Fall Television.

A side effect of having homebody parents has been that I love watching television. My mom is always watching something and recording at least one other show on any given night, so it's easy to curl up on the couch and join her. That means that when fall comes around, I get so excited because it means the premieres and returns of so many awesome shows. Here's a quick look at what I'll be watching this season!

On Mondays, I plan on watching The Sing-Off and hope to watch until it ends, but I might get bored of it. However, I will watch Castle every single week -- not only is it hilarious, but last season's finale was so crazy and emotional that I can't wait to see what happens next.


Tuesdays bring Glee, which is a total given. This is one of the shows on my 'must watch' list. I'll also be checking out New Girl because it looks absolutely fantastic and Zooey Deschanel is adorable.

For Wednesdays, another one of my 'must watch' shows is Modern Family, which E and I have been watching together (we finally caught up on the rest of Season 2 today). It's so, so funny and I've just fallen in love with all of the characters. We'll also be watching Up All Night, which premiered this past Wednesday and was decently funny.

Thursdays are a bit up in the air. I love all the comedies on - Big Bang Theory, Community, and Parks & Rec, in particular - but I don't know if I'll be dedicated enough. I'm also torn between Person of Interest and Bones, because I've been watching Bones on and off for a while but Person of Interest looks really awesome.

And that's it! Anyone else out there a TV addict like me? What are you watching this season? (Also, if you are a fan of any of the shows that aren't new this season and want to chat about them, let me know! I love talking about TV.)

typical saturday night.

I'm in a serious relationship with my DS lite.

I is smart.

In case you can't tell, that's me winning first place in Mario Kart (yes, against computers, shut up it's really hard sometimes). Deal with it.

memorial day weekend.

{Where I should have been this weekend. Taken summer 2008.}

It’s 4am and I’m eating Cheez-Its, trying to produce a lovely blog post for today. This is when the magic happens, people. If only you could see me – drippy post-shower hair, tattered college sweatshirt… I know, it’s almost too much beauty for you to imagine.

My weekend was thoroughly uneventful. My Special Monthly Friend came by for Memorial Day Weekend and decided it was a good time for me to be cranky and exhausted. Awesome, just what I wanted. So instead of being down at the shore, I was in my room, mustering up the energy to touch up the paint on my furniture only to realize that the touch-up paint didn’t match the original shade… of WHITE. How does white not match white? Seriously.

The most exciting thing was my brother coming home drunk, something I didn’t even witness but had to overhear the next afternoon from my dad. Apparently he dropped his keys outside, got leaves in his hair, then fell asleep in the recliner downstairs. My dad had to usher him upstairs and get him to bed, all of which I missed because I was taking the longest shower in history, apparently.

My social activities were limited to the confines of this family save for the AIM chat with my two guy friends (which I say like I don’t have any other guy friends… which is partially the truth). That’s always good times, except when it ends in me creating, uploading, and sending off an embarrassing video to them. And not even embarrassing in the “oh I was drunk and wasn’t that silly!” way, or the “that was so crazy!” way, but in the “this is really awkward and kind of lame, I regret having the ability to do this, I should be banned from the internet” way. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t that bad, but it was something that sounded so great at the beginning and ended up being not that great.

So. There you have it, my wonderful kick-start to summer. Thrilling, I know. This week I actually have real-life, in-person plans, including a baby shower for one of my childhood friends WHICH IS THE CRAZIEST THING EVER. Sorry, unannounced caps attack.

How was your Memorial Day Weekend?

why i feel like a grandma sometimes.

Sometimes I really and truly believe I am an old lady already.

Want proof?

I do puzzle books.

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You know, like you find in drugstores. My favorites are fill in puzzles, but I'm also a fan of word searches. I could sit for hours and just do puzzles, not content until I can write "done" at the top of the page. And they're not really challenging, either. No crosswords for me. (They're too hard! Seriously. They make me feel dumb.) I prefer these because they're basically time-wasters. I blame my mother; she does them all the time, usually in doctor's offices when she's waiting.

I love golden oldies and light rock.

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Not just any light rock, but usually older stuff. Again, I blame my parents because it's the music they like to listen to, so I grew up with it. I guess, in a sense, it comforts me because it's familiar. Still, when I go down to my aunt's shorehouse, she plays the New Jersey station, which is all feel-good light rock from the 80s. And I LOVE it. Whereas my cousin, who's eighteen, is busy trying to drown it out with her current music (of which I'm also a fan).

I do needlepoint.

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Now, I know that knitting and craftiness have become popular amongst our age group recently, but I don't think needlepoint/cross-stitch caught on so much (correct me if I'm wrong - I would love to know someone else does this). This one I blame on my dad. His sister has done it forever, then he picked up the habit and now I'm stuck. And I've been stuck for like, years now. I have about four projects sitting around in my room, nevermind the two projects I finished as gifts for my second cousins, who both had babies a couple years back.

Of course, there are just as many things I do that make me think I'm way younger than twenty-two. But that's a whole separate entry.

What do you do that makes you feel like you're older (or younger) than you really are?