Update on TV:

So, as I've been working on a million projects, I have been watching a ton of TV. I've caught up on all of the TV shows (at least through the middle of March, so I'm not more than two weeks behind on any show--what an accomplishment) and I've watched The Pretender through season 2. And I learned there are at least four seasons. I'll have to look it up and see how many there really are. The last few episodes of season 2 were much better than the really formulaic beginnings of the show. It's intense and (I don't remember if this is really true or if I just want it to be true so desperately that I don't remember the real truth) I can't always predict exactly what will happen. I mean, the guys who just never die are finally dead and you can't pretend that maybe they didn't really die anymore. I'm actually excited to start season 3, which is much different from how I felt going into season 2. Don't tell Michael, but I was a little bored by how repetitive the storyline was and how Jarod said the same thing every time--"when I was young, I was taken from my family, blah, blah, blah, and now I'm still searching for them"--I mean, I still enjoyed it, but it just wasn't the same as some shows that are like a book you just cannot put down. This was more like a text book you trudge through because you're going to have a test on it. Except there was no test, just so much knitting to get done that it didn't really matter what I watched.

Sometime last week or the week before, I finished watching CSI season 1 and I just started season 2. It's awesome when I see episodes that I remember watching on TV years ago. It's crazy to think that the show started almost 9 years ago.

I am really enjoying Lie to Me and Michael is enjoying it, too. He only watched the first episode and then clips of others, but I really love when he'll take a second and watch it with me. Too bad no one at work watches the show.

Along with all of the TV shows, I've also been watching my fair share of movies. After the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes escapade, I've since watched some really good movies, the names of which I have long since forgotten. Sorry. But I do remember that I watched Someone Like You and Picture Perfect, both of which I absolutely adore. I love movies that I can watch over and over again. Thinking about watching movies makes me want to run home and watch more movies right now!

Curtains?

It's official. We're moving. It's kind of exciting, really. But the most exciting part right now is that I get to start a new project. I'm knitting lace curtains for our living room window. It's just a small window, but it is a huge project. I chose the pattern from a pretty lace scarf I found online. It's a fairly simple pattern, and I'm hoping it will turn out great. I'm using cotton crochet thread and size 2 knitting needles, so it is going to take forever. I'm going to knit them in two panels and it's taken about 15 hours to knit about an inch of the first panel. It doesn't look super awesome yet, but I think it'll look better once it's blocked.

So, in the meantime, we're packing and slowly moving as we count the days until we are completely moved. There is so much to do still. We've barely started packing. Well, that is a lie. I haven't packed anything except a box of shoes. Michael has packed the DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, and some books. That is nice.

We signed the contract on Saturday and got the key. Right away, we went to look at it again and take a couple of boxes. They recently painted and everything, so the floors are all dusty and need to be mopped. But that isn't a big deal at all. So, Saturday, we took over just a couple of boxes and a little bit of food (lettuce and feta cheese and other salad treats) and we ate lunch there. It was so fun. I measured the window width, but I couldn't measure the length because it is pretty high.

I've paused all other projects for the time being while I'm working on the new curtains. I've never tried anything like this before, and it's going to be great. The curtains don't really match the tile flooring, but they are the prettiest shade of pink, so they will just look adorable from the outside. And I've decided that hand-knitted lace is so crazy hard. I just hope the finished, blocked project is everything I hope.

TV

While I'm working on everyone's Christmas gifts, I am seeing that I am also getting a ton of TV watched. I'm currently watching a ton of shows that are on TV now (current season, even, though I still watch them online) and I'm in the middle of season 1 of The Pretender (I used to think Jarod was the hottest guy alive--but that was when I was like 16, so I am sure I am forgiven, and I don't remember thinking how grotesquely formulaic the shows format is or how Jarod totally tortures the bad guys in a way that would get him arrested in a normal world) and season 1 of CSI (I'm shocked at how far graphics have come since the year 2000 and it makes me realize how I can't wait until all TV is digital). I'm totally enjoying all of the shows I'm watching, and I'm also soon to start ER Season 1. I haven't decided yet if, when I start that, I will have to put CSI on hold, but I'm thinking that one TV series from Netflix at a time is my limit. That will be okay, because I'm only halfway through the first season, and I will be able to pick it up again when season 4000 of ER is over.

The TV shows I'm pretty closely following are so numerous, it's almost impossible to list them all. I watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, COPS, Lost, Friday Night Lights, 24, and Lie to Me. I am not caught up on any except Lost and 24. Watching these shows keeps me up-to-speed with a lot of my coworkers and falling behind would be doom! But I have to admit that I prefer to watch one show (or two shows) at a time from beginning to end. I hate the moment where I catch up and then have to wait from week to week for the next installment. I hated catching up with Lost and 24, even though now we have long conversations about the shows the morning after they air (or afternoon, if someone didn't catch it the previous evening--I watch them before work in the morning, actually--and has to watch it while at work). That is a great benefit of keeping up--I get so much more out of the program because everyone else remembers so much more than I do.

I have big plans this weekend to catch up on Friday Night Lights. It's going to be great. There are three of us who are about the same amount behind in the show and we're all going to catch up this weekend. It will be really fun to talk about it with someone else.

It seems so strange to talk about all of the TV I watch. I mean, it doesn't feel like I watch very much TV at all. I work with a ton of TV watchers, though, so TV is just part of our culture. It also may be that I always watch it while I'm knitting and sitting at my computer so it doesn't feel like watching anything--it's just on to be something else while I'm just sitting there.

Yesterday, while I was watching all of my court shows and then Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and then some episodes of The Pretender, I got two gifts about 90% done. It is so exciting to me to get more and more done. I've started a surprise project and I'm really excited to see how it goes. I hope it totally rocks. It involves turning a heel, so I know I'll be so good at it!