We were watching ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS the other morning before work and whenever Patsy said a line, Arrow would wag her tail. And then when Patsy said “Emergency Liposuction!” Arrow jumped up at the TV and barked. My dog has a great sense of humor.

Rachel’s comment, from the post below:

Just so everyone knows, Leira was indeed born to Empire Strikes Back. My labor went so fast we didn’t make it through the entire movie. So fast, my actual doctor didn’t deliver the baby. I believe they had to bring in the ER doctor. INTENSE.

I’m an Aunt. It’s official. I’ve kind of been a lower-case aunt for Sam, but this feels very different than when he was born. Leira is someone who I feel a real sense of duty towards and thank goodness that the Kleins came to visit over the weekend because I would have been a ball of guilt and anxiety without them around to distract me. It’s kind of settling in now and I really wish I could be there with Rachel, even though I would just be a seat filler.

Poor Arrow was really thrown for a loop with other people in the house. She seems to be recovering nocely today, Tom took her out to the ranchito for a run with the desert dogs, and she’s muddy and happy and napping.

We had a lot of fun having our BFFs over – they hadn’t seen the house since we just moved in, so they could see all the work that’s been done and reminded us that we’ve actually gotten a bit finished. Also, Annika is proving that pregnancy is a very good look for her, yet again. Sam is proving that age 3 is a strange, yet, simple age and that you must take the time to assess the situation. And Will is proving that beer is a breakfast food and whiskey is for dessert, and that Nick Cage movies are always worth watching.

Tom managed to cook breakfast for all of us and prove that you can, in fact, use a pancake mix and rely on technique for the World’s Best Pancakes.

I’m sure I proved something or other, but what it could have been, I have no idea. I have fallen into watching the “Later… with Jools Holland” marathon on Ovation (a show that I have never seen before) and I’ve bookmarked the Wikipedia page for it. I will be searching for video of that past 33 series in the coming months, I suspect. Oh, live performances, I don’t need to like that band or that song, but I never get to see bands anymore, so I’m starved for it. UKers, you have no idea how lucky you are to have had this show.

Oh, and we watched the movie Hot Rod on Saturday. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It is very funny and I am a fan!

So I watched “Children of Earth” in one sitting on Saturday. And it was great. Now I have the whole rest of the series to watch.

True Blood?

YES.

It is trashy and wonderful.

I first heard about it a little over a year ago, when it was debuting on HBO. In case you don’t know, it’s based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris about a waitress who lives in Bon Temps, Louisiana, in a world where vampires have “come out of the coffin” and are living openly. I read the first book when I heard about the show and I didn’t think it was too bad. I liked it more than the Anita Blake books (which are super-trashy and the basis for my favorite Penny Arcade cartoon ever) and thought I might check the show out once it was on DVD.

Will and Annika gave me a brief review of the show, giving the cold open a big thumbs up and the rest of the show a mild endorsement, which I will admit, made me a little wary of it. I mean, if Will and Annika like something they REALLY LIKE IT and shout it from the highest hill top, so the lack of enthusiasm was concerning.

Oh boy, I need not have been concerned. I watched the first four episodes without a break. And immediately wished that I had the rest of the Season One DVDs to watch.

Which is weird because the it seems like the first season is based on the first book and so I know what is going to happen.

Without being spoilery, I will say that the TV show has fleshed out (and added) some characters that I am really enjoying and added some subplots and secondary stories that I think are brilliant. Now, whether these stories show up in later books in the series, I don’t know. But I love that they are in the show.

I guess the reason I am really surprised that I like it so much is that I am not a fan of Alan Ball’s other HBO hit, Six Feet Under. That show did nothing for me and I thought that the actors sucked.

I love the actors in True Blood. I love that the accents all seem to be from different parts of the world, let alone the South, and, yet, most of the characters have never lived anywhere but Bon Temps! I love the trashy sex. I love that the classiest girl in the show is a waitress in a redneck bar. I love that it is gory and violent. I love how the storylines are being woven together.

I can’t really recommend it without reservation, though. Sort of like Breaking Bad, it treads a line. If you’re the kind of person who thinks that drinking, drugs, sex, nudity, blood, violence, and psychic powers are best done in small doses, and you thought that Buffy was too cheezy… well, you won’t like this show.

But I am not one of those people, this show was made for me.

I don’t want to spoil House for anyone, but let me say that I like the direction things are taking. You can’t make an omelet without killing some people!