Happy Birthday keever (sorry, I'm late) and briasoleil!

I just decided to keep doing blathering entries. Sorry if that doesn't work for you.

Our running group started over a week ago Saturday so I'm back on the wagon with that. I ran three times last week but also had a metric ton of Halloween candy, a much-needed Taco Bell fix, and a large bucket of awesomely buttered popcorn. After that epic fight of healthy vs. unhealthy over the week, the dust settled and I still lost a pound. HA! I'm taking it as some sort of achievement, though I'm not really trying. I'm starting yoga class again tonight.

I thought I had broken my sad, so sad, addiction to Yahoo!/Playfirst/BigFish video games (I hit bottom when I spent an entire weekend - TWO DAYS NON-STOP! - building a candy empire while simultaneously reuniting a family on Chocolatier) when Heather started me up again with something called Paradise Pet Salon. You take on a corporate giant with just a plucky attitude and a talent for grooming animals! Awesome. Less awesome was my productivity as I sat most of the night (on a SATURDAY, good lord) playing that damned game. I gave myself a headache from staring at the computer for too long.

Let's talk Moonlight. Well, for those of you still watching anyway. This silly show has really snuck up on us, hasn't it?
( Spoilers for last Friday's ep and preview talk )

Last night, Art and I went to see Michael Clayton, the latest George Clooney movie. It's an excellent film. I thought the story was so well told and it should be a primer for "show, not tell." I thought I had the story figured out soon after the movie started and was so SO wrong. It zigged when I thought it would zag. The performances were outstanding, particularly Tom Wilkinson, as a lawyer gone mad over the case he's dedicated the latter part of his career. I need to add In the Bedroom (Wilkinson was nominated for an Oscar for it) to my Netflix queue. The writer/director also wrote all the Bourne movies but this was his first shot as a director. Impressive. Anyway, if you like legal thrillers or amazing acting, I recommend!

How was your weekend?

EDIT: HILARITY. Shia is the most enjoyable trainwreck.

Our balcony in our apartment was finally replaced this month. Unfortunately to do that, the workers had to move our satellite dish. It knocked our service out for close to two weeks. I've NEVER been without my tv for so long. I hated every minute of it! And of course by the time we got our tv back almost all my shows were on hiatus. (That's what I get for being a WB devotee) But it made things a little easier on me. When my service was back on track, I went through my Tivo lists and if I didn't feel like I "missed" a show, the season pass was deleted. I am realising that I tend to watch shows for the sake of watching them now, and well, just no. I watch way too much tv to waste those precious hours on things I'm not wild about.

So here's what I got rid of. And just know that despite this, I still have so many season passes on my TiVo that I am too embarrassed to let anyone know the actual number.

-The Apprentice. - Yeaah. It became obvious Kelly was going to win very early in the season. Art and I kept watching only because we liked Andy, and we were mercifully spared his firing during our tv hiatus. We watched the BS fest of last weeks episode and that just about does it for me. I don't think I'll devote my time to the finale (three hours! no way!) and I have already decided that it's curtains for next season. I'll miss you, Carolyn!

-Desperate Housewives. I tried! But, no. I might lose Kesha as a friend, but I kind of hate this show.

-Boston Legal. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Now for the good stuff. I watched the first two episodes of Project Runway on Bravo this weekend and YAY! It's awesome. This might be my favourite reality show of all time. Although judge Nina Garcia, the editor from Elle is the type that makes me want to smack her repeatedly. She's so RUDE about their designs! And it's like she never "gets" what the designers are trying to do, or even appreciate their vision. And yeah, I think I'm siding a bit too much with these people. I also think it's brilliant to have two competitions in one show, the main one with the designers and the other side one with the models. My favourite designers so far are the Miami girl (her nylon dress in the first ep was h-o-t) and the indie, punk rock girl. Heidi totally gives Tyra a run for her money with her just telling booted contestants, "You're out" and then just staring at them until they finally leave. Great. Then when they finally do their sad shuffle off the stage she chirps, "Auf Wiedersehen!" Ahh, excellent.