Glee

  Yes many people think Glee is a joke.  But many people watch Glee.  Season One (which was before I started watching it) had an average of 9.18 million people watching per episode (exact number is 9,178,636.364).  The current season (season two) has an average of 12.69 million people watching per episode (exact number is 12,693,076.92).
  So far, the most widely viewed Glee episode is "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" which premiered on February 6th.  This episode premiered to 26.8 million people right after the Superbowl XLV.  "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" was the start of the second half of season two.
  Surprisingly (or not), only 11.58 million people watched Glee the next week ("Silly Love Songs").  This is less than half of the population the week before.  This leads me to believe one of two things... either 1. People set their DVR to record Glee in case the Superbowl went over its allotted time, or 2. People watched Glee to watch Glee and knew that the next week's episode wouldn't be good.
  Honestly, I like Glee.  I will talk about it with my friends, I will watch it every week, ect.  But the episode titled "Comeback" was not great.  I didn't enjoy it that much.  And this is partially due to the Justin Bieber aspect of it.
  It's not because I am a "hater" of Justin Bieber, I just do not like how it fit into everything else.  I also don't think that it was a good person to cover.  They could've covered much better people but in that particular episode, they chose not to.
  But that is another great point, nothing in Glee fits very much into other things.  In these short 1.5ish seasons, Glee has dropped countless plots and characters.  Just to name a few... Will and Emma's love which was completely dropped after she got married, Dijon Talton who played Matt Rutherford in season one, Will's x-wife,  Quinn's baby, Rachel's mother, and (very very unfortunately) Kurt.  Well, Kurt hasn't been dropped yet but we are seeing less and less of him.
  The sad thing about this is that the Glee's writers and directors can get away with dropping every slightly unappealing character or storyline.  They can do this as long as the viewers are happy and making them money.  This is unfair because I think ALL the Glee viewers want to know whether Will's ex got pregnant when he was sick in "The Substitute", or any other number of dropped items.
  I am not sure if Glee is getting increasingly better or worse.  Season one had the original six characters; Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Tina.  What I think season two has better in that aspect is that the main characters; Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, Tina, Mike, Brittany, Quinn, Santana, Puck, and others have lives outside of Glee club.
  But what season one had better was that the storyline made sense.  Each episode was a continuation of the last one and the beginning of the next one.  Currently, our plot line was "yay-football-lets-have-the-team-sing-and-dance-with-us-to-create-unity", then it was "omg-im-going-to-set-up-a-kissing-booth-and-get-the-one-i-love", then it was "damn-i-need-my-girl-back-damn-he-stole-my-girl", and this week it is "ew-party-at-rachel's-bring-beer".  The kissing booth and the Justin Bieber ones kinda related to each other.
  But now we just sit and wait... Wait until Kurt and Blaine finally kiss...  Wait until Sam and Quinn get back together... Wait until the plot makes more sense...
  Though I do have to give the writers some credit.  They do deal with modern-day high school issues like relationships, sexuality, bullies, ect.  They do make it seem kind of "real" except that it is totally not because Lea Michele (Rachel) is currently 24,  Cory Monteith (Finn) is 28, and Amber Riley (Mercedes) is 25.  Most of the cast is 24 with Cory Monteith, Harry Shum Jr, and Mark Salling being the oldest people to supposedly play high schoolers at the age of 28, whereas Chris Colfer is the youngest Glee member at the age of 20 which is STILL older than a high schooler.

-Em
(Song pick of the day: "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers)

Stupid White Stuff

  Why?  Why do the gods of weather hate me? (or like the actua planets really).  I'm tired of this stupid white stuff we all call "snow".  Technically it is not snow.  It is really annoying ice.

  Right now weather.com says cloudy but that is only because the sky isn't falling on us.  Dramatic much?  But today it has precipitated at least 0.15 inches and it has snowed at least 1.4 inches.  Greeeeeeeeeaaaatttt right??  We have at least 1.5 FEET of snow on our deck (accumulated) because every week, it freaking snows.

  Yeah, everyone is like "OMG I LOVE SNOW!" but when we have it every week starting the day after Christmas, it starts to get a little old.  Scratch that, more like really annoyingly old.  And shoveling snow can hurt your back and possibly give you frostbite.  Fun, right?

  My mom had gotten an email a few days ago about living where we do.  Everyone thinks living here is so great but just wait until you move here!  Yeah the deer are cool, the Christmas's are usually white, and winter is an actual winter, but just move here.  See what we see.

  From my perspective I see ugly, dirty snow pushed up against the curb in two to three feet tall piles,  I see an ice covered driveway, I see a convertible in the garage, and I see so much freaking white that its boring. The only good thing about this winter is that it is finally getting my parents to get a move on into the new house down south.  But sadly I don't get to live there yet.  It is the "vacation house" and eventually the "retirement home".

  Grr SNOW STOP FALLING UNTIL THE NEXT ICE AGE!! WE ARE TIRED OF YOU AND WE ALL HATE YOU!!!

-Em

(Song pick of the day: "Firework" by Katy Perry)