Shows that you just cant miss? Why

Ever think about when you are watching a show, why you are doing so? Why do you like the show so much that you have to watch it at that point in time? Is it a craving to watch it? Does the show make you happy? Do you feel like you have to watch it? Is it because of the certain show, or do you just like the certain genre?
I don’t really understand why I get hooked on certain shows, but I do. It’s like I have a favorite type of show. But then there are shows that are in a category of their own, like American Idol. I’ve watched it just about every year and I have no idea why. I love the good singing, but the terrible singers just bug me. The first few episodes of every season have a couple weeks of episodes where they show some auditions. Some are just horrendous and really strange. People dress up in weird costumes just to get noticed. Anyways, I’m not sure why every year from January to April I feel like I have to watch this show. There’s really no point. I always pick someone that I think is going to win though, and I’m usually pretty close to being right.
There are also other shows in the “crime solving” category that I absolutely love. I think I just get fascinated with the way they catch the “bad guy”. It’s so cool with all the forensics and each show has its own little different thing about it. I tend to watch one for a long time and then get bored of it because I’ve seen every episode and then start to watch another show. These shows include things like: Without a Trace, NCIS (Regular and Los Angeles), CSI (Crime Scene Investigation, Miami, and New York), Criminal Minds, Law and Order (Regular, SVU, and Criminal Intent), and Cold Case. With all of these options, there’s always something to watch on the USA channel. Some shows have more intense episodes or are just scarier in general. For example, in Criminal Minds most episodes are so intense that if I watch them at like 10 o’clock, I can’t sleep that night. The kinds of things the writers of the shows think of now just get to me sometimes. I actually watched an episode last night where there were three college girls that were raped and killed and then a high school girl was kidnapped. The way the show portrays the situation makes it get inside my head. The killer turned out to be two men that had this really weird partnership. One of them got caught and the other one tried to get him out by killing the girl that was kidnapped to try and say that the cops got the wrong guy. The FBI finally found out that there was a partnership and by the end of the episode they caught the two guys (of course). Anyways, because it was about girls my age, it kind of got to me. For some reason Rapists always get to me haha. I also hate when they have serial rapists that take girls that are home alone. That’s really freaky. I’m home alone a lot which is really creepy. I know it’s just T.V. but they play up everything to make it seem so real (like it could happen to me).
Some other shows I seem to watch and keep up with are pretty girlie shows. There’s always drama and something happening in them, unlike real life. The characters are always so pretty and perfect too. Of course things go wrong for them but they always seem to get over it very easily. Shows like Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, and 90210 are like this. I don’t watch many of the other girly shows like the Hills and the City. Those shows seem stupid. I don’t know why but I’m not the kind of person who loves reality shows. Sometimes there really isn’t that much going on and so it gets old. Now that I’m at college I don’t watch really any TV. If I watch some, I tend to watch at a weird hour and usually just watch anything that’s on. My roommate usually has the remote anyways, so I’ll just watch what she’s watching. It’s usually not my thing, but I don’t really care. I just want a break from working so I’ll watch weird random shows from time to time.
So are there any shows out there that you watch because it almost seems like you’re addicted to them? Are there any shows that you “can’t” miss because you have to know what happens that week? Or do you not care about any TV? Like on Sundays I love to watch football all day. It seems like I always have to have the TV on for that. I can’t miss a game. It’s so weird. Why do I think like this? I have no idea…

Thanksgiving makes me happy

What do I love about this holiday? Well, just about everything. Every other year I get to have Thanksgiving with my mom and her family. I love my dad’s family, but for some reason it is just not the same as having it with my mom. Her family loves getting together and having family outings and stuff like that. That half of the family is always warm and inviting, no matter who holds Thanksgiving dinner. It’s usually at my grandma’s house though. She will spend days cooking non-stop. I think she usually cooks at least five pumpkin pies, two apple pies, a huge turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green beans, and I’m sure a lot more. My mom usually cooks some things too. I think she makes a dessert or two and this cheesy potato dish. It’s so yummy. It’s a bunch of slices of potatoes in a baking pan and then she puts some sort of cream and cheese in on the slices. I love every single thanksgiving food though. For some reason, I feel like I eat more on thanksgiving then in probably 4 days combined on a regular week. Haha. I not only love all the yummy food, but I love the family stuff that goes on. I get to relax this year for a whole entire week which is pretty exciting. Not only will I have a bunch of family time, but I also get to relax. I don’t get to have thanksgiving at my grandma’s this year, which is a bit of a bummer, but that’s ok. I’ll still have a good time with my dad though. My mom is going to Texas this year during the week to visit my step-dad’s parents, so I won’t see her. I get to see her this coming weekend so that’ll be nice.
I am excited about next week though because I get to stay at my dad’s and I haven’t been there since this summer. I get to see all my doggies and bird and turtles, and my dad’s house. It’s going to be a lot of fun and I’m glad I finally get to just chill. And being home for an entire week will be a lot of fun. I kind of wish Alex came home when I did though, it would be a lot better. He doesn’t get to come home until Wednesday though. His stupid school is so weird. They didn’t have a fall break and they get off random holidays. They got off Labor Day and Veterans Day. I don’t think I have ever got Veteran’s Day off during school. It was really weird because it was a Wednesday, and I was trying to talk to him during that day, and I totally forgot they had it off so I was freaking out and thought he was missing all of his classes because he slept in till about 130. But I eventually figured it out, after he texted me around 2.
This thanksgiving will also be different though because I don’t have to visit my dad’s parents. My grandma past away in October, and my granddad past away last November, so there is almost no point in going down there. My aunt still lives down there though, so we might go see her, but I’m not too sure yet. My dad said that “we’ll just play it by ear”…he always says sayings like that. Now that I have the stupid diseases like strep and mono. What is happening?!?! I never got sick at home. Stupid disease filled dorms. Anyways, now that I am sick, my dad said that we might just stay at his house. O well, that will still be nice.
It’s cool that Tech has a whole week off. My mom was so surprised to hear that we had an entire week. Now that I do I can have enough family time so that my parents will be happy, and I can see my boyfriend when he comes home, and I get to my old friends that I haven’t seen since August. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to go home. Ahh! I wish I knew my engineering grade. I don’t get it back until after thanksgiving. It really sucks. O well, I guess.

love bites. Not mine but for most haha

Is it ever to early to think you’ve fallen in love? This kind of is a really broad question, I know, but there’s just something that bugs me. This story isn’t about me, but I definitely have an opinion about this. I have this friend that thinks she needs to throw herself on a lot of guys. She also says she does not want to get hurt anymore, so she doesn’t want to think about commitment. The last few times she has, a bad outcome has come from it. Bad as in, the guy wanted to be just friends, or friends with benefits, and she just wants someone to be with. I feel really bad because she gets stuck in the most awkward situations and she handles things a lot differently than I do. I get frustrated when she comes to me. I feel like she comes to me to just hear herself talk. I don’t know. It just seems like that sometimes. She never seems to care or listen to what I say or think, she just does what she wants. AND IT NEVER HAS WORKED. I’m sick of it.
This last guy she’s kind of with, or at least she thinks she’s with him, seems like he could be a good guy for her. Perfect actually. They fit really well together. She’s so happy when they talk, blah blah blah, etc. etc. Anyways, she thinks something might happen, or that she expects him to only “be with” her. She’s really naïve though and it hurts me to say this. She met him and spent 4 days with him non-stop and she thinks they are going to start dating almost. The way he talks to her, it sounds like he really likes her. I would get confused and think they might be a thing too. Except for the fact that the last guy she was with talked to her in the same way, saying ‘baby” and “I like you” and all these things, and yet he “only wanted to be friends and he’s just naturally friendly and flirty to everyone”. Oh but she didn’t learn I guess. Yea this new guy is sweet but I don’t trust him and I don’t believe the fact that she’s falling for him. She’s desperate to find someone and anyone who comes along and shows her any type of attention she falls for it.
The other night she had a few drinks “of water” and was falling all over a bunch of guys. Nothing too drastic, and I was ok, in other words I was making sure she didn’t do anything stupid. Anyways, we’re with these guys and she’s flirting with like 3 of them, knowing what she’s doing, and they were all very caring. She might be interested in one or two of them if we didn’t hang out with them a lot, but we do. She’s worried if she does get interested with any of them then it would be awkward. Oh well I say. I don’t give a rats ass if it’s awkward. I told one of my friends today that if I want something I actually go for it and I don’t care about awkward conversations. This one time, in 10th grade I think, I told this guy I was crushing on that I liked him. Yeah it was really awkward, but I just had to, to find out what he thought about me. It turned out he already had a date to homecoming that year and that maybe later, if things change with the girl and him. Well, the next 4 years throughout school he was one of my closest guy friends. He still is. He goes here at Tech, and I care about him still, but definitely not in the same way. It’s definitely a friendship kind of thing now haha. My point of that little story was that I went for it, and I wasn’t afraid and o well, yea I didn’t like the outcome in 10th grade, but what happened after that I loved.
That year for homecoming I went with a guy and we started going out right away. We went out for almost 2 months I think. So for that point in my life, 10th grade, that was a long time. I was “heart-broken” when he dumped me right before Christmas. But AFTER THAT, Alex and I started dating a few months later. So in the end, not going to homecoming with my crush was a good thing. But I gave it a shot.
Some people don’t take risks, and I feel like it hurts them in the end. It certainly hurts her. She doesn’t know what she wants, but all she knows is that she likes “bad boys” and she can’t stay away. I think that’s a load of s*** because she could easily find someone cute and perfect for her if she wanted to. She just throws herself out at the wrong times. If she didn’t want to be with one of the guys we hang out with all the time, then why does she throw herself at them when she’s drinking “water”? She’s just asking for trouble. I don’t like when she does this. I have to deal with it. I feel like she takes advantage of me too, because she doesn’t care about my feelings about things at all. She’ll embarrass me in front of everyone if she could. Some people don’t realize that their actions affect how people think about them.
Some people may wear tight/small clothes, act “touchy” (as in a way of flirting), drink a little too much, sleep with too many other people, or even worse. I hope I never turn into someone like this because people judge you on everything. Yeah it’s not fair, but they do. If she doesn’t want to be judged as a person who never has a guy, she could potentially get judged for being someone who doesn’t want anything. People could perceive it as she wants to explore college like most people. And yet she doesn’t. So she can’t go around trying out all these different people and think something’s just going to happen.
Does anyone have any advice for me? Should I keep being there for her for all the “heart-ache” she gets after all the guys pretend to like her and then tell her just friends? Or should I just sit back and not care? It’s hard.. I’ve gotten both answers. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I know the guy she likes now doesn’t like her, but I can’t just tell her, should i? I really don’t know anymore.. Please help

Pets in the family

So I said last week after commenting on Caitlin’s blog that I would write about my doggies and animals. Well at my mom’s house I have two cats. One is erratic and crazy insane. The other is turning into my mom’s little baby. It’s really funny, because Sylvia (the girl) tries to follow my mom around everywhere. She runs around and chases my mom and everything my mom tries to get she lies on top of so that my mom would pay attention to her and not what she’s looking for. I’ve found Sylvia in the middle of my mom’s shoes and jewelry before.
At my dad’s house there are 5 dogs. It is crazy all the time there; I absolutely love it. Two of them are pugs and they snort around all day. I love one of them because he just crawls up into your lap and snuggles with you. He also runs around with “speeds” as people call it. It’s when little hipper dogs run around places crazily. I always think he’s going to run into something but he never does. Little dogs can run into one room run around the bed and then run out around the whole entire house doing the exact same thing. It’s really funny to watch. Anyways, the other dogs. The oldest one, a golden-lab, is my baby. The story of when I got him is entirely my fault. One day my dad and I went to breakfast at this place called the Virginia Kitchen. We usually went on Sundays to this place, so I guess it was kind of a tradition. Well this Sunday, my dad decided to read the paper. I don’t remember what section it was that he saw it, but all of a sudden he showed this picture of this puppy and I said to him, “Daddy! I want to go see them!” My dad looked at me and said, “Ooook but we are NOT getting one! You hear me? NOT GETTING ONE!” I sulked but was fine with it. We went up to this place where the puppies were in Maryland. I sat down with all the puppies and they were all so loving and cute. Little white-lab/ golden retriever puppies are adorable. Anyways, this one plopped on my lap and wouldn’t get off. I fell in love and gave my dad a “puppy-dog” face and he ended up caving in. Kids most of the time get what they want if they give the right face and beg. It’s amazing how that works.
So we picked him up a few weeks later. He was and still is the perfect little dog (except not little anymore). The way he got his name was from a commercial I watched actually. I was walking around my dad’s apartment and the tv was on. All of a sudden a Guinness Beer commercial came on. I said, “Hey Dad, how bout Guinness?!” So that was basically it. That was really random way, but o well, it’s kind of a cool dog name. I liked it. Haha. I love that dog so much.

The time before all the fun

The time before all the fun
Have you ever been waiting for something so exciting to come, and it seems like it’s taking years to get there. Yea, that’s what I have felt this past week. I’m getting to see my boyfriend in the first time in I think three weeks, but of course it has seemed like a lifetime. I get to see him though tomorrow and it’s so exciting . Halloween is going to be so much fun. I can’t wait to see him. I hear college is the place to be around Halloween just because it’s so crazy. We had a game this week, actually tonight we did (I’m writing this on Thursday night) and we lost. It was so horrible. We lost in the last two seconds I hear, everyone was yelling. People were throwing things, and I’m sure tonight is going to be a rough night concerning alcohol. I’ve seen some crazy things happen after we’ve lost and it has not been pretty at all. Just go around DX at like 2 A.M. after a game. It’s hilarious, but it gets really annoying after about 5 minutes. For some reason, drunk people think that they need to yell F*** (and then the school that we just played). They would yell it over and over and over and over and over again.
Anyways, this week. It was the slowest week ever. I could not believe how slow it was. I would be in my room at like 2:34 in the afternoon and just stare at my computer screen. I was probably on Facebook and creeping all these people I never talk to, but it slowly past the time. It did not work whatsoever. Monday is always hard because it’s Monday and no one wants to do anything on Mondays. I know I don’t. Mondays suck. And having an 8 A.M. does not help. I have four classes on Mondays! UGH! O well I guess. I just take naps after my last class. That’s always nice. Tuesdays for me aren’t so bad though. I have one class recently. I’m supposed to have two but my class that’s in the nighttime was cancelled the past few weeks. That’s always nice; when classes get cancelled. That actually makes my day. So Tuesdays are good. But Wednesdays are a pain in my behind. I’m actually in pain on Wednesdays. It hurts me just to think about. I’m always so happy after 5 P.M. on Wednesdays, just because Engineering decided to make everything due at that time. After that I’m usually stressed free. So by this time this past week I was very happy. Thursday night we have a game so that’s something to get excited about (except for the fact that we lost but at the time, meaning Thursday afternoon it was really exciting). Then Friday, finally, it might come, sometime.
I can’t wait to see boyfriend! I see Alex around 3 tomorrow afternoon! Yay!
So now it’s Saturday and I got to see Alex yesterday! It was so nice. Have you ever felt like you’ve missed someone so much and yet it has only been something like 3 weeks? Yea in reality it isn’t a lot of time, but when you love someone this much,  time like 3 weeks last forever. We had a lot of fun just hanging out. It was nice relaxing with someone I love after a hard week. It makes me so happy.