Taking the Bus

So my blogging is making a come back! Probably. Now that I have a 40 hr(ish)/week office job, all the sitting in front of my computer will most likely keep me blogging regularly. But then again who knows. Also I'm supposed to be busier eventually. Hopefully. So I don't really have a story for you per se, however there is this one thing that I hate about new jobby-job that I want to rant about we will talk about briefly.

Taking the Bus

I don't have a specific story that was so terrible that it bears repeating, its more of a general terribleness that you don't think about when applying for a job at the near by major university. Unless you live in a city that already requires public transportation. But anyway, this is pretty much how I feel about it: 

Yeah so that's pretty much what it's like. Not really, but that's what it feels like. So what my situation is, is that I drive to campus, and park in the "commuter" lot on the outskirts of it and naturally the building(s) I work in are not walkable (by my standards). It's not like I can wear sneakers ever day so I think it's okay if I don't want to walk 20-30 mins in my nice shoes. And when it gets cold again forget about it.

So I park in the lot, walk to the bus stop and wait. And wait. Then wait some more. And eventually a bus comes and we file on and I feel like I'm in school again. Especially since it's where I went to school so it's the same buses. Except now they have a voice that announces the stop locations. So I can definitively say that probably what I miss most about my old job was that there was one building and one parking lot and it was right outside the building. Maybe I shouldn't have complained about those times when the lot was fullish and I had to walk an extra 500ft to the door.

For now, lets just hope this doesn't happen and I will be mostly happy.

I just need to avoid the bus late at night. Silly drunk college kids. Poor Dee.

;-)

GOOOOOOOOD Evening! How the heck are all of you doing? Seriously. I want to know. Also if you comment it will increase the chances of me checking out your blog if I don't already read it #incentive.

So those of you who have visited my blog recently may have noticed my new page tabs. I must say that I think they are awesome and love them. You all are probably indifferent towards them unless you ever use a tablet or phone to visit my blog. For you, they are easier to click than the text links. Yay!

So yeah, I still have the Thanksgiving day layout going. Mostly because I haven't done an Xmas one yet and didn't want to switch back to the regular one in between. Also because I actually wrote and illustrated my Thanksgiving story post and it is maybe more festive to read with the corresponding layout. Or something.

Moving along. This week's recipe was for Gingerbread Rice Krispy Treats.

I got the idea for these when I bought Kraft's gingerbread marshmallows and then didn't have anything to use them for. I guess I could have put them in hot chocolate but oh well. And they were better than I expected so this year I used my own recipe.

That will about do it for this week. Tune in next week for more of the same. Have a good week!

 

 

Fall Premiers

Some of you may have noticed that I kinda like television. And by "kinda like" I mean love way more than any one person should. So you can imagine how excited I am every year around this time for all my shows to be returning!

It's been a long Summer.

So without further ado, here's what I think you should be watching this year Fall.

The Office, NBC (Returns Sept. 22)


Community, NBC (Returns Sept. 22)


How I Met Your Mother, CBS (Returns Sept. 19)


Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX (Returns Sept. 15)


Modern Family, ABC (Returns Sept. 21)


CASTLE CASTLE CASTLE ABC (Returns Sept. 19)


Parenthood, NBC (Returns Sept. 13)


Archer, FX (Returns Sept. 15)


New Girl, ABC (Premieres Sept. 20)


Happy Endings, ABC (Returns Sept. 28) For some reason there's no promo on youtube for this...?


Whitney, NBC (Pre Sept. 22)


Parks and Recreation, NBC (Returns Sept. 22) For some reason there's no new promo on youtube for this either :(

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!