Sometimes you just feel like you're in over your head...

[ladyofavalon77]

And you don’t see any way out. Right now we are pretty short staffed at work and our manager is always yelling at us to leave on time. How the heck are we supposed to get anything done? I think I’ll just start doing things on my lunch hour. It’s the only time I’m actually free and not being called to take members. When the one girl leaves because she’s due in a couple weeks, we’re really going to be screwed and expected to do twice the work. Stupid stupid stupid!! *blows out calming breath of air*

Ok, I vented. On to more happy matters! HAPPY BIRTHDAY,  _ila_!!! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with joy and surprises. If I could I’d grant you another season with Nina.  She was such a great character!! And for those of you who visit my journal regularly, notice anything new? *small smile* I changed the layout :D The main picture and icons are by crashandburn…I just rearranged them in an artistic way. This will be up for awhile *blissful sigh*

Well a lot of shows are in reruns but I haven’t seen this episode of Grey’s Anatomy!

Episode 3.7 (“Where The Boys Are”) for those keeping track. All the guys of Seattle Grace decide to go on a camping trip…much to the chagrin of Derek. Meanwhile Dr. McSteamy has the run of the hospital and all the ladies there in. *rolls eyes* Anyways I like the budding friendship between Addison and Callie…one is tough as nails while the other has a tender heart she rarely shows to anyone. It was so sad when they had to tell that mother that her baby was dead and then give birth to get it out of her system. What a terrible thing to go through. I loved Izzie’s little speech at the end where she explains that she misses Denny every single hour of every single day and doesn’t know what to do with those feelings. I also loved Burke’s return as Christina leaned her head against his strong arm and the loving, protective way he gazed down at her was a beautiful thing to behold. Another romantic moment to write down!

So one last show to review…more episodes of Magnum P.I.

Remember when I said that this show was pretty good? I take some of that back. This episode (1.8 “The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii”) was just so corny that all I will mention is the one part I thought was funny. Magnum stumbling on to a local weed patch guarded by those who enjoy farming that stuff…and not the weeds you find in a home garden either hehe. The end was the best part because Higgins made it clear to Magnum that the lads knew who was responsible for their incarceration…this means future payback for sure!

Then there’s Episode 1.9 (“Missing In Action”) which had a clairvoyant girlfriend searching for her missing boyfriend who happened to be part of a Delta Force mission that went awry. Sounds good, right? Well, again execution was kind of poor where we get these flashbacks from the girl and then this awkward standoff where the guy ends up dying anyway. Again Higgins trumps all when he gives Magnum a simple task of getting the Ferrari checked, knowing he’ll go to TC to cut corners. Once he reveals that he’s done this, Higgins pulls out his trump card: any work on the car by an unlicensed mechanic voids the warranty and Magnum will have to pay for all future repairs out of his pocket. Don’t miss with the Higgins!!

So time for some 24 news…this article was from Entertainment Weekly and I love how it ties one theme for the whole night…faith J Read on if you don’t mind Season Six spoilers! 

Keeping the Faith

In the series' 4 p.m. hour, a dramatic focus on the will to do ill in pursuit of a ''higher goal'' helps renew our belief in ''24'' 

By Ken Tucker

Last night's 24 was all about faith, both sincere and misguided. It began with Jack still trying to capture his father, who'd escaped not only with his criminal guilt and some of the knowledge Jack needed to forestall further nuclear attacks, but also with the forgiveness Jack had sought from his father when Jack had tried to explain the reasons he'd left his family to pursue his current career.

Pretty soon, we moved on to the Russian nationalist Dmitri Gredenko, whose faith in a renewed Soviet Union was based on his belief that he could make, as he said, ''the Arabs and the West... destroy each other.'' This in turn led us to Jack's meeting with former President Logan, who said Jack would have to trust him — have faith in him — to lead him to Gredenko before more nukes are detonated. Logan, safe in a comfy retreat via a deal he'd brokered during Jack's imprisonment in China, told our hero that he'd had ''time to reconnect with my faith,'' and that he'd take Jack to the Russian Consul General, who, Logan claimed, has ties to and knows the whereabouts of Gredenko.

Ever suspicious, Jack wanted to know what Logan wanted out of this, and Logan, who was seen reading the Bible, said simply, ''redemption.'' When Jack called Bill Buchanan to update him on Logan's info, Jack thumbed through Logan's Bible and came across Psalm 40, where he saw a highlighted passage in which God is addressed by the Biblical David: ''You brought me out of a horrible pit and set my feet upon a rock.'' This was the same passage Logan recited while looking at himself in the mirror, adding words that aren't in that passage of the Bible: ''One step at a time, Charles,'' Logan said to himself. ''One step at a time.''

By probably no coincidence at all, however, these are words that are an echo of a central tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous — ''One day at a time'' — which circles back to another subplot: the slip and fall of Morris, who's undergoing a real crisis since giving the reprogramming device to Fayed. He told Chloe that he'd called his AA sponsor to get some guidance but was probably lying, and we saw him, in a moment of torment in a CTU bathroom, empty a partially full bottle of booze down a sink. The implication is that Morris has been drinking, which breaks the faith that Chloe has had with him that he'd remained sober.

Last night there was renewed emphasis — another reminder — that this plot that Lennox and Reed are involved in, which Reed has escalated to include the assassination of President Wayne Palmer, isn't just something they and a couple of other hoodlums have cooked up. It's a big conspiracy that includes the Vice President and who knows who else. ''You can't go soft on us now,'' Reed told the trussed-up Lennox. ''We're trying to save this country.'' (Earlier, remember, Reed had said, ''We're not cold-blooded murderers; we're just trying to save our country.'') Again, the language of faith: ''save'' — salvation, used in the name of patriotism but to commit a treasonous act.

We didn't get to the bomb-exploding-at-the-podium scene that we'd been shown during last week's coming attractions until the very end of this hour. Yet this episode didn't feel slow or like a placeholder at all. Instead, it unified all the emotion that had been floating around pretty aimlessly last week and put it to good use — it was one heck of a tense, nerve-racking hour. It was possible to see one of the through-line themes of this season's 24: the episode's writer, Manny Coto, was coaxing us to try and understand why people do despicable things in the name of God and honor to their country.

In the coming attractions, we saw Jack brandishing something that looked like super-size gardening shears and telling a bloodied Russian Consul that he'll give Jack the information he needs ''or you're going to start losing your fingers.'' It seems as though this was almost certainly shot before one of 24's producers, Howard Gordon, promised to cut back on the torture stuff, but I'm not going to pass any judgment on that scene until I see the whole thing. Context is everything, even when it comes to using torture in a prime-time drama — and, well, I gotta have faith until I'm proven wrong, right?

What do you think? Do you buy Logan's new earnest seriousness? Do you think we'll see Jack's dad again any time soon? What kind of conspiracy do you think is at work that's trying so hard to put the Vice President into power?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20013534,00.html?print

Well, that's all for tonight! I'm sooooooooooooo looking forward to the weekend :D

You ask a question that seems simple on the surface but presents such a challenge to plausible deniability...

Comments

[im-a-yogi.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you really need to hire some more people at work! Somehow you must make the management see that... but that's always so difficult, isn't it?

Love the new layout! :)

We do!!

[ladyofavalon77.livejournal.com]

And from what the manager said...it's going to get worse :( More people are leaving. *groans*

Thanks!! It was fun tweaking the design in paintshop!

[goa-44.livejournal.com]

Wow, Greg has a really red head! But I like the layout anyway! Beautiful XD

LOL!!

[ladyofavalon77.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too...I think he was drinking that night :) Thanks for the compliment!

Re: LOL!!

[goa-44.livejournal.com]

*lol* Yeah, I suppose that too!

Re: LOL!!

[ladyofavalon77.livejournal.com]

Or Jean is really fair skinned :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ila_/]

Thank you! I had a lovely day. I'd just need my whole flist to put their efforts together and buy me Nina! :P

Your new layout is great. Jean and Greg are really a match made in heaven. ;)

Hehe

[ladyofavalon77.livejournal.com]

We'll see what we can do about that...maybe we can persuade George to let her go *winks*

Awww thanks for your kind words and agreement *hugs*

Thanks so much!

[ladyofavalon77.livejournal.com]

It was fun making it!