Happy Halloween!

Saw this on the porch of someone's house during my last Penn State trip:

Classy, I know.

for the glory

Once again, I apologize for my absence. It's been one of those... months, and I'm only starting to get my act back together. I've returned from my final Penn State football trip of the season, one that was cold and depressing, accented by an embarrassing loss to OSU on national television, but highlighted by the excitement of College GameDay and breakfast burritos.

Also welcome my first attempt at youtubing:

Unfortunately there's lots of crowd noise and I also got tired of holding up my camera so it's only the first two verses!

In the process of attempting to record College GameDay, the Penn State game AND the Giants game while I was away, my shows from last week got deleted from my DVR :( So I missed The Office as well as Scrubs. So sad.

I should be able to get myself back on track now with no more trips, no more baseball and just football to deal with. Need to tidy up my DVR and I'll be back in business so stay tuned!

Oops

For those of you actually paying attention, apologies for not having written anything in the past two weeks. I was away last weekend having a super drunk time at Homecoming (Penn State 38, Wisconsin 7) and have been feeling somewhat under the weather all week, possibly somewhat related to the fact that I overdid it just a bit during my college weekend. Amidst all that, I have been trying to keep up with tv but there hasn't been anything GREAT on. Some things are good, but nothing is great. Kind of disappointing. EXCEPT for The Office, which has stretched itself out to hourlong episodes this season and are hysterically funny. The first season that The Office was on, I was skeptical, because although it was funny, I had already seen the BBC version of the show which was hysterical in its own right with its dry British humor and sassy characters. The first season of the American version was nothing but an exact play-by-play of the British version, and it was hard to have to compare them. Since then, the American version of The Office has had quite a coming out party and I am quite loving it! And for the record, she is not one of the main characters, but the woman who plays Kelly Kapoor is absolutely genius - her character throws just the right amount of crazy-obsessed-girlfriend humor into the mix. Fabulous!

And now, it's Penn State football time. Have a lovely weekend! Until the next time I am able to muster the energy to write, here's a picture from my Penn State-Wisconsin weekend. It's me and a certain Wisconsin fan at Penn State's Lion Shrine - you'd never know from this picture, but it was taken at abut 2AM and while incredibly trashed. I'm refraining from posting the pictures where it is obvious just how drunk we are :) I look perfectly sober in this one, though it's amazing I didn't fall off the lion, as that sucker is pretty slippery!

29

My 29th birthday came and went with rather little fanfare, just the way I liked it. I had a three day weekend (inadvertantly stretched into four) and spent most of it... eating. Birthday meal #1 consisted of yummy soup dumpling and a big fried seabass. Birthday meal #2 was sushi at my favorite sushi place in the city, and birthday meal #3 was a delicious massive buffet spread that left me so full I was almost ill... but I managed to make room for the tasty little birthday cake highlighted by my niece and nephew serenading me with a birthday song.

Aside from the food, Penn State got a win and the Giants got a win, so aside from the debacle that is the New York Yankees, which I will decline from discussing at this time, it was not such a bad birthday weekend. The Yankees must have missed the memo about it being my birthday. hmph.

Next up - Penn State homecoming!

baseball pains

Game 1 of the Yankees-Indians ALDS playoff series is currently on. So it's the 5th inning and the Yankees are crumbling and down 9-3. I made me somewhat sick to my stomach and I couldn't bear to watch anymore so I turned the game off. Yankees in the playoffs and I had to turn the tv off because it's so terribly difficult to watch! Oh what a debacle. I'll turn it back on it a bit to continue the torture, but in the interim I put on Survivor: China (and yeah they are in China but honestly, it looks like every other island on which they've ever filmed this show!) to soothe my brain a bit. I do not understand how the Yankees can continue to torture me like this, season after season after season... *sigh*

woe is britney

I've been staying away from the debacle that is celebrity gossip, bu due to popular deand from halfway around the world: Britney has temporarily lost custody of her kids! The bad driving, the drinking, the drugs... it's all caught up to her and of all things, K-Fed now gets to hang on to the kids until further notice, because Brit is such a mess. It is a sad SAD world when K-Fed is the better one!

secrets & lies

I finally got around to watching what I THOUGHT was the season premiere of Desperate Housewives from last weekend and must say that I was sorely, sorely disappointed as it wasn't at all the season premiere but an extended 43-minute long recap of prior seasons. A long, detailed step-by-step recap of each and every desperate housewife's life. So not necessary.

So it turns out the premiere is actually tonight, but I won't be able to watch because I'll be at the Eagles-Giants game. Woohoo! Let's just hope I can manage to not get myself into as much trouble as I did the last time I went to a Giants game! Seriously.

Lucky 13

Yankees FINALLY clinched their playoff spot tonight! Took 'em freakin long enough, but considering how horrid they started the season, I'll take what I can get. 13 straight seasons into the post season... could this be lucky 13?

dancing queen

This is a reality tv blog after all, and this week started a new season of one of my favorite guilty pleasures in the reality tv world ever – Dancing with the Stars! Not only do I love the concept of pairing up celebrities with professional dancers and having them compete against each other, but it also allows me to live vicariously through these fantastic dancers that forever make me wish I was one of them! Yes, in my own secret fantasy world, I want to foxtrot and mambo with the best of them and dance, dance, dance my life away!

Among this season's dancing stars are:
- Jennie Garth (aka Kelly Taylor from my most favorite show ever in the 90’s – Beverly Hills, 90210)
- A Cheetah Girl (no clue who she is but my niece wold be all over it) who is fabulously adorable
- Scary Spice Girl Mel B
- Wayne Newton
- Sports Illustrated model Josie something-or-another (since when do models qualify as celebrities?)
- Boxer Floyd Mayweather, because every season has to have at least one bigfooted athlete
- Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn)
- Marie Osmond
- An Indy 500 race car driver who's name I don't remember
- Abercrombie & Fitch model Albert Reed (yeah he's pretty cute, but kinda dorky looking all at the same time, go figure)
- Soap star hottie Cameron Mathison
- Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban (you'd think he had better things to do than participate on this show)

This week, the lady celebrities performed one night, the gentlemen celebrities performed the next night, and the on the THIRD night (okay, even I will admit three nights of this show in one week is a bit of overkill), there is a vote off and bye-bye to Josie the model - she really just could not dance much at all, and I had no idea who the hell she was before this week, so the dance must go on!

big brother has failed us

Dick won Big Brother by a vote of 5 to 2 - seriously. What a travesty this season has been and I am glad it is all over. Apologies for the lack of blogging in the past week. It's been a long, tiring and all around painful week for a variety of reasons and so tv hasn't really been at the top of my priority list (crazy, I know).

Fall tv is starting soon, which means new shows, new seasons of old show and just lots of things to watch in general when you throw in baseball and football! Some notables coming up:

- Season premiere of The Office: Thursday, September 27 @ 8PM
- Yet another season of The Simpsons starts Sunday, September 23 @8PM
- Dancing With the Stars: Monday, September 24 @ 8PM
- Desperate Hosewives: Sunday, September 30 @ 9PM

And a variety of brand new shows will I'll do my best to check out and report back on. It's a big day in college football today and so off I go to watch College GameDay...