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TV Miniseries Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington playing weird maternal rivals. It's 6 episodes so they are all very intense. It's based off of a book that I have not read and I probably won't read, but wish I had read before. These mom's are both trying their hardest but they do that very different ways. Elana (Reese) is very strict and thinks that life works out as long as you don't make big mistakes. Mia (Kerry) has a very different outlook on life, I see her as the runner that has been running so long she doesn't think she's running. They both have their routines that they've created to support their children however they are very different routines. In fact both mom's see the other as the way they have to live the way they do. Like Elana see's Mia and is like that's why my way is better and Mia does the same thing. The children were all casted perfectly too. Lexie, Tripp, and Moody all seemed to spend all their time watching TV b...

TV show Yep this one I am breaking down by season because that is how I'm going to watch it. I have a plan with a co-worker where we will both watch a season on our off week. So I started with Season 1 this week and I loved it. I expected it to be cheap production and lame 90s story line, but it's actually a production. I understand how Sarah Michelle Geller was a leading lady for as long as she was because whatever she was doing worked. I love her cheesy one-liners, I love her style (which is saying a lot because 1990s...), I love her friends, and yes the story lines are weird but in the greatest way. I know this happen before Smallville and Supernatural but it has that kind of story line. Where things follow a series long story line but they handle weird stuff in between. I'm obviously into the supernatural so this series is right up my alley and apparently not as much for the co-worker I'm supposed to be watching it with... I watched the first season in 2 days ...

TV show I started watching this show back in 2015 when it first came out but I lost track of it. I got maybe halfway but it wasn't a good time... But recently I heard an interview Lea Michele did and she talked about how fun the show was and that it filmed in New Orleans. You all know how I love New Orleans, so I started watching it again. It only goes 2 seasons but it is very funny and weird. It was produced by the same people as Glee and American Horror Story and it's kind of a mix between the two. At least how Glee started.... I thought it was kind of like a spoof of AHS but I think it's more of just a general spoof of all horror movies. I love Emma Roberts ever since her Unfabulous days and although her life seems to be a little dramatic anyway I still love her in everything I've seen her in. Lea is crazy in the best way in this show too. It also has stars like Nick Jonas, Ariana Grande, Taylor Lautner, Oliver Hudson, John Stamos, Kirstie Alley, Abigail Breslin,...

Because what else is there? I have watched so much TV in the last 4 days. And I caught up on a few different shows but haven't finished anything so I'm going to do a what to look for post. First off on my last off week I started watching The Good Place and Scream Queens. I finished what Netflix has of the Good Place and it turns out the final season won't be on until Summer so I'll watch that and then write on it. I'll finish Scream Queens tomorrow and write about it for Wednesday's post. But also I made a deal with one of my co-workers to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a season every other week. So I watched the first season and although it's super cheesy, I loved it. I almost kept going but then it wouldn't be fun to watch it with V. So I stopped and I guess will write about it in 6 weeks. I also started watching Good Girls. I caught up with it but it's also not over so I can't write about it. And now I'm watching Salem. That and Scr...

Depression huh? There are many ways to alleviate feelings of depression, especially seasonal depression. Now I'm not saying there is a way to get rid of all depression, some people are just straight depressed and they can be on medication and it still doesn't help. This isn't about that. This is the kind of depression that happen when things in life go wrong. This pandemic is effecting everyone and many lives are ruined and people are dying. I would rather just sit at home and suffer in silence than try to fix anything myself. I am considered essential so I'm lucky but it's a weird time at work. I shouldn't complain about having a job and being able to work but there is a constant stress here. I leave home to go to work where things are just broken and I spend 10 hours thinking about how the world is ending then I go home and still focus on the negative. There is no relief. I try to watch happy shows but I also feel like I have to keep up with my other TV sh...

TV show I saw an ad for this when it was first starting and it looked interesting but I didn't really watch set TV like that back then so I didn't watch it. And then I found out Luke Mitchell is in it and I liked him from apparently not popular show The Tomorrow People and then later on Agents. But I still didn't watch it. Then I was looking for random shows on Hulu and it was on there so I started watching it with my husband with the thought that he would not like it and I would be able to watch it on my own and finish it quickly. That didn't work, he actually really liked it. So I didn't watch it super fast at first but now that I am separated I finished it in 2 days... I watched more than a whole season in 2 days... I was staying up later because I couldn't go to bed when the characters were going through all of this. This show was very intense almost every episode. It's the typical cop drama where nothing that actually happens could happen in real ...

I know we've been staying home for a few weeks now but I am an essential employee as I work in a lab that tests for COVID-19 but with my schedule this is the first full week that I've been at home. And at my parent's home at that... It's been rough. Luckily for me, I started the week with therapy by webcam and it went so well that I signed up for another session the next day. But also the first day we went over things to do to stay focused during quarantine. That includes keeping a routine and doing stuff that we wouldn't normally do. So I set up a schedule;   Wake up at 9   Work until 1 then make lunch   Chores until 6 when I make dinner   TV from 7-11 That worked great for Tuesday and Wednesday but by Thursday I was an hour late to everything. I think that is okay for now because when I'm at work I take my lunch at 2 and I really don't need to sleep from 11-9... But I'm concerned with keeping my schedule so that I don't totally hate going ba...

This was very slow going. I even tried to sign in and learn some tricks at work but I took over a month to even finish the first lesson. It got harder than I thought it would. I am 3 lessons in and although I want to keep going I think I've learned that coding might not be for me right now. Maybe with the COVID now I will have plenty of time and motivation to really focus on these skills. I think coding would be a very cool job/hobby but I don't know if I have the capacity to learn a new skill right now. I was very bad in college and I don't know that I learn just to learn. I know I can learn for specific jobs and I have a very good memory but just learning with no end goal is hard. I'm to a point where I can do what they tell me to at the beginning of the lessons but by the end I'm just like "ok I don't know what you want me to do" and I cheat... It's not the best for me. My only goals with coding so far is to be able to make my blog prettier a...

TV show This is that typical funny show that they just do crazy things and are high and drunk all the time. Very entertaining but zero substance. They are total idiots so I admit that I haven't finished the show but I can't watch that many at a time because I just start getting annoyed at their over the topness. I can't even think of a specific episode right now because they are so random. Obviously Adam is my favorite but I really liked Anders in the Mindy Project, um this is the first thing that I've seen Blake in. I watched this movie with them in it before I actually watched the show and it was highly entertaining which made me want to watch this show. The actors are all very good too. Oh Chris Delia is my favorite right now! Ever since I watched Alone Together I just love him and his character in this is super inappropriate but also unfortunately hilarious. Gillian is a fun character too. Ok I lied I can remember episodes now... The ICP episode is one of the fu...