IMFROMBAGGAGE: Hey, since you guys weren’t around in the spring, I have to tell you some important rules.

IMFROMCALLIE: Ok, what are they?

IMFROMBAGGAGE: I’m going to tell you, but tell Izzy too.

IMFROMCALLIE: Ok.

IMFROMBAGGAGE: 1) DO NOT TALK WHEN GREY’S ANATOMY IS ON.

IMFROMBAGGAGE: 2) DO NOT MAKE NOISE WHEN GREY’S ANATOMY IS ON.

IMFROMBAGGAGE: 3) THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THESE RULES IS IF THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE OR YOU ARE BEING ATTACKED BY DEMENTORS.

IMFROMCALLIE: LOL. Ok I got it.

IMFROMBAGGAGE: I think the rules for Grey’s Anatomy are the same as the rules for the 9th inning of a late September Cubs game.

IMFROMCALLIE: LOL. If you say so.

IMFROMBAGGAGE: Another important rule would be not to hit me every five seconds so I have to call your social worker and then you get hospitalized and I miss all of Grey’s Anatomy.

IMFROMCALLIE: LOL! Ok, I promise.

IMFROMCALLIE: Our house has the most unique rules.

Bug: But seriously Mommy, isn’t he cute?

Me: Eh, he’s alright.

Bug: MOMMY! HE IS SO CUTE!

Me: Dude. He’s wearing capris.

Watching Grey’s is like therapy for me or something.

I watched it tonight and then I went down to my room and cried. Still crying. I have no idea why. Why is that show so sad? I swear, sometimes I think the character of Meredith is modeled after me.

And is it pathetic that I am sad that I won’t get to see these people again until the fall?

And also, I think Private Practice is a very stupid name for a TV show.

I’ll reserve all other comments until you all have a chance to see the show except to say this:

1. I think that crying is good for me. I think I need to cry more.

2. Geo came over a few days ago. We played the Grey’s Anatomy trivia game with Bug. Geo won. I am very bitter about this. It was a fluke, though. Bug got a card that allowed her to switch places with me on the board, sending me way back. And then Geo won. See? Bitter.

First off, thank you all for the movie suggestions. If you haven’t chimed in, please do so! (See post below) I know there are more of you out there that have some great suggestions..so help me! Pretty please?

I went to Geo’s last night so I could watch Grey’s. Well that, and so he could fix my van. (Hello, new water pump)

I have two blogs that I have had for awhile and am really slacking on so I thought I’d talk about that today.

First is my Grey’s blog. I have a post up today so please come chime in with your thoughts on last night’s episode.

The second is my reality TV blog. Both of these blogs are hosted on Orble which is a blogging network. Basically how it works is that ads are displayed on your site. 50% of the time the ads are credited to you and 50% to Orble. The reason I’m talking about this is because I am opening up my reality TV blog to other authors. Obviously with my TV-deprived state I can’t watch a lot of the shows that are out there. (Plus there are about a million shows.)

So if you go to the blog, you’ll see a link that says “Apply to write for this blog.” I think you have to be an Orble member first. So sign up for Orble. Register your adsense ID (you’ll need one so get one if you don’t have one already.) Then click on the little Apply thing. Fill out the form. I’ll approve you as a writer..(Tell me that you are a reader here so I can tell who I am dealing with.) Then you will be added to the writing team and you can write about whatever Reality TV show you want. All the ones on cable too, and if you are out of the US, then that is great too. You’ll make a post, it will go to me to approve (and I will approve it as long as you don’t write something like “Baggage sucks!”) and then your post will come up.

So why the heck would you want to do that? Well, you get 50% of the advertising dollars on the posts you make. It will go right into your already established adsense account (if you have adsense on your blog) so it will help you hit that elusive $100 dollar mark quicker. If you don’t have a blog already, here’s a chance to jump in and write without having worry about setting everything up. And hey..it will be fun. I’m hoping to have people writing about all the reality shows there are out there.

That’s all for now.

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Bug: Can I do your Thursday Thirteen this week, Mommy?

Me: No, I already did.

Bug: Darn! I had a really good one too.

Me: Oh yeah, what?

Bug: THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES.

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Here are the songs that contain my favorite lyrics:

#1 Stupid Boy by Keith Urban

#2 There’s a Fine Fine Line..Avenue Q

#3 I’ll Cover You..Rent

#4 Never Neverland composed by Scott Alan (You can see Stephanie J. Block who was Elphaba on the Wicked Tour when I saw it…I met her..perform it on her website. Scott Alan is also a blogger.)

#5 Thank Goodness..Wicked

#6 Do You Love Me…Fiddler on the Roof

#7 I’m Kissing You..Des’ree

#8 I’d Rather Leave While I’m in Love…The Boy from Oz

#9 Defying Gravity…Wicked

#10 Tell Everybody I Know..Keb’ Mo’

#11 The I Love You Song…The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

#12 I Should Tell You…Rent

#13 La Vie Boheme..Rent (Which by the way is the song from which my blog name and my online name come from)

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Now that I’m TV deprived, I’ve been watching a lot of movies. I signed up for Netflix but I’m having trouble finding movies which I haven’t seen or that I’d be interested in. I need some suggestions.

I don’t like horror movies or action movies that consist mostly of people getting blown getting blown up. I do like action type movies where there is some intellectual problem to be solved. Like comedies, romantic comedies, dramas, even romance movies like The Notebook. I’d also like to find movies I can watch with Bug that don’t make me want to poke my eyes out with a stick. For Bug movies, I’d prefer G or PG but if it is a PG13 that isn’t too bad, I can deal. I’d also like TV show recommendations. Like, if I watch Lost from the beginning am I going to understand it? Musicals, documentaries..all good. Movies that I can watch with Geo without him poking his eyes out will be appreciated too.

What should I be watching?

(Oh, and is there anyone else above age 13 here and a fan of High School Musical or am I the only one?)

Technorati Tags: Thursday Thirteen, song lyrics, movies, Netflix, Avenue Q, Wicked, Rent, The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, High School Musical

In case you are waiting for a package from me or a reply to an email you have sent….I am sorry. I’m working on it.

Yesterday was an extremely crappy day for me. (Was it the most depressing day yesterday or is that the 24th?? I got conflicting reports.)

I’m not sure whether my anxiety is causing me to feel sick or my sickness is causing me anxiety but either way, I could barely get out of bed yesterday. Actually, I really didn’t get out of bed until right before I had to go to my behavior class.

And let me tell you, there was this new couple there. Why they came starting with the third class, I do not know. But they talked THE ENTIRE TIME. Now, if you know me in real life you know that I’m a talker. Actually, you might have figured that out by the frequency in which I blog. (I figure my blog will listen to me yap, if no one else will.) But even though I like to talk and I contribute to the class discussion when I feel I have a relevant point…I do not run my mouth the entire class.

And these people did. They interrupted EVERYTHING the teacher said. They interrupted each other while they were interrupting him. And on the rare occassions that they were not interrupting each other, they were talking to themselves or someone nearby.

I really wanted to punch them.

And you know what most of our class was about last night?? LISTENING.

My God.

On top of that nonsense, there is still something wrong with my van. Geo is going to take it into work tomorrow to try to get it fixed. But meanwhile I have to fill it up with water everytime I go anywhere, which doesn’t really suck but it sort of sucks. And the water all falls out as I’m driving so if you want to, you can come to my house and follow the water trail to wherever I am going and stalk me. (It’s probably only Walmart so you might as well just go there and stalk me.)

And Bug. Do you know how many times Bug talked back/argued last week? 68. 68! Last night when I got home from the class, she was already in bed. Apparently Geo had gotten fed up with her and sent her to bed. You know her behavior is bad if Geo doesn’t want to deal with it. Her attitude just sucks lately. (Is she picking up on my anxiety? Is she just a typical 11 year old? Is she in on a secret plot with the Bush administration to put me in a mental institution?)

I think a lot of the anxiety comes from the waiting game. It is Tuesday. Homestudies on one of the groups of kids that I’m interested in are being collected until tomorrow. One group is having them collected until Monday. I tried to come up with a scientific formula to predict how soon after they stop collecting homestudies they will do a staffing, but we all know that I suck in math and so that wasn’t successful either. So meanwhile, I just keep checking my special social worker email and I keep having no new messages. I do think that the staffings will take place sometime between now and say Valentine’s Day. I’m also waiting to see what happens with the foster kids who were coming but then didn’t and still might.

And I hate waiting. HATE IT.

Also, what the hell is Bree doing? Planning what job you want? How about you plan out how to escape the mysterious order that is chasing your ass? And maybe people wouldn’t be clingy or trying to help you through your problems if, you know, they hadn’t just seen your dad shot in front of them by the mysterious order that is chasing your ass? I mean, get a grip woman!

Wow. This is an incredibly bitchy post. But that is what it is like inside my head lately. So I apologize.

I will end this post on a positive note. Do you know that diet Pepsi does not suck? It is much better than diet Coke. I still like Coke in the glass bottles the best, but they are expensive, but better than any other Coke in a can or a fountain or a plastic bottle. But diet Pepsi=does not suck. Water, however, sucks. But I am drinking it more and more. And I’m imagining all you bloggy people yelling at me when I don’t. Which really, bloggy people, you can back down from all the yelling.

Or, if you must yell, don’t do it while you are stalking me. Walmart is stressful enough already without all the yelling.

Technorati Tags: diet Pepsi, water, anxiety, waiting, Walmart,  Lonelygirl, LG15

So I know a few of you share my obsession with lonelygirl, so if you haven’t seen the spoof video by Carmen Electra you need to go check it out. This is the first of three, so I’ll let you know when the others become available.

Lonelygirl15 Spoof 

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I have a confession to make and it is one that I never thought I would ever say.

We don’t have TV right now.

And I’m considering keeping it that way.

**GASP**

We have TV’s, of course, one in the living room and one in my room. And DVD players and VCRs and a gamecube. But no TV channels.

I tried to sign up for the satellite TV, but then got mad when they told me that the internet was going to be a million dollars.

And I haven’t called back yet.

I did a serious inventory of what I watch on TV. I like the news and court TV, but I try to avoid them because they make me sad. And I read the news online, so I can read the headlines and then read what I feel is necessary.

I watch Grey’s Anatomy.

I watch the Cubs.

Now, the Cubs is easy because I actually prefer to listen to the games on the radio. My dialup might blowup, but I should be able to listen through the computer.

But Grey’s??

I know they have the shows online on Friday’s and I might be able to convince my dialup to not be a prick and let me watch it. But I doubt it. Geo gets ABC now (he never used to) and he could TIVO it up. But he’s never at his house. He says that my house has a big antenna (I never went and looked) and that he’s going to climb on the roof and fix it so I can get ABC.

And then I’d be happy.

What’s even more miraculous is that Bug has not complained ONCE about a lack of TV. She’s watched some DVDs, she’s played the gamecube. We’ve rented some movies. But she hasn’t complained ONCE.

There are some other shows that I enjoy, but I really enjoy the storyline more. So I guess I could do what I do with the lonelygirl videos, which no longer load on my stupid computer. I just read the Lgpedia. Then I know what is going on. I can find out what happens on Survivor and all that.

And maybe my mind wouldn’t be so mushy if I didn’t watch the Bachelor and Beauty and the Geek, and The Girls Next Door and all that.

Are any of you TV less? Care to make a bet how much I can hold out?

Also..my lungs feel better, although my leg is horribly painful. I stopped working for two hours and lounged in my bed watching my Grey’s DVD hoping that it would stop hurting, but it didn’t.

Do you think this might be why the VA said that I was 50% disabled and compensates me over $750 a month for “loss of quality of life?” I hope not. It was much more fun when my leg actually didn’t hurt.

Technorati Tags: disability, Veterans, TV, Grey’s Anatomy, dialup, Cubs

I know that most people don’t care about other people’s dreams, however…
I just wrote about the dream Geo had on my other blog and then I just had a dream about Geo. He lived in some kind of dorm thing, and he was a prostitute. But he only had male clients. It also involved an airplane crash, a four wheeler, and this chemical spray for fleas.

Do you ever wake up from dreams feeling horrible? And exhausted? That is how I feel.

Also, I am late to the game, but am I the only one who thinks the bachelor is creepy?