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Since it is sort of clearing up, I'm trying to talk myself into taking my semi-annual or annual trip to Lord and Taylor - to go "clothes" shopping, because I'm bored with my wardrobe again and feel it needs updating. But here's the thing about me and shopping? Since I'm not a fan, it requires that I be in the perfect mood. I have to a)not be desperate, b)not be irritable, c)feel great about my body and being in my own skin (which believe or not, actually does happen on occasion, shocking, I know), and d) love the idea of trying on and looking at new clothes in a mirror. Checking out new fashions. (which also happens on occasion). In short I have to be in "a good mood".

And I thought for a bit...that this was the weekend for it. But, no. I'm irritable as all get out this week. Was a slow frustrating work week. Also, have plans to go flat/apt shopping on Sunday with agent. (Which I have mixed feelings about.) So two shopping trips, after a highly frustrating week, is probably not a good idea. For some people - clothes shopping puts them in a better mood or cheers them up, it does the opposite for me. In short, as stated above? I have to start out in a REALLY good mood to go clothes shopping. I blame my mother - she hates clothes shopping. Going shopping with my mother has always been a headache inducing experience, and at times fairly traumatizing. Don't get me wrong, I adore my mother, but shopping just is not her thing. Great parent - except when it came to shopping. It's probably genetic. My grandmother hated shopping too.

I envy women who are great shoppers. My brother, ironically, is really good at this sort of thing.
He's great at shopping. Always has been. So maybe not genetic?

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Comfort TV at it's Best...

Comfort television watching round-up, for last night and this morning:

1. Fringe - while I find the serialized plot thread and the characters in this series rather engaging, I really wish they'd drop the Biological Terrorist/Mad Scientist Monster of the Week bit. Not a fan of that at all. Reason I held off watching it. Episodic television doesn't work well for me - it feels a bit too much like watching a series of morality plays, if done well - a series of Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Twilight Zone episodes...which let's face it - have passed their prime. I've yet to see anyone do quite as good a job as Hitch and Serling on this sort of thing. And even in Hitch and Serling's case, after five or six episodes...the format got old. Not an anthology/short story fan.

Yes, I'm the exact opposite of all the viewers that hope a serialized tv show would become more episodic, I keep hoping the episodic tv shows become more serialized. I like to commit to my tv shows. Fringe is getting there. The Good Wife went there immediately. Episodic tv shows are network darlings...for two reasons, the characters don't really matter - you can interchange them or even let them age and never quite change for about 20 seasons, and two - easy to sell to syndication or reruns...plus easy to get viewers, because no need to truly follow the thing, you can just jump in and out of it.

2. Secret Circle which I keep wanting to call the Secret History (maybe because I find the back story that they are hinting at it more interesting than the Circle?) We're making headway. There's plenty of creepy vibe in the air. I rather like Williamson's brand of low-brow gothic horror, funny scary and somewhat comforting scary, as opposed to scary-scary. Secret isn't as entertaining and hilarious as Vamp Diaries...but it is engaging, and so far the only new show this season that I think is a keeper. The others, which I'm considering...but the jury is still out on are Free Agents (doing quite well ratings rise, at least so far), Revenge (ditto), Ringer (eh...but on the CW and low production value so what can you expect?).

Circle does have an appealing heroine in Cassie. She's not dumb, and the actress playing her is appealing. Also she seems to be pro-active and not a victim or damsel, and with quite a bit of power - so far. We shall see where it goes.

3. Vamp Diaries ( spoilers )

4. Big Bang Theory - finally a show that gets it right regarding geeks and nerds. It's also the only sitcom I watched this week that made me roar with laughter. (I haven't seen Community - it's opposite Big Bang and Vamp Diaries - my DVR can't do three shows at the same time. And I like Big Bang better - it's humor is less parody/satire and more witty.) The scenes that made me roar?
a) Raj and (the other guy who is engaged to Bernadette) french kissing via a computer internet simulator. Most absurd thing ever - the expression on Leonard's face was priceless. b)Amy Fowler and Penny running down five flights of steps screaming after the thing in Penny's arm chair bit Amy. (This show is the closest thing to Seinfield that I've seen on tv. Again I haven't seen the FX comedies.)

5. Grey's Anatomy - my only quibble? Dear Grey's stop doing the music videos or music over the top of the dialogue - I had to watch it with closed captioning to figure out what people were saying. It was annoying. I don't care how great a song Atlas Hands is - wait until the dialogue is over. At one point, we had dialogue, a voice over, and the song. Other than that? Loved the episode. Loved it. Particularly all the scenes revolving around Cristina, the Chief, and Alex Kirev. This is one of the few shows on tv that realistically portrays minorities in lead roles.
Shondra Rimes gets it right. She also handles quite well the difficult topic of abortion. Was impressed.