TV Show Meme

Thanks to Jenny for this.

1. Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice: Ooh...the first couple of seasons of Boston Legal, probably.

2. Name a show you can’t miss: Bones is a current favourite - I was obsessed with Prison Break for the first couple of seasons, and also watched Top Chef and one of the Survivors (yeah, yeah, I know) religiously. Pretty much any reality show where I become emotionally attached to the contestants.

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show: Dylan Moran. I trust his judgment. Also, anyone cute...I'm very easily won over like that.

4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show: Oh my God, Ray Romano. How did he become a respected comedian? What is wrong with people? Why have I never seen the possibilities of multi-coloured fonts before?

5. Name a show you can, and do, quote from: Friends - I really like Phoebe's lobster analogy.

6. Name a show you like that no one else enjoys: Footballer's Wives. No-one ever understood the genius of that show. Philistines.

7. Name a TV show which you’ve been known to sing the theme song: Umm...I actually think I'm fairly innocent of that. Feel free to correct- oh no, wait, sometimes I sing the Coronation Street theme song. Bwaaaaah...wah wah wah wah waaaaahhh...

8. Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch: Tough...Huh. Hi 5.

9. Name TV series you own: None! Oh no wait Black Books.

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting choices in television: That's a pretty involved question for one of these, really. I have to think about this. Nope. Not happening. Will come back if something springs to mind.

11. What is your favourite episode of your favourite series? Boston Legal - probably the one where they join the coastguard. But then again, maybe another one.

12. Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to yet: So many. But that's probably not a bad thing.

13. Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad? Prison Break. After the first two seasons it went downhill really fast.

14. Name a show that’s made you cry multiple times: Um. There was this mini-series on called...oh, crap. SomethingHouse. ANYWAY it was very sad.

15. What do you eat when you watch TV? Chunks of cheese. Ad breaks are too short to prepare anything else

16. How often do you watch TV? About 5 hours a week, maybe? Nowhere near as much as I used to, what with this newfangled internet thing. (What was that damn show called? It started with an S. Maybe the second word wasn't actually House.)

17. What’s the last TV show you watched? Bones - Jenny's Season 2 marathon! Yay

18. What’s your favourite/preferred genre of TV? Comedy/crime shows

19. What was the first TV show you were obsessed with? Sailor Moon, closely followed by Captain Planet. I liked SM more, but then I wanted to marry that American kid from CP. You know, the ginger whose power was Fire.

20. What TV show do you wish you never watched? Any time I accidentally caught the last 5 minutes of Everyboy Loves Raymond. Everyboy was a typo but I'm totally going to leave it. Ray Romano is an ass.

21. What’s the weirdest show you enjoyed? Footballers Wives. Any show where a pug dog suffocating a fake-tanned baby is a majot plot point sets off my weirdar. (Like a gaydar. But, you know, for weird.)

22. What TV show scared you the most? Ghost Whisperer. Because it was so bad. Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts out-acted everybody else. We used to call it Ghost Breasterer.

23. What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched? Not sure...too much competition.

Look! I can write a rainbow! Actually I could if I hadn't become bored with changing the font halfway through that.

(Who can take the sunshine...sprinkle it with dew.)

Sparkhouse! That was the name of that show! It is now 6.37am of the following day and I just remembered. CAN I GET A HELL YEAH

Meringue

Have just eaten meringue made by my sister - had leftover egg whites from pasta carbonara (dinner) & she decided that meringue was the way to go. Unfortunately, all of the recipes the Internet had to offer involved things we didn't have in the cupboard (see: castor sugar, cream of tartar (seriously, what kind of flat has cream of tartar? come on, Google, cut us some slack)) & so she did what our family has done since the age of time when confronted with a cooking problem: make up your own recipe. So now we have all eaten (and politely commented on) what is essentially sweet, vanilla-flavoured poached eggs. Sadly, the vanilla did not mask the taste of egg. They bear a startling resemblance to a Japanese sweet/savoury jellied treat. Weird.

Anyway, this post wasn't originally intended to be a discussion of ways not to make meringue. I've forgotten what it was intended to be a discussion of. Probably just a forum for me to bang on about Plot, Lack Of (as in, Novel, not as in 'I have lost the plot')

On a completely unrelated note (how unlike me! I can see this post just being a list of unrelated things which have caught my attention), I am enjoying the ampersand today. &! Punctuation is very aesthetically pleasing. So are fonts. I am capable of spending a stupid amount of time messing about in Word trying out all the different fonts and then, when I'm done with that, trying them out in bold, and italic, and with strikethrough, and with double strikethrough, and with shadow, and embossed...you get the point. Strangely, I only seem to do this when I'm at work.

New fad: iced tea! Iced tea is the new (un-iced) green tea. Iced tea is the new spirulina (although it probably doesn't make your chest magically grow). Iced tea is the new...hey, I have a plot now! (I promise I'm not writing a novel about iced tea.)

"Claire used to eat 70 packets of crisps a week." Jamie Oliver is singlehandedly overhauling the health of a small English town, or perhaps province, that I have forgotten the name of. It makes me feel tired. Is it a worry that my first reaction to Claire's chip habit is, "Oh, that's ten packets a day, I could probably eat that many?" Mmm, chips. The vending machine at work will be the end of me. I have eaten much more recently in the interests of 'taking better care of myself.' Good theory, but I think I may've gone from one extreme to the other. Size of a house! A house full of chips.

I don't have an alarm clock any more - this is my first night without one since losing my phone. I mean, I do have one - but I'm not sure I know how to work it. I am terribly, terribly afraid of waking up really late and missing work. Gah! I'm sure I won't - I'll probably wake up every half hour in a sweat-drenched panic that it's 9am and I'm NOT AT WORK - but it is still terrifying. Think I will sleep on the uncomfortable couch to minimise chances of me sleeping through everything. Wish me luck.