Oh, my bad...

So, yeah.  Just noticed my last blog was from APRIL!!  Wowsa!  I will correct this situation.

Yep, that happened

1- The Caps won!!!

2- I actually only ate 1/2 of my City Tavern BLT.  The best BLT in America!

3- Elena and Damon made out one the Vampire Diaires!!!!!

It's going to be a good weekend, I can just tell:)

Routinely Unroutined

I used to have a pretty solid daily route to include general morning readiness (in a particular order), coffee, making the bed, packing lunch (well, at least sometimes), running 15 minutes late for work, driving 45 minutes to get there, "working", and driving 45 minutes to an hour home, eating something, TV, bed.  Every day for over ten years.  

Now, I'm not usually sure what day it even is.  I can usually get Monday through Friday, but it's actual dates that confound me.  Thankfully Steve Jobs knew I would have this problem and gave my iPhone the answer right on the front screen.  (He apparently also knew I'd have a little time to dedicate to drawing "Katniss" in Draw Something.)  For the most part, I can get out of bed at a generally routine time.  It's what happens after that's completely up in the air.  I always hit to loo (hehe) and brush my teeth, but sometimes I zombie walk into my home office and check email-Pinterest-Facebook-woot-checking account-nhl blogs-kikis list.  By the time I've made the rounds, it's 10am and my friend is IMing me to see if I'm wearing pants yet.  Clearly, there is no time for exercise at this point, and so I shower, put on my very cleanest sweats, finally remember coffee, and assemble some sort of breakfast-like meal.  Back to work, until I realize somehow my hair got wet and I break for a half blow-dry (my flat iron hasn't been turned on in weeks).  Then more working, IMing, surfing....and it's freaking 2pm and lunch is something I remember you eat in the middle of each day.  I eat something from my fridge, not a drive-thru, but only because I'm too lazy for all that going out of the house unless it's for a real event.  Like going to Target.  I put on some jeans (in case Jesus comes home early), and get back to work.  Then 5:30 rolls around and it's like I have another entire day spanned before me, and so I actually cook dinner.  And hang out with my neighbors in the day light, visit with my parents before 9pm, and actually accomplish things in the evening.  Who knew life could be like this? 

I've cooked tons of new dinners, finished home projects that have been lingering for months, and actually done some actual decorating 2+ years after moving in!  I've even successfully made myself exercise for two days in a row...

Pros

The last time I bought gas was April 2nd, and I still have half of a tank.

Eating WAY better and trying lots of new things.

Getting seriously good use out of my home office.

Better coffee.

No traffic.

No parking garages.

No crab bitches.

Enjoying spring evenings.

Exercising.

No closet tantrums when I can't decide what to wear.

Quiet.

Talking to the mailman.

Clean house!

Manicures last twice as long.

No one knows if you're not wearing pants.

Cons

Pinterest making me want to bake.

Baking.

Pinterest making me want to redecorate.

Spending money redecorating.

Too easy to sleep past 8am.

A super large wardrobe that's currently just decoration (to include jewelry and shoes)

Not speaking for consecutive hours.

Loneliness.

Obsessing over anything dirty.  

Going to Target to see humans.

Parents and a BF who must think you're watching TV all day bc they always have tasks to assign!!

Missing my friend.  

Working....from home

Since I only have six followers, I'm sure you all know that I'm currently working from home.  This isn't an entirely new thing for me, as I was able to work from home a lot at my previous job.  However, those were more like days to catch up without certain coffee-holding people standing in my doorway for hours on end or anyone asking me what they should get their wives for their birthdays or what time we're eating lunch.  

This is a new company, new position, new world of working from home.  While this company has been in existence for some time now, a few of us are starting up a new division so it's kind of a slow roll uphill.  There are days when I'm slammed and days when I cannot wait for some human interaction and nearly pounce on Jesus the second he walks in the door.  Don't get me wrong here.  I'm NOT complaining.  I know that once things really get going, I'm going to miss these days terribly. 

So, since I have a bit of extra time, I'm going to do my best to do better at posting.  I'm even going to figure out how to post some pictures, and probably even try to figure out how to make this page look like something other than an giant orange. I know you're excited now...

Shows you should be watching (so they don't get cancelled and ruin my life)

I'm the first to admit that I get sucked in every season to the hype of the new shows.  I tell myself that each show gets a few chances to wow me, and then I'm done.  Except, the reality is once I've watch the show a few times some aspect sucks me in!  Are ___ and ___ going to hook-up!? Is ____ a vampire!?  Why is there a polar bear on that island!?  And then once I'm really addicted, half of the shows I love get cancelled: Lipstick Jungle, Pushing Daisies, Mercy, Privileged, Better Than You (just to name a few). 

So, this year, I decided it was time to get serious.  I did some preseason reading with my Entertainment Weekly, and made some educated decisions on what I was going to try out for Fall 201l.  Then I decided if there were shows I didn't jump for on My To Do List on my tivo after an episode or two, they were getting the axe.  Sorry, "Two Broke Girls".

I have some new shows I'm liking so far, but am not yet completely dedicated to, "Up All Night", "Pan Am" and "Ringer", but I also have some shows that I'm L-O-V-I-N-G!!

#1- Homeland on Showtime.  This show is fantastic!   Claire Danes sold me from the start, but it also stars Damian Lewis formerly of "Life" on NBC (another show I loved that got cancelled (that I forgot to list above)).  The show centers on a Marine Sergeant, who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq (POW), and  a (possibly unstable) CIA officer who suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.  There are so many intriguing aspects of this show: Brody getting readjusted to his home life and dealing with the effects of being a POW, his family having their patriarch again after eight years without, and Carrie's possible psychosis. I'm so excited each week to see what's next.  Sometimes, i actually forget it's a show and not a movie. For serious, check it out.

#2- Revenge on ABC. I wasn't planning on watching this show, at first, but then kept seeing great reviews.  I wasn't really interested in Emily VanCamp, bc I HATED her on "Brothers and Sisters" as whiny-ass Rebecca, but she's really surprised me thus far.  The show is about Emily Thorne, whose real name is Amanda Clarke, moving back to The Hamptons to take revenge on the people who caused the death of her father and destroyed her family. When she was a little girl, Amanda's father was arrested on terrorism charges and tried for treason. She ended up in juvenile detention and on her 18th birthday inherited the wealth of the company her father invested in. She changed her name to Emily Thorne and decides to take revenge on the people responsible.  Very Count of Monte Cristo. The setting of this show is really enjoyable, as are the hot guys:)  Not only is she taking people down one by one, but she has spent years creating an entire back story for herself, since everyone in the Hamptons is checking you out.  This show definitely has that ABC-drama feel...which I like!

#3- Surburgatory on ABC.  This show is a lot of fun and has a super cast!  It's about a dad (Jeremy Sisto) who moves his daughter from NYC to the suburbs after finding condoms in her bedroom.  He wants her to have a normal life, only they both quickly figure out that the suburbs may not be their idea of normal.  It's very Stepford wives, plastic surgery, and red bull, with all the moms doting on the new dad in town and all the kids calling the new girl a lesbian bc she wears boots instead of stilettos.  The cast includes Cheryl Hines, Lloyd from Entourage, Ana Gasteyer from SNL, and Isabelle from Weeds It's 30 minutes, once a week, and completely worth your time. 

#4- Happy Endings on ABC (I must really like ABC). OK, so this isn't actually new this season.  It actually started mid-season last year, but it's still getting its footing.  This may be my favorite show on TV right now!  Again, 30 minutes, and sooo worth the time.  It started off being about a group of six friends (two are sisters, two are married, two are exes, one gay, one spinster) struggling to stay together after one of them leaves another at the aisle in the season premiere.  A lot of the beginning episodes were about the trials and tribulations of reentering the dating scene and choosing sides when friends split.  As the season progressed, it moved more away from that theme and really just became about friends.  It's absolutely the funniest show ever, and I could probably writes paragraphs about all of my favorite episodes.  If you are feeling overwhelmed about catching up from last season, don't.  The episodes are short and you can get through them super fast.  With all the rainy days we're having, one can surely be dedicated to hours of laughter, right?

Please, get to watching!!

Dear Everyone Else,

Would you totally judge me, point and laugh, poke my rolls, and/or call me pothole maker if I just blog about eating? In a truthful kinda way?

Dear Kate,

I am eating one of your Reese's Klondike bars. Right Now. Thanks.