I watch too much TV

A commercial that was well thought out:  ExtenZe for men.

There's an older gentleman holding a football at a game with hot cheerleaders behind him while he talks about the product. At the end, he throws the football and says "go long." Get it?

A commercial that was not well thought out: PediaSure.

One soccer mom asks another if one kid looks like he's playing slow. They show him on the field and he is wearing a huge fry container with gigantic fries costume. The second mom says, "you are what you eat" and they go back to the soccer game where the goalie is a big donut and the ball goes right through her middle into the goal. Hence they should drink the product in order to play better. Except all the other children playing soccer were just children. They weren't PediaSure or a carrot. So if this "you are what you eat" thing holds true, those children eat other children. Cannibalism!

Not that you care

I haven't blogged in a while. So here are a few brief updates from my life:

-My favorite didn't win Last Comic Standing. Not that I voted, but this is America so I still have the right to complain.

-I just got back from Wisconsin. Vacations are nice because you get to get away, but when it comes down to it you're still stuck with the five other members of your family in one room.

-I only have one scrape on my leg, from rollerblading last week, that's still really gross. After that heals, I will only be left with my band-aid tan lines and a strong desire to never go rollerblading again.

Fun with links!

I heard this song on the radio today. It's silly and weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpyoGFJNNE

If you didn't catch it on Facebook, you might recognize the guy in this video:

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/videos/?autoplay=true&mediaKey=31750c21-45a6-4c75-865a-b8cb5c2dcfbf

Contradiction season

I just realized that my blogging name is Rodent Girl, yet for my profile pic I have a picture of frogs. It just doesn't make sense. Then I realized it was good timing because of the recent starburst commercials with their contradictions- Scottish Korean, solid yet juicy starbursts, albino lifeguard. "One contradiction eating another!" If you don't know what I'm talking about- you don't watch enough TV.

Doohickey telepathy

While I was watching TV today, I became frustrated with the remote. You see, I was watching Scrubs on channel 42. During commercials, though, I wanted to watch something else. It was either That 70s Show on 51 or iCarly 0n 46. In order to get back to Scrubs, I would use the "Go Back" button on the remote. So during the commercial I would flip to 51, but it was a commercial on that channel too so I had no other choice, but to go to 46. The problem is now when I hit the "Go Back" button it goes 51, not 42 Scrubs like I wanted it to.

That's when I decided it would be much better if the remote could just know what channel I wanted it to go to. It should just read my mind. I am still willing to press one button, if it could just do that one little thing for me. Go back to Scrubs instead of That 70s Show.

This whole mind reading thing should also apply to cell phones. I don't have a fancy cell phone- it was pretty cheap actually, and it does not have a qwerty (that was fun to type) keyboard. Also, I suck at texting. But when I went to type "2" in my message, I had to go through "a", "b", and "c" first. Now really the cell phone should have known that when I hit that button I wanted the "2" and not those other letters. Again- one button. I'll manage to press that as long as it can do a little mind reading for me.

You may be wondering, if you are having all these problems, why don't you get fancier things? Go for the qwerty (still fun) cell phone or a TV thing that has some channely thing (IDK)? And the answer is simply I don't want to. Technology is just not advanced enough.

Though I suppose that's good since I cannot even work with current technology. That spinny-ness on Ipods is just too much for me. I need something with a definite click when I push it. Still, we should have had flying cars by now.

Here's a llama!

Since it has been almost a month with nothing to post about, I'd thought perhaps I'd share some of my favorite things to do on the Internet.

1. yahoo.com often has good stories. There's a lot of really random stuff, but also stuff that usually ends up on the news on TV the next day. Yahoo is also home to Yahoo! Answers. Even if you don't have a question to ask or answer sometimes they are just fun to read. Example- "Can I clone myself and use the clones for spare parts?" One answer- " You better hope they don't use you for spare parts!"

2. lefthandedtoons.com All three of you who read my blog, already know about this site. However, I felt the need to remind you because it is such a good site. I visit it every weekday to see the new toon. My recent favorite is called Banana!.

3. fmylife.com What website is better than this? It is stories of hilarious, crappy things that happen to people just like you (I take that back because some of the people are stupid and bring it on themselves). My favorite I read when I was moderating, but it never got posted. It went something like this: "Today, I was whistling as I walked past my academic adviser from last year. She said 'that's fitting.' I was whistling 'If I only had a brain' FML"

4. Russell Brand Normally, I don't like famous people, but I love this guy. He has everything I look for in a comedian. He's funny, British, former drug and sex addict, and was an English teacher for a year. This youtube clip, my friend showed me, is my favorite, but I would highly recommend watching the other parts too and checking out other videos of him on youtube. I also enjoy his crazy hair.

5. Abc.com The best thing on this website is the FEP. FEP used to stand for full episode player, but then got changed to free episode player- just to let you know how nice they are by letting you watch some of their shows online for free. I usually watch Grey's Anatomy, but via the FEP I recently discovered a new TV show. It's on TV on Wednesday nights, but you think I remember to watch it then? It's just not that important to me. So, in my free time, I go to abc.com to watch Better Off Ted. There are lots their shows online too, like Lost and Desperate Houswives.

Really, there are so many things you can do online. Like virtual makeovers. Seriously, how can you ever be bored with Google? There are also my old favorites- bored.com- you have not lived until you've played all of the escape games, painted your personality, and tested your psychic powers. And don't forget good ol' neopets and this video.

Don't Die Izzie Stevens!

Having nothing to do, since I wasn't needed to babysit tonight, I started looking up Grey's Anatomy stuff. And OMG- why didn't I think of this before?! Years of me complaining about how none of my friends watch the show so I had nobody to talk to about it, but there are like a million message boards.

So a few episodes ago, was the whole "I'm here for you thing." To catch up all non-GA fans, Izzie had been spending a lot of time with Denny, her dead fiance (he was a patient in season 2). While Denny was there as a ghost, Izzie was having relationships with him (coitus), which was weird and confusing since she is going out with Alex. So she decides to be with Alex over Denny. After she tells him this though he won't go away. He can't and he tells her "I'm here for you" and that she's a doctor and she needs to figure it out. That episode ends with Izzie figuring it out- she's sick. That's what Denny meant. In case you're having problems with my explanation- dead fiance ghost telling you you're sick = not good.

In the next episode Izzie gets the interns to do tests on her, under the pretense that they are doing it for practice before they do it on real patients. Incompetent intern, Sadie (incompetence proven in next episode where she ends up quitting), gives Izzie her blood test back and all it says is that she's anemic, but the Sadie's real patient might have cancer. An episode later, Izzie is doing a craft project and can't find the scissors which are right in front of her face.

And that's all they say about it! Oh, stupid GA -Private Practice crossover is more important!

People on the internet are saying that Izzie might die. Katherine Heigel has implied publicly that she doesn't want to do the show anymore, and in kind of an insulting manner. This has lead people to believe that the writers are going to kill her off - most likely via brain tumor. However I found this quote from Shonda Rhimes, “I think the love triangle with Denny, Izzie, and Alex is among the most interesting we’ve ever done. Watching the chemistry between Jeffrey and Katherine again has been really touching. I can’t wait for our viewers to see where we’re taking it. But what it won’t involve is Izzie having a brain tumor.” *

Well, that's nice and all, but folks on the Internet are speculating something like, brain aneurysm, or something where even if she doesn't die, she'll be incapable of performing surgery and that will be her excuse for leaving the show. Now, personally I think the brain aneurysm thing is overdone and would not be a good storyline, but what if she leaves the show? Another idea is that maybe Sadie mixed up Izzie's test results with cancer lady. Sounds too predictable to me. Not only would I be upset if Izzie left the show, but I would be mad for them doing it in such a stupid way. Then I discovered this one yahoo answers:

"Here is my guess:
Denny kept telling Izzie, "You're a doctor. You figure it out. You're a scientist." I think that was his way of telling her to figure out that she has some sort of physical sickness, like a brain aneurysm, that causes her to see and feel hallucinations. Remember the episodes with Meridith and Derek's clinical trials? Some of the patients had intense hallucinations. Or even Eli Stone, he has an aneurysm that causes him to have intensely real hallucinations.
I think Izzie finally figured out that she is truly sick. Denny was telling her that he was there for her so that she would stop to think, "Why am I having hallucinations?" He wasn't trying to "be there for her" like a friendly emotional shoulder. He was there FOR her to realize that she was sick.
Again, just my guess."
-lysharenee

After I read that I was like, omg- yes! hallucinations! It ties everything in and it would make the storyline more plausible.

I am so messed-up about this. I can't wait til Thursday for a clue, but it's gonna be another GA/PP one. Congrats to the show for keeping me on the edge of my seat (but in the meantime I'm going to go pull my hair out).

Anyway, I just hope that Izzie Stevens doesn't leave the show. She's one of the mainest characters and the show just wouldn't be the same without her. I would have a really hard time watching the show without her. There have been so many characters added Erica, Dr. Dixen, Lexie, Sadie, ped surgeon who's name I can't recall (and Callie, Addison, and Mark were early add-ons) , and so many who have left- Burke, Addison, Erica, and now Sadie. This show has had so many shuffled characters, which is ok I guess, it keeps it interesting, but at some point we fans just need people to be fans of, and that won't happen if nobody stays on the show. In my opinion Izzie can't leave because it would put a crack in the foundation of the whole show. Plus, the "character shuffling", is a crack, Burke leaving was a crack, ghost Denny was maybe not the smartest idea. I just don't want the show to crumble. I love the show too much. I stood by through all the craziness, and now that the show is back on it's feet plot-wise, I don't want it to fall again.


*http://www.greysanatomynews.com/2008/11/18/greys-anatomy-spoilers-no-brain-tumor-for-izzie-whats-next-for-callie/

No offense

I saw a commercial yesterday and at the bottom it read, "Real People, Not Actors." So, in case you're wondering- actors are not real people.

(It's a joke people.)