January 25th, 2012
It seems that I have a new addiction. It is eating away at my time, and I’ve discovered that I can literally spend hours doing it. It calls my name at various times of the day: “Hey Marva, don’t you want to check me out to see what’s new?” I’m addicted…and I love it!
The “it” is Pinterest. All those beautiful things that I see once or twice on the web? Well now they have a place to call home. Pinterest is my own personal web pinboard. I don’t have to bookmark this page or that, I don’t have to save pictures to my hard drive anymore…I simply pin whatever it is that has caught my eye to the board of my choice…and voila! I am still fairly new to Pinterest, but I already have 15 boards. Of what, you ask? Well, I have one for clothes that catch my eye; I have another for food and frosty beverages; I even have one for those pictures of beautiful men that make me say, “Damn!”
What I like best is that it is truly a community thing. People I don’t know follow me, and I follow people who I don’t know. The community thing helps you to connect with people who you might not connect with under normal circumstances. It gives me a chance to share my love of shoes and books and beautiful men and houses (I think you get the point). I don’t know who’s idea Pinterest was, or how it came about, but I want to give that person (or persons, whatever works) a great big hug and a gold star!
Anywho, my name is Marva and I am a Pinterest addict. And I’m quite okay with that. If you are there too, press the button and let me know you are there. We may like some of the same things.
Jump up in the air, and stay there…
~ M
May 20th, 2010
I love good television. Whether it is funny or sad, a drama or reality, good television allows me to escape my world and enter another. For six seasons now, Grey’s Anatomy has been my escape. On Thursday nights, I usually order up some kind of dinner for me and my son (to avoid cooking) and hunker down in front of the television. Grey’s has not failed me yet.
This season finale, season 6, may be the end all to be all of all season finales. From the very first 9 minutes, I was hooked. The tension, the happy, the sad, and the mad…all of those emotions I have felt while sitting in my chair. That is what good television should do for you.
Even though I was mad as hell about the whole Isaiah Washington-Katherine Heigl-T.R. Knight thing, I still watched. A weird way to express my anger, I know…but addictions cannot be cured overnight. And I have never been one to quit on something midway through. Even when it was almost insufferable and the story seemed to drag on without any heartbeat, I watched. And now that the season is ending, I will miss it.
Shows like this make me appreciate good television. But you can’t have good television without good writing. Shonda Rhimes and her writing team are phenomenal. I cannot even begin to express it any more clearly than that. And even with that good writing, it would be nothing without the talented actors and actresses. Sandra Oh simply shows her ass in this episode, as does Chandra Wilson. I could go on, but then I would just be giving it all away.
And I am not going to give away any of the details of this show. If you haven’t seen it, please pray that your DVR recorded it or that you can catch the ep online over at Hulu. Because this is one episode that you can’t miss.
