fall DVR line up

Fall is my favorite season of the year for so many different reasons. I love the changing colors. I really enjoy when it is the perfect temperature, about 55 to 60 degrees when you can rock a sweatshirt, jeans, and flip flops. But I especially enjoy the new seasons of TV shows that restart, as well as brand new shows. So I will compile a list of shows that have been lucky enough to make it to my DVR schedule.

The Event: I have only watched the pilot episode of this show so far, but I liked that alot. The reviews explained it as a mix between Lost and 24. I really need to pay attention to this show so haven't caught up on the last few episodes.

My Generation: One of my favorite shows a few years back was called Reunion, and like all shows that I thoroughly enjoy (October Road, Freaks and Geeks, etc) it got cancelled after the first season. I truly think that I should get a job at a big television station and pre-screen their new shows. If I like it, it will flop! This show is about a group of high school kids. It is filmed documentary style and is following them 10 years later, when they are all about 28. It also has flashbacks to high school and adds depth to the characters and plot. I really like this show so far, but now that I think about it, it wasn't on the DVR this week.... I hope they didn't cancel it already!

Glee: No explanation needed. LOVE this show!

The Biggest Loser: I do like to watch this show and see the amazing results that people get. It also helps to motivate me to watch what I eat and get my fat ass in the gym from time to time.

The Vampire Diaries: I dig vampires, that's about all I can say for this show! It is based off of books written by L.J. Smith, which I own all of before they even talked about this show in production. Sanchez and I read all of these books when we were sophomores in high school because we are obviously super cool like that.

Outsourced: When I looked up reviews for the new fall lineup, this show was compared to The Office so of course it made the list. I have been somewhat disappointed so far to be honest. It is about a young American professional who is sent to India to train employees at a call center for a company that sells American Novelties, such as Packer's Cheese Heads, singing wall fish, etc. I am going to give this show a few more episodes and then call it quits.

90210: I started watching this when it first came on a couple years ago. Now I don't like watching a show when I've missed a season (I missed last years season) but it literally was like I barely missed anything. I loved Beverly Hills 90210 circa 1990 - 2000, which is why I started watching the remake. The original was better, but this one still holds my attention.

Shows I wish were on my DVR list:
The Office
Grey's Anatomy
Mike and Molly

These are two of my all time favorite shows ever. It is sad that I cannot DVR them. I am one of those people that has to watch a show from its inception to its demise. I never watched The Office regularly from the beginning so I do not watch new episodes. I have, however, seen enough episodes to know that it is hilarious. I am just so far behind that I need to buy the seasons on DVD. This is the same dilemma with Grey's Anatomy. For some reason it did not DVR last year and I missed the whole season. It just does not feel right to skip a whole season and start watching it again. Therefore I will also just have to buy these on DVD. (I HAVE started DVR'ing the reruns of Grey's Anatomy that play on Lifetime and hopefully I can get caught up that way!)

Mike and Molly is a new comedy that started this year. It had to get cut off the list because there were too many other things that are scheduled to DVR during the same time frame.

Don't turn your back on the Wolfpac!

So I have been planning on visiting the Des Moines area since JamFla's return this summer, but our demanding weekend schedules have not yet allowed for this reunion. We have set a plan for me to visit over Halloween weekend. JamFla had the brilliant idea of reviving my Halloween costume circa 2008, Kevin Nash aka Big Sexy. JamFla has decided that her and her broseph are debating adding to the entourage as dressing as wrestlers as well. She asked me for ideas on who they could dress up as so I have decided to give the blogger world a little wrestling history lesson, in the hopes that JamFla can get some costume ideas. 

New World Order (nWo) was a group of wrestlers that were known for their logo, crazy antics, and sexy wrestlers. They had unmistakeable hand signs, kickass theme songs, and the popular slogan "When you're NWO, you're NWO for life." The establishment of the nWo helped build the popularity of professional wrestling in the 90's.


The founders of nWo.

Kevin Nash aka Big Sexy

Scott Hall

Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had been wrestlers in the WWF (now WWE). They left the company and joined the WCW in 1996. They came to the company and promised mass destruction and to take over wrestling. The pair sent out a challenge to the three best wrestlers of the WCW to a 6 person tag team match. Their challenge was answered by Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage.

The Challengers!

Sting

Lex Luger

Macho Man Randy Savage

When Nash and Hall were just about to lose the match to the three elite WCW wrestlers, Hulk Hogan himself runs to the ring. He shocked everyone by turning on his long time partner Randy Savage and helped Nash and hall to save the match and reveal that he is now in a partnership with them. He officially announced them the New World Order of wrestling and changed his name to Hollywood Hogan.... and so it began. 

The nWo started dominating the WCW and continued to bully and beat up any wrestler they chose. Their popularity grew. Sting went into hiding for almost a year. When Sting returned he beat Hulk for the title. Nash and Hogan began to have lovers quarrels and ending up splitting up the group. Two groups were formed: nWo Wolfpac and nWo Hollywood. Nash obviously ran the Wolfpac... because he didn't want to wind up in a body bag. Hogan was the leader of Hollywood. 

The group ended up getting back together and were known as the nWo elite. They continued to wear the red and black color donned by the Wolfpac. They also made a smart choice and stuck with the entrance song used by Wolfpac members. 

The nWo ended up dying out and the WCW went down with it. When the WCW was purchased by WWF they tried to revive the nWo for a short period of time. Some of the WWF wrestlers joined the group, including Booker T and Shawn Michaels. Injuries and personal drunken arrests led to Nash and Hall leaving wrestling for a period of time, which was the ultimate demise of the group. This story was probably completely boring to those of you who don't appreciate terrible acting and kickass wrestling skills, but the nWo really did shape the world of professional wrestling in the late 90's. 

The main purpose of this was to wet my own appetite for reliving the glory days of watching wrestling, as well as to give JamFla some background info so she can better make a decision for Halloween options. So I will end this post with some pictures of other members of the nWo when it ran its course so costume ideas can be born!

Note: I am not listing all of the members because there were over 50 throughout the lifespan of the group. 

Syxx (before he turned into XPac... SUCK IT!)

Buff Bagwell

Sting after becoming a member of the Wolfpac and changing his face paint color palette.

The Giant... later known as the Big Show

Yep... that's Dennis Rodman, his cool factor just went up a notch. 

The Wolfpac!! Konnan, Sting, Nash, Savage, and Luger

Original Members

Job Search

So I have slowly started searching for new jobs. I have applied for a position here in Fort Madison at the prison in the last month. They told me I wasn't qualified, which I already knew but I figured what's the harm in trying right? I have also slowly been looking for jobs that are not in Fort Madison. The only place I have really looked is in Des Moines. I know myself pretty well and I am a realist and know that I would not like to move somewhere where I don't know someone already. This is why I have been searching in Des Moines because I feel like it isn't too far away from home, and my wonderful friends Dieter Tits and JamFla both reside there.

I started working at my job because the opportunity came up and I need experience to bone up my resume. I have now been working here for a year. There are things I like about the job, there are things I love about my job, and there are starting to be an overwhelming number of things I hate about it. The number of things I hate about the job adding up so quickly, the fact that I get paid crap is not helping the situation. So the search for a job in Des Moines continues, as does research on living expenses in that area compared to here!

It's been awhile

Well ladies and gents... (if anyone even reads this anymore)    I have decided that perhaps I should rekindle my blog posting. Some interesting things have happened in the past year and I could have been gracing you all with my humiliating and embarassing life stories if only to make you feel a tad better about your own lives! Yeah... I've done that humiliating of things in the past year. Anywho, I still read JamFla's blog religiously and everytime I log in to my page I get stared down by my most recent post,( which happens to be New Years resolutions that I have made no progress on whatsoever) and I figure I can start enlightening others with what is going on in my life, or what isn't. Stay tuned for new updates and posts!

New Years Resolutions

I am going to post my resolutions so that I feel guilty if I don't achieve them.

1. Lose 40 more pounds.

2. Quit smoking sometime this year. (cigarettes... not the pole.. obviously)

3. Finish my thesis. 

Happy New Year everyone! New year... New decade... New rules.. Bring it 2010!!