My new love

I have discovered my new love: Downton Abbey.
It's a Masterpiece Theater show that comes on PBS and It. Is. Amazing. I can't even put into words how much I love this show.
I already have a love of history and the romantic eras of the past (please do not try to disillusion me by informing me of the realities of using the bathroom, what people really ate, the stark differences between the classes and how women dealt with their periods, I don't care). I think it would be wonderful to live in this time, right before WWI, before the world took a turn and became ugly. I will have to suffice with dreaming of living in that time, obviously, and I am okay with that, as I do enjoy my IPhone and pre-lit Christmas trees. But I love reading books about this time (Kate Morton) and really love watching good British television about this time. Any time between the Georgian era up until WWI just captures my attention more than others, and I can't get enough of it.
I won't go into detail about the plot of this show - but we'll just say it's an "Upstairs/Downstairs" show about an aristocratic family and their staff, and it is so well written and captivating that I can't remember the last time I thought a show was this good. Um, don't tell the part of my brain that is in love with "Bones" that I said that.
For those of you who are interested, the first season of Downton Abbey is on Netflix Instant play, and the 2nd season is airing right now on PBS.

Bones and crazy blogs

I love television. And I am not ashamed to admit it. Recently I have been watching a tv show called Bones and it's amazing! I went through 5 seasons in about 2.5 weeks, which was pretty easy to do since they are all on Netflix instant play. (Netflix is the greatest creation to ever hit the entertainment world) Well, since season six is currently being aired, I have had to find sites that let me watch it online. Hulu is naturally the immediate go-to, but since it only has the episodes that are available on the Fox website (which was actually my first stop), I've had to find the first 8 episodes elsewhere. Megavideo is the devil, if you weren't aware, and since Google didn't show any listings on there anyway, I was good. Well, the main site that I was stuck with was one called "VuReel" (never heard of it? me neither) and I hate it. MegaVideo is at least predictable. This site takes 8 years to buffer, so unless I let the site load for literally 2 hours, I have to watch my episode in spurts. Well, I am on episode 8 (remember, episode 9 is available on the Fox website - oh sweet glory), and about 10 minutes into the episode, I had to stop and wait for it to load some more.  Well, I have long ago exhausted the entertainment value of things such as random facebook pages and blogs that I follow, since I've been having to deal with this problem for 7 previous episodes, so I decided to click on the "next blog" link at the top of a friend's blog. And what did I find?
4 things.
1. Photography blogs.
2. Stupid blogs that haven't been updated since 2009.
3. Religious blogs (including one LDS one) that are so in your face it's ridiculous (the LDS one wasn't - just an update blog for a girl on her mission)
4. The occasional family blog.

Can you guess which one had the overwhelming monopoly of the blogosphere?

The religious ones. Blog after blog of Fellowship this, and youth group that, and my favorite verse is this, and God has called me to do this. Oh. My. Gosh. There was one from England that was slightly interesting, but all of the other ones seemed very... monochromatic, for lack of a better term at the moment. Now, obviously, I believe in Christ, and I believe that He speaks to us if we just listen, I just find it strange that there is this whole world of blogs out there that publicize everything.
I know I know, the internet is a great place to share testimonies and spread the gospel. I know. But sometimes, blogs like that seem to take away the personal aspect of that relationship you gain with Heavenly Father and our Savior and crush it. I'm not saying that people shouldn't talk about religion. And goodness, I don't follow any of those blogs, so they can say whatever the heck they want (so can people I do follow, btw). It's just not something that I find uplifting, edifying or remotely spiritually strengthening. I'll stick to my scriptures and Ensign.

Yeah. True story.

P.S. in case any of my friends were wondering...truly, no one that I follow or that I'm actually friends with has EVER posted a post that has made me think these things about them. :) Just so you know. In case someone was worried that I was secretly talking about them too, because I wasn't.
Click "next blog" sometime and you'll see what I mean, and how awesome you guys are.

Now back to my episode. Dr. Brennan has discovered something and I think that it has buffered enough for me to at least watch her finish her sentence before it pauses again.