The beginning of a long story. And allergies.

This blog post is brought to you by a Lint Brush, my husband's current favorite new item.


So, back to our originally scheduled programming. I have been away for awhile, due to the end of the semester (all my graduate school friends in the house say HEY!), a vacation, and a massive flood that completely overtook my entire basement, ruined everything, and resorted to me having to leave cat boxes in my bedroom. Needless to say, its been a long two months.

I'll get into that later though. Cause of the flood we have had construction, which has been KILLING my allergies. I haven't felt this miserable in forever. Today I decided (after two weeks) to finally get some actual allergy medicine, rather than hiding in my bedroom whining because I felt miserable. Anyway, when I opened the medicine, I found this (see right). Now, I expected there to be a little cotton ball in there, but this completely threw me through a loop. Apparently some company has started making actual absorbent..things..for pill bottles to be used in place of cotton balls?
What made it all the more weird was that this was a Walmart brand allergy medicine. I never expected anything so fancy from an Equate product.

Anyway, later this week, I will post my musings about the first episode of True Blood Season 4. This will be my summer attempt at seriously blogging about a television show.

I will also post more about what happened with the house, my weight loss (down 10 lbs since April 28 yo!) and any other weird things that come to mind. Like finding strange things in my pills.

Weight Loss

All of you are just getting to know me, so none of you are probably aware of the struggles I have had, for years, with my weight. However, hopefully this summer all of that will change! I have started a competition with a few friends from college here in our hometown, and we are going to be blogging about our weight loss, our journeys to how we developed the weight in the first place, and our general feelings about the process. Join us!

http://dtwidivine.blogspot.com/

Are we having another writers strike?

It seems like this season of shows is very thin. I do not know if it is just because my husband and I don't have as many shows on our "list to watch" as we did in college or what, but it seems like we are going weeks and weeks without having shows to watch regularly. This week, the only show we watch tonight (Thursdays) that is on is the Office, and that is only semi regularly. Maybe I just notice this because we DO have too many shows we watch, and when they aren't on, there is a void. Have your favorite shows been canceled a lot this season?

The name of the blog

The name of this blog was inspired by a shirt my paternal grandmother gave me several years ago. As a child, I read almost constantly. In the summer, I would finish two to three books a week. So, the shirt read Cats? Books? Life is Good. However, now that passion is not so much limited to books (going from high school to undergraduate work, then straight into a Master's degree kind of kills the desire to read for fun), and has extended to all forms of media, more specifically television. Hence, the name.

Ramblings of a future media critic

First, a welcome. Welcome to my blog, which will be a collection of ramblings about my cats, the media I enjoy, graduate school, and anything else that pops into my head at any given time. You'll never know what you are getting from me!

My name is Sharon, and I am a graduate student in Professional Communication. That probably doesn't mean much to most of you who are reading this, so let me explain. At my university, our Master's program in Communication can really be formed to whatever the student wants it to be. I have chosen a route that involves taking mostly media classes. My goal is to become an excellent Cultural Studies scholar, and eventually spend most of my time teaching at a university and watching television shows and critiquing them for research. This blog is a start up to make that happen.

I am also happily married. We have been together since we were 18, and have been together for 6 years (if you do the math, you can figure out how old we are at this point in time). He is a web designer for a trucking company, but enjoys media about as much as I do. We have three wonderful, furry children who never cease to make us laugh. Their names are Carbon Teddy(like the element), Hiro Bonsai (like the character from Heroes), and Echo Lilian Penny (Echo from Dollhouse, Lily from How I Met Your Mother, and Penny from The Big Bang Theory). My other passions include traveling, doing home improvement projects (even when they might not be necessary), and many other things that will be unveiled in this blog.