plot by C & B ... with a saddened N looking on.

I sure hope that they don't end up having two characters with the same first letter ... or this might get even more confusing!!

Like I mentioned, this seems like it's going to be a good show. The cast seems good, the story line is decently solid, and the plot line is just sinful enough to keep my attention.

Check it out if you haven't already ... and if you have ... well, you know what to do.

Kid Nation - CBS - Wednesday

Cry count: 3

There has been a lot of controversy behind CBS's new show "Kid Nation" that I feel was unwarranted. It's pretty obvious that television producers are not going to leave children out in the middle of the Arizona desert without some kind of adult supervision. The children range from ages 8 to 15 ... of course there are going to be some tears, of course some kids are going to get hurt ... kids get hurt every day falling off their bikes or stubbing their toes!

The show plays out like a decent psychology experiment. Can we get forty kids to work together and run a town? And from the way that the first episode seems to pan out ... it looks like it.

Four kids were picked (by producers) to be the town counsel ... however, if other kids think that they are not doing a good job, they are able to vote new town counsel members. Also, the kids are broken up into four teams, that the town counsel picked themselves. And of course ... it wouldn't be a reality show without a cash prize. Each town meeting (which happens every few days) the town counsel has the opportunity to pick one member of the town to get a "gold star." This isn't the paper sticker that "A" students get on their test papers back when I was younger .. this star is worth it's weight in Gold, which just happens to round out to exactly $20,000. The winner of the star gets to use it towards their future (hopefully the parents are smart enough to start a college fund) as well as getting the key to the only place with a phone so that they can call their parents! Also, the kids are able to leave during any of the town meetings, if they feel that they are home sick and they do not want to stay any more. One eight year old boy left tonight, he was such a little sweet heart and claimed "I'm only eight years old, I don't think that I'm ready for this!" Everyone tried to talk him into staying but they were also supportive of his decision to leave.

The "host" hosted the first team activity which ended up putting the kids into different levels. The Upper Class, The Merchants, The Cooks, & The Workers. Each of the groups: red, blue, green, and yellow had to pump their colored water from a geyser into a bucket and then carry the bucket to a group of three bottles and fill them. Sounds easy, but they also had a map that they had to look at, had to move their geyser to their colored pump, and once the pump ran dry had to move it again. The Red team won, followed by blue, then yellow (the youngest group), and finally the green team. They all get paid for each of the jobs that they do now, a dollar for the upper class, fifty cents for the merchants, twenty-five cents for the cooks, and only a nickel for the workers. Immediately, the workers complained that they had worked so hard every day and only got a nickel for it. This definitely gives the children a look on how difficult life can really be.

Most of the kids are very smart and mature ... in fact, the kids that are the most immature are the oldest, a fifteen year old and a fourteen year old. The first night that they were picked for their groups ... they went to the other teams bunks and wrote "blue" all over the signs that claimed their color. Annoying.

Overall, this show looks like it's going to very interesting. I really enjoyed watching it. Each time one of the kids started crying, I started tearing up as well ... but I'm a big sap as it is.

Did any one else watch? What'd you guys think!?

Feeling like Crap ...

So, it seems like it is the same every month. Super bad horrible cramps ... and a pissy attitude. But seriously, I am so sick of this crap.

I knew that my period was going to be bad this month because my boobs were unbelievably sore a week before my period. It's not just cramps that I get ... but I throw up ... I have serious problems with going to the bathroom, which makes me feel all bloated and I can't even sit down upright correctly. Instead, I have to kind of lean to the side when I sit down because otherwise it sends this really weird feeling of pressure up through my stomach.

I asked Loren to send me some of the Gyno's in the Woodlands because a few of her friends live out here and that's who they use. I haven't been to the doctor in over a year ... so it's definitely time to go. Hopefully, I won't have any problems getting in or anything like that ... for some reason around here you can only be a new patient and go to the doctor at a certain time. That's freaking stupid because people don't always have workable schedules!!

So ... sorry to make a stupid complaining post ... but cramps effing suck. :(

9/11 We Will Never Forget

Where were you when the world stopped turning?

An easy question to ask ... with a hard response to write. Each time I think about that day ... tears immediately come to my eyes. I know that it's been six years ... and I can only think about those poor families that have had to grow up with out wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, children, grandparents ... etc.

I am also proud that my country stood up like it did ... helped like it did ... and recovered like it has ...

Where was I?

I was in my junior year of high school, and my Spanish two teacher had asked me to go down to the Theatre department to bring something to one of the teachers. Once I made it there, one of my friends from Theatre was sitting in the hallway with a small hand radio. I asked her what was going on and what she was listening to and she's the one that told me that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Centers. I made it back to my Spanish class and told my teacher what was going on and the first thing that she said to me was "I hope that you are joking ..." She then figured out how to get the tv on a news station and for the rest of the class we watched the news to see what was going on. Not a lot of people knew yet and so after classes let out and we went on to our other classes the news slowly started spreading from the group of people that had been watching the news. Our group of friends (the Theatre group) were really really nervous because a lot of the seniors from the years before had moved off to New York. We weren't sure where they were ... or how we could get a hold of them and we were all really scared. Eventually, a girl came into our Chem class to say that they had heard from most of the people from New York and that they were doing okay. Later we found out another one of our friends was at a University in New York that was very close to the World Trade Center and had seen it all happen ... she was even one of the ones that started walking across the bridge.

I don't think that any of us will ever forget today ... I know that I won't and I know that I will always remember exactly where I was and exactly what I was doing. I don't believe that we shouldn't continue rehashing the things that happened to our Country on 9/11 ... I think that if any one ever forgets what happened ... THAT is when the terrorists win ... or THAT is when we give in to the terrorists.

I'll never forget ...

The Fall Line Up!

Some of you might know this ... others might not ... but I plan on reviewing the new shows starting this fall. I think that'd it'd be really fun to do ... give a little back story ... recap the episode ... and then give my feedback. So, I spent a little bit of today going through the fall line up and writing down the shows that I plan on watching.

I'm going to type it all out here for you guys ... so that y'all will know! This way, you can come back here to see what I said about things ... and then we can have little discussions about it as well!

Sundays:
-- Fox -- Family Guy 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 10, 2007

Mondays:
-- CBS -- How I Met Your Mother 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 24, 2007
-- CBS -- The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 24, 2007
-- NBC -- Chuck 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 24, 2007
-- NBC -- Heroes 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 24, 2007
-- NBC -- Journeyman 9pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 24, 2007

Tuesdays:
-- ABC -- Cavemen 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: October 2, 2007
-- CW -- Beauty and the Geek 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 18, 2007
-- FOX -- House 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 25, 2007

Wednesdays:
-- ABC -- Pushing Daisies 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: October 3, 2007
-- CBS -- Kid Nation 7pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 19, 2007
-- NBC -- Bionic Woman 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 26, 2007

Thursdays:
-- NBC -- 30 Rock 7:30pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: October 4, 2007
-- NBC -- The Office 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 27, 2007
-- ABC -- Grey's Anatomy 8pm Central Standard Time --
Season Premiere: September 27, 2007

There you go folks, that's the line up. Check back Sunday night for my first review on the Family Guy Season Premiere!

Halloween Review

Before I make a review on this movie ... I should probably give you a bit of a background on my horror movie experiences. Otherwise, a lot of you are not going to agree with what I have to say ... and that's perfectly fine since you are entitled to your own opinion and all.

I was basically watching horror movies from the womb. My mom and my grandparents were never the type of parents that tried to shield me from horror movies. Personally, I think that it's kind of silly when parents do that ... especially now a days when you can see most of what a horror movie was like back in the 80's on prime time television now! The only thing that I would have to do is cover my eyes during the sex scenes ... which I also thought was pretty silly ... but whatever!

Anyway ... so I grew up with the genre of horror movies that brought us Freddy (My favorite), Jason, Hellraiser, and the original Halloween.
I do not mine blood ... infact, I prefer it. I do not mind vulgar language ... as long as it's warranted ... with that said ... On to the review!!

**Spoiler Alert** --There could be slight plot issues that I will discuss ... but nothing to give away anything ... however ... don't get pissed if you find out something that you didn't want to find out ... with that said: Here we go --

Halloween, the new movie by Rob Zombie has a huge influence from Rob Zombie himself. There is no mistaking that he wrote and directed this movie ... especially if you've seen House of 1000 corpses or The Devil's Rejects. There is a hell of a lot of cussing involved. For the most part ... I don't think that it's warranted ... except to show that the life that Michael Myers had was not a very good one. The rough nature of his step-father, his annoying sister, and his stripper mother slowly start to make the audience feel some kind of remorse for the poor kid.

Also, besides a few characters in this movie ... I had no regrets for their deaths what so ever. I'm not sure if that was an intentional move on Zombie's part ... or if it just ended up that way. The teenagers are bratty, stupid, and talk about raunchy horrible things. The adults for the most part are losers ... and I don't care for them either. Therefore, when Michael did his kills ... I was actually more excited about the gruesome way he was doing it ... than upset that these people were being killed at all.

It's far more graphic than the original ... which is of course to be expected. There is no way that a person can make a horror movie in this day in age with out a lot of blood. There is also a lot more killings than in the original ... which works for me! I can't stand horror movies that are a bunch of stupid kids going on a stupid vacation through most of the movie ... and finally people start dying in the last 30 minutes. Zombie delivered in this aspect!

Basically, the story is slightly the same except that you get more of an insight in the life of Michael, including the time that he is in the asylum. It was definitely good entertainment! And I won't mind buying a copy ... or even seeing it again in theatres!!

I give Halloween Directed & Written by Rob Zombie 4 out of 5 Stars!!


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A blog about a Honeymoon

Finally, a little bit of a break. Or at least, enough of one for me to actually get a post about the honeymoon in here. I've been busy with homework since I started school the day that we got back from the honeymoon!

Sunday August 12, 2007: We woke up and loaded up our stuff from our hotel and then headed to my grandpa's house to drop off the tuxes and my dress before we drove out to Galveston. While we were there we opened some gifts and chatted with my aunt, cousin, and Pawpaw for a bit. It normally takes about an hour and 20 minutes to get to the Ferry but the ferry line was VERY long and we ended up sitting in the line for an hour. It was freaking ridiculously hot and we had to sit there for the 15 minutes that it takes to get from land to Galveston in the heat because they won't let you have your car on. But after that it was basically smooth sailing! There wasn't very many lines that we had to wait in and we were on the boat and in our room by 3pm! We walked around a bit and then went to our lifejacket meeting. Afterwards, we walked around a bit more and then went to our dinner. We ended up sitting with two other Newly Weds that were our age so it was really nice to have people that had stuff in common with us at our table. After that we went to some kind of Cigar Aficionado thing which was kind of dumb since I don't even know how to smoke cigars before we hung out with one of the couple's from our table and then went to bed.

Monday, August 13, 2007: Well, I started my period on this day ... how shitty is that? I've had trouble with it the past few months and my cycle was getting up to about 47 days ... but not during the honeymoon! It was right back on a 28 day cycle ... sucks! Besides that, we went to this cocktail seminar where we payed 10 dollars for what was supposed to be 4 mixed drinks but ended up being about 12 a piece! Needless to say ... we were decently intoxicated. But being young ... some of us just didn't know when to stop. So we stopped off at the bar after the seminar and had a couple of other drinks and a shot of tequila (Patron). Well, that was the killer ... Marisa (one of the girls from our table) started puking basically like in her hand and had to run to their room ... and Aaron started not feeling too well at all. I totally held my liqueur!! But that's only because I'm awesome! So Aaron didn't make it to dinner that night ... and it was formal night that I had to attend by myself. But it was still okay because the people at our table were nice. The couple that we had went to the cocktail seminar with actually made it ... but they weren't doing so well either! I ended up just going back to the room and watching some tv while Aaron slept away his drunken yuckiness!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007: Our "THREE YEAR" Anniversary!! We also landed in Cozumel this day. Last time Aaron went, they were dropped off right by Carlos and Charlie's but this time we were dropped off in this area that JUST had shops and it was freaking sucky. We basically got raped for our money ... but I did get a pretty ring!! We both were really looking forward to Cozumel but we weren't all that happy with it afterwards. We would have had to get a taxi to go to Carlos and Charlie's and there was no way that I was going to get in a taxi in a country that I didn't speak the language. We ended up going back on the ship early and hanging out in the hot tub area for a while because there wasn't very many people on the boat. The normal stuff after that ... hanging out and going to eat and then going back to the room for bed. We would have stayed out more but the boat was REALLY rocking for some reason the first few days so we had to take some of those sickness meds which made us both really tired.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007: Today we went to Rhoatan, Honduras. We were both really weary about the place at first because we didn't know much about it, but it was definitely our favorite spot. We went to this Pirates, Parrots, and Monkey's thing which was the coolest thing EVER!! I've never got to touch a monkey, better yet have one crawl all over me ... but it was definitely a VERY cool experience!! We also got a tour of the place and it was absolutely beautiful! I would like to go back there for a week ... it was totally worth it. We didn't really shop or anything in Rhoatan because we were still feeling the holes in our pockets from Cozumel. We came back to the boat and took a nap because we had walked around in the sun a lot that day and it was going to be a yummy dinner that night so we wanted to be rested!! We went to one of the shows that night ... but it was kind of corny ... and then we went to dinner. The boat was still rocking pretty rough (I'm guessing because of the tropical storm that was in front of us) so we just went back to the room and passed out.

Thursday, August 16, 2007: We were supposed to stop is Costa Maya but when we got there the water was so choppy that the captain didn't think it safe to dock. He said that the boat could have bumped into the dock and all of that ... and no one wants to be stranded!! So we ended up having another cruise day. It was pretty cool because they were finally able to slow the boat down enough for it to stop rocking so badly. We were really able to enjoy ourselves this day! We went and did some trivia games and played bingo. The food was once again awesome ... I'm pretty sure that I gained some serious weight while I was on the trip ... but I refuse to look at my scale to find out!!

Friday, August 17, 2007: We docked in Progresso which was my next favorite place! We got a free shuttle from the boat to the beach and were able to just chill out on the beach for the day! It was lovely!! The water was gorgeous and we had a little table and everything. The only thing that sucked about it was all of the people that kept coming up and trying to sell stuff. It was crazy ... like they even had BABIES (like 2-3) trying to sell stuff. We also went shopping here for souvenirs and hung out basically all day in Progresso. (We were docked for nearly 12 hours since we didn't get to stop in Costa Maya the day before) That night after dinner we walked around and I did Kamikaze Karaoke which was really cool. You didn't get to pick your song you just had to hope that you knew it. I like to think that I did pretty well :)

Saturday, August 18, 2007: It was another cruise day ... but I just sat in the room all day. I played DS for a while and then I went to sleep for a bit. I wanted to get a lot of rest before I started school on Monday!! Aaron sat out by the pool all day, when he came back we got ready for dinner and then packed up all of our clothes. After dinner that night we watched Shrek 3 in our room and then went to sleep because we had to wake up really early on Sunday so that we could do early departure.

Sunday, August 19, 2007: We were off the boat by 8am and on the road. We stopped by Loren (Aaron's sister's house) to pick up some of our stuff and then we went the rest of the way home and started hauling stuff up the three flights of stairs. Then my grandpa showed up a bit later with more of our gifts and all of that ... so more going up and down the stairs!! We unpacked our stuff and washed clothes ... then I got all of my stuff ready for school to start and tried to watch the shows that I needed to watch on our DVR. I didn't got to bed that night until like 2:30 or something ... I guess just because I was really excited about school the next day or something ... because I should have been freaking exhausted!!

So there you go guys ... not very exciting really ... but Aaron and I definitely enjoyed ourselves! We are also enjoying ourselves ever since!! Things have been going perfect ... no arguments or anything like that! We've been pretty freaking busy though ... trying to take things back and going different places on the weekend, etc etc. Plus with all the homework that I have ... yeah!! So, I'm sorry that I have not posted in a while ... but I'll try my hardest to get back in the groove!!

Stay tuned for my Halloween Review!!!