Freaky Friday: TV Shows I Watch

I got this idea from one of my high school peers (and now friends) who does it on her blog and who was kind enough to let me use it as well.  I think I am going to trade off weeks between Freaky Friday Lists and Friday Flash Fiction, to keep things interesting around here.

I am doing TV shows this week, and starting off, I don’t even know how many I have.  Possibly more than ten now, since I started watching a new one a couple weeks ago.  We’ll see, though!

1.  Once Upon A Time – I love this.  Love, love, love!  Starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison, it’s about fairytales, but with a twist!  I love my fairytales!  One of the best show concepts I’ve seen since Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

2.  Desperate Housewives - this show barely counts anymore since it only has like 2 episodes left, but I have been watching since the very beginning.  It fascinates me – don’t ask me why – but I’m okay about it going off the air.  It’s been 8 years, and it’s time.  Plus, they had to go and ruin it by killing off the only male character I actually liked.

3.  Bones –  Okay, okay, I admit it!  I only watch this show to get an eyeful of the ever-yummy David Boreanaz.  It is definitely not the icky crime scenes.

4.  Smash - At first, I was excited about this show (A “grown-up Glee!”), but now I am not so sure.  Not seeing the point, is all.  It seems to be taking 3 steps forward and 4 steps back every week.  I don’t really get it.  And also.  Dislike most of the characters.

5.  Castle - I just know that this show’s collective fan base is wondering when the heck Beckett and Castle are going to get together (like that).  They’ve been dancing around it all season, ever since she got shot and he said “I love you” just before she passed out.  Castle – she remembers.  Are you sure you want to be with this liar?

6.  Glee – Music to my ears.

7.  Ringer – TWO Sarah Michelle Gellars.  Enough said.

8.  Modern Family - Most of the time, I do not laugh at this show.  But I get it.  Somewhat.

9.  Revenge – Deliciousness!  And oh, Victoria reminds me of Mortica from the Addams family.  Emily is really Amanda, and she loves Jack, but she’s with Daniel to get at Victoria, who sent Amanda’s father to jail for something he didn’t do.

10.  Grey’s Anatomy – Hospital drama that will never ever happen in real life.  Ever.  Or maybe some of it would, but most of it wouldn’t.

11.  Private Practice – More doctor drama!

12.  Scandal – Shondra Rhimes created it.  I’m sold.

13.  Grimm – Creepy fairy tale creatures.  Mysteries.  Cute detective.  Eeeee!

14.  Fringe – show is like the X-Files in many ways, but instead of aliens, they have different universes that are a lot alike.  Weird stuff happens.  There are things called shapeshifters that can look like dead people.  and also a creepy David Robert Jones.  If you don’t want to know, don’t ask.  It’s very complicated and hard to explain.

Good grief, I watch 14 shows!  How many of these shows do you watch?  Do you watch any that are not on my list?

 

Letter to SMG

Dear Sarah,

I know your birthday was last Saturday, so happy belated birthday.  I hope you have another fantastic year ahead of you.  I am praying that Ringer will have a second season – we find out in May.  I still have the season 1 finale on my DVR, unwatched.  I am thinking I should wait to watch it after I know whether or not the show is going to be renewed.  The show is awesome, by the way.  I love it so much.  Last summer, when I found out about it, I was grinning from ear to ear - TWO SARAHS!  Can it get any better than that?  It did – because one of you is evil (Siobhan, Bridget wasn’t even driving when your son was killed…  your ex-husband/ex-boyfriend was) and the other one is redemptive and very root-able.  I love Bridget.  I think Siobhan is nuts.  You do it all so well.

Whenever I see a picture of you with your little Charlotte, I can’t help smiling.  She is gorgeous, just like you.  I imagine you are a wonderful mother to her – how could you not be?  You’re simply amazing.  I was young (you’re only 4 years older than me) when you started your work on All My Children but I followed some of your storyline on it.  My grandmother watched it, and for a time, in the summer, my parents did too (or else it seemed like they did because it was always on).  I thought, that girl (you) is awesome.  Little did I know that later, you would get the part of Buffy Summers in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Words often fail me when I try to explain just how much that show meant to me.  I understand what Buffy went through in high school – the ostracism by her peers, the loneliness, the feeling that the weight of the world was on her shoulders, all of it.  I think part of the reason why I love it so much is because you put your whole heart, mind and soul into being Buffy, as you do with all the characters you play.  It’s so obvious.  And the other reason why I love Buffy is because I got to see someone (female) being strong even though everything and everyone was out to get her.  I cannot even begin to tell you how many times she has helped me put on my own “resolve face” in order to do what I need to do.  Thank you for being Buffy.  Without that show, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Buffy Summers once said, “The hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it.”  I know from personal experience that is very true.  I am a childhood cancer survivor – neuroblastoma – and a survivor of what came afterwards (brain stem damage that led to physical disabilities, hearing loss, a speech impediment.  And also scoliosis from the radiation).  I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer means more to me because of it.  I have a little black and white shih tzu named Buffy.  And if I ever get another dog, I’m planning on calling her (because it has to be a girl, right?) Bridget.    I’m an aspiring novelist, and who knows?  Maybe someday our paths will cross and I’ll be able to give you a hug like I’ve wanted to do for so long now.

XOXO

Things I’d Like To Do Someday

I love the saying in the image above – the truth in them is universal, because it goes for every single person in the world, no matter who they are, or what their background is.  Writing is basically all I need to do these days (other than obligations like to family and friends, etc).  I can see it all in my mind now:  I will write and all the pieces will fall into place as I go.

Here is my list of things I’d like to do SOMEDAY:

1.  Sponsor a child.  I am not picky about the country, but I’d love to the opportunity to go visit said child as well.  I’d love to get to know him/her on a more personal level.  Compassion, it seems, is my specialty.

2.  Keep on bringing more and more awareness to pediatric cancer.  I will never stop caring about this.  Ever.  I will keep fighting until my very last breath.  I’d dearly love to visit St. Jude’s and other hospitals.  I’d love to meet the people I’ve met online since I started advocating for this.  Maya Thompson and Melinda Marchiano, this means you!

3.  Go to Disneyland with my family, and watch my niece’s face light up when she sees Mickey Mouse,

4.  Meet the celebrities that I love – to thank them for sharing their gifts with the world.  The list includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Olivia Newton-John, the cast of Glee (especially Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Dianna Argon, everyone on the show, really), Johnny Depp (I am curious to see what he is really like, especially since I took a “Which Celebrity You Should Marry” quiz on Facebook and my result was Johnny…  Weird?), Howie D of the Backstreet Boys, Kristoffer Polaha (though probably not him because I’d cry at his pure loveliness), Taylor Swift, Jodi Picoult, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone (we’d have so much fun together), David Boreanaz, Allyson Hannigan, James Marsters, Joss Whedon (to thank him for the loveliness that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my favorite show EVER), casts of both Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, the list goes on and on and on!

5.  Visit Rome, Italy and the Vatican.  Have genuine Italian food.

6. Ride horseback along a beach dressed in white – leggings and a dress.  I dunno why the white is so important to me, but it is.

7.  Have a pack of shih tzus/Ewoks…  PURE HAPPINESS!  Guess I better start saving for a California King bed!  Oy!

8.  See a Broadway show.

9.  See unicorns.   They are real.   I just know it.  How?  The Bible says so.  All you naysayers, hush.  I don’t want to hear it.

10.  This one is really tentative, because I do not think I’d be brave enough to do it, when it comes down to it:  Visit a known haunted house.  Doubt I’d last even 5 minutes…   I am such a wuss!  But I’d like to try…

I might add to this list as time goes on.  In the meantime, what’s on your big list of things to do?