Thursday. Riiiiight.

Did I say I'd be finished my script by Thursday? CLEARLY, I mean Friday. Yeah, I only wrote two pages. In my defense, I'm tired and boiling up here, despite the storm outside. At least I'm at 93/100, so I only need to write 7 pages tomorrow. And I have so many things to talk about, like Marie and her soon-to-be stepdaughter getting along, and Christmas, and Marie finding out Colin's deep dark secret. Yeah. Tomorrow.

Right now I need to pull myself away from the distraction of 19 Kids and Counting (bloody Duggars. 19 kids. NINETEEN.) and get some sleep.

Also, I'm a little disappointed that I can't seem to find out if Vampire Diaries is on tonight. I've been looking forward to seeing it all week, what with the revelations about Klaus and Elijah and curse. And I really think it'll come out soon that a Petrova was the one to put the curse on him, and Katherine and Elena are HER dopplegangers. Who else would it be?

Goodnight.
Lizzy

I Heart TV!

Feeling much better today. My throat is normal again although my nose ... achoooo! And that about sums it up. So today I've been allowed minimal time online. Just enough to do my script writing and this post. Of course, I would've just snuck on to do them anyway, but it's nice to have approval.

Anyway, the script is great so far. I'm now at 12 pages, and I think I figured out a sub-plot. Overall the story is flowing well - better than I expected for a script. Some scenes I planned turned out to be shorter than I expected, but some are becoming longer, too. So it's all working itself out. =)

I can't believe I forgot to say over the last two days, but if this script doesn't work out for whatever reason, or I finish early, I've got another script idea lined up:

Few people know of my deep love for the show Charmed. I was just a kid when it first aired, but I watched the first few seasons with my mom, and have since gone and bought them all. I love most of the characters (Phoebe, Cole, Chris... *sigh*), but was rather disappointed with the series finale, as I usually am. It's not that it didn't clear everything up, or didn't give us a happy ending, because it did. But I think they still could've done so much more.

Now, I know some of the actors wanted out. Actors the show couldn't have done without. But fan came up with a solution to that: do a spin-off with Wyatt and Chris. I have no idea why this idea never got put into effect, but I'm sort-of glad. Because, without giving away too many spoilers, that's not really including all of the characters they could be, ya know?

Anyway, my back-up script is a spin-off of Charmed, set 16 years after the finale. It'll feature Wyatt and Chris, younger that people are used to seeing them, and also the other characters. That is all.

Getting off the subject of Screnzy, I've been thinking a lot about tv, and how my love of it has grown in the past few years since I've been introduced to shows like Supernatural, Smallville (last season! *cries*), Castle and Vampire Diaries. I decided to take some time to show you all the shows that I am currently interested in.

Mondays-
DWTS/Bachelor: Blegh. Mom watches, so I have to, too.
House: My poor House, dumped again. Somebody needs to get him a better team to make fun of ... preferably keeping Chase.
Haven: Awesome. I love the brothers that own the newspaper. =D
Castle: Squeeeeeee! I love Rick, and Kate, and Alexis, and ....

Tuesdays-
V: Can't wait for season 2 - such a depressing cliffhanger!
NCIS: Tony, Abby, McGee, Gibbs, Ducky. Enough said.

Wednesdays-
Criminal Minds: Prentiss in gone! Oh, how will I go on?! *sniffle* Well, at least Reid's still there.
Criminal Minds, SB: Not bad so far. Forest Whitaker is pretty good as the lead.

Thursdays-
Vampire Diaries: What's not to love about this? Maybe John Gilbert. Or the fact that Jenna is probably the only one in the whole town who has NO IDEA what's going on.
Bones: Hodgins/Angela. *sigh* Booth/Brennan - get together already!! Sheesh.
The Mentalist: Jane just needs to pack up and find a new team. If Cho wants to come along, fine. But they seriously need to leave the others behind.

Fridays-
Supernatural: I could write a whole post on the epicness of this show. Cross your fingers for a seventh season?
Smallville: I miss Chloe. Why could they just keep her and Ollie around 'til the end of the season? Still, I'm glad to have Lionel back.

Weekends:
The Adventures of Merlin: A new favorite of mine. I love Morgana. I don't care that she's evil, she's fantastic. And Merlin and Arthur and Gaius, of course. Uther and Gwen can go be killed by the dragon or something.

And now, I shall go watch my new box set of Merlin's 2nd season that Mom just bought me in an effort to keep me resting on the couch. Sidenote: bribes always work.

See you tomorrow, loves.

-Lizzy

Times watched Tangled: still at 4

Ah, the Perks of Being Sick!

I admit that there aren't many perks, but here are some I've found since last night:

-You get off work on the busiest day of the week.
-You get to watch Tangled for the fourth time.
-You get to sit on the couch all day, catching up on your favorite shows like Bones and House.

Unfortunately, laptop access isn't as great as I thought it would be. My mom doesn't want me online at all, so I'm just sneaking on to do my Screnzy writing and write this post.

Speaking of Screnzy, I made my daily quota again. I'm actually ahead of schedule. 8/100 pages. =D

Btw, what the heck?! House is married??

I shall now leave you with my favorite quote from Tangled so far. See you tomorrow.

-Lizzy<3

"Good sir, that is a lot of blood!" - Flynn Rider, Tangled

Random Update Post

Look! New profile pic! That's meeeee!

Anyway... Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been too busy writing Oh, Baby! to be bothered with blogging. Today, I'm just doing this so I'll stop my procrastinating habits.

So on Friday I wrote a grand total of 147 words. Wow. I did even worse on Saturday with my lowest word count of the month: 68 words. Then, on Sunday, I remembered the site Write or Die which I owe around five thousand words during NaNo. Basically, you type in the amount of time and how many words you need, set your difficulty level and start writing. And, if you should stop writing, you get punished. The punishment varies depending on the level. I use normal, which flashes a red light at you. Very effective. I wrote 1,196 words on Sunday. Then, yesterday, I continued on with Write or Die, with 1,377 words. That left me with a total of 7.425.

And today? Blegh. I've probably wrote around twenty words earlier (didn't bother counting), but I still have very little inspiration and about four hours of free time in which to write. Five if I push it. Basically what I'm saying is that I really, really, really don't want to write today. Honestly, I'd rather be fixing up my profiles for a role-play I'm helping to build. Wait a minute ... doesn't some rp stuff count to the WriYe total? I'll have to check that out.

In other news, Castle returned from holiday hiatus yesterday and I taped it, so my mom and I will be watching that tonight after the new episode of NCIS featuring Tony's dad. So, maybe that can be my prize for writing? If I make it to over a thousand again tonight, I get to watch my shows. If not, I guess I won't get to watch my shows. That sucks. Better start writing then...

-Lizzy<3

Btw, go to http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ for Write or Die! =)

A Break From Reality #1

Current Mood: Elated, a little bit stressed
Currently Listening to: disc two of Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's greatest hits.

As I sit here trying to sort out the order in which I'm going to post my latest thoughts and reviews, I have to wonder if the title of this entry should be "A Break From Responsibility," rather than reality. It seems like this past week has taken a sharp turn in both directions, leaving me really dizzy and completely out of it.

I suppose I should start by apologizing for not posting in over a week. I thought of writing many times, but I was so preoccupied by everything going on, that it didn't seem right. Then today, when I decided to find out exactly when my last update was, I got the lovely surprise of finding three or four comments from my friends waiting for me on past posts. So, I guess you can all thank Tippy and Hayley for giving me the boost I needed to write this. Thanks ladies! ^_^

So, what to talk about first? Well, I was supposed to post on Friday, and that was going to be about tv, so we'll start with that. Anyone watch the Bachelor? I saw the very first season. Then I saw the first Bachelorette with Trista. And I came back for the second Bachelorette with DeAnna last year because I'd heard she was dumped by the former Bachelor. Well, through the majority of that season, my mom and I had been voting for a named Jason Mesnick. He was a single dad from Seattle and we thought he was perfect for DeAnna. Unfortunately, she wound up choosing Jesse, another nice guy - but at least Jason made it to the final two, right?

I guess we weren't the only people upset by Jason not winning, because he was made the new Bachelor this year. My mom and I were so excited that we really paid attention to the women for once, and we knew ahead of time who was going to make it all the way through. We were pretty sure of Stephanie, a thirty-something year old widow and mother of a four-year-old girl. We also liked Melissa. She was twenty-five, great with kids, and really willing to move to Seattle. In the end, it came down to Melissa and Molly. We were so happy he'd gotten rid of Jillian, who only seemed to be doing the show for the adventure.

To make a long story semi-short, Jason let Molly go and asked Melissa to marry him. Things seemed great when they were celebrating with Jason's son Ty at the end of the two-hour show. Then, seconds later, "After the Final Rose, part 1" started. This is usually where the Bachelor and his final two choices come out and talk about how things have been in the past three months since the show ended, and then the next Bachelor is announced. However, things changed this year. It seems that things weren't as good as we'd first thought. Jason realized, shortly after the show ended, that he really wasn't in love with Melissa - and he couldn't stop thinking of Molly.

So then they brough Melissa out, who hadn't been listening in, and Jason broke up with her - on air! Then they brought Molly out and she agreed to give Jason another chance. Well, that's really ... crappy, isn't it? In interviews that have bee printed in the past week, Jason has said that it was in his contract to brake up with Melissa on air, and that's he's sorry he had to do it that way. Yeah, right. So the next night, "After the Final Rose, part 2" comes on and now it's been a month and a half since the last show. Things are going great between Jason and Molly (yahoo), and the next Bachelorette is going to be Jillian (apparently Melissa isn't ready to get back in front of the cameras again). So, all in all, a really bad week in tv land.

Um - I'll go into my next rant in a second, just have to grab a bottle of water. And since I'm way too paranoid about losing everything I've written in some freak accident, I'm going to post now and make a second entry when I get back.

See you in a minute. ^_^

Aliens and Demons

Current Mood: Tired, stressed.
Currently Listening To: random rock music




'Ello loves. Sorry I couldn't get on earlier - er, last night. Whatever. But I'm here now and I come with good news - More new features! Since the four things I talk about the most are movies, books, websites, and tv, I figured I'd designate a different day for each subject. For instance, today begins-

Why Fridays? Because my two favorite shows are on Thursday. And since I have to tape them at 8 and 9 p.m., sometimes I don't watch them until Friday.

So, let's get started by talking about Supernatural. Putting aside the fact that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki are hot, the show is really good. For those of you who don't know, Supernatural is about two brothers who hunt things like ghosts, demons, vampires, and werewolves. Through the three seasons (it's in its fourth now), the boys have had to deal with the disappearance of their father (a 'hunter' like them), the mysterious past of their mother and the reasons behind her death, the possibility that Sam (Jared) is turning evil and is meant to become a leader of demons, a demonic war, and poor Dean (Jensen) trying to avoid going to Hell.

If you think it sounds far-fetched, you're wrong. The first season is filled with hilarious banter between the brothers as they try to work together to find their father after being apart for four years while Sam was at college - a move both Dean and their father disapproved of. But as they continue to search, hunting down any creature they come across on the way, the boys make shocking discoveries about their mother's death twenty-two years before. I refuse to say anything about the second, third, and fourth season in this paragraph in case you haven't seen the show yet. If you have been watching it on a weekly basis as I have, please continue on.

For the rest of February, all episodes of Supernatural are going to be repeats of earlier in the season. I don't know why. Probably has something to do with Valentine's Day, but I'm not complaining. I missed four epps and now I can catch up. The one they aired last night was really funny. Not too interesting - having watched ahead I already know what happened in Hell - but seeing Dean paranoid was just hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing. That scream was the funniest thing. I think that was the first time we'd heard him scream, come to think of it. I was talking to my mom (who's also a big fan) about the epp, and we were laughing about how Sam had to kind of take the lead and deal with Dean's fear. I said if the roles were reversed and Sam was the paranoid one, Dean probably would have told him to suck it up. lol. I love how throughout the whole thing Dean kept trying to justify his fear though. ^_^

Anyway, I've got tons of work to do .... well, not really, but it feels like it to me ... so I better get a move on.

xoxo

Lizzy