overload

I have too many thoughts in my head today. And not in a "oh, I'm so smart there are just so many important things I'm thinking about I can't even sort through them" kind of way. It's more of a "I'm really excited to go to Michigan on Saturday and I have a lot to do and I'm excited for Grey's Anatomy tonight and I love baseball playoffs and I also love football season and I once again wish I had gotten a Tivo so I could watch Grey's Anatomy AND The Office tonight and I was just reading this really cool thing online this morning and I wonder when so-and-so who I like to read on espn.com/tvguide.com/foxsports.com/msn.com will write something again and I can't wait to see The Jane Austen Book Club at some point and I just bought a ridiculous amount of sock yarn this morning and weddings and babies and unicorns blah blah blah blah blah" type deal. Seriously, my attention span is all over the place. And I suppose it's fair to say that at some point in all the blah blah blah blah blah I'm thinking about work related things (you know, since it's 12:37pm on a Thursday) but really it's like 20% at most.

It's no wonder I have a hard time picking things to write about, I can't think about any one thing for long enough to develop a cohesive string of thoughts! Anyway, I guess it's going to have to be a little bit of everything.

First, last night's TV:

I watched the premier of Pushing Daisies and I'm pretty sure I liked it. I don't want to commit to an opinion just yet, but it had the right mix of trippy and "real" (for lack of a better word). I like the guy playing the main character, and I'll watch pretty much anything with Chi McBride (who is the coolest of the cool). One thing that kept throwing me was how much the chick in it looked kind-of-but-not-exactly like Zooey Deschanel to me. I have no idea what her actual name is and I'm pretty sure I've never seen her in anything else, so I will call her almost-Zooey until further notice. Anyway, the show is kind of like a cross between Big Fish and Monk (although not so much the OCD, more just that they solve crimes and the main character has a "quirk" if you will). If you like either of those things, I recommend checking it out.

Private Practice. Again, I can't commit to an opinion. One minute I'm watching and thinking "Hey, I'm enjoying myself, this is entertaining!" and the next minute I'm looking around my apartment for something to do to pass the time. Not a good sign. I will admit that it did make me cry at one point, but then again I'm a huge sap and I've been known to cry at commercials and greeting cards so take that with a grain of salt. I will say that I could live with less random medical issues and more of the characters' issues (I know, it's a medical show - sort of. I say it's an extended chick flick and should act accordingly).

Dirty Sexy Money. Let me tell you right now, I love Peter Krause. I have loved Peter Krause since SportsNight and if you don't know what that is, go netflix it right now because it's GREAT. Every time I watch those DVDs I secretly (or not so secretly) wish that there was a way they could reunite the cast and start back up again. Oh man, that was a great show. This show is ok too, but if they take a turn and start to make Peter into a lying, cheating jerk I will be so furious.

Yesterday was the first day of baseball playoffs. The Red Sox won.... I can't make up my mind if I want them to do well and keep winning or if I want them to lose so they can stop smugly talking about how good they are. What's worse: Red Sox fans complaining about how they blew it and bitching and moaning until the spring or Red Sox fans being all smug and braggy about how they keep winning? Honestly, I think it's even, so I don't really care what they do. My pick to win the World Series is The Diamondbacks. It hurts my feelings because I love the Cubs, but I just don't see it happening for them this year and I'm pretty sure that the Rockies will have come back to reality by the 2nd round and since the ALCS will probably be the Red Sox vs. the Yankees, it'll surely be overhyped and drag on and on and the NL will come along and sneak in to win the World Series. Anyway, as long as the Yankees lose I'll be happy. Stupid %()&#@#% Yankees.

Over last weekend I watched a couple of my netflix movies: An Officer and a Gentleman and Anchors Aweigh!. I had never seen either. In fact, it might be the first time I've seen Richard Gere in a movie with brown hair instead of gray. And let me tell you that Gene Kelly was one hot man in his day. (when did I start rhyming? how does this happen?) The problem now is that I can't get the Anchors Aweigh song out of my head. I don't really know the words, so it's running through my head a little something like, "Anchors Aweigh hm hmmm, ANCHORS AWEIGH!!!" Driving me crazy.

Now I'm trying to think of some sort of picture situation I could add to this post, but unfortunately I don't have any recent pictures of anything interesting. I'll try to remedy that this weekend. Also, since apparently no one liked the socks I'm making as no one has tried to bribe me into giving them the pair and the pattern is kind of turning out to be a pain on such a small scale, I'm pretty sure I'm going to rip them out and start over. I don't know, I keep changing my mind every 5 minutes. I feel like I'd be more motivated if I had a recipient in mind. Very strong hint: if you want something pretty and knitted personally for you by me, GET ON IT and tell me! Also, my mother is excluded from this, as her next pair of socks has already been determined and is about to get underway as I put these on hold until someone claims them.

Anyway, that's that from me for today, Happy Thursday to everyone!