Lame TV Slump

I watch my fair share of TV shows and I enjoy them.

My usual TV schedule was:
Everyday: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy
Mondays: Dancing with the Stars
Tuesdays: Dancing with the Stars Results
Wednesdays: South Park
Thursdays: My Name is Earl and The Office

But during this season, there is NOTHING on TV but re-runs. I know I should probably be doing something else more productive during these times but I like my shows and it's time Josh and I spend together. Ugh! I can't wait for something new to come on! During the slump, Josh and I usually try to watch one of the older TV series we have that we haven't watched in awhile or we watch movies instead but movies take up more time than the TV shows they replace.

My all time favorite TV show is "I Love Lucy". It is always funny no matter how many times you watch it and it's clean. Not that being "clean" has anything to do with me liking it but it goes to show that comedy can actually be appropriate for everyone not just adults.

My favorite TV show that is currently on is a big tie between "The Office" and "South Park". The Office is so hysterical. I laugh every time I see that show for a new reason. Michael (Steve Carrell) is the king of awkward comedy and I always love seeing what Jim (John Krasenski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) are going to do to Dwight (Rainn Wilson).

South Park is probably the most controversial show that I really love. I know, I know. I shouldn't like it but I do! It has great current event satire and everyone knows how "not" sarcastic I am :).

Missing the new TV season,
Larisa

My Girls

Lola

Lola is my diva. Currently, she is sitting in my lap as I type this, looking smugly down at the other puppies not in my lap. She is the alpha dog of our little pack. When we got her at Noah's Ark Pets, she weighed just under one pound. We had to cut socks for her to wear. We tried to take her outside but it was January when we got her and she would sit on our shoes. She is so prissy. She thinks she is so much better than the other dogs. She loves to wear little doggie clothes and she loves to travel. She is affectionate but on her terms. She will come to you when she wants to be petted and snuggle close to your hands to make sure you know. :) My favorite thing about Lola is when she is really happy she wags her tail and pulls back her ears and looks like she is smiling.

Chloe

Chloe was our second little girl. We got her to be a friend to Lola. When we moved into our house, Lola got lonely because we had been living with my parents who have two other dogs. Chloe was so shy and skittish when we got her. She wouldn't even play with Lola but Lola was so excited to have another dog in the house I don't think she really cared. Chloe's tail is my favorite! She is always so happy and her tail wags so hard you can hear it throughout the house. Thump, Thump, Thump. You can tell where she is always. She is our good girl and our referree. She breaks up the fights between Lola and Hannah. She even took to Hannah when we first got her as her momma. It was so sweet. :)

Hannah

The picture really says it all. Hannah is our youngest puppy. She has an attitude and therefore is our little trouble maker. She LOVES to chew up paper, bark, run, andstart fights with the other dogs. Her all time favorite thing to do though is to play fetch. She will fetch FOREVER! She also always feels the urge to play with a squeaky toy when I'm on the phone. This never seems to fail. Call me anytime so she can demostrate. :) However, she can be just as sweet as the rest of them when she slows down and decides to curl up in your lap.

Typing quietly so Lola doesn't wake up and realize this whole blog isn't all about her,
Larisa

Past Poems I have Authored

Here are two poems I wrote in my senior year of high school. Enjoy!

"She is Me"

As I sit here at my desk

I stare at my mirror

I see a young girl, only 17

Staring back into my eyes

She is a dreamer, a planner, and a learner

Just like me

She has confident brown eyes and unique features

Just like me

She is creative and inspired by music

Just like me

She is a worker, a Christian, a girlfriend, and a daughter

Just like me

She laughs, cries, smiles, and frowns

Just like everyone else

She loves, hopes, wishes, and dreams

Just like everyone else

She has wants and needs, questions and answers

Just like everyone else

She blends in and stands out

Just like everyone else

She is familiar, yet a stranger

She is loud, yet silent

She is different, yet the same

She is strong, yet weak

She is you, yet she is me.

Larisa Childress 2005

“Only You”

You can quench my thirst better than rushing rivers.

You can take me to the sky’s limit because your love is limitless.

Your love shines brighter than a thousand stars.

Your love could fill all the books of time with its passion.

Your love is more beautiful than the evening sunset.

Your love is my absolute truth that no one can deny.

Your love is a harmony that is better than any love song.

Your love is as loud as church bells shouting out the time.

Your love is unspeakable through mere words.

Your love is higher than any mountain peak.

Your love warms me, protects me through winter’s iciest freeze.

You love is perfect like God’s creation.

Your love is musical, proclaiming itself for all to hear.

Your love belongs to me and no one will ever steal it from my heart.

If all these things I have described are proven, then it must be true

My everlasting love must only be fulfilled by

You.

Larisa Childress 2004

Goals for 2009 & A Big Thanks

I still haven't came up with a good "greeting" for this part. I need some creativity. If anyone has any suggestions, please comment.

As you all know, I created this blog to help with my anxiety therapy as part of my New Year's Resolution. For some reason, I have become a big supporter of New Year's Resolutions and keeping them. I don't know how they originated and I know most people don't really keep them but I like the idea. I try not to pick things I know I will never do, such as getting over my fear of needles (EKKKKK!) or getting up everyday at 6am (all I have to say is if I'm anything like my mom this will happen in time anyway). I try to pick things or one thing that I know I can do. Like the reading thing for 2008, I can read but I wasn't doing alot of it and I wanted to read more. I have read an adequate amount of books, nothing like what I used to have to read for school but a good pile of books none the less.

I also have a list of goals for 2009. To me, my goals aren't like my resolution. My goals are kind of a broad to do list that will probably take a year to accomplish. I thought I would also include this in my blog to keep me more accountable as well. However, me placing this stuff on my blog isn't so people will hound me into doing them because I want to be accountable but because I feel like if I write it down I am more dedicated to doing it. Of course you are welcome to ask how my goals are coming but just don't hound me about it. I also don't mean that anyone who knows me and reads my blog would hound me about it I'm just putting it out there just in case someone finds it amusing to like e-mail me or call me everyday and ask.

Now that thats out of the way, on with the list.

1. Clean out my storage room downstairs and donate items or have a yard sale.
2. Being a Coupon Queen (I'll explain this later, too long to write now)
3. Paint some rooms in our house (I really want to do this. Any volunteers?)
4. Repay on some outstanding debts we owe.
5. Make some headway on watching all 100 of AFI's Best movies of all time list
6. Keep growing my nails and not chewing them
   
7. Lose some weight (I need help with this)
8. Keep taking vitamins
   
9. Try new recipes and share them with my family and friends
10. Budget our money better.

A BIG THANKS to all my wonderful family and friends that are actually follwing my blog. It really makes me feel great! I love knowing that people will read what I'm writing! It makes me feel so special and keeps me writing everyday. I know this is still new and I'm probably really boring but I appreciate anyone who is reading this taking the time to. Thank you for your support and encouragement. It is deeply appreciated from the bottom of my typing fingers.

Faithfully Typing,
Larisa

Quotes that I Enjoy

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together.It is when an imperfect couples learns to enjoy their differences" - Dave Meurer

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Bernard Williams

" Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all." - Hans Christian Andersen

"In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." - Charlotte Whitton

"When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason." - Molly McGee

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." - Pearl Bailey

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain

"How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. " - Steve Martin

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Enjoy!
Larisa