I have many, many guilty pleasures. Cadbury Creme Eggs almost daily until August. Staying in bed half the morning while Adam is a good boy and gets up. But one of my biggest is my TV fixes. At the moment,
Glee is probably my guiltiest pleasure (minus the Creme Eggs--also, if you can get a Mars Egg, they are wonderful. If you can't, let me know soon, and I'll get you one or two and post them). I don't think the show itself is particularly fabulous, but I'm not really sure, because I'm one of those people who think that the planet should spontaneously burst into song to declare it's feelings.
Glee started off just singing when it was appropriate: during rehearsals, performances, that sort of thing. It's now slowly starting to move into the musical realm, and it makes me squee a small bit. They did the Charlie Chaplin version of "
Smile" one day and I damn near cried. They did "Don't Rain on My Parade" and I wanted to cheer (actually, I wanted to sing along, but I'm more in the contralto range, not soprano, so mostly it just sounds like I'm trying to strangle a chicken on the higher notes. Well, and I don't know all the words. That doesn't help so much.). They did a fabulous duet of "Defying Gravity" from
Wicked, and in fact I did cry, (in part) because the male soprano hit the notes clean (except for where he threw it intentionally). That was the first episode I saw, and I was hooked and had to go back to the beginning. So I was thrilled when they started airing more new episodes. I really don't think it's probably a very good show, but it's highly addictive, and if you like performance choir type things, it's great for that. Plus,
Jane Lynch is just hilarious. But I think she's great in everything I've seen her do, and I really want to watch more of her stuff.
My other slightly less guilty pleasure, since so, SO many people are hooked on it, is
Lost. I'm psyched it's the final season and we're really starting to get answers, but I'm also sad that it's nearly over. I think, however, that getting Answers (after six seasons, it deserves the capital A) trumps more episodes. And besides, I just watched the first episode of
FlashForward, and I really enjoyed it, so assuming it lasts, I think it might replace
Lost for me.
Castle is my other current guilty pleasure, though I have no guilt over it whatsoever (nor over
Lost when it gets right down to it, or
Desperate Housewives or
House). I love
Nathan Fillion with every fibre of my being, and the show just makes me laugh and almost cry. Witty and smart and sarcastic and sweet, with the trademark Nathan Fillion comedic delivery. Love it! Plus, for an added bonus, the show decided to release a Richard Castle novel (ghost-written, of course, and the real author's identity has been a well-kept secret). Yeah, I really want the book, which is absolutely a guilty pleasure.
Guilty pleasures also include blogging instead of trying to figure out stuff for the grant the Girl Museum received (no, I didn't write/apply for this grant). It's crazy complicated for something so simple. After we get it all finalized, I'll talk about it more (maybe). We have to get all the stuff submitted by late May to actually get the grant/take advantage of it. Eek! But Ashley, if you're reading this, I promise I'll get stuff to you by Saturday!
