you have probably heard my awesomely sucky story of finding a mouse in my apartment and the three hours it took me to catch it in a tupperwear container and flip it out the door last week. I thought this was the end of my mouse issues. When I came home this weekend from visiting my parents I found a dead mouse under my coffee table. I took me several hours to notice it, uh oops. So I thought AHHH IT GOT BACK IN, AHHHH SADIE GOT IT and I thought THAT was the end of my mouse issues. Until about 4 hour later, while watching the Oscars last night where I noticed Sadie stalking my kitchen stove area. She lunged and walked out of my kitchen with a mouse in her mouth…which she carried into the back room, and promptly let go to play with it.

This caused me to stay up until 1 AM blocking all my doors with cloths and shoving Sadie into the mouse room. She failed at getting the mouse as far as I could see. Today I locked Sadie in the backroom the entire day I was at work. I locked myself out of the apartment and my car so I ended up walking to school, getting picked up by my principal when I got on district property, worked the bookfair, came home (my parents met me to get into the apartment) where I opened the door and found Sadie’s latest kill.

I made my mother dispose of the mouse.
So third mouse.

I know I live in a basement apartment with an empty field behind it, and a door with all wholes underneath it. I also know I have a cat that kills mice but I WANT THEM OUT. AHHHHHHHH.

Oh this just doesn’t need any commentary from me, other than I had the dream castle when I was a kid.

Poll: Scariest thing ever…or Funniest?

I’ve been thinking on this since Valentine’s day. I was never one to go and get all depressed over Singles Awareness Day, and personally when I walked into a restaurant on Feb 14 and saw couple in matching red outfits I thought they just looked silly not out of jealousy…because, they actually looked silly. But I have realized something though, maybe it’s the Facebook I AM ENGAGED!!! LOOK AT MY WEDDING! OOOH MY ULTRASOUND WAS TODAY, WANNAAAA SEEE? notes that keep swirling around me. I realized, I am not 12.

This may sound like a strange realization to have, since I haven’t been 12 for 15 years now, but I have always felt about 12. That same insecure middle school starting (we Jr. High for use LHS jokes) feeling. Like I am still on edge waiting for some jerk to snap my bra, and for me to trip with a tray of food in front of a room full of people, or have someone  laugh at how my chest size made it impossible for me to do the limbo (yes, thank you, you are so kind.) I’m still in the mode of fear I will do something dumb and everyone will make fun of me —”They’re all going to laugh at you!!”

I know I’m not who I was when I was a teenager, I’ve had so many experiences that have took me in new directions…but I don’t FEEL that different personality wise. The fact that I always look younger than I am doesn’t help in this regard. People assume I am a kid, so I still act like one, it’s an excuse to wear pink hats out in public and pigtails, and not be taken seriously. Apparently my greatest fear is TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, based on how many times I am legitimately upset and turn it into a joke.

I seriously think that if there was a movie ever made about my life I would be the quirky sidekick….yes I WOULD BE THE SIDEKICK IN MY OWN MOVIE. I was always the girl with a good amount of guy friends…who were all interested in one of my other friends, and used me to vent about said girls.

So what does this have to do with Valentine’s day? It’s the famous line mother’s all over the world tell their little girls “You have to love yourself first” and I, as you might have noticed, seem to hate myself with a passion. My mother gave me a link to an online dating site, which I am not taking seriously, but sure, I made an account months ago because if my own mother has given up on me and wants me to date online, I guess I should pretend to make an effort

Every time someone messages me on a site like this and says something complimentary I just assume they are insane, because who would compliment me….okay most of the people on sites like this very well may be insane. Like how I’m pretty sure this 56 year old that messaged me drove my school bus a few times when I was a kid. Also this 47 year old who said “can we chat sometime, maybe meet and do something?” That sounds…like something one should not reply to. And now a 43 year old. This is soooo boosting my self esteem.  Hmm, and this fellow who messaged me several weeks ago and then forgot and sent the same generic message again that he must send to all the girls.

So my experiment is showing interesting results. I should note that I have NOT replied too any of these people.

This leads me to the question of WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME THAT ONLY 56 YEAR OLD BUS DRIVERS want to date me?

I have examined the problem and have come up with the following reasons:

1. My hobbies and interests are just too specific and unique for anyone to connect with me, and feel they have things in common with me. I mean I like strange things like, watching movies, and TV shows, going to the movies, reading emails (typo edit, originally this said EATING EMAILS, which Kat told me might be the reason I am single haha), being online, books and reading…Hey. wait….

2. My look. I’m not sure if these relatively older gentlemen are messaging me because they want to date much younger women, or if they are creepy men who like girls who look like teenagers, because there is not a day in my life so far that I have actually looked 27. I’m 23 on a “I’m going to dress like a grownup day.”  I look at some of my co-workers who are similarly aged and I just feel like I’m the little girl playing dress up compared to them.  Put-together is not a description that matches me very well.

3.) Because of my job. I think I mentioned that a friend of mine was feeling a bit iffy about a guy she went on a few dates with (and was still not sure if she liked or not) hanging out with us at the Casino the other night. He wanted to bring his friends too, and she told him that that was okay, her friends weren’t really into bar hopping with the guys because “One is in a relationship….and the other is a Librarian.” Thanks? Also, when guys think “Librarian” they seem to think shy, mousy and socially awkward on the outside but deep down she is wild!!!  I’ve got that mousy and socially awkward part down perfect, but that’s it. What you see is what you get, there really is no such thing as Naughty Librarians, or School Teachers (okay, yes the Elem Teacher that was fired for being on the bikini boat) but I mean in real life people are just people, they don’t have hidden dark sides…I think. I know I don’t.

4.) Because I have such high standards, no really. Here is what I want in a guy:

a. He should be able to wrap presents, because I am really bad at that.

b. he should also be able to open jars and things for me without making fun of how weak I am, because it is NOT about weakness, i just have child sized hands that make it hard to open things.

c. he should probably be able to cook, since I tend to catch things on fire when I try.

d. He should not be embarrassed if he walks in on me dancing and singing along to the Go Go’s or Operator Please or …Kelly Clarkson…

e. He should know that when I scream “It’s a SPIDER, GET RID OF IT, GET RID OF IT!!!” there is an unspoken (because I am paralized by fear) :”but don’t kill it please, just get it the heck away from me” added to that.

f. It would help if he liked to put things away, especially clothes, because I HATE putting laundry away, it’s my least favorite chore. I am all for scrubbing, cleaning bathrooms, really. Just folding laundry and putting it away is an issue.

g. He should probably like insane Cats, because Sadie is a bit mental.  Right now I swear she is trying to aim her little foam cat toys into the garage can. Is there an NBA for cats?

h. The use of decent grammar is needed, I’m not a grammar Nazi (def not spelling Nazi either since that would be hypocritical…as I had spelled Nazi wrong as pointed out by Chris) but,  really,  ”yous” is not a word here people.

i. He should not be a 56 year old bus driver. Or really over ten years older than me, because that just screams CREEPY.

j. I would say He has to be taller than me (because I need help reaching for things), but really….who isn’t

I think the real issue is, where do 20-something meet people Think about it.  I work in an Elementary school, so work is not an option. How many guy elementary teachers did you have, really? I’m not a bar person, never was, I can’t ever hear what anyone is saying. Through friends, my friends leave the house about as much as I do…maybe less.

I suppose I should get a few more cats and just offically give up haha. But there might still be hope, perhaps 27 is too young to go into Crazy Cat Lady status…I hope.

In my mail box this week

Originally uploaded by epbee

I came home Friday to find a happy box for me outside of my apt door! Which is odd because no one usually knows my apartment is there, and my stuff is usually left inside the main foyer of the apartment building. I ordered from Barnes and Noble online this week, which is something I don’t usually do…I’m not a member, so it’s usually more expensive than Amazon, and if I am in a walk around a store mood I go to Borders because I have that store memorized. My local (near apt) Barnes and Nobles has an impressive YA section though, I should head over there more often.

I was first inspired to go shopping because I saw my credit card has 7 points for every dollar at Barnes and Noble, haha. Then I saw they were having a free 3 day shipping sale AND they dropped the prices for everyone to member prices for a time. I  had a 30 dollar gift card just sitting here so I went to town.

I bought “Beautiful Creatures” finally, I wasn’t sure if I was getting it for Christmas, or if I would get a gift card for books so I waited but I am very excited to finally read it.

I have been waiting to get that Emily Dickinson book for awhile, but I could never find it in-store so I ordered it this time around.  Just so this doesn’t make me feel mopey, I will just watch this AP LIT project from Youtube over and over:

New Jasper Fforde, I wonder what color I would be able to see?

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate also showed up at my door from that lovely gift card.
 

“Her Fearful Symmetry”  audiobook is from the Library. Actually I’m going to pop it in now while I work on cleaning the apartment, and folding a mountain of laundry that has gained sentience and is plotting a hostile take over of my place.

I’m going to start a new blogging idea tonight. I work with kids from age 5 to about 11 years old, and they are soooo funny. I live my job so much because even in the days where I teach the same exact lesson as the day before the students make the class periods a completely different experience.

My cousin, hi Tara, asked me over Twitter, if my students said anything funny/cute lately so I thought I’d share things like that with a blog topic. No names included and only the things I deem as too amazing to not share will be used lol

I’ll label these as tmss in the blog. There were some cute ones today

First, I had a little boy not looking at me during the story time, I was worried he was crying but I realized he was yawning. Our school doesn’t have room to have full day k classes, so this boy was part of the PM class. They came to school st 1:00 and came to library around 2:15 or so.

When I asked him what was wrong he said “I’m Was almost falling asleep…I’ve been in school FOR HOURS!!” it was too cute.

During the same class, the same boy was lifting himself up on the table and I told him he didn’t need to be any taller, as he was the tallest in the class already.

Little girl: “No, that’s you! You are the tallest in the class, Miss Chrusch!”

…that’s abnormal as I have second and third graders my height and talker and it made my day! But then I noticed that this was only true because my helper mom wasn’t standing up at the time.

Last week I was emailed by Kelly, from YAnnabe, asking for my help in a Secret Blogger project. I’m always in for anything excititing! Her goal, and now the goal of nearly 40 other bloggers including myself, is to shed some light on the YA books that we love, that aren’t sitting on the Target Bookshelves, or bestsellers. We’re trying to give the little guys (the lesser known books) a chance in this YA reading world.

For my part, I checked books that did not have as many users owning and reviewing them on Librarything.com and looked at books mostly from 2008 and earlier. Things that may have slipped through the cracks, or books you saw, meant to read, but forgot when a Twlight book or something sucked up your time (Vampires suck blood, Twilight sucks time. I like my Vampires snarky, not sparkly but that’s my own vampire opinion lol)

(If you want to read  more listsof great YA books you may have missed, please check out Kelly’s list and the links to other blogger’s lists here.)

HERE We Go…EDITED POST filled with random notes about my reading habits, haha, sorry.

Audrey, Wait! Robin Benway
Fun Fun Fun! Usually I stay away from YA books that aren’t paranormal, fantasy or mysteries….straight on teen life things bore me. This very well could be because I’m 10 years past being 17…but I was the same way in High School, but this one was faboo for sure. It’s a bit over the top, with all the sort of FACE PALM moments, but that’s what makes it GREAT! I actually liked reading about someone who had worse luck than I do haha. The relationship parts were cute, and were paced throughout the book, not just slapped in, and the entire book left me with the “I feel SO BAD for her RIGHT NOW…BUT I ALSO WANT TO LAUGH” feeling. ;)

Chalice by Robin McKinley
I wasn’t a reader in elementary school, not from the start at least. I was the I WILL TAKE EVERY KITTEN BOOK AND READ IT OVER AND OVER kid. I think I finally got hooked on fiction in 4-6th grade thanks to the trade books we did in class. In 6thgrade my teacher gave us a copy of “The Hero and the Crown” as the trade book…which he stopped reading less than halfway through, because, um high fantasy with 6th graders who are used reading books like “Sixth Grade can really kill you” (books about kids our age, in a school setting) doesn’t quite work if you just throw it out there. I was hooked though, I kept my copy, and read it over and over again, and it is officially my favorite book…the book I have parts memorized to. Um Edward Cullen, no Thanks, I’ll take Luthe, because Mages are far more awesome than Vampires :P I love Robin’s Fairy Tale retellings, but not as much as her Damar books….and I have to admit I didn’t read SUNSHINE or those Dragon Training ones. But I kept missing that vintage McKinley style of writing. The sense of wonder you get from reading her world building, and most importantly THE CHARACTERS, their interactions. CHALICE was a return back to that style. It’s not in my heart like her earlier works, but it is a satisfying read, that will suck you in with its magic, and beauty and the beast motif (less direct than her 2 retellings of Beauty and the Beast, but it is still there.)

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
I’m a fairy tale and fantasy girl, my entire high school reading was actually high fantasy and star wars books, back then being a geek wasn’t in style like now haha so if you give me a dragon book, I’m still so there. This great little number I found in my own school library, though it’s readers can range from 11 or so to 27, and beyond. I just say 27 for a fact because I have a 5th grader reading it now after 27 year old me recommended it. It’s clear that Jessica Day George read and loved many of the same books as me, Robin McKinley, Patricia C. Wrede, Gail Carson Levine, as this book matches up with them in both style and substance. While not as light as something by Wrede’s Enchanted forest, it also shows a great relationship between a girl and her unlikely friend, a dragon. I know my higher level readers love this one so please don’t let the fact that I picked this book from an Elementary Library scare you away, this is a great read for YA fantasy readers.

Devilish by Maureen Johnson
I love cupcakes. I love supernatural books. I love something written with a sense of humor, books that don’t take themselves that seriously. Maureen Johnson wrote this book, because it amused her, plain and simple…and it sure as heck amused me too.  The main character jumps off the page for you, I can totally see myself hanging out with her and rolling our eyes at the whole teen scene life of High School. I’ve seen many attempts at the whole HIGH SCHOOL IS HELL or SELLING YOUR SOUL concept, but Maureen does it so well in this book. It also…made me really really really hungry.

Enchanted, Inc. Shanna Swendson
Not labeled as YA as it is about  a 20 something in New York City, but I love this book and I know many teens, and YA readers would too… actually I think this series would have worked really well if it had been targeted for the YA audience. It’s about a normal texas girl who gets a job in NYC because she is just that, normal, regular, boring…. It makes her immune to magic, so she can work with wizards and other spell casting types and folks from fairy tales without having spells work on her. There are so many fractured fairy inspired books in YA right now, which makes me soooooo happy, that this cute series would be interesting to those readers. If you are the type of person who wishes Hogwarts was real, or that you could snag a prince after kissing a frog, grab this series! So cute and funny!!

Nobody’s Princess by Esther Friesner
I’m confused on why this did not show up on more Librarything lists, as I see this book, and it’s sequels displayed when I go to Borders, and I think I recall seeing it at Target too. Basically if you give me a retelling (fairy tale, historical based, anything) and mix it with a headstrong female main character, I am so there. This one is the story of Helen of Troy as a teenager…a really feisty teenager.

Ophelia by Lisa Klein
English major here…who was one class away from a Theater Minor in Undergrad…I’ll take any and all Shakespearian Revampings you want to send my way. I always felt poor Ophelia got the short end of the character stick…no boy is worth drowning for ;) But this reworking gives us a fleshed out Ophelia…we see what she feeling with the loss of her father, and what she actually liked in Hamlet, and what happened leading up to…and after the whole pond incident. Very interesting read.

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale
I really love Shannon Hale’s books….”The Goose Girl” is my favorite by her, and on my list of favorite books in general. You probably have gotten the idea by now that if something is fairy tale based (or has snarky supernatural fun) that it will be a Melissa kind of book. I met Shannon Hale at ALA right after I first became a Librarian, and she told me such nice things about how I will change people’s lives and affect so many people. So maybe I am bias when I say you should read RAPUNZEL’S REVENGE….but so what, it’s awesome! A graphic novel that takes the familiar  Rapuzel story and sets it in the Wild West, Rapunzel’s Revenge is a wild ride, and great fun!

Story Time by Edward Bloor
As a teacher I have to tell you, I think Standardized Testing is evil, so, while this book is a satirical look at the American Education system and it’s testing pressure, I don’t think it would take much to convince me all those state tests went hand to hand with real Demons. I actually read this on the Beach in NJ a few years back, and while it’s no beach read (Girl and her similarly aged genius uncle get shipped off to a fancy school, where they are trained physically, and mentally for tests tests tests tests. The teachers and staff start to get possessed by a Demon, and all Hell Breaks loose as they say) It reminded me a bit of reading “The Book of Lost things” (WHICH I LOVE) as it reads on the surface as a basic children’s scary story, but is so much more.

Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
As a teenager I wasn’t a YA reader, I mentioned that before, I don’t think it was as big then (late 90’s) or  maybe my library just wasn’t stocked up “(which is VERY possible, as I seemed to be the only one there to TAKE OUT BOOKS. Everyone else was trying to get out of study hall and wanted to play mine sweeper on a computer or the Oregon Trail.) But when I was in college I read “Speak” for the first time, it turned me on to the YA thing. “Such a Pretty Girl” is very speak-like in nature, as it deals with a girl trying to find strength after being abused (in this case by her father (who was just released from prison and is coming home.) I felt it was a very honest, an emotional look inside the mind of a broken girl.

I'm going to the UK!!! and...apparently now I am blonde...uh?

It’s official. I just paid for my European Vacation in full today. Other than classes, that is the most I have EVER put on a credit card, and I found it to be physically painful. My dad always said about himself: “I’m not cheap, I’m FRUGAL.” Well, not me, I’m 100% cheap and not afraid to admit it…as long as I am admitting to cheap as in not wanting to part with my money….and not the…other…meaning.

In general it will be about 5 days in London, and then another week of driving around the English and Scottish County-side. I keep hearing wonderful things about about Scotland…I know it’s a tourist trap but I think I HAVE to go to Loch Ness. Yes, I know those photos are admitted fakes, but I spent my childhood taking out Loch Ness Monster Books from the Library (along with Amelia Earhart books….and anything about Kittens.) I loved a great mystery even then. I later convinced myself I would be the person to discover without a doubt who Jack the Ripper was. Wasn’t sure how, since I have no science skills. I also wanted to see Nessie for myself, and find Amelia Earhart alive and well on some deserted island (Amelia being born in 1897 would make that hard, but I never claimed to be good at math. )

My goal in life was always to work for the CDC in Atlanta…which is odd again, since I have no science or math skills. But I just love puzzles, secrets, trying to get to the bottom of something. Suprisingly I don’t read much from the mystery genre though, unless it is a YA book with a mystery in it. But, straight mysteries written for grownups about grownup things *yawn*

I also love European History, War of the Roses type stuff. My favorite class in High School was one where we had to memorize the kings (and queens) of England and list them in order. Again, I know, I’m insane.  As an English major I always took European Lit over American Lit if I was given the option.

Lauren and I are off to the UK in July, which gives me plenty of time to worry about how much of a bad idea it is for ME (who gets lost in parkinglots) to be wandering around Europe.

I stressed myself out for no reason this week. I had an observation that went fine, the only time my observations go poorly is when I FREAK MYSELF OUT BEFORE HAND, but somehow I pulled myself together. Already got my feedback, so I don’t have to fret about this all weekend (and the news was good.)

I had today off, it was an embedded snow makeup that we didn’t have to use, as we only had a delay so far this year. I spent last night playing with the wii until after 1am, then I slept in until 9:30. Lovely.

Today I went on an insane cleaning spree, like pouring comet on the floor and scrubbing like a crazy person. I worked mostly nonstop until 5:30 or so, forgetting to eat, and I’m still not done. I have clothes on my bed and the dryer that need to be put away. I don’t know how one person can have so much stuff.

Speaking of apartments, I finally hung up the paintings I’ve had since this summer (and a few from last Summer) to finish up my decorating. So here are new pictures…dun dun dun!

Look the ROOM IS CLEAN!!

Finally hung something up behind the couch, the blank wall was driving me nutty. I really like the French Cafe painting.

Added another painting and a pink chair that came from my grandparent’s house.

New PC

Decorated the back room to inspire me to exercise more. that Russian Theater Poster is from ALA in 2006 lol

14 mins of battery power left on the laptop, just enough time to close out on my Bloggiesta Weekend! I started on Saturday and was really going strong. Today, was less productive, but I took notes on some of the things I want to get to on my blog for next weekend. In general I think I learned so many little tips about blogging, not just tweaks on how the blog should look, but how it should be run. I got so much information from the Mini Challenges I participated in, and I plan to hit the ones I didn’t get to at another time (looking forward to finally understanding how to set up my gravatar for example.) I feel like I am bumbling around less, and I know of more resources, and blogs to check out when I do get stuck.

I am very happy that I took the time to redo the navigation on the site. My first attempt (having only the Book Blogging entries show on the main page) just didn’t feel right for me, so I changed it so everything shows when you first get here, then you can use the tabs to go more specific if you like. I’m a random person, but I like writing on many different topics, basically babbling about whatever I am thinking about that the time…usually it is books, but not always. For me I think having a personal blog with book blog elements just works better, but having it more organized for readers who might not enjoy the random so much, is a big help.

I added a bit new content, and had brainstorms for more blog posts to come, so this weekend really got me out of my blogging sleep.

I’m down to 10 mins, so here is a quick update on what I got done:

-got new widget codes to match the layout change
-updated my about me blurb and placed it on the sidebar
-added a footer with copyright information
-wrote two new posts
-changed how I wanted to deal with my reading Log (no longer a page I update with Goodreads information, but a link in the sidebar to my 2010 Goodreads shelves, and future reviews. I have no IDEA WHY I was using goodreads, and then rewriting all of that info directly into the blog last year, this will be such a time saver!
-Speaking of time savers, I made a cheatsheet in word of important links, and PASSWORDS…because I really do keep forgetting what my flickr password is, and it’s nice to have my FTP info a well. Yesterday I spent 20 mins trying to remember my windows password on my old PC for heaven’s sake!
-Deleted dead links
-Updated my NEPA/Friends Blog Roll
-Found new blogs that I want to add to my Book Blogger blogroll…that part still needs cleaning out, and adding.
-Cleaned up stray code issues in my css file
-tweaked my sidebar template in wordpress
-joined the 100 Mile Fitness Challenge and did my walking tonight during Chuck
-Visited new blogs, and commented
-replied to comments in my own blog
-Added some of the people I found to twitter

My goals I have yet to do are:
-Get a Gravatar
-Make decisions on the Tech Section and Quote Page, keep as RSS or actually use wordpress for that.
-Blogger Blogroll update
-Review How to Say Goodbye in Robot before I FORGET THE DETAILS (P.S. I really really liked it)
-Post -mini reviews on goodreads so they show up in my reading log
-Find a way to resize the youtube links so they don’t expand past my table…or make my table bigger

The Mini Challenges I completed were:
-The Dead Link Hunt
-The Footer/Copyright Challenge
-The Cheat Sheet Challenge
-The Tables/Labels Cleanup

Time Spent: 5 hrs yesterday 2 today

more information about the challenges can be found at: The Starting Line of the Bloggiesta!

4 mins left, and time to head over to the finish line. I know I was many leagues behind the bloggers who worked three days straight, but my site is still very small, and I review what I happen to have read, so I have no deadlines I have to meet other than my own GET IT DONE ALREADY pressure. I haven’t been reading much lately (AHHH!!!) so I haven’t had much to post on that front. I’m getting out of the Christmas drag session and back into real life so I should be reading more. I have two library books I just renewed (and here is where I need to plug in or the computer goes to sleep…made it pretty far!) “Poison Study” and “Bras and Broomsticks” so I should have something up about them pretty soon…but hard to talk about the books you are reading, when you aren’t actually reading at the moment.

Oh and HEY if you are still reading this, I do have an unrelated question….but this blog is called MELISCELLANEOUS for a reason, I can randomly be random :P My friend wants me to go on vacation with her this summer and the options she gave me are 1. Spain (which I hear is beautiful, but I know no Spanish) 2. London, Paris and the Netherlands 3. England (country side) Scotland and Wales I’ve never left the county other than Canada so I’m not sure what would make a best first vacation abroad, so suggestions would be welcome! I think my friend wants to buy Spanish Leather and I’m more of a Ghost Tours of Scottish Castles type of girl. But anything sounds amazing, and better than my usual Vacation of sitting at home, and maybe, if I am lucky, heading to the Jersey shore to get major sunburn. Melissa + Beaches =DISASTER.

1. CHUCK, TOMORROW:

You really have no idea how excited I am that Chuck was not canceled, or was canceled but the folks at NBC were drowning in Subway subs and didn’t want the Chuck fans to kill them, and they renewed Chuck. You know where I’ll be tomorrow night. I’ll have to lesson plan early because my night belongs to Chuck, he is totally the spy I was looking for haha. I just love this show, I miss my Alias so much, so this fit my Spy needs, and yet is so quirky and funny that it fits in with my “Melissa likes TV that doesn’t take itself too seriously” needs as well.

2. Lost: Feb 2

I was never a Lostie, I would watch the big important episodes, and pretend I knew enough to unders

tand, but until last month I ha no idea. I spent about 2 months watching every Lost Episode Season 1-Season 5 in order, and I can’t wait until Season 6. Yeah, late to the party.

3. Parenthood: March First

When I saw this preview about an hour ago I literally laughed out loud. I love Lauren Graham, I wish I WERE Lauren Graham, so there is no way I would not watch her new show. I don’t even care if the first time they tried to turn this into a TV series it didn’t work, it has Lauren Graham, so this will work…because TV isn’t fun without her

4. Happy Town

Supposed to be on ABC around March, and looks really good.

5. Life Unexpected

Shiri looks pretty much the same as she did on Roswell, which is strange since I KNOW I look very different from when I was 15 and watching that show. Her playing a mother is a bit hard for me to handle, as it would have her playing a character who is supposed to be 6 years older than me or so, if she has a 16 year old from senior year of High School. Lauren Graham in Gilmore girls was playing a young mom, but she looked more like a young mom….Shiri looks…like she could be the teen girl herself, haha. It has a bit of a Lifetime feel, but maybe it’s because the last time I saw Shiri in anything it was some Lifetime movie. But I always liked her and this looks like the type of show I could get into, hopefully it will work, as I haven’t really watched the CW since Gilmore Girls. Oh wait…I watch Gossip Girl, did I just admit that out loud?

6. Emma

I don’t care if the ratings were low in the UK because Austen has been done to death, when I saw there was a new adaption of Emma I was so excited. Apparently it is going to be on PBS in late January. I had no idea until I wandered over to Green Bean Teen Queen today, and I am so happy I did. I am SO THERE PBS, count me in.

7. Project Runway Season 7

I need to remember, that even though there is all this great TV, that I do need to do other things, like BLOG, and READ, and LESSON PLAN…and EAT, I always forget to eat…