i have nothing.

Well, I have nothing tv-related, that is. What I do have is a condo and a mortgage! Yay! I am officially a homeowner, but in the process, have fallen days and days and days behind in tv because I've been busy doing condo-related stuff. So I have absolutely nothing to report in the tv arena, and probably won't for a bit while I try to get my act together with my new home. Will try to play a little tv catch up soon, but between the condo stuff and my niece's birthday, and then the playoffs starting next week, and then moving in to the condo over my birthday weekend, it's just not looking very promising...

phil does it again

Twelve teams on a race around the world for $1 million! Another season of Amazing Race is upon us. Season 10! And I have been swamped trying to get my sh*t together for my soon-to-be new home and barely have had a moment to even stop to go to the bathroom, but alas, a girl needs a break every now and then and so a week after the fact, I opted to slack off for an hour and watch the premiere of season ten.

Twleve teams starting out in Seattle, WA and are dumped off in these little sea planes that look like they'd probably give me some serious motion sickness if I ever had to ride in one. Let's meet the teams...

Peter & Sarah - Triathaletes, and Sarah has an artifical leg. I swear I'm not one to discriminate based on disabilities, but given the physical nature of this race, I'm just skeptical.
Team Muslims - Umm, yeah I know it's ignorant to call them that, but thats what they ARE and to be honest, I have no idea what their names are.
Rob & Kimberly - This isthe team that will be screaming at and fighting with each other the entire race. Reminiscent of Jon & Victoria if anyone remembers them from an earlier season.
Dustin & Kandice - Miss New York and Miss California. Blondies with big boobs.
Davd & Mary - Team Kentucky. Every stereotype you can think of applies here.
Erwin & Godwin - Asian brothers who get in trouble for having water guns in the airport. Haha! No seriously, did they think they were going to get away with that?
Duke & Lauren - Father and his lesbian daughter from Rhode Island. Not as exciting as it sounds.
Vipul & Arti - The Indian couple that make some bad bad navigation decisions that end up biting them in the ass.
Kellie & Jamie - Cheerleaders with very limited personality.
Tyler & James - Cute models that happen to be recovering druggies. Nice recovery, boys.
Lynn & Karlyn - Single moms from Alabama that complain a LOT.
Tom & Terry - Boyfriends from NYC that I am rooting for because my sister knows Terry from work.

And just like that, the teams are off to China! And the first roadblock involves eating fish eyes, which just grosses the hell out of me and makes me mad that this show is perpetuating the stereotype that Chinese people eat some nasty stuff. And holy crap a team gets eliminated before the race even really gets started! Phil pulls a fast one on us and eliminates a team even though it's not a pit stop! I guess it doesn't matter that I never got to learn the Muslims' names... As for the ACTUAL pit stop, Tyler & James win $20K for finishing first and the Indian couple finishes last and goes bye-bye. Wow, two teams out in the first episode, and arguably the two most ethnically diverse teams compared to past seasons at that. Whew, that was exhausting.

AL East Champs '06!

Congratulations to the NY Yankees for surviving another season and making it into the postseason again! One step closer to Subway Series II...

Anywhos, the Yanks clinched last night and they are off tonight so I'm catching up on tv. I'm already quickly getting bored with this season's Dancing With the Stars but following along nonetheless just because it is remarkably entertaining to watch the people I actually know. Specifically Joey Lawrence and Mario Lopez. So funny! But you know me and my sports loyalties, I'm totally rooting for Emmitt Smith. This week we said bye-bye to Miss USA. Next to crash and burn: Jerry Springer.

This week's Laguna Beach: A Jason cameo! And mentions of Lauren when things were still good between the two of them, haha! I am still waiting for Cameron to cut it off with Jessica... I'm so over her. DAMN YOU Cameron for picking Jessica over Tessa! Oh, and: Kyndra + Tyler = YUCK.

Yeah, just went through my DVR list to see what else I had on tap to be watched and... yikes, i am REALLY behind on my tv!

don't mess with my chickens

I finally watched the much anticipated premiere of Survivor: Cook Islands, more commonly known as Racist Survivor. And it turned out to be just so ridiculous you had to laugh and be entertained. The Asian team turns out to be not as spastic as you expect them to be, with the exception of the hippie Vietnamese guy named Cao Boi, pronounced "Cowboy" and that is how I'll be referring to him from here on out. He's really out of control with the asian jokes and it was just outrageously funny when he left the welt on the korean guy's face in his attempt to cure a headache. Hands down the best part of this first episode is the chicken debacle. There's the fight over the chickens and then "Roller Girl" lets the chickens get away. I almost DIED laughing when she lifted the crate and the chickens got loose and ran away with the quickness. Haha!

The African-American Tribe is the first to go down aand lazy man goes home. Good job kids.

white house black market

There was an abundance of sports to be watched this weekend, between college football saturday (yay for Penn State!), a HUGE win for the Giants over the Eagles on Sunday, and two straight days of Red Sox-Yankees doubleheaders on top of all that. Whew! Still one last game of baseball left to be played, but while I'm waiting for that, thought I'd catch up on some tv, so I watched last week's Project Runway. Angela and Vincent are back! Good grief, we were ALL so glad to get rid of the them, how ridiculous is it that they got LUCKY and won a challenge each earlier on that they didn't necessarily deserve, and for that they get to come back and compete again? Ugh. BUT, because there is a fashion God, they're gone again as quickly as they came back! And it's a lovely challenge because it features ONLY black and white colors and Michael makes an awesome dress (again) and Laura finally wins one! And bye bye we have to say to Kayne who has provided endless entertainment to us. And so we have the Final Four: Michael, Uli, Laura and Jeffrey. Next Stop: Olympus Fashion Week!

Regarding Laguna Beach: That Cameron sure does get around! Could Jessica be ANY MORE annoying? I like Tessa and Cameron together way better!

cheesy goodness

Work has been kicking my arse in a very big way this week. Aside from the marathon conference call the other night, I've been in meeting after meeting after meeting fighting and discussing and arguing and pondering and contemplating vendor contracts. It's completely exhausting and results in days like today where I consumed nothing but half a bag of Cheetos for lunch. And we're not talking about the little 25 cent snack size bags but the big 10 oz. bags of "cheese flavor snacks" that I love. However, if you look at the size of the bag, half that bag is a LOT, and I spent the rest of the afternoon being ill. Luckily since I didn't even start consuming them until 3pm (yes, so not only did I not eat lunch until 3pm, I ate Cheetos as my lunch) it was only a few hours that I had to sit at work being ill from the amount of artificial cheese powder coating my insides.

Yeah, so the Cheetos debacle was just a sidebar to the fact that I now can barely even muster the energy for tv. But in an attempt to maintain even the smallest bit of normalcy, I did tonite FF my way through Dancing With the Stars to at least see who was competing this season and whether or not I cared about any of them. I literally did FF through a two hour premiere in about 45 minutes or less though, so who knows if I missed something good. No clue who half these contestants even are, so it's just not all that fun. BUT, that being said:

Joey Lawrence is bald now and it's just weird because he doesn't even look like Joey and I can't get the image of Joey from the show Blossom in 1991 out of my head.
Sara Evans - A country music star of some sorts apparently. boooooooring.
Tucker Carlson - Journalist/News guy with no moves whatsoever. dork!
Monique Coleman - Actress in High School Musical, which I'm not familiar with, but my niece is a HUGE fan of, so I feel like I have to give Monique a chance.
Emmitt Smith - Legendary NFL player. You can't not love having a football player in this competition, especially when it's a big black football player. I love it!
Willa Ford - who?
Mario Lopez - Haha, AC Slater! He looks exactly the same. And he can actually dance!
Shanna Moakler - former Miss USA. She looks kind of like a porn star. i'm just sayin'.
Harry Hamlin - Husband of Lisa Rinna who competed last season. I will say that I am going to semi-root for him for the sole reason that I love his dance partner Ashley because she is just the cutest little thing ever!
Vivica A. Fox - pretty much the only female contestant I even know, so by default I like her moves.
Jerry Springer - HAHA! Okay you can't tell me it's not just plain ole hysterical that this guy is in this competition.

So while I was at it, figured I'd FF through the results episode as well and just like that... bye bye Tucker Carlson! That was too easy.

happy birthday bernie williams!

So just for the record, I was at work on Tuesday night until about 9:30 pm and spent 7 1/2 hours fighting with a vendor on a conference call. Good times. My brain was completely fried after that and I was emotionally defeated. So obviously by the time I got home I was in no shape for tv and missed out on the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars. Which means I can't watch the results show tonight. Which means I will inevitably be very much behind on my tv again. I have no idea who even danced! And apparently the new seasons of all the daytime talk shows have started up because I seem to be finding my DVR list flooded with episodes of the ellen degeneres show and Martha. Not to mention that I do believe Oprah premieres on Monday which will add another five hours of tv a week to my list.

So on Monday's episode of ellen, Jessica Simpson was on with her "bruised vocal chord" and proceeded to complain about it the whole time (making really gross phlegm noises in the process), had Ellen make her tea, and then proceeded to "perform" ANYway later in the show (with Ellen doing an interpretive dance - HAHA). She also showed up wearing a wife beater with a vest over it, and little hot pants. Oh, and very orangey tan arms and legs. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but I'm just sayin'... okay no, I'm sorry -- there is something VERY VERY wrong with that. ALL of that. eesh.

Okay I will be trying very very hard to not fall too behind on tv. But while I am trying to catch up, Project Runway and LB is continuing on, not to mention the start of racist Survivor! whew.

get ready for some football!

Football season is upon us! And I got to go to the Manning Bowl! YAAAY! Incredibly fun, despite the GOD AWFUL officiating that went on. Freaking NFL refs -- USELESS. bah. A good time nonetheless, gotta love Giants tailgating (I'm still in awe of the guys that show up to tailgate with the giant tv's) and it was super cool to bear witness to a little bit of history. Manning vs. Manning. Good times.

The overlap of baseball and football season has wreaked havoc on my tv schedule. I am TRYING to keep up. Really I am. Especially now with fall right around the corner and new seasons of shows starting up! A brand new season of Dancing With the Stars starts tomorrow night, woohoo! Oh, and the very politically incorrect Survivor: Cook Islands starts thursday. Can't wait, it's going to be ignorantly fantastic.

get your sexy on

Okay, maybe it's just me (and the rest of the world) but... is Suri Cruise an ASIAN baby?! Hot off the press from the latest issue of Vanity Fair. I contemplated posting the picture here but decided against it because I couldn't the bear the thought of having a controversial baby's face on my blog. So after all the hooplah about whether or not Suri Cruise actually exists and what she looks like blah blah blah, I was expecting... not that. Never mind the fact that this baby was supposedly born in April of 2006 and yet looks to be at LEAST a year old. I'm just saying.

Anyway, a new season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show premiered this week in Central Park and I'm just gonna put it out there right now - I like Justin Timberlake. I still think it's super weird that he's dating Cameron Diaz, but I like him, okay? There, I said it. Whew, another thing I had to get out of my system.

Back to reality tv - I have discovered a fabulous new blog called Blogging Project Runway and have added it to my list of Blogs and Stuff over on the right. Very entertaining read for those of you out there who are Project Runway fans, and quite frankly, I don't see why you wouldn't be! And speaking of, thank goodness Angela and her crazy "signature rosettes" are finally out. I also happen to think Michael should have won again and NOT Jeffrey. Hmph.