I thought I’d sum up my favourite shows of 2009. They aren’t new, some are shows that have been aired and cancelled. Some are comedy and some are drama. However, all are awesome and all I vote are the best shows of 2009. Here they are, favourite at the bottom.

30 Rock

30 Rock. This was one of the first shows we started watching in a marathon style. How could we not, with the humour of Tina Fey, the acting of Alec Baldwin, we watched episode after episode. As I once read, every Tracey Jordan line is a funny quote by itself, but I thought I’d share some others.

Liz: If I have learned anything from my Sims family: When a child doesn’t see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.

Jenna: Hey, I’ve gotta miss an hour of rehearsal today ’cause I just found out from my publicist that I’ve been booked on The View.
Pete: Oh, Jenna, that’s great. For the first time in your life, you’ll be in a room full of women and you’ll be the least crazy one.
Jenna: Yeah, I know!

Buffy

Buffy. When it was first airing, my sister watched it, I basically wasn’t allowed to. I watched what I could, but this year I bought the boy season 1, then season 7, 6, and 5. I’m hooked, I love Anya, Tara, and Spike. Buffy is average, mainly only because she was mean to Spike. It jumped between being fun, to serious. From Dollhouse and this, I love Joss Whedon.

Spike: You know you take the killing for granted. And then it’s gone. And you’re like, I wish I’d appreciated it more. Stopped and smelled the corpses.

Xander: Am I right, Giles?
Giles: I’m almost certain you’re not, but to be fair, I wasn’t listening.

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother. It’s a show I didn’t think we’d like, and when I mention it other people they tend to think it’s average. But it’s bloody awesome. Funny, clever, and has Neil Patrick Harris. (Did everyone else not know he was gay, ‘cos I didn’t?) The cleverness in the episodes is hard to explain without watching numerous episodes, the brocode isn’t funny without knowing NPH’s character, and me saying ‘havvvvvve you met Ted?” isn’t funny without watching them try to pick up.

Lily: On Monday I’m going to have to tell my kindergarten class, who I tell not to run with scissors, how my fiance ran me through with a freakin’ broadsword!
Marshall: Technically, it didn’t go all the way through.
Lily: I’m sorry, were we having a discussion about the degree to which you stabbed me?

Lily: We should come up with a whole new last name.
Marshall: Oh, that’s easy; Lily and Marshall Skywalker.
Lily: Lily and Marshall Hasselhoff.
Marshall: Oh, got it. Lily and Marshall Awesome. Hey have you met the Awesomes? Lily, Marshall their son Totally and their daughter Freaking?

Fringe

Fringe. We’ve really only just started watching this show in the last month. I love Walter, slightly crazy scientist guy who owns a cow. It’s clever, it’s clever in a way most people would never notice. The blue and red lights that only occur when something is going down? The fact the observer is in every episode (even before you meet him)? And, the clues for the next episode in the current?
Just awesome, clever awesome and must keep catching up.

Walter: Miss, I’m going to repeat the demonstration with the rice. Would you care to watch?
Astrid: Nope.
Walter: Okay!

Peter: How’s it going, Walter?
Walter: I plan to urinate in twenty-three minutes.

Glee

Glee. Ohh. My. God. This show is awesome. The music, the humor, the storylines. Oh. My. God. AWESOME. I don’t think I have much more to add. Last scene from season 1, mix of all the dances and sums the whole season up!

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers. A show most of my readers wouldn’t know, or can barely remember. It finished in 2006, after running for 13 seasons and over 500 episodes. Based around a fictional town called Mt. Thomas, the crime capital of Australia, even though it was a small country town. Most people wouldn’t care this show ended, but I grew up with it, the town Mt. Thomas was just part of my life.
At a time, the show gave me an out, it was an escape. It also introduced me to someone I hold close to my heart, actually quite a few people. We become friends because of this show, and stayed friends because I love them. It also introduced me to Jane Allsop. She played feisty awesome Jo Parrish.

If there was one person I’d give anything to met, it would be Jane Allsop.

I once hugged her, but forgot to get a photo with her. I would love to meet her one last time and explain to her how she saved me from myself. In fact, I would give up a lot just to send her a letter.

She’s beautiful, talented, and I just want to thank her.

Anyway, this show kicks arse. Funny one liners, fun filled crime drama, and just some awesomely developed characters.

Tess: Jo, you better do something about this statement of yours.
Jo: No way! That is exactly what happened.
Tess: No, I meant fix the typos. Price is spelt with an ‘E’ on the end, not a ‘k’.
Jo: Yes, well, once you know him it’s the only way you can spell it.

Susie: What is wrong with these men?
Jo: It’s simple. Inside every man is a twelve-year-old boy.
Susie: And inside everyone woman?
Jo: Is a twelve-year-old girl. But twelve-year-old girls are much more mature than twelve-year-old boys.

This was my first attempt of something other than vanilla or chocolate cupcakes, with either vanilla or chocolate icing! They were peanut butter cupcakes, with cream cheese icing. I was surprised that the peanut butter wasn’t over powering, but just enough. The recipe was simple enough that it made a great baking activity for myself and little miss (who is three.)

Ingredients

• 55 g butter (softened)
• 225 g soft light brown sugar
• 115 g peanut butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 225 g plain flour
• 100 mL milk

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180c
• Line baking tray with 30 mini cupcake patty pans.
• Combine butter, sugar, and peanut butter. Mix well.
• Gradually beat in eggs and add vanilla extract.
• Sift in the flour and baking powder, then fold them into the mixture while adding the milk.
• Spoon into patty pans.

• Bake for around ten minues, or until well risen and golden brown. (I need to learn to put in less batter per cupcake, explosion cupcakes!)



• Once cooled, add cream cheese icing.

We as a family have eaten a few too many of these cupcakes, I’m fairly sure they are going to be requested often.

I am looking forward to perfect both the “cupcake shape” as mine tend to explode and get uber big. I just want to get one batch that are kinda awesome looking!

I have a list of cupcakes I want to make. All types, from carrot and orange to banana and pecan, to chocolate brownie cupcakes! I’m going to get real fat eating these….

Some where in my time away from the blogging world, I lost all the blogs I like to read.

Everyone step up and nominate their favourite personal blogs.

List so far:

Brandi @ thebrandishow.com
Britney @ enchanted21.wordpress.com
Dan @ sobitchin.org
Monnie @ vanillasilence.com
James @ zombieskittles.com
Carolyn @ icnh.blogspot.com
Kinmun @ mrbrown.com
Mari @ supermaw.com

Even though we’ve settled into our new rented house, we’re still planning for the fact that next time we move it will be into our own house. I kinda love this house, great location, two train stops away from a beach, and a ten minute (if that) drive into town, close to public transport but not too close to a main road, etc. The yard is huge, it would be possible to subdivide and sell it. The kitchen has just been remodeled. I’d love to own it, I’d rip the carpet up as it has awesome wood floors under it, get rid of the wallpaper in the spare room, remodel the bathroom and replace all the sliding doors. (And add a fourth bedroom or rumpus room, or at least extend the house somehow as the backyard is so large, etc.) How impossible is it to buy a house someone is renting out? Has anyone ever done that?

Also, within the local area there are two huge developments for new housing, one is a couple of years away and the other is about seven or something. I’d rather not build, I’d rather buy an older house and spend the money to redo it exactly how I want it, but it doesn’t hurt to look at house plans, and look at layouts of house developments right? Our debt is nearly gone, started saving, so the dream of owning a house is still far away but closer than it was when we moved. Maybe it’s silly to talk about owning a house, but everyone always told me to have goals and talk about them. So yep, my goal is to own my own house.

“Fake it till you make it” is the one sentence that will always get me through a tough situation, or nerve wrecking moment. My first boss told me that I would say in my first week on the job. I was 15, nearly 16, and so very nervous. She held my hand while I used the till, and laughed as I attempted to move the bread slicer to clean under it. She used to tell me, to fake it till I made it. In that job, I did make it. I become great friends with all of the people working there, I won a state wide award, I become a senior, counted the money, learnt to open and close, I trained new girls, and for a period of time was the Combo Queen.

It’s something I wouldn’t have done without that saying, I would have chickened out and tried to find a job that didn’t make me weak at the knees with worry. I wouldn’t been able to find one that wouldn’t make me worry. For the first 6 months at work, I would count down the hours until I started with panic, what would have a different job changed? I refused to take part in planning my 18th birthday, because the idea of it worried me, as did orals in French class so I quit, I was so bad at Clarinet assessments my marker would take into consideration my nerves and would listen to me during practice to mark me rather than the assessment it’s self.

It’s also the reason I won’t have a public wedding ceremony, or 21st birthday party. It scares me, those moments are important for me and why would I purposely worry myself.

The saying is the reason I went out and found a new job, as I walked into my interview I kept thinking about that sentence. I acted like I had no nerves, I actually made jokes, and spoke myself up. (This would be a shock to anyone who knows how much I struggle with thinking of good points about myself.) The saying is the reason why I choose Marketing over Teaching. (Teaching is safe and I love kids, Marketing is a passion I could spend hours on per day.)

Basically if I fake being calm and confident, I get to a point where the situation isn’t so bad and suddenly, the place I was faking being, is actually the true situation. I wouldn’t have gotten fair if my boss hadn’t taught me that saying.

My upcoming blog post about my inspiration while I was a teenager is still coming. When I think about writing it, I don’t know where to start. She was like, wow. The reason it’s come up so much is because I’ve started watching her act again. (I hadn’t mentioned my inspiration was a celebrity I’ve met twice, did I? Yes, that’s how lame I am.) I can’t wait to introduce her to you. I’m scared I won’t be able to talk about her in enough praise for you guys to see how awesome she is, and how much I want to write her a letter (and know where to send it.) So I expect you guys to be all ‘n’awww lets find her for you to write too’.