Just a bit of background.

We have three kitties. Sundae is white with one blue eye and one green eye and she thinks she is a friggin' queen in this house. Mike doesn't help with his constant spoiling of her. We have a kitty named Mama. She is named such because she was once an outside stray that had a litter of kitties in our backyard. She is now an indoor kitty. When we brought her in the house, we discovered she was deaf. Not completely, but very deaf. So, now she is a permanent indoor kitty. She's got kind of an overall gray look about her, but she pretty much has every color in the mix. Not the prettiest mix of colors, but she's still one of my cuties.  One of her babies from that backyard litter is also one of our babies. Her name is Toe. Yes, as in a foot digit. She is such a sweet little thing. She doesn't ask for much. She just likes her daily outside trips to eat some grass and adventure around the garden area. She's mostly black with some orange undertones. 

Another bit of info... We have 2 water bowls. One metal one, and one of those fresh flowing kinds that has a water pump and makes the water flow and stuff. Sundae, white kitty, drinks from the fountain-y one. Other two drink from the metal bowl. I have no idea why, but that's just how they do. So, to sum up ... 1 white kitty & 2 non-white kitties.

A few minutes ago, Mike makes a funny...

"Wow, Sundae is slumming. She's drinking from the colored kitty bowl." 

I laughed forever. Goodtimes. 

OMG. I did something I never thought I would do. I completely biffed it on a treadmill at the gym yesterday. But, it wasn't cuz I was clumsy, or as Mike calls it "went to the Aggie school of walking".  Nono, a complete outside force was to blame. For the first 30 minutes I was on the elliptical. Usually I tend to have a higher heart rate without as much effort on there. However, it was like I was in water or something. I just couldn't get moving. So, I switched to the treadmill. I usually do move between treadmill & elliptical, but my goal yesterday was all elliptical. Oh well, it's about the quality of the workout, right? So, I hit a treadmill, and then realize it's kinda broken cuz it wants me to hit a button every minute to remind it I'm actually there. There's plenty of others open so I go to another one. Then I realize that one is completely unplugged. Then, on the the third and final one. One problem. I didn't see that it was on. I forgot to mention I was in the cardio cinema, so it's DARK. So, I attempt to walk up to the panel and start my thing but instead I smash down on my knee/shin/elbow. A couple of guys come running up cuz I had to have looked out of it. And my friend who was in the front of the cinema finally realized it was me that made all that noise, so she came running too. Talk about embarrassing. Thank gawd it is so dark in there, cuz I can guarantee that I was as bright red as an heirloom tomato. My friend Erika makes sure it's stopped and I do manage to get on it and start up the rest of my workout. I can tell I've done something to my knee though, but I just keep going. After we finished, I make sure my pants aren't torn -- they weren't. Then I rolled up my pants and day-amn, my knee looks like raw ground beef. There's another bit of skin down my shin that's raw, and I already have 2 bruises that popped up on my other leg. This morning I noticed my elbow is also skinned and bruised.

I thought I would share my misery, so I quit dwelling on it and not want to go back to the gym or something. Tonight, Erika and I are doing the Body Flow class then following that up with Body Combat. I've never done either class, so this should be interesting.

Mike and I celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary today. It was a subtle affair but very relaxing and fun. After work, I chilled out a bit, and then took a slight nap. Mike woke me up when he got home and said "hurry, hurry, we need to leave for dinner now!"  When I was finally awake enough to comprehend anything, he presented me with a gorgeous bouquet of red, yellow, and peach roses. I can't remember the last time I had roses. Even though they might be the overused flower of choice among mail suitors, sometimes you just cannot go wrong. These are so beautiful and smell delicious! I quickly dressed and we headed across the highway to The Melting Pot for our 7:15pm reservation. This was my 3rd visit, and Mike's 2nd. I love going there. It's such an experience. 

We ordered a bottle of Kim Crawford Unoaked Chardonnay. I've been really digging the Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, so I thought what the heck. The Unoaked was equally yumyum. For our first course, we started with the Wisconsin Trio cheese course which includes, Fontina, Butterkase, and Buttermilk Bleu cheeses. This cheese is divine. I'm a bleu cheese bitch, so I'm easy that way. Part way through that we got a California Salad, which included Gorgonzola cheese, which I also adore. For our main course we chose the Seafood Trio (salmon, shrimp, scallops) and the Vegetarian (artichoke, tofu, mushrooms, eggplant, artichoke hearts). We discovered quickly that we really only needed to choose one. Mike ate a couple shrimp, but otherwise didn't touch the seafood. I did try to make up for that though :D  We ended our evening with the Dark Chocolate with Raspberry Puree dessert course. Dippers included bananas, strawberries, cheesecake, graham cracker coated marshmallows, oreo coated marshmallows, and pound cake. I thought I wouldn't be able to make it all the way through, but the way things are paced really helped. The whole dinner took us a little over 3 hours. 

For any of the girlies that I know, we need to find us a reason to go and have us a ladies shindig. This is a great place for a social gathering, and I need some good ol' fashion ladies time.  Have your people call my people. Or yanno, email me :D

Those of you that know me, know I love television. Those of you that don't, well, I love television. September is the month that marks the beginning of the Fall Season for the networks. Usually I'm very on top of this. I would know the name of every show being premiered, and I would know it's basic premise. Hell, I might even have a copy of the pilot before it ever airs. That's just how I roll. 

Not so this year. I don't know what it is, but my motivation for the new series this year is quite deteriorated. However, there still are some new shows out there that I've seen.

I will warn folks that I tend to like the shows that most of America doesn't seem to like. Call me slightly left of center or whatever, but I hated Friends, I hated Everybody Loves Raymond (couldn't even finish one episode, painful painful crap), and Seinfeld is ok. So, see, I tend to not watch many sitcoms at all. The comedies I do watch are Scrubs, My Name Is Earl, The Office, and once upon a time Arrested Development. Getting the theme there? No canned laughter. No "filmed in front of a studio audience" bs. I think I'm perfectly capable of figuring out what is funny and when to laugh.

I shall now share my opinions of some of my favorite new shows of this season thus far

Chuck - NBC Mondays 8/7c - Chuck is a dork of sorts that basically has no life. He had a serious girlfriend ages ago, and still harps on about her, which in turn makes him quite unattractive to future females. You know the kind of guy I'm talking about. He's not unattractive, but he's kinda dorky, got lucky once with a fine specimen of a chica, and just can't seem to let it go. You feel me? Anyway, so, ho-hum is his life. Surprise, Surprise, he's an IT type dude for a big chain store. One day he receives this weird email from his college roommate that got all the hotties. He opens it and out spills hours and hours worth of images that apparently have the country's secrets embedded in them. Little does ol' Chuck know, that he's absorbed all this info. Now he's basically being hunted for his knowledge. The best way to describe this show is to say it's sort of a cross between The 40 Year Old Virgin & Alias. Yes, that probably sounds very bizarre, but I gotta tell ya. I love this show. The humor balances out the action very nicely. There's even a lil' bit of the sexual tension in the show. If you haven't yet, check it out. Good times.

Reaper - CW Tuesday 9/8c - This is the age old story of a dude whose soul has been sold to the devil by his parents.  For 20+ years, Sam has been treated very very well by his parents. They let him get away with anything and everything. Because of this, he ends up being your average slacker-dude with no ambition, and not much in the way of a promising future. When Sam turns 21, he finds out why he's been treated so well. When he was a baby, his parents sold his soul to the devil. Now, before you get all judgey mcjudge, they had a good reason. One of the parents was gonna die. Guess it seemed like a fair trade at the time. He's the devil's bitch now. He has to hunt down souls that have escaped hell and return them. We can't have demonic dudes running around all willy-nilly, right? So, while still working his day job at a big box home improvement type store, he has to find the time to be a bounty hunter. No problem.

Two episodes in, and I'm really digging it. The main dude, is from Fox's The Loop (yah, I'm sure you didn't see it, cuz it seemed Fox didn't want anyone seeing it), and he fits the part very well. I'm not generally a big fan of anything that The CW puts out, but this is definitely worth the DVR space.

 Pushing Daisies - ABC Wednesdays 8/7c - I love this show! Friggin'-A! Oh, sorry, premature evaluation :D This show plays like a fairy-tale. So, this dude Ned, discovers at an early age that he has the ability to bring things back from the dead -- people, animals, vegetation, whatever -- with just a touch. When his mom keels over from a brain aneurysm, he is quick to touch her and bring her back. Unfortunately he discovers a consequence of his resurrection talent. If he allows the person to stay alive for more than a minute, then the universe appears to correct itself, by making someone nearby croak instead. In the case of his mother's prolonged breathing status, he accidentally kills the father of his first love, Chuck (yes, a girl). Shortly after that, he gets another surprise when his mother goes to kiss him goodnight. Ya see, a second touch, kills the person again. So, one touch good, two touches bad. So, Ned lives a very solitary life as a pie maker who has to pet his dog with a wooden hand extension thingy, so's not to kill him. Ok, so I love this show. Ned is such a cutie. The quirkiness of the show is what draws me in I think. It does seem to have a slight Dead Like Me feel, but only just.

Just a quick run of some others that I've seen - Cavemen -- SUCKED! But what can you expect of a show based of a series of commericials; Bionic Woman -- I might have to watch a couple more to make a definitive decision; Aliens in America -- eh; Cane - not even gonna bother to try; Private Practice - while I have liked Grey's Anatomy in the past, I'm not sure if I want to try this one yet. 

If you're lucky, I might write later about some of the returning shows. I'm unpredictable like that.

So, what is everyone else out there watching?