Bromance? Brarf. That show was terrible!! The only redeeming quality was the one gay contestant who was all, "Ew, this place is DIRty. This is nothing like The Hills. Where's Lauren Conrad?" Amen brother, my thoughts exactly.
The City, however. Wow. LOVED IT. All the drama with Jay and Alex? Loved it. Olivia? Loved hating her. Erin? Love her. Staring at Whitney's never ending skinny legs? Loved it like I love a train wreck that I can't tear my eyes away from. Watching Kelly give motherly advice to Whitney? Loved it. Officially my new favorite show.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Daily Note: December 29, 2008
How do you spell excited? T-H-E C-I-T-Y.
It starts tonight. Be there. Or be square.
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/the-city/series.jhtml?kw=the%20city%20mtv
It starts tonight. Be there. Or be square.
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/the-city/series.jhtml?kw=the%20city%20mtv
Friday, December 26, 2008
Daily Note: December 26, 2008
Well, it's been a weird 9 days trapped in the house with all this snow. We had a merry Christmas and I hope you all did too. Since I've been pretty much slowly dying of boredom over the last week or so, I have very little new to say. For this reason, I offer you a photo summary of my time.
Here I am on the first day of snow, thinking that frolicking in a winter wonderland is fun. We walked up to the video store and rented a few movies to watch while we were snowed in.
A day or two later and the boredom had really hit. We started posing Maurice in various pieces of furniture for entertainment.
Then it just kept snowing. And snowing. And snowing. On day two or three we took this photo of the front of our house.
Our backyard:
A few nights ago our neighbor's bamboo on the right side of our yard was so laden with snow that I worried it would break our fence. Jeff went out in the dark with a broom and beat the crap out of all the bushes to get all the snow out. I don't know if you can tell, but he's almost knee deep in snow.
Once we'd officially seen pretty much every movie at our neighborhood rental store, I shifted to cooking to keep me entertained. We made chicken and dumplings from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook.
Christmas morning:
The egg scramble and Early's Sausage special ordered from Tennessee (a Culver family tradition). Below that is a photo of me with my prized apple skillet cake from Jacques Pepin's fast and easy cookbook.
Family photo war. My brother and my Mom and I all taking pictures at once:
Sitting down to breakfast:
Our most exciting present (from my parents)- A new flat screen tv! I know... we're spoiled. But my parents have a weird obsession with their new flat screen tv and felt it was necessary to buy us one.
So that's about it. I was supposed to make a fancy dinner for me and Jeff last night but we were both too full and lazy. So... countless episodes of What Not to Wear, a marathon of House, and many, many bowls of chex mix later, the snow seems to be melting. I think we might actually dig our car out today and - gasp - drive somewhere other than our neighborhood.
Here I am on the first day of snow, thinking that frolicking in a winter wonderland is fun. We walked up to the video store and rented a few movies to watch while we were snowed in.
A day or two later and the boredom had really hit. We started posing Maurice in various pieces of furniture for entertainment.
Then it just kept snowing. And snowing. And snowing. On day two or three we took this photo of the front of our house.
Our backyard:
A few nights ago our neighbor's bamboo on the right side of our yard was so laden with snow that I worried it would break our fence. Jeff went out in the dark with a broom and beat the crap out of all the bushes to get all the snow out. I don't know if you can tell, but he's almost knee deep in snow.
Once we'd officially seen pretty much every movie at our neighborhood rental store, I shifted to cooking to keep me entertained. We made chicken and dumplings from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook.
Christmas morning:
The egg scramble and Early's Sausage special ordered from Tennessee (a Culver family tradition). Below that is a photo of me with my prized apple skillet cake from Jacques Pepin's fast and easy cookbook.
Family photo war. My brother and my Mom and I all taking pictures at once:
Sitting down to breakfast:
Our most exciting present (from my parents)- A new flat screen tv! I know... we're spoiled. But my parents have a weird obsession with their new flat screen tv and felt it was necessary to buy us one.
So that's about it. I was supposed to make a fancy dinner for me and Jeff last night but we were both too full and lazy. So... countless episodes of What Not to Wear, a marathon of House, and many, many bowls of chex mix later, the snow seems to be melting. I think we might actually dig our car out today and - gasp - drive somewhere other than our neighborhood.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Daily Note: December 21, 2008
For CHRIST'S SAKE! The snow will not stop and I'm going totally crazy. We had to cancel our big holiday party last night (after I already baked 2 dozen cupcakes) and today I didn't get to see my friend Heidi on her birthday because of the snow. I spent the ENTIRE DAY in my pajamas (after showering I actually put them back on) so I know I shouldn't complain but seriously! All I've done today is flip channels aimlessly and stuff my face with leftover cupcakes. Thankfully the giant batch of chex mix I made for the party never got unearthed from our basement freezer because in order to get to our basement you have to go outside (read - I'm too scared of our slippery snowy stairs to the basement to go get the chex mix I so desperately want). In even grosser news, Jeff and I ate tater tots for dinner. Nothing else, just tater tots. And yes, we had plenty of other, more nutritious options.
Happy Birthday Heidi! Sorry Mother Earth is such an asshole.
Happy Birthday Heidi! Sorry Mother Earth is such an asshole.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Daily Note: December 17, 2008
Sometimes when I log into blogger to write a post, our home computer automatically logs me into Jeff's blogger account without asking me for the password. Jeff has a businessy (ie super boring) blog where he talks about charts and graphs and how much he loves them. When this happens I often think of how funny it would be for me to write a post pretending to be him. My post would say something like:
Graphs are hella awesome and I think business is "the business". Sometimes when I'm shaving I like to pretend I'm Santa Clause and say "ho ho ho" to myself in the mirror. Woooooooooooo!!!!
love,
Jeff
Graphs are hella awesome and I think business is "the business". Sometimes when I'm shaving I like to pretend I'm Santa Clause and say "ho ho ho" to myself in the mirror. Woooooooooooo!!!!
love,
Jeff
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Daily Note: December 16, 2008
Apologies for the long absence. I've been super busy and keep thinking I'll upload some pictures to share our holiday party outings as well as our near death snowstorm-driving experience on Saturday night. But in combination with being super busy I am also incredibly lazy. So, no pictures. Instead of giving you actual content about what I've been up to, I feel that I need to share something I found on tv last night:
Drama High = the best tv special ever. This two hour special was put on by 20/20 and follows the making of a high school musical (not the lame ass movie, but a REAL high school musical). The musical in question was The Wiz. Having more than one personal connection to the concept of high school musicals, I was beyond sucked in. I hearted it so much that I (gasp) decided to keep watching it even when I knew the season finale for The Hills was starting. Because here's the deal - 20/20 doesn't rerun their specials 24 hours a day for 5 days like MTV does.
Drama High = the best tv special ever. This two hour special was put on by 20/20 and follows the making of a high school musical (not the lame ass movie, but a REAL high school musical). The musical in question was The Wiz. Having more than one personal connection to the concept of high school musicals, I was beyond sucked in. I hearted it so much that I (gasp) decided to keep watching it even when I knew the season finale for The Hills was starting. Because here's the deal - 20/20 doesn't rerun their specials 24 hours a day for 5 days like MTV does.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Daily Note: December 12, 2008
As predicted, my hair looks significantly less awesome today. I had a mini freak out this morning while blow drying my hair that I had accidentally acquired a fashion mullet. But I took a deep breath, stepped away from the blow dryer, cooled down (literally) while eating breakfast and then tried again. The second blow dry attempt significantly reduced the mullet factor and I think it's pretty good today. I wish I could fast forward a week to when I fall into the haircut-groove. Or better, keep a pocket sized Emilio in my bathroom to blow dry my hair with the round brush every morning.
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