What's the one thing you're most neurotic about?
Just ONE thing??? Heh, I don't think so! (I'm not the OCD poster child for nuthin'!)
Show us a beverage you absolutely can't stand the taste of.
Unpopular opinion time...
Yup, that's a beer. I don't like the taste of beer. However, if there's nothing else and I'm desperate for a buzz...it'll do. But, it certainly wouldn't be my first (or second, or third) choice.
True story. This photo was taken today, ten days after the last photos were taken. Check it out...
As you can see, more lillies bloomed. No thanks to me, of course (because if I had anything to do with this, there would be no greenery left!). Here's a side-by-side comparison with the same plants taken 10 days ago:
Then... Now...
The (after) Easter Bunnies have struck again!
What have you tried in life that you just weren't very good at?
Sewing.
Granted, I was in 7th grade, but I couldn't figure out patterns to save my life. And it was frustrating.
Of course, I hadn't tried it since.
I often wished I could sew and was good enough to try out for Project Runway. But, I don't sew. Nor do I have tattoos.
- To say I don't follow college basketball is putting it mildly. Yet, when the opportunity came up to participate in March Madness at work, of course I was in. Imagine my surprise when I was given the sheet of "brackets" to complete. I know less about predicting winners than I do medical science. I completed filling in my sheet of brackets in about 5 minutes. Go me! So far, I have the lowest score in the office (go figure), and in retrospect, I should have picked my winners based on the color of the teams' jerseys. That'll be my strategy for next year.
- There are Easter Lillies growing, thriving, blooming in my side yard that I haven't weeded/trimmed/pruned/watered/set foot in for months. How they get there is always a mystery, but each year at this time, I get the Easter Lillies. For some, the Easter Bunny brings eggs, for me he brings flower bulbs and plants them in my yard!
- I got in touch with an old friend from college that some other friends and I have been wondering about for years. I found him on Facebook, of all places! There are now 5 of us who are looking to have a reunion soon. It will be like that lame "High School Reunion" show, but with grown-ups. And ours will be awesome. I wonder how many people we could find/get in touch with that would be willing to join us. There are a couple more people I'd yet like to find.
- The Kid has spring break in a couple of weeks and I've talked my parents into having him stay with them for awhile. YeeeeHaaa! (For those of you who are local, I'm "free" the 6th through the 9th!) However, he still isn't driving and he's still "socializing" via XBox live. UGH.
- I'm going back to the DMV tomorrow. My employer has no idea why I've been going to the DMV so often and I haven't really offered any explanation. I bet by now they think I'm some sort of felon or something. Not sure which is worse -- thinking I'm a felon or knowing I'm a dunderhead with the registration renewal process.
Another much-anticipated show of the season. After last week's woeful misdiagnosis (on my part) of the Sun/Jin FF/FB one-two-punch, I was careful to watch this episode without any distractions AND with the glasses on. What a novel idea, I know. With so much talk about "we're going to find out who else is going to die" and "the rundown of the official O6" the hype was almost too much to bear. Almost.
The show started off with a longer-than-usual recap of Michael and what his deal was before HP left the show and came back again. On the freighter, after lying his way to the engine room where the deckhands seem to double as engineers, and with Desmond in tow (MMMMmmm Desmond!), Sayid calls "Kevin Johnson" out on his b.s. and coerces him to tell him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding what he's doing there and why he's under an alias. Michael sends the other random freighter dude on a wild goose chase (ok, not so much, but he must not be very bright being gone for so long) and Sayid proceeds to inflict bodily harm upon Michael unless he 'fesses up. Up on deck, there was some scuffle with some of the crew wanting to take an inflatable raft and go on an excursion. The captain thought it was not such a good idea and roughs up the perpetrators in reprimand. Michael's reason for being there, "I'm here to die." Dun DUn DUNNNNN!
Meanwhile, back at Camp Locke, Benry, Miles and the gang are all playing Scrabble and eating pound cake. Ok, maybe not so much playing Scrabble, but they're all together in a room while Locke explains to the "good" losties that the "bad" likes of Benry and Miles are there because they have a plan and Michael is Ben's MotB and they're really "good" guys. The losties are like, "WHA?" And Locke is like, "Yea," and Sawyer is all, "GRR!" and Hurley's all, "Duude," and Ben is all, "they're baaaaad" and Miles is all, "Ben's giving me a zillion dollars, beeyotches!" I wonder what ever happened to that grenade Locke was making Miles eat.
Since the title of this episode is a giveaway that it's going to be all about Michael, we get right to his flashback. Or flashforward. Whatever. Turns out, Walt has condemned him for killing Libby and AnaLucia (applause from me) and no longer wants anything to do with him. Smooth move, Michael. Some example you're setting for your 10-year-old. So, now that Michael seemingly has nothing to live for, he wants to off himself. In a series of botched suicide attempts, I got a Wyle E. Coyote feeling about the whole thing. It's tragic he's feeling so desperate, yet, it's so funny that nothing takes. Just after he sells his watch (that Jin gave you, you dawg) to a pawn shop in exchange for a gun and bullets (way to go, pawnshop owner! Guess you're not liable if no one can rat you out.), and goes into an alley to try to off himself yet again, we hear a friendly voice just in the nick of time. And, it's our very own Mr. Friendly, Tom!
I don't think it came as a surprise to anyone to see "dead" Tom off the island, alive, in New York...on Saturday Night...! Nah, par for the course for Lost. He tells Michael that the island won't let him die and he has a job for him. After the zillionth attempt at trying to off himself and not succeeding, and seeing the fake-discovery of the fake Flight 815 on the news, he visits Tom in his swanky penthouse suite (and gets introduced to Tom's squeeze, Arturo, the little scamp!). Tom explains the staged find and gives Michael his assignment - to kill everyone on board. This, my friends, is how Michael ends up on the freighter.
After explaining this to Sayid and Desmond, Sayid gets a bug up his butt about ratting him out, takes him to the captain and does just that. The captain looks at them as if to say, "yea, so?" but doesn't say anything. Hmm, could he already know? Will his next word actually be, "Duh!?" But we're not going to find out until sometime next-freakin'-month! Mutha-effers!!
Meanwhile, back at Camp Locke, Benry freaks at seeing Karl with his arm around Alex's waist and sends them (Karl, Alex and Danielle) into a trap back at the Temple under the premise that it's "safer" there. Don't you guys have Benry figured out by now? Nothing he says is true. Well...99% of what he says is likely to be untrue. Whatever. The "death" hype came to be when Karl got...shot? I don't know what they were being hit with...I thought it was a pea shooter...or a spear shooter, but the wounds looked like bullet holes. Someone's got guns with silencers! Another innovative Dharma-brand product! So Karl gets it and we're like, "wow, that wasn't anything" but then ROUSSEAU gets it, and we're all OMG - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I swear, if TIIC killed her off without giving us the FB they promised us, there will be one angy mob knocking their doors down! I'm in the camp (heh!) that is hoping that Danielle isn't really dead, ala Locke when Ben shot him in-the- place-where-the-kidney-was-supposed-to-be-and-therefore-really-isn't-dead kind of way. Unfortunately, the next episode won't be shown for another 5 freakin' weeks, and when it does come back, it'll be at the ungodly hour of 10:00 pm! OY! Damn the writers' strike! I want my show!!! Oh, and I think it's lame how Aaron is one of the O6. Laaaaaaame! [/Cartman]
Peep Show
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The other day I caught Mocha in her natural habitat...
Ok, this was a tough one...where to start...
We finally get to meet Regina. After all the hype, the poor actress only got a couple scenes and offs herself. Well, alrighty then. I liked the fact she was "reading" her book upside down. I think she was suffering from more than cabin fever but we may never know. Or at least find out until season 6. Oh, we also get to meet the captain, finally. He's one cold SOB isn't he? Good thing Sayid and Desmond that that "warning" note. Well, if you work for Widmore I guess that comes with the territory. Too bad Frank & company can't pull a mutiny and take over. Ah, what the heck, most of the crew are probably short a few fries of a happy meal as well. So much for the rescue operation. Oh yea, by the way, it's not...
Meanwhile, back on the beach, Sun and Jin are basking in the glory of upcoming parenthood. And, we all know in TV Land, this means things ain't exactly going to be a walk in the park. Cute how they're letting DDK speak more lines in English. Wish I could pick up a foreign language that quickly. Suddenly Sun gets a bug up her butt about leaving the beachies aka Team Jack to join the bungalows in Team Locke's neighborhood. I guess she has a good reason not to trust the new freighties who have been acting nothing but sketchy since they arrived. Plus that Beeyotch Juliet who can't be trusted any further than she could be thrown. Oy! And when she blabed to Jin about the affair Sun had...I repeatedly yelled at the TV "Oh no you di'int!!!!" I wanted to reach through and smack that perma-smirk off Juliet's face myself. Couldn't she pick a less tacky way to prevent them from going to camp Locke? Guess not.
One thing we know is that Sun and Jin do get off the island. We get a FF of Sun and the birth of her baby. At first, I was worried that Jin didn't make it off the island because he wasn't in the FFs, but when they showed him shopping for a cute panda, all felt right with the world. Poor Jin in a comedy of errors couldn't get his taxi, panda and call together and ends up losing the panda, the cell phone and the taxi. Wa. Wa. Wa. Waaa. Then he goes back to the toy store to get another panda (man, they're expensive !!) but the owner doesn't have any and the last one is on hold. First of all, who puts a stuffed animal on hold, and prepays for it? I dunno...it's not like it was a Cabbage Patch doll or Tickle Me Elmo or anything. Ah well. Jin pays through the nose for it and the store owner lets him have it.
Meanwhile, back on the freighter, we get the REVEAL WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...who IS Benry's MotB...?
Could it be...?
Is it someone we know...?
It's...it's...it's....
....Michael.
Surprise! Except not so much.
Dear Writers/Producers/IIC, if you're going to do this sort of "reveal" you might wait to put the actor's name in the credits later on...otherwise, it's not much of a surprise. Thanks loads. Love, Maraschino.
Back in the future, Sun goes into heavy labor. Wow, does that bring back memories. So, if she's calling out for Jin and asking the doctors to hurry and get him, we all assume he's on his way to see her with giant stuffed expensive Panda. Yay, she has the baby. It's the girl Jin wanted and named back on Craphole Island. Meanwhile, we see Jin rushing through the hospital carrying the panda anxiously ready to give it to Sun...except, he must first get through the guard. Huh?
Ok, this is when things get fuzzy for me. And, no, I hadn't been drinking (though in retrospect, maybe I should have).
We are shown that Sun's room is "guarded" by someone hired by her father. Jin presents the panda as a present from his employer to Mr. Paik's grandchild. However, the guard tells Jin the baby is a boy. So, maybe it's not the same room as Sun is in. However, we see Jin peering inside and he gets a glimpse of Sun and the baby. Yea, it's "our" Sun and the baby she just had. So...huh? And why isn't he in there with them?
Instead, he leaves and goes on his merry way. As he walks out, a nurse asked him why he's leaving so soon and he said it wasn't his baby and that he's only been married for two months. HUH?!?!?!?!
So, fast foward a week or so Sun is out of the hospital and gets a visit from none other than pre-crazy (post-crazy) Hurley. For just a split second I was thinking...nah...fegidaboudit. Then I thought, maybe one of them has amnesia. Thankfully, Hurley mentioned Jin, and yes he and Sun were going to "see" him. Yay..? However, this is when I swear I heard Twilight Zone theme music playing in my head, but Sun and Hurley went to see Jin at the cemetary. Wha?! Sun is crying like Jin is gone gone gone and it's quite the sad, somber, depressing moment. Amidst my confusion. I was hoping for a "psych!" ending, but it didn't happen. We are to assume Jin is dead.
But...didn't we just see him??? What gives, Lost?!
Ok, here's my theory: Sun's dad was never a fan of Jin's. I think when they got back to civilization, he and Sun created a cover story that Jin did not survive the crash so as to not incur the wrath of Sun's dad. Because he's not really dead, he has assumed another identity and "married" someone else. It's all an act. Much like Kate's. Except more complicated. And emotionally draining.
I'm sure I'll think of more theories later...but this is what I need to believe for now.
Yea, late to the party, but I was too sleepy last night to do my weekly recap for Lost Tawk. As I've had time to digest the episode, I think I've come to enjoy it more. Except for all the Juliet crap. I cannot stand her. I don't trust the character and something about the actress just bugs. But, the scenes with her and creepy Benry were really funny (though unintentionally for the most part, I'm sure).
The beginning fooled us into thinking it was a FF for Juliet because she was talking about herself as feeling like a celebrity. And of course, we all know that for the O6 who got back to the real world, they are quite the celebs. However, in this case, she was talking about her arrival at Otherville back in the day when she was manipulated into coming on the island for "research" and stuff. By the way, I think it should be illegal for anyone's therapist to look like Otherville's therapist (Harper) . Just…YIKES! I'd need a therapist to get over being subjected to that therapist!
At any rate, who knew Benry was crushing on Juliet all that time? I think it's kind of gross myself (cuz I don't like Juliet) but I found it oddly endearing how he was trying to touch her hand at the lab and threw that "surprise, it's just the two of us!" dinner party at his house. Poor Benry can't get a break. Oh yea, he is kind of an evil mastermind. And, can bring on the creepy like nobody's business. On the other hand, he can also bring the funny which I tend to focus more on. LOVED the scene with the rabbit dinner when he asked Locke if it had a number on it. I was LMAO at that, and at the end, as he was walking in freedom toward his new dwelling in the Saywer/Hurley neighborhood carrying a load of clean linens telling the boys he'd see them at supper and Sawyer and Hurley just standing with dropped jaws. I want them to have spinoff show called "Losteria Lane" or something. I would totally watch it!
Anyway, Locke falls for Benry's lies (well, he doesn't think they are but everyone knows better) about Widmore and his man on the boat. Ok, we don't know if he lied about that last one because we weren't let it on it. However, I don't think it would be a spoiler for anyone to surmise that it's Michael since they've flashed Harold Perrineau's name in the credits for the past 6 weeks and we hadn't seen or heard a peep out of him all this time. But this is Lost. And anything can happen.
Just ask Benry.
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