So...um....that didn't happen

Apparently, this whole blogging thing just isn't happening anymore. I had the best intentions to catch up on the backlog of posts and actually blog everyday but ....no. I think it would have been more likely to happen if I wasn't working overnights and therefore didn't sleep my days away. This post is going to go over something more interesting things that I have happened in the last couple of months that I was going to write about but never did.

• I bought a Wii at the end of August which has greatly aided my never getting anything done habit. Colette bought me a second remote and a new game (Wii Play) about a week later. Man, riding cows is amusing.
• At the beginning of September, Colette and I went to an exhibit at the National Gallery on the Art of Papal Rome. I ended up winning a book on the art that was in the exhibit which was pretty cool.
• The Guild Season 3 started. Yay!
• True Blood Season 2 ended. Sadly, it won't be back on for another year.
• Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Emmys ---which led to Dr Horrible's interruption of the broadcast

• I went to Best Buy one night to look for some TV DVDs. I ended up buying Season 5 of the Office and Season Two of the Big Bang Theory. I also bought the DVDs for the Young Riders (a show from 20 years ago) because they were only $7.99. I thought that was pretty awesome.
• I found a book in a new series by one the authors (JR Ward) I like. It's related to the other series that I like by her but only tangentially.
• I found a new AJ Jacobs book that is quite amusing called the Guinea Pig Experiment. He does a bunch experiments with his life like Outsourcing his life to India (including reading his son a story and arguing with his wife), being completely honest with everyone and catering to his wife's every whim. He wrote two other books that I really enjoyed "The Know it all" (He read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica) and "A Year of Living Biblically" (Taking the Bible as literally as possible).
• I started watching "Glee". Hilarious! Dark humour abounds. Plus cool musical numbers.
• I also recently started watching "The Vampire Diaries". I actually started watching at episode six so I had to go back and catch up from the beginning. Yet another reason my sister thinks I am obsessed with vampires. I enjoy the fact that there is an actual evil vampire that kills people and that that vampire mocks "Twilight" in one of the episodes.
• Jim and Pam got married!
• I went to a bellydance show on October 9th. It was really good. Rachel Brice and Rosanna McGuire were guest performers. On the 10th, I participated in the workshop by Rachel Brice on finger cymbals (I ended up forgetting mine at home, but I was able to borrow some). On the 11th, I took part in a workshop by Rosanna where I learned some of the flapper stuff she does (like the Charleston). It was a great weekend.
• On the 10th, Colette and I went on the Haunted Walk of Ottawa. It was okay but I was disappointed that we didn't go in any of the places that were discuss on the walk.
• Girl Guide Cookies are being sold. To be specific, the minty ones which I love. Colette has a couple cases of the ones she is selling for Sparks in the front hall. I think I have eaten about 4 of the boxes almost completely on my own. It's terrible (but sooo good!).
• I've started getting allergy shots. I go once a week to get a shot in each arm. Hopefully it will help cure me of the allergies.
• In other news, I went to the dermatologist and got a cream that is actually helping to get rid of the excema (in the sense the I am scratching less and less and my arms no longer look icky). He also diagnosed me with "Atopic Dermatitis". I don't know if I had ever known the name for it before.

I am sure other stuff happened but at the moment it is not coming to me. Another reason why, I haven't been updating as much as I should have been. It's been so long that I don't know what's happened. I want to say that I'll be better about updating, but we all know how that turned out last time.

"I guess I didn't learn anything"

So this week seems to be the week where most of fall TV returns. Yesterday was "Bones", tonight was "The Office", tomorrow is "Dollhouse". I have to wait until Monday for three of my shows but this was a pretty good start. I have enjoyed the new episodes so far. We'll see if they keep up at this rate. The return of regularly schedule programming has dulled my pain at the loss of "True Blood" for basically another year. Some of the shows I am watching returned or began earlier than this week so that's why they weren't mentioned. So today's favourite things is the beginning of a new season on my favourite shows.

Something that appeals to the TV addict in me...

Way back, when I first got into "The Office", I started visiting a website called "Give Me My Remote". I really enjoy it. It has got me into a bunch of shows that I may have never watched without it. The recaps amuse me and the writer has access to a lot of background info that really interests me. One of the things that she does is a podcast with another TV blogger from "Ducky Does TV". I had listened to one of their podcasts last year but that was pretty much it. They then started podcasting regularly this past season of "So You Think You Can Dance" which I tended to listen to more regularly. I enjoyed hearing what they thought of the particular dances. I also started to listen to their regular podcasts particularly if they were going to be talking about "True Blood". So today's favourite thing is the "TV Talk Podcast with GMMR and Ducky".

Insert uncomfortable pause here.

Today, I had a rather unenjoyable day at work. It left me grumpy and annoyed and just in a bad mood. It was rather difficult trying to find something good that happened. So I watched tonights episode of "The Office" before coming down to do stuff I normally do before I go to bed. It was nice to sit down and watch a show that's so familiar and just unwind. They seem to be making Michael a bit less obtuse and I am able to watch without cringing for more than a few minutes at a time. I don't talk about it much but it continues to be one of my favourite shows.

Somehow, paper is required when printing. Imagine that!

Apparently, I have been relegated to the role of my sister's "office assistant" since I am unemployed and seem to have taken over the computer with the attached printer. As such, I have been doing tasks such as scanning and printing and photocopying. In return, I get such privileges as food, water, a bed to sleep in, a car to drive, and a couple of TVs to watch. You know, the "unessentials." Win-win....win. Today's task was printing, a seemingly simple task. Even upon further analysis, it continued to be pretty simple. It was all well and good but we ran out of appropriate paper for the printer and she needed the printing done by the time she leaves for work tomorrow morning. "Screw gun," I thought, because it's my expletive of choice after hearing it an episode of The Office. So up the stairs I went, to see what my sister thought I should do. It turned out that she may or may not have been sleeping as her bedroom was dark. So I paced beside her door because I wanted to wake her up "unintentionally." She soon came to the same conclusion I did and told me to use the old school paper to print the stuff on. You remember the kind of paper with the holes on the sides, don't you? As I was tearing the holes off and the papers apart, I remember that I used to have fun with those lines of holes, especially when I was extremely bored or was supposed to be doing some sort of assignment. Good times.
In other printing news, apparently the printer took my command for it to collate the pages as more of a suggestion, as, it didn't. That made my triumph in figuring out how to make it print back-to-front rather than front-to-back rather unnecessarily.

Oh, awesome!

Pretty much everyday, when I first go on the internet, I flip through all of my homepage tabs and see what's happening. When I got to my blog and looked at my blogroll (the place on the left hand side of my blog entitled "Blogs I Enjoy"), I got very excited. One of the blogs I follow called The Park Bench had chosen January's Nerd Man of the Month. Not only that, but this month's awesome Nerdy man was Jim Parsons. For those that don't know, Jim Parsons plays the neurotic, humorously socially bewildered theoretical physicist, Sheldon Cooper, on the Big Bang Theory (a show that routinely cracks me up). Sheldon pretty much exemplifies the definition of "nerd" so it was only a matter of time before he (or the actor that plays him)became the Nerd Man of the Month. Past Nerdy men include John Krasinski (Jim Halpert, Awesome!), Neil Patrick Harris (Do I need to explain who he is?), Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Angel, Chuck), Nathan Fillion (Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly, Waitress), James Gunn (SLiTHER), and Joss Whedon, among others.