I'm back!!! And I've brought two lists!

After a very prolonged absence I am making a return. Just like the Fall TV shows!

The return of all my favorite shows and the premiere of new ones (more on this in a bit) aren't the only reasons Fall is my favorite season. So to celebrate my return here's a list...

Katie's List of Why Fall is the Best Season

1. The return of awesome TV shows
2. It starts to get colder
3. The beautiful colors
4. Leaves changing colors
5. Pumpkin everything
6. It's not so hot
7. Cardigans
8. Boots
9. Everyone else is in school and can't go to Seven Peaks while I'm at work
10. Annual caramel apple making
11. The smell of the crisp air
12. Th good smelling Autumn soap Brooke always gets
13. It's getting close to Thanksgiving when I get to go home and visit
14. Halloween and free candy/half off post-Halloween candy sales
15. My birthday!

Ok, now that I've taken care of the list of things I love about Fall, I will now compile my list of why I'm excited about Fall TV.

Chuck

I love Chuck! I'm so sad this is the last season and that it's not starting until the end of October, but I think it promises to be a hilarious one. If my sister's had finished watching the season, I would be able to say why I think it will be hilarious, but they didn't so I'll just leave it at THIS SEASON IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!

Bones

Again, I love Bones! Last season ended big and I've been waiting all summer to see what will happen.

Vampire Diaries

Ahh, my guilty pleasure... I don't know why I like this show, but I do. I don't know why I'm excited, but I am.

Psych

The new comer. I just recently watched the first 4 seasons of Psych on Netflix and I am a couple episodes into season 5 on Hulu, and it is freaking hilarious. And to make it better they're going to mention BYU in one of the episodes of season 6 because BYU smashed every other college out of the competition. Hopefully I'll be able to finish season 5 before season 6 starts, but if not oh well, I still love this show and eventually season 5 will be on Netflix.

New Girl

This one looks really funny and I think Zooey Deschanel is a crack up.

Pan Am

Maybe it's just the fact that this is fairly historical or that I am loving the ladylike clothes of the 60s right now, but I'm super excited for this one.

Hart of Dixie

What is with my obsession with cop and doctor shows? I really don't know, but this one looks promising.

The Secret Circle

Again, another one of my downfalls, drama filled, cheesy teenage shows (Vampire Diaries anyone?). Plus, it's got the girl from H20: Just Add Water in it, so huge plus right there.

Once Upon a Time

I'm already loving this one. And who wouldn't, it's about fairy tales in the modern day and it's from the same people who did Lost.

Community

I also want to start watching Community. I saw the paintball episode last season, and now it's just a matter of time before I'm hooked.

Oh boy. That's a lot of shows. It's going to be a busy year.

I'm almost a grown up

So, I'm graduating in 11 days.

Crazy, right?

That means I am almost grown up.

My government teacher in high school always called us "almost adults," and then when we were graduating he told us that we as we left high school we would really be adults.

I've decided that either he was wrong, or I was behind the times because I still don't feel like a grownup as I'm getting ready to graduate from college. I feel like I should still be playing with my Barbie's and taking my lunch to school in a purple plastic, Aladdin and Jasmin lunch box.

I definitely hope that what I was like as a 17 year old, high school graduate doesn't reflect true adulthood because if it does, we are all in so much trouble.

I've grown up a lot since I graduated high school. I think if I hadn't been there for the process, I would be convinced I was not really the same person.

These are some grown up things I have done in the past few days:

1. Applied for a job. A REAL job. That I'm really excited about.
2. did my homework the night before it was due right when I got home from work, instead of my normal routine of starting it in class the day its due
3. Finished my microfilm project almost a week before it's final due date
4. Went to 2 bridal showers
5. Got a phone call from the BYU Annual Fund asking me to give back to the school. Really? I thought they only asked people who have finished college and have real jobs! Which, I guess is just about to be me... But still, only adults get phone calls asking for them to give donations!

Now, in direct contradiction to the grown up things I did, I'm only going to write about childish things I've done recently for the rest of the post.

I've watched 14 episodes of Lost in the past two days. I just finished episode 14 of season 3. And believe me, I was shocked about some of the stuff that happened. But, the thing that shocked me most was finding out who Claire's dad is. Blew my mind.

My other favorite part in the Lost episodes I've watched was when Sawyer started talking about Little House on the Prairie. Made my day.

I finally got the books for my final research paper from the library 4 days before the paper is due.

I have successfully avoided grocery shopping for close to 3 weeks. It's just so much work...

I just watched this week's episode of Vampire Diaries. You know my mind that had already blown up from finding out who Claire's dad is? Yeah, it got hit by a bazillion nuclear bombs at the end of the episode. My mind is now a nuclear waste land. And I'm expected to take finals this week. I don't think I have ever been more surprised and shocked about a TV show in my whole, entire life. I didn't even see it coming! And that is saying something, because I pride myself in being able to accurately guess what is going to happen next. I'm almost never wrong.

And finally, I let my room get to this point... (it looks way worse in real life)

Don't tell Brooke though! Or she might decide she doesn't want to live with me again next year!

Straight from Brooke's mouth

Tonight when I got home from watching Lost, Brooke and I were talking about the new characters from the tail end of the plane. In the course of this conversation we started discussing all of the romances that are going on and the ones that are to come. Brooke was being very mean and not telling me who was going to fall in love with who. (This is a vital question that needs to be answered. I can't believe she's ignoring me.) At one point, I thought she slipped up and told me one of the couples because she started laughing after I guessed it.

Instead Brooke said, "no, it was something about something I can't say."

I told her she could just tell me and that I wouldn't tell anyone she told, but she stood firm. Since nobody will tell me anything, here is my official guesses of couples on Lost:

1. Kate and Sawyer
2. Kate and Jack (lets face it, Kate is gonna play them both, and its going to cause problems. I guess that there is going to be a battle royale for Kate's affection.)
3. Libby and Michael (although I kinda hope not cause Michael bugs me and so far I really like Libby)
4. ewww, maybe it's Libby and Locke! (gross!!!!!! I seriously hope not.)
5. stupid Analucia and Jack (I hate Analucia. I hated her before she killed Shannon. She is crazy and has some major issues.)
6. Hurley is gonna have a romance with someone, but I can't decide who yet.
7. there is probably more, but really they're only on the island for a few months, and how many times and ways can a group of people fall in love before it gets ridiculous

UPDATE: I changed my mind. Libby is not going to fall in love with Michael. Mostly because Michael is finally gonna die, well thats what I predict anyways. I OFFICIALLY change my prediction to a romance between Libby and Hurley. I don't know why I didn't see it earlier! It's going to happen, just wait and see.

More questions

I know my last post was about Lost questions, but I just have so many more now! And they're plaguing my brain. Last night instead of just asking the questions as they popped into my head I saved them as a draft text message. Here's the list and my commentary, along with a few questions I thought of today.

1. Where/what is the black rock? You know its gonna be important. I picture it looking like the rock Harry and Dumbledore apparate to before they swim to the cave to get the horcrux.
2. What is making the light in the hatch? This is just weird and it creeps me out.
3. What does Claire name her baby? Charlie can't keep calling him Turniphead. Also they obviously used a different baby for each episode I watched last night. And it's super obvious when they're holding a doll instead of an actual baby.
4. WHAT'S IN THE HATCH? This is just weird and it creeps me out.
5. Does Kate have a baby? When I read John and Brooke my list of questions they laughed at this one and actually told me that she doesn't. It's officially the first question they've answered for me.
6. Where is Kate's husband?/What happened? Also what happened to Jack's wife?
7. Why is Kate's mom scared of her? What did she DO?
8. Why does Walt want off the island so bad now? Walt is weird. First he burns the raft and then Locke touches his hand and now he wants off the island as fast as he can. But it's ok, he's going to die soon. IMDB says he's only in 33 episodes and we're getting close to that. I think he's going to die in the season finale. Also it would be to hard to keep him in the show because he's going to start growing up and looking noticeably different over the 6 years they do the show, and the show is only suppose to take place over a couple months.
9. Are there aliens in the metal container with the hatch? This also REALLY creeped me out. More on this to come.
10. Is Walt one of the aliens? Walt creeps me out too.
11. Why is Walt weird/different? Is Turniphead like him too? There is something weird about Walt. I hope Turniphead isn't weird like him.
12. Why did Locke hit Sayid and keep him from using the satellite thing to triangulate their position? Are you kidding me?! It was Locke?! Locke is weird. He creeps me out.
13. Why doesn't Locke want off the island? Again, Locke is weird.
14. Is Locke crazy? Again, Locke creeps me out.

So, today at work all of a sudden I was struck with the thought that it could be aliens in the hatch making it glow. And that really freaked me out. I don't know why, but aliens scare me. I just kept thinking about it, so I texted Brooke and John and asked them if it was aliens. I said that it was really distracting me and that I was going to mess people's orders up so they should tell me because it benefited the greater good. (notice the Harry Potter reference, I was quite proud of it). John told me I was close and Brooke just laughed and said nice try. So to get Brooke to understand how serious this was I told her what I was picturing. Here it is, word for word.

Brooke, I'm picturing ET with rabies jumping out of the hatch and massacring the whole island and then tanning on the beach eating Reese's Pieces, please tell me if there are aliens?!?!?! And then, when ET gets sun burned he jumps on his bike with all the Jesus drug statues in the little basket and flys to the moon. Also ET will be wearing Sawyer's glasses and reading Watership Down while tanning in one of Shannon's bikinis.

And Brooke ignored it! She is very good at avoiding my questions, but how can she ignore that level of detailed terror?!?

Lost

I started watching Lost last week.

I'm up to episode 10 of season 1.

I have a lot of questions.

But nobody will answer them for me. John and Brooke are really mean. Brooke has started ignoring me. I keep trying to surprise her and make her answer my questions without realizing it, but it's not working very well. For example, I've tried asking her first thing in the morning when she wakes up, I've tried bursting into the room and asking her, I've tried texting her (which she just ignores), I've tried just randomly asking her when we're sitting doing nothing, and I've even asked her while she was praying (though that was on accident). And John just won't even let me finish my question or says that everything is important.

One of my major questions has been answered already. For your information the Koreans do speak English. Well at least the wife does. I felt so vindicated when she started talking to the black guy in English.

Now, my major questions are:

1. is the baby a boy or a girl?
2. does Locke ever have to be in his wheelchair again?
3. where does the electricity for Danielle's shelter come from? It just doesn't make sense, because there is this big, fat power cord that goes into the ocean, so it has to go somewhere, and someone had to put it there. So where did it come from? Danielle didn't put it there because she was shipwrecked on the island. And how did she find it? Hopefully this makes sense, it makes sense in my head, but that doesn't make sure it makes sense in real life.
4. do Jack and Kate fall in love?
5. do they play golf a lot while they're on the island?

These may seem like silly or inconsequential questions, but they are plaguing my mind.

Katie's ultimate list of the best couples ever

Well the best couples from literature, TV, and movies that is. Naturally when it comes to best couples ever including real people, me and my future, yet to be determined, husband will take the heart shaped cake. (I really do have a heart shaped cake pan...no joke.)

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder

He calls her Bess. She calls him Manly. Could it get anymore perfect? Why, yes it can. He drives through freezing weather with his Morgans, Prince and Lady, to pick her up from her school so she doesn't have to stay the weekend with the dreadful Mrs. Foster. And takes her on Sunday rides through the South Dakota prairie. And builds her an awesome house with a really cool pantry. Also, they're real people! So that just makes it even better. Oh how I idolize Laura Ingalls Wilder...

Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferris

While most people favor Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy (who I almost put instead), I decided that Elinor and Edward's relationship is way more up to my speed. Chances are this would totally be me. I can identify with Elinor. Which just makes it all the more triumphant when everything finally works out for them.

Ariel and Prince Eric

Aw, love at first sight. I mean it was fireworks the night they first saw each other. Not even the fact that she has a fish tail can keep them apart. They sacrifice so much to be together, I mean they have a whole ocean and a fat octopus between them. Plus they just look good together.

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe

Oh, Anne and Gilbert, what else can you say. From the very beginning you know they are meant for each other, yet Anne is just so darn stubborn. And then Gilbert is so cute and charming with his good looks and Canadian accent. Then it looks like they'll be together forever and Anne crushes Gilbert's poor little heart. And when Anne realizes she made a mistake, Gilbert has the audacity to be engaged to another woman! It's all just so tragical. Luckily, they do end up together right after Gilbert is nursed back to health from the brink of death. If not, I would be forced into the depths of despair and therefore find it hard to believe that true love really does exist and make a vow with Brooke to always be old maids together.

Ella and Prince Char

Ella Enchanted is probably one of my most favorite books in the history of the world. Right up there with Harry Potter and the Little House books. When Ella saves Char and breaks the curse, its like anything in the world is possible. Plus, they wander through an old castle and slide down banisters. Talk about a pretty sweet date.

Tylenol

Today I dusted my desk.

Everything on it was covered with dust.

Except my Costco size bottle of Tylenol.

Katie to Tylenol is like Dr. House to Vicodin.

Microphone and headphone jacks are different

Last night Elsa, Jess, Brooke, and I decided to go to the temple early this morning, so last night we were all trying to go to bed early. I decided that while I was trying to fall asleep I would watch the last 12 minutes of Chuck I missed when I went to FHE, on my computer.

Brooke was in bed already trying to fall asleep, so I got into bed and plugged in my headphones.

But I couldn't hear anything! Well I could hear it a little. But the thing is, I have really good headphones and normally the volume doesn't have to be up that loud. Regardless, I just couldn't hear anything.

So I turned up the volume.

Eventually I had the volume on my computer turned all the way up, as well as the volume on the media player. I chalked it up to a bad soundtrack on the video and kept watching.

A few minutes later Elsa opened the door and started trying to talk to me. Now I have issues with lip reading in the light, but in the dark there is no way in the world. I took my headphones out and start to get out of bed so I could go into the hallway to talk to Elsa and we wouldn't wake up Brooke.

In the middle of getting up, I realized I could still hear Chuck!

At first I was confused. "Wait I can still hear it..."

(Elsa and Brooke burst out laughing)

"I didn't have my headphones plugged in! But I swear they were in! No wonder I couldn't hear it..."

My headphones were plugged into the spot where the microphone is suppose to be plugged in. Who in their right mind designs a computer with the two right next to each other?! Well most people probably do, but really?!

So there I was lying in bed, innocently (or so I thought) watching Chuck. But noooooo! I was laying in bed watching Chuck blasting the sound so loud that Elsa could hear it in her bathroom.

Luckily, Brooke wasn't asleep or almost asleep yet, so I didn't wake her up. If I had, I would have felt AWFUL. Instead when I said that I would put my headphones in for the rest of the episode Brooke told me not to because...

"I have to see how it ends!" We may have another Chuck fanatic in our midst yet...

So Brooke and I finished the episode of Chuck and then quietly went to bed.

The moral of the story is - microphone and headphone jacks are different. In case you didn't know.

I have a problem

They say the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. The only issue here is that I don't want to recover because I like my problem.

My problem is that I watch TV shows.

Well more like occasionally I find a new series that I like and then I obsess over it. I watch ever episode, one right after the other, until I have watched every episode available.

This becomes an issue when silly things like school and work are a part of my life. Sometimes all I would rather do is watch the next episode of my new obsession series.

Freshman year was when I first came down with this problem. The show was The Office.

"Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica." Enough said.

I had never seen The Office before I came to college, but it was the cool thing to watch it, so of course I did too. Soon I realized that I loved The Office. I commenced to watch every episode until I reached the current ones. Now this wasn't such a big deal because I think The Office was only on like season 3, maybe. So it took me 2 weeks, tops.

It wouldn't have been so bad if this is where my problem had stopped. But nooooooo. It only got worse.

Every once in a while I get introduced to a new TV show and then I have to see every single episode. Its all I think about. Its the only thing I want to do. I even start to dream about the TV show (this is due to the fact that I get way to involved in the characters. Once I had a dream with the characters of Chuck, Vampire Diaries, and Bones all in it. It was crazy.)

I've done this with the TV shows

Chuck

Probably my most favorite show of all time. I own the first 3 seasons on DVD and watch them regularly. It is AWESOME.

Bones

Bones actually might be tied with Chuck for most favorite show ever. Temperance Brennan is my hero. If I could handle blood and guts, I would be her. You might not guess this, but you can learn a lot from Bones - at least I have...

Hawaii Five-O

I don't know why I love cop shows, but I do, I just can't help it!

Vampire Diaries

We'll just call it a guilty pleasure.

Nikita

My last obsessive TV show. I can't wait for the new episodes to start.

And probably several others that I can no longer remember. I obviously have a problem.

My newest TV show obsession is House. I love this show so much. I don't know what about it that I love, but I just do.

I just finished season 1. Currently season 7 is airing. That means I have 5 1/2 seasons to watch so that I can be current. I may not surface for a while.

With that said, I'm off to start season 2!