no longer M.I.A.

Sorry for my leave of absence. Yesterday was Brian’s birthday so for the past 48 hours I have been running around trying to finish up the homemade presents and wrap the store bought ones. I know 48 hours seems like a lot of time to spend planning someone’s birthday especially since we are no longer in elementary school, but you already know my stance on birthdays! Although turning 24 doesn’t seem monumental, it is always nice to be spoiled for your birthday. I have planned the actual party for Saturday night so I will take tons of pictures to post of my drunken birthday boy! I know, I know – I also said I would post pictures from MY birthday and that hasn’t happened yet. But it will tomorrow. I promise. I already uploaded them to my computer and planned to post them quickly but didn’t realize stamping 365 cards with red kisses would take several hours and I got behind schedule.

I am sure you are thinking: 365 kiss cards?! What?! Yah I got this brilliant idea to write down 365 things I love about him and put them in a box so he could read one every morning for a year. I decided to print out the reasons on card stock and than stamp a kiss on the back of each… so when he opens the box all he sees are kisses and not text. It sounded like a great idea but executing it was extremely time consuming. And yes, I realize the absurdity of finding 365 things to love about someone you have known for little over a year but what can I say? I guess I am a romantic… or insane.

So with my birthday come and gone and his birthday put on hold until Saturday, I can finally breathe! Tomorrow I will tell about the South Carolina mischief I got into but today’s post must be shorter due to my time constraints (i.e. – boss giving me files to deal with. ugh.) so I will write about the newest MTV show debuting December 6.

People know that I am obsessed with horrible ‘reality’ shows on MTV. I don’t try to hide my guilty pleasure and yet am well aware it is slightly pathetic. Sure, Real World, The Duel, and True Life are fun and entertaining shows that several of my peers enjoy. Those aren’t the shows I am talking about. It’s the mindless dribble that I cant help but love that embarrasses me: Laguna Beach, The Hills, Sweet 16, Tiara Girls, etc. I wouldn’t say I sit on the couch and watch while ignoring all phone calls… but somehow I get sucked in when flipping channels keeping my interest much longer than I wish to admit. I have made peace with my little MTV teeny bopper reality show obsession… until now. Even I have limits.

The newest show to pop up on MTV is Twentyfourseven. (Yes, MTV made it all one word which I think makes me hate it even more.) I could tell you the premise of the show, but Best Week Ever seems to have already done the job nicely:

“What happens when a bunch of dudes who want to be famous stop being polite, and start acting like real douchebags, all while being followed around by MTV cameras? If you want to find out, be sure to tune into MTV on December 6th to check out Twentyfourseven, a new reality show that tells the story of 7 guys - Greg the “Entrepreneur”, Chris the “Rock Star”, Frankie the “Club Promoter”, Matt the “Actor”, and so on - as they all try to “make it big” in Hollywood by simply drinking energy drinks, having MySpace pages, rounding up “ladies”, making terrible music, wearing trucker hats, fighting, putting “positive vibes into their salads”, “poppin’ bottles”, and doing a whole bunch of other sh*t that sums up why I never go to Los Angeles. So if you just don’t have enough deluded friends who want to be famous of your own, tune in each week to watch this “crew”, “livin’ it”, “twentyfourseven”. It’s the best Hollywood Morons Acting Like Jackasses show since Entourage, but not quite so “high-brow”. These guys, for obvious reasons, are today’s Daily Douches.” source

To see the horrible trailer for this show, click here. It’s actually so bad it’s pretty funny… which might be my downfall. I am worried that I will flip channels, stumble upon it, and be interested enough to watch for five minutes to see how lame these guys really are and laugh at their poser attitudes and fake celebrity egos. But I am scared those five minutes will suck me in like a train wreck… I wont be able to look away! I will want to see more positive vibe salads, popped collars, trucker hats, and guys singing off key who think they have talent while being produced by their friends who think they are celebs. Ugh. I should set my parental controls on my tivo so I can’t even watch this. I cant allow myself to be sucked in. I just cant.