THIS. IS. NOT. FUNNY. OR. PRETTY. ANYMORE.
Maryland was hit AGAIN today with a second blizzard. That's right, folks. Another blizzard; who ever heard of more than one blizzard in a winter, let alone the same week?!?! I feel like I've been cast in "The Day After Tomorrow". Buildings and houses are caving in all over the place, trees and cable wires are falling, snow plows are getting stuck in snow drifts, people have been without power for days, even a fire house in Baltimore was up in flames this morning! While I've enjoyed the much needed time off, this is getting a little ridiculous. Needless to say, I have been trapped and bored to tears. My niece and I did venture out into the neighborhood today and took a walk around. I will spare you the depressing snowy photos and just share this one from our walk with you:
So, you might be thinking "Ambs, whatever have you been doing to keep yourself busy these long, cold, blizzardy days?" Well, you might not know this about me but, I'm a bit of a TV junkie. Now, I am definitely [not] one of those people who plans their lives around television programs and rushes home just to see the newest episode when it airs. Ha! Those people are nutsy... I just have a few, select programs that I like to keep up with. Is that so wrong?
One such show is Greek on ABC Family. While it is an incredibly subdued version of the "Greek Life" that I expe
rienced in college, it is also very realistic in some ways. The drama between houses, between sisters/brothers and between guys and girls are all things I can definitely relate to! And, now that the characters are starting to become upperclassmen, I can also relate to the not-so-long ago "oh crap, I'm about to graduate and be a grown up" feeling. The main sorority
, ZBZ, reminds me a lot of Phi Mu. The relationships they have with the other sororities and fraternity boys also makes me very nostalgic for my "group" of Greek friends in college. I'm not going to lie, I generally go to sleep depressed that I'm a grown up and can't be an irresponsibly sorority girl anymore pretty much every Monday night. Oh, and it really helps that one of the frat boys, Cappie, is super hot!I also very much enjoy the CSI series, preferably the New York version. I have been known on occasion to
sit and watch episodes of CSI for more than 4 hours at a time. (Is it bad that I know that Spike shows re-runs of some version of CSI from 12-6 PM every weekday, and I
generally watch at least one episode everyday after school? No? Ok good.) What do I like so much about this show? Well, I like to think of CSI of a little mini-movie. There is a definite beginning, middle and end in each and every episode. You don't have to have watched the last 4 weeks worth of episodes to understand what's going on. When the show ends, the viewer is left feeling completely satisfied with a successful mystery solved. That, and an hour of drooling over Detective Danny Messer AKA Carmine (Yes, this is his REAL name) Giovinazzo and his amazingly sexy New York accent....I've recently gotten sucked into Shear Genius, mainly because it's the only decent reality show on TV right now. (Did I mention that I'm a sucker for
reality TV?) If you've never seen the Bravo series, it's basically a bunch of hair stylists competing for $100,000. It's great because it sometimes gives you great ideas for new hair styles/techniques, but can also be super entertaining when the stylists royally screw up their models' poor heads! Luckily, Project Runway also started back up recently! I love this show and have ever since the very first season. I really like that I can sit at home and pretend to be a judge myself. It also inspires me to be a little bit more trendy in my day to day teacher wardrobe. Next season, I'd really love to start a sort of "Fantasy Football" Project Runway competition som
ehow... My reality TV drought will end soon enough though, as Survivor: Heroes vs. Villians premieres tomorrow night! Though I haven't gotten into the Survivor thing in a few years, this season brings back quite a few alumni whose struggles with the outdoors I did follow.That's how I've been keeping myself (moderately) sane during this crazy weather phenomenon. How have you all been staying busy? Any good TV I should check out as I continue to be trapped in my own house?
