Yeah, it’s been busy at work, I got family stuff going on, I’ve really stepped up my marathon training (that’s a story for another time) blah, blah, blah…all that said you can completely blame THIS for my disappearance recently:

Do you hear that…the symphony of horns blaring from the heavens?  I do!  I do every time I go downstairs and turn this baby on.

Samsung LED 6000 Series Smart TV!

I have been waiting for soooooo long for a new TV.  The 55″ projection Sony we’ve had for the last 10 years is still in really great shape so while I have looked and looked, I just haven’t been able to pull the trigger.

Well two Sundays ago, flippin’ through the Sunday paper, I came across the Best Buy circular.  There I found this brand new model for a ridiculous price.  I went online to find more information but it was so new, it wasn’t even on their site yet.  I went to Samsung’s site and it was the same thing  there.  I was starting to wonder if it was just too good to be true. It wasn’t until Better Half essentially told me to suck it up and go by the freakin’ thing that I found the strength of conviction to finally take the plunge.

It is SOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!  The picture, incredible! 

I’m still rockin’ an old DVD player but that didn’t matter.  Popped in Star Wars and saw light and color that I have NEVER seen before. 

Oh, and then I discovered streaming video through Netflix!

And THEN I finally got a hold of Uverse so I could get the HD package added to our bundle.

So now, all I want to do when I get home and get Lil’ Baird in bed is watch my precious.  I’ve fallen asleep on my couch five night straight now…

Sorry! I’ll get my act together.

“We like it because it’s good. It’s naughty because we like it so much.”

Why did I start this blog?  That quote pretty much sums it up!

Yum, yum, let’s get some!

So when you spend a bunch of days keepin’ a 17 mo. old busy while she is home sick, you watch A LOT of Nick Jr. 

She doesn’t really…she’s bouncing around from toy to toy to snack to beatin’ up on her daddy.  However, I just sort of find myself in a hypnotic trance.

Leave it to “Yo Gabba Gabba!” to find a way to engage me.  Just add BACON!

Yes with bacon, there is always a party in my tummy!  So yummy, so yummy.

Need I say more?

I thought I’d share this video with you to get you prepared for tonight.  I saw this over on “Topless Robot” two weeks ago and have been sitting on it just for today.

Someone when through all five season and put together this film showing the fateful plane crash and those events immediately leading up to it in chronological order.  It was a mind trip watching it and actually sparked a brief moment of clarity.

Can’t wait, can’t wait….

So after a scheduling break last week due to the holidays, “Top Chef: Las Vegas” was back last night.

Thoughts about the first part of the Napa themed finale after the jump…

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Well now that was interesting…

Thoughts about last night’s “Top Chef: Las Vegas” after the jump…  [Read more →]

So last week Top Chef aired some  stupid “where are they now” type dinner party / conversation with past contestants.  BORING!!!  and disappointing as they didn’t make any sort of programming note after the previous week’s episode.  So last night’s was the first new ep in two weeks and that is on the heals of their last break in episodes…what’s up Bravo scheduling department???  Way to kill momentum.

Anywhooo…comments on this week’s show after the jump. [Read more →]

Okay – I’ve been talkin’ about catching up with my “Top Chef” viewing and posting, but I just can’t seem to set any time to write about the last three episodes that I’ve missed.  I’ve literally had five pages of notes that keep getting moved from home to work to home to work… 

So executive decision time, I’m just going to start fresh with last night’s show, “Meat Natalie“, then quickly touch on the last three “lost” episodes (Dinner Party / Pigs and Pinot / Restaurant Wars).

Let’s finally do this thing! [Read more →]

So from last week’s previews, I got all excited about this week’s episode.  I mean, Penn & Teller, I love those guys!!  But it all just ended up being no so exciting. It wasn’t a bad episode, just blah… [Read more →]

I love me some Top Chef, I really do…but this last ep was really kinda blah to me…here we go with the bullets! [Read more →]