slow recovery

So yesterday was my birthday, as many of you know (thanks for all the birthday wishes via mail, email, text message, facebook, etc...it made me feel pretty impressive).  I had originally planned a quiet dinner with my nearest and dearest, only to discover that my coworkers had been surreptitiously planning a party of their own.  After a week of back and forth and demands that I move my dinner plans back, I decided to stop fighting the inevitable and combined the two events.

Which means that by about 5:05 yesterday I was at a bar downstairs and had a drink in my hand.  I didn't leave until 10:30, by which time I'd had a really good birthday and many, many drinks.  Don't worry, Mom, I was still fully functional and I got a ride home so I was completely safe. :)

I think my coworkers and my friends enjoyed meeting each other, if only to put faces with names of people I talk about constantly (I'm a talker.  You all know this about me.).  Plus everyone had a whole new audience for the "Roast of Jessie" portion of the evening, so that was nice.


The benefit of drinking with one of your bosses is when he tells you, "you know, you can come in tomorrow around 11, I think that would be ok" because he's one of the ones who keeps ordering you drinks.

I did make it in to work at 9:30 this morning, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't feeling the pain of last night's shenanigans.

Things that have not helped with my headache today:

1 - My boss coming into my office this morning, putting one hand on each side of my head and shaking (she found this hilarious, I found it mean-spirited and unfriendly.  But also kind of funny).

2 - The REALLY loud (but very nice) lady who came in and stood in my office doorway talking to someone else and it felt like she was shouting next to my ear drum.

3 - The constant jackhammering that has been going on across the street at the construction site ALL DAY LONG.

I am looking forward to getting home tonight, curling up on my couch and watching the first season of True Blood which I got on DVD for my birthday.  If I make it past 9:00 it'll be a miracle.

If anyone can make sense of this post, it'll be a miracle.  I have this feeling that what I think makes sense really doesn't make sense right now.  Oh well.

not really news anymore

So given that most of you are either on facebook, have talked to me in the last few months or are friends with my mother, this is not news to any of you.  Just in case, however, I should throw something up here (if for no other reason than to simply throw something up here, which has been sadly lacking of late).

I'm moving back to Michigan.

I'm moving in with my parents.

I'm going back to college.

This is the major thing that's kept me from posting a lot recently, as it was a big secret and when the big thing in your life is a secret from almost everyone you know, it's hard to find things to talk about (except TV shows).

It all came out last week (aka the longest and busiest week within memory) and there is no more need to keep said secret, so there you have it.

I'd like to say the posting will increase, but that might not actually happen for another three or four weeks.  Because now that it's all out there, I have all the logistics of everything.  Packing, moving, leaving my job step 1, leaving my job step 2, not to mention various wedding related events and tasks that need to be taken care of between now and the end of July.  It's going to be crazy (it already kind of is) and I just don't know how much time I'll have.

Then again, in August I'll have nothing but time while I search for a part time job and gear up to go back to school with kids who are 10 years younger than I am.  So at least I've got that to look forward to :)

I will leave you with two recommendations:

1 - Go see The Proposal.  It's very very cute and Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds have great chemistry.

2 - Check out Royal Pains on USA (I think it's on Thursdays at 10, though I only watch it through the magic of hulu.  I love hulu).  It's quality programming.

that's just the way it goes

I have this thing where whenever I go away for a few days, I come back and it takes like a week and a half for me to regain my sanity and ability to function normally.  This is what I blame the lack of posting for the last two weeks on.  When my travel issues popped up the morning I was leaving to spend Memorial weekend in Michigan, I had a whole post planned for when I got to my parents'.  But that didn't happen because I hadn't seen my family in 6 months, and spending time actually talking to them was more important than posting my insane travel stories (my flight was originally delayed 5.5 hours due to 'aircraft maintenance' and while I did get on a different flight leaving earlier, I still ended up in Flint 5 hours later than scheduled.  But at least it was a good excuse for some day drinking in Metro airport and semi entertaining status updates on facebook).

Then I spent the next 5 days being relaxed and hanging out with the fam and spending time with adorable nephews and seeing one or two people (but definitely not a lot, as this trip was sort of kept under wraps so that there would be plenty of down time - i.e, if I didn't see or call you, please don't be offended) and being on the computer was not a high priority.

Then I came back to work and taking two days off felt like taking 7 days off because it's not like anyone was doing my work while I was gone (that would have been great, though).

A friend from out of town was here when I got back, which sucked up a few evenings.


So I've been working hard every day, coming home very tired every night at which point I don't even want to look at my computer (plus, my laptop is pretty much on its last legs...I have a new one coming this week sometime assuming UPS will accept a note with my signature in lieu of an actual signature) so I just totally crash.

And then the weekend comes and goes and suddenly it's Monday morning and I realize I haven't posted anything pretty much since the TV season ended.

And then it's Wednesday afternoon and I still haven't posted even though there are stories to tell and things I want to say so I put up a lame, excuse-y post like this one and ask you to be patient, I will post stuff soon.  I swear.  Actual stuff.  About things.

So keep your eye out for that.

In other news, as of yesterday I am the only person living in my apartment again.  It was nice to have someone around for awhile, but it's nice to have all my space to myself again and not have to worry about anyone else seeing just how disgusting I can be when I'm on my own :)  

you got Mosby'd

As season finales go, that was a pretty good one.  Though I feel it's only right to tell you that at the beginning when Robin said to Barney "I think I'm in love with you" and then he ran away I was about to get REALLY mad.  If that was the way they resolved that story, it would not have been cool (I have a bit of a temper).

I really should have known better, it wouldn't have been HIMYM if that was the case.  Let me back up.  How much did I love the Canadian suit analogy Barney used to tell Ted he wants to go for it with Robin? 

"Remember that was your answer Ted, because the suit is Robin."
"I'm with you, buddy."
"Yea, because I just explained it to you!"

I'm glad that Robin overheard and now that they've mentioned it I do find it impressive that Lily was able to keep the secret from her for so long.  And that while Lily has known about the feelings for seven months, Marshall has known about them for six months, 29 days.  (also, I wonder how long ago they filmed this so that Alyson Hannigan could be in it?)


Marshall standing on the ledge trying to jump to the neighbor's deck was pretty funny, though I remain unconvinced that tiny little Lily could have made that jump.  She's about half the size of the rest of them!  But I digress.  (I did wonder where the owners of that apartment were...)


I'm so glad Ted did not end up making the cowboy hat restaurant, but I like that he lost out to the same Swedish architects as the GNB building.  And poor Ted got beat up by a goat... did anyone else notice that the song over that scene was "Murder Train" by James van der Beek's band (I can't remember his character's name)?  That was hilarious.


I think it's pretty safe to assume that the teaching job Ted ended up taking was the NYU job that Tony offered him, which again puts Stella in the position of being the reason he met the mother, albeit indirectly.  I'm so excited the mom is in the class!  That better mean we get to meet her next year even if they don't actually spell out that it's her! (I'm thinking that because she'll be his student that would raise ethical dilemmas so he probably meets her again later when she's not a student anymore, and she remembers him as her teacher...I'm just guessing)


Other little things:


- Lily telling Marshall she was pregnant to get him off the ledge was cute (even if she was lying)



- But it was funnier when she told him to get back up there and jump and she hoped he'd die after he said he noticed she gained a little weight

- The flashbacks to all the times Marshall didn't jump to the other deck were enjoyable, particularly the first one with the kiddie pool.



- The hospital scene between Robin and Barney was my favorite.  She Mosby'd him three times!  And then they made out and decided to deal with it later.  Perfect.  

I can't wait for next season (or for when they finally put this season on DVD, which will inevitably be about 2 minutes before next season starts)!!!

Grey's Finale

As I was watching last night's episode(s), I did a bit of a running commentary so I wouldn't forget anything.  I think I'm just going to expand on that, so it may be a little choppy (partially due to the couple glasses of wine I'd consumed by the time the show aired yesterday).  Running commentary will be the part in brackets and allow me to warn you that toward the end of the show they make less and less sense as I get more and more agitated about what's going to happen.


[I want a wedding where drinks are allowed during the ceremony] - this was my thought when Derek was talking about going to the Caribbean, even though I knew that wasn't going to happen.


[We officially have the second guy on this show who wants his leg cut off...] remember the guy last season who came into the clinic and then ended up chopping off his own foot with a chain saw?  This was less ridiculous than that, but still pretty weird.




[those surgery machines the chief bought were really creepy, but i like how he's trying to buy bailey] seriously that one looked like Doc Oc's creepy machine arm things from Spiderman 2


[mark. is. adorable.] I love how he tried to ask Lexie to move in with him but failed spectacularly.  Kind of like all the times he tried to tell Derek about Lexie but failed miserably and just ended up being cute.


[katherine heigl looks ridiculously skinny and denny looks really old.] ok, is it just me or in the beach scenes did she not look really REALLY skinny?  Not that she was ever not skinny, but this is just getting ridiculous and Denny looked rougher last night than he did when he was actually dying.



[second season finale in a row where bailey makes star wars references] the light saber noises she made while using the new machines made me smile and them a little less scary


[scary brain test on izzie = very sad] it was hard to watch when she stopped being able to speak and she didn't know Meredith or Alex or anything, but it was funny before that when she was trying to memorize 'shnauzer, 747, Victorian' instead of 'dog, plane, house.'


[i heart alex karev...he gives a good speech, that one] His impassioned speeches about not knowing what to do for Izzie and that her happiness is on him are always excellent, even if there were like 12 of them in this episode.


[derek is dumb sometimes, stupid telling alex to make izzie have the surgery] At this point I was 100% against the surgery so I was pretty mad at Derek for saying she should have it.  Did he learn nothing from pregnant aneurysm lady?  I came around in the end (sort of), but at this point I was mad.



[soldier boy needs a psych consult] see, if I was his doctor instead of Callie, his pleading to take his leg so that he could go back to where he fits in would probably not have had the desired effect.  Instead of deciding that he's just a guy who knows what he wants and that's what I should do, I'd probably get a shrink in there for a consult to make sure there weren't deeper issues.  Of course, that doesn't really advance plot so I'm willing to overlook it.


[little kids are not as fun as robots, or as shiny or as new, and they don't have things coming out of their belly buttons.  just so you know.] It was hilarious when Dr. Robbins said this to the Chief through her tears.  Which I can relate to, because I am kind of the same way (crying when I get mad at authority figures.  Or just all the time).



[dr. robbins vs the chief!  showdown!] I thought this could have been way funnier for a little while, especially given how serious the rest of the show was, but it was still pretty cute.  I love it when the Chief plays innocent.


[paris dying is sad and ultimately the catalyst for izzie having a) magical saving surgery or b) tragic death surgery] This is what I thought when Paris/Allison (the girl was Paris from Gilmore Girls) was coding, I thought she was definitely gonna die.  I also thought that Izzie was either going to die on the table or come out wonderfully healed.  This just goes to show you I have no inside information whatsoever.


[mark and lexie's conflicting timelines are pretty cute] He wants to move in now, she wants to wait 10 years (wouldn't that put him in his 50's?  Yikes), he wants to compromise on 5 years, she's willing to go to 7, then he walks away and asks the bus girl for advice while he's fixing her stitches.  I like that he embraced that he was the girl and decided to buy a house on his own.



[DNR are very scary letters together...I'm so nervous about what's going to happen with izzie in the next hour and 15 minutes!  I keep alternating between sure she's going to die and sure she's going to live.  I can't take the suspense!] I was pretty much having an anxiety attack at this point, as evidenced by:


[oh god this goodbye kiss between alex and izzie is totally killing me.  why does grey's have to make me cry ALL THE TIME?]


[city hall weddings are good.  i would totally get married at city hall if i couldn't have a wedding where drinks were allowed during the ceremony] No muss, no fuss.  Especially for a couple like Meredith and Derek.


[I don't want Georgie to go in the army and die!  I don't want any of them to die!] He is an easily influenced dude, that George.  Even though I knew it was coming I was still upset when it was him in the recruiter's office.  I'm glad Christina finally made Owen go see his mom so he wouldn't go back to Iraq.



[NO WHEELY SNEAKS FOR BAILEY.  YOU KEEP YOUR DAMN WHEELY SNEAKS TO YOURSELF, 'ARIZONA'!] and then some.  It was funny when she said it as though that were the special prize for getting the peds fellowship, but still.  Bailey is NOT a wheely-sneaks lady.  And that is why I love her.


[I like that christina and meredith don't hug] and later on, when they did hug, it was just as strange and awkward as I imagined it would be.  I liked the Post-Its and the pen Christina gave her as the old, new, borrowed, blue



[are we gonna do the short term memory loss thing again?  this was in the season premier!  nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME, SHONDA RHIMES?!?!  Either kill her or let her be ok but do not do this!] Yea...I'm not sure what the deal is with the repeating medical issues, but it was kind of freaking me out.  Thank goodness for Alex calling it out though, because to ignore the lady who couldn't remember her husband had died would have been wrong.


[damn right everyone turned on owen for convincing george to go to iraq.  stupid owen stupid ptsd nightmares.  what is george thinking?  stupid tr knight being unhappy with crappy storylines this season] I get kind of unreasonably upset with fictional characters sometimes.  But I was enjoying everyone's reactions as they were first finding out about the enlisting.

[i love the george intervention plan with everyone having their different parts] Alex got maybe a little more excited than necessary about his job being to kick the crap out of O'Malley if he wouldn't listen to everyone else.  And I want Izzie to stay around so she can keep using her 'sad, cancer eyes' to get things.


[Ok, Arizona gets the quotes taken away for making fun of her own name.  I like her and I am willing to ignore the fact that she doesn't like sandwiches from this point forward]  It's true, I'm ok with calling her just plain Arizona from now on, because at least she knows her name is ridiculous.



[I KNEW I DIDN'T LIKE BAILEY'S HUSBAND.  But she should probably be married to a doctor who would understand better.  I would kind of like to see what single bailey is like, though.  would she have funny sexcapades in the on call room?  probably not, but it would still be interesting to see] I'm glad she's leaving her husband anyway, he's lame.  Weak is absolutely the right way to describe him.  I love Miranda Bailey.  I want to put her in my pocket.


[alex is so intense!  I'm completely on edge!  i now have a sinking suspicion that nothing will be resolved by 11:00.  and then i will have to wait until SEPTEMBER.  oh please let one story come to some kind of terms!] Yea, I'm still not totally over this.  I wanted SOMETHING to have an answer!  And now the waiting!  But really it's pretty genius to make everyone so excited for the premier this way.  I'm still allowed to be bitter about it for a little while though.




[owen and christina - love love love] The two of them in the steam room is always great, and I've been pretty clear on how I feel about Sandra Oh's acting, that was perfect.  "I can't breathe without you!" *sigh


[alex's unleashing was good, and clearly she's going to remember it which will be good because if she comes back next season they can deal with the fallout from that and actually being married.  if she doesn't die, oh man the last 15 minutes are going to be crazy] My anxiety level was at approximately 9.5 by this point and it just kept going up.



[bailey's right.  tucker is weak] Bailey is such a hip, hip lady, it really bums me out that her husband turned out to be such a bum.  Remember when she was so happy like 3 seasons ago to be going out for her 10th wedding anniversary or whatever? 


[getting married on a post it is NOT cool and I would not be ok with that] I feel like this was a cop out a little, and I feel like they're never going to actually go to city hall now because they're weird and they think a post-it is the same.  The vows were cute though.



[HOLY LORD I CAN'T BELIEVE GEORGE IS THE BUS GUY.  THAT IS SO FREAKING WHAT THE EFF IZZIE]  This all happened so fast (or my reflexes were really slow).  Meredith's reaction to the realization that George was the one dragged by the bus was positively heartbreaking and made the whole episode to this point sadder because every time they were talking about George going into the Army where he was probably going to die they didn't realize they were actually working on him and he was already dying!  I'm seriously traumatized from it and a lot of the next couple minutes are a total blur because I was so in shock.  And then Izzie and Alex were making up and she coded and he was doing compressions and the Chief decided to bail on the DNR and there were just too many emotions!


[HOW ARE THEY BOTH GOING TO DIE THE BASTARDS!!!] OK, by the time the 'hospital as heaven' thing came back I was just sitting in my living room, trying to plead with the tv to make it  not so.  Izzie back in her prom dress (seriously, that dress has to be like two sizes smaller than the one she wore at the time, she's so skinny!) and George in his Army uniform that he never actually wore (but looked very good in) was TOO MUCH SADNESS FOR ME.  If I'm going to read into things (which is what I do) I'm going to say that the fact that George was already in there does not bode well for his chances.  Izzie still being in the elevator and looking like something was not quite right (when they started with the paddles) makes me think she has a chance. 



[gd freaking cliffhangers] Seriously, I can't believe we have to wait until September.  So good though!  I think I need to watch it again now that I feel more prepared to handle it..sort of.

in my head since MONDAY

Charles in charge of our days and our nights...
 Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights...

blah blah blah blah

Charles in charge of me!


SINCE MONDAY.

so long, Stella

And Stella leaves again.  I'm not sorry to see her go.  Again, I love Sarah Chalke, but I do not love the evil alter-leaver who killed the romantic in Ted.  Now she is gone and there is rejoicing throughout the land.

Tony is such a goon that I love it whenever he's on screen.  Of COURSE he came over to Ted's house in his karate outfit.  Of COURSE he has a friend who wants to build a murder house.  Of COURSE he's such a douche that he would listen to what Ted says and then go break up with Stella.  Yet another example of how Stella was never good for Ted - the fact that she's in love with THAT guy.  How desperate and sad do you have to be to show up at your ex-fiance's house and ask him to talk to your ex-boyfriend/baby daddy who wears his karate outfit everywhere and has friends who build murder houses so he will get back together with you.  She and Britney's character were a better fit and more alike than I originally imagined.

The Barney speeding ticket thing wasn't really that funny for the most part, and here's my big question.  Remember when they were all saying goodbye to Marshall's car and Barney hated that car because Ted tried to teach him how to drive and he was completely freaked out the whole time and never wanted to do it again?  How did he go from that to owning a car and speeding down the NJ turnpike?  Was there a story I missed somewhere along the way?  I don't think there is, and that kind of makes me feel like the writers said to themselves, 'what should we do with Barney this week?' and that was the best they came up with and that makes me sad.  There was really no purpose aside from giving Ted a reason to drive to NJ with Stella and talk it out.  Which is fine, but it still didn't really flow for me.  There are so many other, funnier reasons that Barney could be locked up in New Jersey.


Robin trying to high five Ted when Stella came to say that Tony broke up with her was probably my favorite part of the show, made better by the fact that she told him the high five would be waiting for him to come back in from the hall.

And then George Costanza's mom kept trying to tell Stella to forgive Ted and kiss him which was kind of funny, but also weird.

I'm glad Ted gave Stella the business and got it out that she ruined him and he didn't want to help her, and I'm also glad that he ended up helping her.  That's our Ted.

I guess there is one more episode of the season?  I hope?  Let's advance the Barney Loves Robin plotline.  Please?

quick

Yea, I know, the posting has been two a week, and always about the same two TV shows.

Things in Jessie land are looking busy and crazy and wild until at least the end of June, so be prepared for continued spottiness.

In the last week I saw both Wolverine and Star Trek.  I enjoyed them both a lot, I recommend them to anyone who typically likes those kind of movies, and most especially Star Trek.  I LOVED that movie.  In fact, I want to see it again as soon as possible (which I very well might do on Wednesday).

There's other stuff but right now I can't remember what it is, though I will tell you that I've been working on some knitting type stuff and I might take pictures of it someday and then you would get to see more than just words here.  All the time words and no pictures!  It's boring even to me.

suck it, Mark!

Today's Grey's recap will be brought to you in numbered form:

1.  I win.  I KNEW Izzie and Alex were getting married.  Please allow me to say again, I WIN (I love to win).
 

2.  I knew there was a reason I didn't like Callie or 'Arizona' that much.  THEY DON'T LIKE SANDWICHES.  What is that?!?!?!
 

3. George got to walk Izzie down the aisle!!  Yay!  Yea yea she was really sick and all that, but I'm just glad he got to be a part of the day and that he and Alex have progressed to giving each other the head nod.
 

4.  I knew Alex was going to use that line from the college graduation speech.  I knew it and I still loved it.
 

5. I wish Mark had been able to bust into a few more scenes to talk about his best man speech and to threaten Meredith that he didn't want to have to be best man a third time.  Oh, I love Mark.
 

6.  This whole George as a trauma surgeon thing seems a little rushed to me, particularly if he's supposed to run off to the Army and die all in next week's two hour season finale.  I'm not saying that's for sure what's happening, but we all know he wants to leave the show... it just seems like having 7 people die in the ER when he was trying to save them doesn't exactly scream 'run off and join the military to do this every day' to me.  But I'm not George.

7.  The Lexie part of this story seemed forced and kind of weird.  But it was nice when she told the kid who lived that her tears were because the girl was breathing.
 

8.  I can totally relate to Callie freaking out about the fancy restaurant and being broke and ordering a salad that cost $26 and the wine that was $125 a bottle.  That'll kill the mood for sure.  FYI to anyone with money who happens to read this:  if you're out with your very broke significant other at an expensive restaurant, mention that you're picking up the check at the BEGINNING of the meal.  It will save you much chasing around the ER and fake breaking up.  I'm just saying.

9.  I agree with Meredith, best non wedding day ever.  The balloons in the house were a little much.  Izzie is over the top, but I'm pretty sure there's no way she would have ok'd gold and white balloons for the wedding.  It's not a graduation or a high school prom for goodness' sake.

10.  I can't wait for the season finale!

200 really IS too many

Oh wow.  Last night's HIMYM was just superlative (I'm trying to use more words...there are only so many times you can write 'fantastic' 'great' 'so funny' 'amazing' etc, so be prepared for some experimentation)!

We all know how I love NPH, but you'll have to back me up on the fact that every episode that has a Barney-centric storyline is way funnier than the ones that don't.  200 people is definitely too many people to have slept with, but I agreed with Barney in noticing that Robin was 'surprisingly quiet on the subject of numbers' or something like that.  There was no judgment coming from her, she was just poring over the list and calling out his errors (I wonder what number she was?).  

Barney is so definitely the guy who holds a grudge from 7th grade and then calls the guy when he finally 'wins'.  The way the guy went from happy to be seeing Barney again to moderately horrified was excellent.

Also excellent were Marshall's charts.  And we come back to the thing I love most about this show.  Bringing back things from past episodes.  The interventions!  Barney's 'investments' at the gym!  Yes!

Marshall's reaction when he first met the lady from graphics and she told him he could get any graphics of any kind, as many as he wanted, whenever he wanted was classic.  Who WOULDN'T start having charts made for everything?  I know I would.  The business meeting where everyone looked almost as sick of Marshall's charts as Ted, Barney and Robin until he mentioned it would keep them out of jail was pretty great, and Ted having to agree to pay the homeless man $1 a day for 27,000 years to get the charts back was hilarious.

And now we reach the part of the episode with which I have a little beef.  We see the yellow umbrella, yay!  We see the back story of why Ted did everything he did that day, yay!

- quick aside, how much did I love Robin throwing up and telling everyone it was because she was pregnant (which she is in real life) but then it was a joke.  It was a lot.  It really doesn't take much to entertain me. - 

And then, then they tease us with who is under the blue umbrella.  All episode long it's a tease.  I was getting all excited, trying to think over all of Ted's past girlfriends (anyone else really hoping it was Victoria?) and it turns out to be Stella.  She of the evil leaving at the altar when she tried to get married at a scary vegan yoga resort.

Now I'll tell you why I only have a small amount of beef with this.  I still don't think she's the mom.  I don't think the show would do that to us.  Our Ted would never end up with someone who treated him so, so wrong.  No, I'm sure that this will turn out to be some sort of wonderful closure for Ted on that relationship (which, aside from avoiding her at a Thai restaurant once he never really got) and he will finally move on and be ready to meet his wife.  Finally.  Hopefully next season.

Only one episode left!  I hope it's a good one!