Futon from Hell

It was just like any other night, for any, group of friends, in any typical college dorm room. On this night we chose to spend the evening in Chad's dorm which was all the way across campus from where my girlfriends and I lived. And some of us were "socializing" more than others.

When the end of the night came, we were all tired, some extremely drunk somewhat intoxicated, and it was cold out. The girls and I contemplated how we could avoid walking all the way back to our dorm. Chad had a futon under his bed that some could sleep on and one of our other guy friends  who lived near by had an extra bed that the rest could smooth into. Oh I forgot to mention that there was another guy with us who lived in the same building as I did and also didn't want to walk back to his room. 

So somehow it was determined that I would share the futon with the dude, Matt and the girls would share the bed in Jamie's room. Even though I was not psyched to be sharing the futon with Matt, at least it was "full sized" as opposed to the twin bed Sarah and Hannah would be sharing. 

Half the group cleared out so we could all get to bed. The rest of us settled in to go to sleep.

I was trying to sleep when suddenly, Matt was rubbing my back and my arm and I was at a loss for how to handle it. I just knew it had to stop.

 "Oh, okay." Like what had just happened was completely normal and no big deal!

So I was completely freaked out and wide awake so I put the TV on to watch Conan to try to distract me enough to be able to fall asleep. Somehow I had assumed that I was in the clear since I, you know, had already said no to hooking up, until he was touching my arm again!

I was dumbfounded that it really happened twice in 20 minutes. What was he thinking? That I was as wasted as he was? Or maybe he had fallen asleep, woken back up and didn't remember he had already been shot down. And it's not like I had EVER expressed any sort of interest or attraction towards him, as he was a good 4 inches shorter than me, and incredibly hobbitlike. Or he thought I would just hook up with him for the sake of it since Sarah had done it twice already. 

Anyway, This time I was more firm and fortunately he did not try again. But still now I was even more freaked out and wide awake, not to mention physically uncomfortable because I couldn't move around at all in bed because I feared that if I turned to my other side he would take it as a sign that I now wanted "some."

I didn't. I just wanted to fall asleep and get the hell home in the morning. And finish watching Conan.

Head 'n Hole

Go here make one of these:

It works better for guys, but who cares if its a picture with Conan :)

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If I Wasn't Lorelai Gilmore I Would Be Gil...less

First some news. I was a guest blogger for Ashely over at After Nine to Five today. I did a DIY scrapbook page which is AWESOME. Check it and the rest of her blog out cause it's tons of fun!



Also, this week I was chosen to be the Featured Blogger on Colorful Rant's of a Fed Up Sista. I got this badge to prove it:

Awesome blog if you aren't scared off by her crass, honest, in-your-face writing style. I love it. You should too, just don't say you weren't warned.

Now onto the topic at hand.

This week (and then some) on TV!:

Larry King. He's really old.

Last week...
We had the return of Secret Life of the American Teenager. I have one word for their writing staff: pronouns. It's astounding how many sentence subjects are reiterated 4-8 times in 4-8 sentences even if it's between two different people. Painful. Example: "Adrien is going to have my baby" "I know Adrien is going to have your baby, and because Adrien is having your baby you need to do the right thing" "I know I have to do the right thing because Adrien is going to have my baby." Now that is not an actual quote but it could be. And you see what I mean. I was seriously hoping that I would be able to just not watch it and not long for a lobotomy every Monday night but alas, with nothing else on Mondays curiosity of what happens to the characters has gotten the best of me. It's going to be a long season. Two more words: acting lessons.

Someone put Ben on Castle... and named him Ashley. Hahahahaha

This week... 

AMC's new crazy-insane-fucking-around-with-shit style show, The Killing. For those of you not watching, AMC likes to push boundaries with it's original programming more than any other cable network and somehow they get away with it. Well there are probably people up in arms about their shows but since I haven't been in telecommunications classes since 2007, so I haven't heard anything about it. ANYWAY. Pretty entertaining but fairly predicable. Which doesn't bother me because when I can guess what's going to happen, I feel smart.

Anyone else remember Ryan Renyolds on Two Guys and A Girl?

Moving along. 
Conan. Doesn't stop being awesome. Not for a moment.

"This guy's huge!" (Conan himself is 6'4" and loves finding dudes who are taller than him)

Parenthood, good-not-great, I guess I want it to be funnier but it's not really supposed to be. But Lauren Graham was lovely as always. Oh! Huge pet peeve of mine: people who refer to "the prom" simply as "prom." Am I the only one who thinks people sound retarded when they say "I can't wait for prom" or "I'm going to wear high-heels on prom." ? (Oh yeah also people who say "on prom" instead of "to prom," even worse.) Just think about how much more right it sounds to say "I'm going to wear high-heels to the prom). So you all should agree, and start using "the" when referring to...the prom, and you will be a better person for it. </rant>

For anyone who doesn't know Lorelai Gilmore's real name.

Lights Out wrapped up it's debut season on FX, home to the awesomeness that is Always Sunny, The League, Rescue Me, and Archer (watch all of these). First I have to say "uh oh" But then again, who's surprised really? Best worst line: "Save that rage for the stage; the mojo for the Dojo." Weird, I thought they we're boxing, not karate fighting. I half expected Ralph Macchio to show up. Okay not really. Would have been AMAZING though. I have less issue with comparing the boxing ring to a stage since there's certainly a bit of pageantry going on. At least up until the fighting actually starts. Oh and worst dress goes to... Michelle from 24:

What costumer thought THAT was a good dress to put her in?

Mr. Sunshine. My favorite episodes are the ones Jose Garcia is in. Especially because Matthew Perry's character keeps calling him Bobert. Which, btw, is what "Bob" should actually be short for. This week, funny as ever and we got to see the girl from Party Down...not that ANY of you watched that. You may know her better as Janice Ian.

I too have keep my face on the front of my head.

Perfect Couples. I know what you're thinking, "what?" Yeah. Kinda wish I never started watching this one but it has The Waitress from Always Sunny, and it's in the NBC Thursday night line up, so I had to. I have a tendency to watch shows because someone I like is on it or not watch one that has someone I don't like. I pretty much only watch Rizzoli and Isles because Kate from NCIS is on it and every time I catch a Zeva episode of NCIS I spend the whole hour missing Kate.

That's Kate, and oh look! Jan from The Office.

Now if only my sitcoms would come back already.


To go along with this weeks theme of actors I loved on other shows, I'm gonna wrap this here post with one more:

Community's Danny Pudi on Gilmore Girls?!?? Heck yeah!

Go Science

I just want you guys to know that, since I forgot to do this before I left work Sunday, that this post took extra work to be done and it's all so I don't let any of you down. At home my options to do Tuesday posts is to a) take a full screen shot on my PC and then crop in Paint (yuck) OR today I got my old-as-hell Mac charged up and used it to do them instead. If you don't have a Mac you have no idea what I'm talking about so just take my word for it. Anyway, now I remember why I was so eager to buy a new computer last summer when my old PC died (I killed it actually) and all I had was my G4 Powerbook (they stopped making Powerbooks). In short, my new Lenovo ThinkPad was a worthy investment. Moving along.

@tommyjohnagin

Stand-up comedian. Hilarious. Was totally robbed last year on Last Comic Standing. Check him out in this here video and on his website. And follow him on twitter if you like comedy and who doesn't?

Now in Tumblr world, I don't have anyone new you should be following so I'm just going to show off that I made this "screen-shot-scene" and it's been reblogged and "liked" all over the place. There's nothing like piles of useless emails from Tumblr to make you feel poplular. Oh and if you wanted to find me on Tumblr, since I've never actually posted it on here, this is me. It's kind of like my TV Thursday posts except everyday and with less text.

That's right, 277 notes since last Friday and counting.

I know what you're thinking. And yes, the name of my Tumblr page is almost as brilliant as the name of this blog. I don't know how I do it either.

I'll try to find some new awesome people to follow for next week.

Thursday, Thursday, The Day After Wednesday

Just when I thought I wasn't going to have anything to write about today, I'm watching Monday's episode of Conan (on teamcoco.com *wink*) and he does another installment of his video blog. Which is awesome btw. Anyway, at the end of the bit he expressed his anger at our current favorite internet disaster, Rebecca Black for ripping off his video, Thursday. 

Watch it here:

It's almost as good as Rebecca's

Lyrics:
It's Thursday, Thursday
It's the day before Friday.
The day after Wednesday, two days after Tuesday.
Thursday, Thursday,
Three days after Monday.
A full week from Thursday
A fortnight from the next.

Cereal on the car hood,
Yoo-Hoo near the hub cap,
Cheese Dip in the cup-holder.
How can I decide?

If only my car worked,
we could spend today partyin', partyin'.
But mostly saying the word "partyin!"

Rapper Interlude:
Why is there a rapper here?
Why exactly am I here?
Did I just rhyme "here" with "here"?
I am getting outta here.

That was a rapper.
Which makes this a real song.
Fun fun fun fun fun-fun-fun-fun-fun-fun-fun
fun fun fun, fun fun fun

Keep Cool My Babies

Even if you don't love him like I do, Conan and Team Coco are definitely worth the follows. Quality comedy inside! I'm starting to think my Conan obsession is getting out of hand.




@ConanOBrien

Team Coco on Tumblr

I scoured the internet and could not find a clip of Conan saying "keep cool my babies." Oh well, sucks to be anyone who will never be able to understand this post's title.

I'm Versatile. Who Knew?!

 NEWS NEWS NEWS! Ok, so I finally landed on a good theme for Sunday and dun da dun! It's Sunday News! (Yeah that's supposed to be a news paper and I think I did a pretty good job...) So like I have been, I'll report any blog changes or stuff I feel like reporting from my life on Sundays. I'll post this kind of stuff on other days if it's REALLY important. Such as... the "Blog You're About To Read" Facebook page that I made last week. W00t! And anytime you want to "like" it, I put a widget right over there <-- for your convenience. So if you're really reading and didn't just subscribe and move on with your life let me know with a 'like'! (P.S. I've REALLY fallen behind on my reading and commenting and I SWEAR I'm going to catch up SOON!)

Next up, I got my first official blog award!

How cool is that?! So thanks to LesleyRH over at Ireland Ever After for the award! [Check out her blog, or you'll totally miss out!] Sadly I don't get to just have it, I have to a) post some random facts about me, and 2) award it to some other blogs.

Random facts:
• I don't eat vegetables (with very few exceptions, seriously like less than I can count on my fingers).
• I have a weird obsession with Starbucks that has more to do with their merchandising than their coffee (but I like their coffee too)
• My favorite animated movie character is Wall-e :) .
• I like to cook but not when it's just for myself.
• My favorite food is lobster, then pizza.
• I collect coffee mugs and different versions of monopoly.

These were added to the collection this year. Awesome right?

My Versatile Blogger picks: [I feel so powerful right now]
The De-Student
Cotton
notacrazycatlady
CAPS (parentheses) & exclamation marks!
Was That Awkward
Rob of the Sky's Guide to Crap!

Yeah I think that will do it for this one! Sorry to everyone else, remember, it was an honor just to be nominated.

Other news!
This was on Conan last Thursday, he sent a random dude in the audience off to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and this was their conversation:

Conan: Don't you have a job or something?
Dude: Well I'm a blogger so not really.

Yes! Haha. Also, WHY NOT ME!?! Why am I still working a full time job after all the (2) months I've been doing this?!? Sigh.

Lastly, unless I think of something else I'm forgetting, like in every most Sunday newspapers (the NY Times thinks their soooo special) I will bring you the Sunday Comics! I've been doing this for a couple weeks just cause I had nothing else to bring to the table and that's actually where I got the idea for News day. Not the other way around.

Dilbert again!

These will usually be Dilbert and/or Garfield because those are the ones that come to me in my e-mail. I will work on expanding that.

Happy Sunday!

Oh, Conzie; My Conzie.

I know all my friends, especially those who are on Facebook freqently, are probably so fed up with my Conan O'Brien posts but fuck it, I can't think of anything else I want to talk about. So today is a tribute to Conan's infinite hilarity.

To my friends: Sorry.

For everyone else: Here are all the videos I posted on FB when Conan was starting his new show. Enjoy! (P.S. Sorry for how this post is going to slowdown your internet for the next 5 minutes.)

I haven't anticipated anything this much since the last time I anticipated something this much.

My Love/Hate of ABC Family

Turns out this topic is harder for me that I thought it would be. Maybe if I watched less shows my brain would be more focused but alas it is not. Here's the best I can do this week. Who knows maybe it will turn out better than I think.



ABC Family. It sure has some crappy shows and the two that I watch are no exceptions. The first one I started watching which, is to put it gently, dreadful: Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Easily the worst show that I watch regularly. It is about about a bunch of high school-ers, one of which (now two of which) gets pregnant, and the trials and tribulations of teen dating. It started out interesting enough and now I keep watching it just because I HAVE to know what happens. I seriously want them to make it go away so I can stop. Badly written/directed/acted/etc. it's painful to watch and it makes me roll my eyes every 5 minutes. And yes, I realize I'm not the demographic they're aiming this show at but I was in high school not so long ago and NO ONE was like these kids. I suppose they're trying to exaggerate with the characters a little but it's over done. And the parents/teachers in the show are just as bad. Sadly, for me, it is returning in march so I'm going to start mentally preparing to deal with the ridiculousness that is The Secret Life of the American Teenager. ::groan::

Much less painful to watch but with a far more ridiculous plot, Pretty Little Liars is a show I can't stop being excited for. I don't know what it is but I find every minute of it captivating and I know exactly where I'm going to be at 8pm on Monday nights.
 Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of eye rolling at this one but the ratio of pain to enjoyment is low enough that I can forgive the "what were you thinking when you wrote that line" moments. Compared
to Secret Life, the overall production quality is better in every way. Better writing, better, more believable characters, better acting. However it is annoying enough that most guys would probably hate this show. Also the main plot is getting a bit annoying but I find the sub-stories thoroughly enjoyable, aside from one character's rant about how some dude just 'doesn't understand' Justin Bieber. I guess I can't expect today's high school girls to like the same music as me just because they're probably my age in real life. So that's my guilty little pleasure, if you're looking for one of your own, I highly recommend this.

If you want real quality programming, look to the other networks. I hear that a lot of people like some show called The Office. And Conan.

Birbigs' Hand Door Knobs

Today I'm just gonna dive right in. Enjoy!
<---(This was actually a Thursday)





Awesome thing I found on Tumblr:

Article found here.

One day I WILL have these in my home. Or not. Okay probably not but I can still dream. Plus, I'm pretty clumsy so I bet I'd be constantly bruised on my hip bones from walking into them. So maybe not such a good idea.







Awesome thing I found on Twitter:

Mike In A Window

I don't know how I didn't know about before yesterday, but one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Mike Birbiglia, is LIVING in a Macy's storefront for a week promoting Downy's "Clean Sheet Week." Definitely the most amazing thing I've heard in a while. The only thing that's not awesome about this is that it's not happening in a city near me so I can't go knock on the glass like in an aquarium. I might even do it thrice.


That's all for today. The only blog news I have for you is that as you could see up there ^ I did in fact create logos for my themes. I clearly have too much free time. Tomorrow is Recipe Day. I haven't chosen a recipe to feature yet but I promise it will be a doosey.

Hopping in the Way-Back Machine

So two days in a row I'm already changing the days theme. Wednesday is now "wild card" day instead of "wacky" day. "Wild Card" is basically the concept I thought of when I in an attempt at clever alliteration chose "wacky" but that was dumb and now it's better.

Of course that doesn't mean I know what kind of random thing to post today so my theme plan has already backfired on me.

*thinks*

Ok, this is what I came up with. Here's a picture of a blog entry of mine from the days of yore and everyone can me the me from my younger days. I will then discuss it in more detail than anyone would ever want. Ever.

Paragraph 1) This was back in the days when I still used AIM but only had like 4 people who I would talk to on it and they were rarely all online at the same time. What's funny is how in high school I could juggle 5-6 IM conversations with no problem and then 4 years later the 3 or 4 people that IMed me caused panic and struggle.

Paragraph 2) I was apparently watching TV (not surprising) while writing that entry and this commercial for Raisin Bran came on which I seem to have found hilarious:



Paragraph 3) I was either racking my brain for something to say or I was also watching Late Night reruns on a website that used to have them at the same time that I was watching TV and apparently downloading an Avril Lavigne CD. I never remembered to look for that documentary Keifer Sutherland made.

Paragraph 4) So this was about my goal (which I have no recollection of) to download tons of music with my Penn State sponsored (they paid for students to have accounts) Napster account so I could fill up the mp3 player I used to have. The confusion at the end was due to my graduation coming up and I think for some reason the account wouldn't work over the summer or something. And then I was expressing excitement for being almost done with school. So much excitement that it caused me to [not really] fall on the floor.

To sum up, aside from having lost that mp3 player so I no longer own one, not much has really changed in my life in 8 years. I still LOVE Conan O'Brien, still like Avril, still find silly commercials hilarious, am still glad to be out of school, and would still be overwhelmed and thrilled to get 4 IMs all at the same time. Tho not using or knowing anyone else who uses AIM makes that unlikely to happen.

I hope you all enjoyed reliving this day in my history. Come back tomorrow for some awesome things I've enjoyed thru Twitter and Tumblr recently.
Ciao ciao!