Has Anyone Watched This Little Kid?

I have two nieces who are in high school and they are into some pretty weird stuff, I tell ya. Like, I know all about their fascination with YouTube, I can even appreciate their addiction to YouTube because, I’m the same way….if there’s something that I wanna see again, something I want to catch (a new YouTube hot shot musician or singer singing something really cool) that I missed or just looking up old stuff, you can find it all on YouTube.

But, there’s a world of difference in what I’m watching on YouTube and what they’re watching on YouTube.

Check it out:

This is what I watch on YouTube:

This guy’s name is Chris Wong and he can get down on the ukulele and I am really digging this song.

Now, this is what my nieces watch every week on YouTube:

This kid’s name is Ryan Higa or whatever and he’s got a bunch of How To video’s and rants on YouTube that are 1) really stupid 2) kinda funny and 3) really stupid. I search YouTube for the latest and greatest youtube singers and tv shows that I’ve missed, my nieces browse through YouTube, trying to find all of these NigaHiga videos.

WTF?

All New One Tree Hill Tonight!

I cannot wait for One Tree Hill tonight. There’s so much to look forward to with K Fed guest starring and then finding out what kind of drama we can get into with Peyton and Lucas. I can’t wait to see the changes in Nathan, the coming together of Peyton’s new record label and seeing her trying to either sign K Fed or whatever…it’ll also be good to see what Brooke decides to do with her business back home.

And I heard in a comment someone left here that this is One Tree Hill’s last season? Is this true? Oh goodness, I hope not because this is my absolute favorite show.  Does anyone know if this is true or not? I’m gonna research it but I wanted to know if someone knew before I did all the research, cause I’m lazy right now.

But anyway, WOO HOO NEW ONE TREE HILL, WATCH IT!

I’m Up For the Challenge.

This past weekend was our Stake Conference and they issued a challenge for each of the members in our Stake to partake of and I’m actually pretty anxious about it. It’s called The Pursuit of Excellence Challenge and it’ll run from January 13th until our next Stake Conference which will be sometime in September, I forget the actual date.

There are 5 different aspects of this challenge.

1) Spiritual.
2) Intellectual.
3) Physical.
4) Service.
5) Provident Living.

My goals for the first aspect are to: Read my Book of Mormon on a regular basis and to actually finish it before September. To study from my Preach my Gospel manual and to attend Church each and every Sunday. I’ll be out of town for two of the weekends that I know of this year, but I since I’ll be going to Vegas, I’ll just have my sister find me a Church out there so that I can attend still.

My goals for the second aspect are to: Improve upon the blogs that I have, since they are my hobbies, I’m going to put more efforts into my team blogs, The Boob Tube and Book Binge. I will also be reading up on web design and photography since those are hobbies that I’d like to take up as well.

My goals for the third aspect are: To stay on the healthy diet that I’m on right now and to develop an exercise program that I can do every week…I’m doing okay so far in this but I could always step things up a bit, which I intend to do.

My goals for the fourth aspect are: To better serve my family and friends. To offer my services when they’re needed. I intend to maximize my calling as the Relief Society Secretary and do all that I can to assist my RS President, which happens to be my besty, Mulu.

My goals for the fifth aspect is: To pay a full tithe this year. I didn’t do too good in this last year and I met with my Bishop last year for my tithing settlement and I realized how selfish I’ve been so, I am going to commit to paying a full tithe this year and to also get some debts paid off and a budget set firmly in place for me and Brenna’s future. I need to do more on this because it’s only me and Brenna, I need to make sure that we’re all taken care of.

I’m pretty excited about this and I know that I will falter from my course from time to time but I sure as heck hope that I stick this out and see it through…

..wish me luck guys!

October Road- Spelling It Out.

Having missed last week’s episode, I didn’t know last night that I was supposed to be hating Hannah but right now, I do. I didn’t care to see what I saw in the beginning of last night’s episode where she basically calls Janet a liar and then basically chooses Big Cat over Janet.

Why on earth would anyone choose Big Cat over their best friend? I mean, seriously…Big Cat is a slimy piece of crap and why can everyone see this but Hannah? And what is sooo good about Hannah that everyone is hung up on her? I mean, I think Allison is prettier than Hannah is and she’s not as popular as Hannah is.

I heart Sam, I really do but I don’t like seeing him getting all closey close with Big Cat.  And did I see right and that Ikey works for Big Cat now? Holy wow…say it aint so.  What is up with Ikey anyway? I saw that he’s still hoping and wishing that Owen will take him back but it doesn’t look like thats going to happen anytime soon and seriously, I’m starting to want to punch Owen in his big fat head.

His character is just so annoying, before I used to tolerate him because he was Nick’s friend but now I just can’t stand him.  I don’t like seeing him on the screen and I always busy myself waiting for him to go off so that I can pay attention again.  I don’t know what it is about him, but there’s something…blech.  And it’s not his size, I don’t care about that, it’s just his personality …it’s annoying.

Like The General, I want him out of the house too.  Other people, I want out of the house is Aubrey.  I know she looks like she’s doing something shady and as much as I want her to be doing something shady, like cheating on Nick, I don’t think she is. Dangit and I want her to be cheating on him so effing bad but I just don’t see it…whatever she’s lying about, it’s totally on the up and up.

I like seeing The General with his little girly girlfriend.  It was funny how excited the whole town got about  the spelling bee and how they were rootin’ on one of their own.

My favorite part of this episode was of course, Janet and Eddie.  I thought Janet was just too cute when she was worried about Eddie and how they haven’t been intimate yet.  I loved how eager she was for it all to go down and I loved how she wanted that cheesy music to play in the background while she was getting her freak on with Eddie.  I loved how Eddie took what she wanted and made it fun and not awkward at all because you could totally tell that Janet was scared to actually be doing the work.   Eddie’s worries about not wanting to do it with Janet was too frickin’ cute.  Because he really liked her and he didn’t want to lose what they had, I loved how the morning after, he took another potential awkward situation and he made it better and kissed all of her worries away.

Goodness, I LOVE EDDIE LUTEKKA but dude…will they hurry the heck up and tell us who Sam’s Daddy is…who’s thinking Eddie is the father? And if he ends up being Sam’s father, I’m going to be so pissed off because she didn’t tell Janet.  Is Hannah going to tell Janet that Eddie is the father or that Nick is the father?  What the heck is the big ol’ secret that Eddie and Hannah are keeping?

The whole Nick and Hannah scene was a bit anti climatic  because when I saw them together in a scene last night with Hannah going to the business to find Eddie, Hannah annoyed me more than anything..she just annoys the snot out of me any hot dang way so let’s see if I forgive her  as the season plays out or what because right now…I don’t want her for Nick, right now she’s not good enough for her because she’s got the taint business going on with frickin’ Big Cat and nothing on God’s green Earth will make me like his stupid good for nothing punk a word!

Next week should be interesting to see what happens…I hope that Nick breaks up with Aubrey  because even though she’s young and pretty, for some reason I can’t like her for Nick and it’s funny because I don’t even like Hannah for Nick.  Nick needs to find someone different, someone better.

Hmm, like me.

HA!

Until next week…what were you guys thoughts on last night’s October Road?

Something’s In The Air.

I haven’t been in the mood to blog over here.

I don’t really have much to blog about.

I’m in a serious personal blog funk and until I know what to do about it, this blog is going to be neglected for a bit. I’ve got my hands full with The Book Binge and The Boob Tube so until I can figure out what to do with this blog, cause I have been tossing around ideas to keep it up or to just delete the blog.

I haven’t decided what to do so I’m going to let it ride for the moment.  I’ll give it a couple of weeks and either decide or not…we’ll see.

And I’m Back!

..with a new blog pimp!

Ames, my Bestest Blog Buddy from Thrifty Reader asked me to join her in a blogging adventures of our favorite shows. Whenever we email with each other, you can always find us chatting about books (our first love) and TV Shows (a close second) and well, since we both love talking about TV so much, Ames thought it’d be a great idea to start up a TV blog.

So we did.

You should totally come and visit us because we’re already totally in love with our TV Blog. We roped Grace into coming back to the blogging world with us and my other TV pal, Isabel agreed to blog with us on our favorite tv shows, so you can check us out over here: The Boob Tube.

What are you waiting for, come check us out and chat with us, we can’t wait to see you over there.

Hugs,
Rowena

Thursday Thirteen…Shows that I Can’t Get…

…enough of.

I’m a TV addict. I watch entirely too much TV and to be honest, I don’t give a dang because I just love my shows. There are quite a few shows that I watch either, religiously or watch when I can but love anyway.

Here’s my list of shows that I’m watching this season:

1. The Hills. So technically, this show is done but dude, I loved me some The Hills. I loved watching Lauren go through the many different obstacles her life threw at her from her trying to prove herself at work so that she could get another shot at Paris to her feud with Heidi and Spencer and then with her budding whatever it was with Brody. I just love Lauren, she totally rocks and I heart Brody Jenner a lot…they’re so much fun and they look like they lead such glamorous lives, it’s cute.

2. One Tree Hill. Last season of One Tree Hill was my favorite season thus far but with the new season looming before us, I can only hope that this break from the OTH gang will bring with them a fantastically written 5th season, I’m so hoping for this since it’s been so long since I’ve seen the crew back together again…

3. American Idol. This is a show that I can’t wait for, it’s coming back next month with a whole new pack of Pop Star wannabe’s, I seriously hope for some new eye candy just like Chris Richardson from last season..man he was hot stuff!

4. Brothers and Sisters. This is the show that I love to watch on Sunday nights. It’s actually the only show that I watch every Sunday but I just love the Walkers, seriously…how can you not love the Walkers?

5. Clash of the Choirs. Okay so this show finished last week but man, this show was really good…did you guys watch any of it? It was about 5 choirs competing to win money for their home towns and I was rootin’ on Team Lachey because I just heart Nick. I’m so glad that his choir won because after they did the Flight of the Bumblebee, they totally deserved that win.

6. Gossip Girl. Okay this is my big winner of the fall season for best new show. It’s like The O.C. only on the East Coast, I love the characters and I always wonder if Carrie Underwood is watching the show since she’s been linked with Chace Crawford, who plays Nate on the show…this is such a cute drama, I’m so glad that Grace pimped it to me, I lubs it a lot!

7. Pushing Daisies. I started watching this show because Izzy said that she loved it, I have since come to love Ned, Chuck and even Olive. This show is funny, cute and just addicting. I love everything about this show and seriously, Ned is a stud! =)

8. Ace of Cakes. I heart baking shows. I love to bake so the food network is one of those channels that gets a lot of attention from me because as much as I love to bake, I love watching people bake too and this show makes some of the most awesome looking cakes I’ve ever seen and watching how these cakes came to be makes for some great TV and I heart Geoff, he’s so cute!

9. October Road. Gosh but I love this show. I love Nick and I love Sam and though Hannah gets on my nerves because she’s with frickin’ Big Cat, I still like her. It’s not this big ol’ to do show that pulls out all of the stops, it’s one of those shows that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is just great entertainment with a great cast, I seriously heart this show and can’t get enough of it.

10. The Tudors. Last season, I was all about this show and Charles Brandon. Next month, this show comes back and I cannot wait to watch the new season, I hope there’s more Charles Brandon (because he’s a total fox) and I just want to see where the writers are going to take this bunch of royals..it should definitely be interesting.

11. Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood. Have you guys watched that episode with David Beckham in it? That show was frickin’ hilarious and has turned me on to this show, who knew Snoop Dogg and his family was so frickin’ hilarious…trust me, they are. Frickin’ Snoop got David frickin’ Beckham to lie to his wife, oh man it was great!

12. General Hospital. I’ve watched this show for freaking ever and I cannot get enough, speaking of, it comes on in about 15 minutes and I can’t wait to see what’s going to be on and poppin’ today in Port Charles, JASON AND LIZ are together ya’ll…YAY! Finally. But seriously, I want to see more Patrick, show me some more Patrick Drake please.

13. The Office. How can you not love the Office? Jim and Pam are finally together and the world didn’t end, goodness, that’s good TV, too bad it’s not on anymore…*sigh* I miss The Office, LOVE IT!

What shows can you not get enough of?

I Know It’s Late…

but still…

Thursday Thirteen…What I Want For Christmas.

There are quite a few things that I want for Christmas, here’s what they are…

1. One Tree Hill to hurry up and come back next week, Tuesday.
2. Nathan to cut his hair already on One Tree Hill.
3. Brody and Lauren end up together on The Hills.
4. For Hannah to stop being such a wishy washy stupid airhead on October Road and admit she’s got it bad for hottie with a body, Nick Garrett.
5. More Janet and Eddie because I think they are adorably cute on October Road.
6. Owen kick Ikey’s butt again on October Road, LOL.
7. Liz and Jason be an out in the open, scream from the rooftops couple on General Hospital, already…I mean seriously, it’s been 7 years in the making, GET IT TOGETHER ALREADY!
8. Johnny Zacarra be a better kisser on General Hospital because I saw him kiss Lulu yesterday on GH and that kiss didn’t look good at all, I think he needs a kissin tutor, I think I might have to apply for that job…seriously.
9. Lily and Rufus get together and stay together and have lots and lots of, well…speaking of babies, their babies are doing each other, GROSS! Umm, still Lily and Rufus need to be together. They belong together like Mariah Carey said.
10. Sam McCall on General Hospital get killed by the Text Message Killer because somebody need to kill her or I will, I hate that biznatch!
11. McSteamy get his own storyline on Grey’s.
12. I wanna see Lucas’ cousin/sister on One Tree Hill, LOL.
13. Danny and Sam ending up together on …Las Vegas, be quiet Grace, they belong together, I just know it! LOL.

Wow, I Know This Kid’s Family.

Imagine my surprise when my BIL came home the other day with a newspaper with an article on the front page that read:

Death in a Seaside Paradise.

If you click on the link, it’ll take you to the article that we read as a family on December 16, 2007. Wow. Not only do I know the area in which all of this stuff took place from when I used to live out in Oceanside, I also know one of the kids families. I mean, his older brother is married to my old Bishop’s daughter who also happens to be a friend of my sisters. His Dad and my Dad used to be buddies. They were in our stake when we were younger and then they moved to Hawaii and the Dad got into some trouble with frauds that caused a scandal at the Polynesian Culture Center and he did some prison time for that. It seems that the family just can’t seem to stay out of the national news.

A gang in La Jolla? Are you serious? Are you effing kidding me? What’s really going on here? I don’t think they’re as billy bad ass as they want everyone to think they are if it took 4 of them to beat up ONE guy and then for them to go on myspace and brag about getting banned from a bar because they “murdered” someone and then laugh about it. That’s not “hard”, that’s stupid and childish and I hope these kids get what they deserved…even if I do remember liking their parents and thinking his older brother was hot stuff!

What is this world coming to?