Friday Night Lights

I want so badly to watch season 4 of Friday Night Lights but sadly I do not have DirecTV. I have even sought out friends and family that have DirecTV so that they could record it for me and I could watch it. But that turned into an awkward situation when I came at a bad time to watch the season premiere, at my cousin's house. So it is looking like I will have to wait until summer to get my fix of Tim Riggins and all the other Dillion locals.

Loving...Sooner or Later

I cannot stop listening to Michelle Branch's Sooner or Later. I know that it came out a while ago, and I bought the song right when it came out thanks to My Alerts on iTunes, but I guess that I finally got around to listening to it. So everyone should get around to listening to it because it is amazing!

Uncle Doug reminds me of...

Recently my cousin has moved in with our Great Uncle Doug. Now this was surprising to me because I had no idea that my cousin even knew Uncle Doug, other then seeing him at funerals, and weddings, you know the usually family events. Well it turns out that they had a relationship this whole time and my cousin decided to live at Uncle Doug's because of that relationship and because of the location of Uncle Doug's house to my cousins work.

When I found this out my first questions was, "when did you get to know Unc

le Doug, you are always hanging out with me during family things, and I don't know Uncle

Doug good enough to live with him?"

My cousins reply to this was well you should get to know him. He is a really cool guy.

Well all of this talk about great uncles and old people made me think of two books that I

love.

The first is Twenties Girl, by Sophie Kinsella. The main character, Lara, has an overactive imagination but when she starts to see her dead Great Aunt Sadie, she isn't sure what to think. I love this book because as Sadie "haunts" Lara, Lara sees that her great aunt was an amazing person and regrets that she didn't know Sadie when she was alive.

The next book it made me think of was Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen. The first chapter in the book is an older man, floating between his past and the present. I loved seeing how this person grew from child to man then to an old man thinking back on his life and just wanting to do what he loved. You were in his head as an old man knowing his struggles and pains, wishing you could help him in some way.

So maybe after remembering these books, I will take my cousins advice and get to know Uncle Doug.

Loving... White Collar

I love TV shows, I usually get addicted to one and completely get submerged in the lives of the characters of the show.

Then I suck the next person I see right into my obsessiveness, but they usually don't care as much as I do and I try to make them by saying things like this, "Georgina totally has it out for everyone and the only person that sees this is Serena, and maybe Blair but she is trying to take over as Queen Bee of NYU."

Then after I have said these things, they still don't really care and walk away. But I know a good TV show when I see it and last night was the premiere of White Collar, and I loved it. It has a beautiful cast of people and you just wish that you could see Neal with his shirt off more often. But besides the beautiful people it was funny and it had a twist with an old girlfriend that I didn't see coming. This TV show is going to be big! So start watching now, so that you are not left out, and when I try to bring you into my obsessiveness you can be obsessed right along with me.

Loving... The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Just finished the book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by, Stieg Larsson. I loved the book but the author's story about how the book was published is what I am loving more. Larsson is Swedish, as in lived in Sweden, not like he is a yummy gummy red fish, because fishes can't write books.

While Larsson was living in Sweden, he was an editor in chief of a magazine, and in his spare time he wrote three books. Then in 2004 he died but not before he delivered his manuscripts for a trilogy of "The Girl" books. Then in 2005 his first book in the trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, was published in Sweden. Three years later the book would be translated into english and sold in the United States, and become a national bestseller.

How completely sad is that! Larsson never got to see his book published and then cross the ocean and become a bestseller.

The second book is out now and called, The Girl Who Played With Fire. I can't wait to pick it up and start reading it.

loving... this new idea for postings

I am going to start doing posts of what I am loving at the moment because there happens to be a lot of stuff I love and feel everyone should love it too.

Manager Is Just A Fancy Title For Babysitter

Being a manager you learn pretty fast that what you do is babysit, the same thing you did when you were 10 years old, but the babysittees are older and you get paid a lot better. I help manage about 60 employees, so this week while my parents where out of town and I am babysitting my brother and sister who are 20 and 15, I think piece of cake right? I just make sure no one is having sex or doing drugs and the house doesn't burn down. Well no, it hasn't been a piece of cake. The parents have been gone for two days and in those two days I have already had three breakdowns with the 15 year old. I had to make sure everyone was up and that the 20 year old got to school OK. Then in between those we've had one disaster with the dishwasher, one incident with the trash cans, and one smelly problem with instant potatoes. I am having to be responsible for not only my life but two others. I can manage being responsible for mine, but two other lives is getting a bit hard. I just have to say that nothing about being a Gap manager has prepared me for babysitting this week. I just hope I and everyone else can live until Saturday.