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Yep... that was just about as bad as I thought it was. Bye! -Shannon Okay but seriously... this show is kind of a big problem that I think we have right now. And maybe it's partially because I saw an episode where the men judged the women... but I don't really think it's going to get better or different... Most of the women weren't like real working class women... they had kind of unique jobs... and I don't mean to insult them at all... but there aren't really many teachers or doctors or anything... and those women don't get to the top rounds... and I don't want to insult these women for their jobs. I know that doctors probably don't have time for these silly dating shows and Life Coaches and Surf Instructors probably have more time to do these things- and it probably helps them more whereas a teacher or someone might get in trouble for being too racy during a season or something. And they have things like a swimsuit competition... I googl...

Okay...so now I haven't actually seen infinity war yet... and I have somewhat an idea of how it ends- but I have not seen the movie so I really can't spoil it in this post... so if you haven't seen Infinity War yet... don't fret! I won't be talking about it... at least not the end of it... I'll maybe make a mention of it... but I haven't seen it yet- so take it with a grain of salt I guess because really idk if I'll end up liking that or not... I don't know what to expect of it! But yeah... anyway on to my main point. I'll probably be spoiling Civil War and Age of Ultron a little... so if you haven't seen those be warned... but other than that- this is it. So... the one tiny complaint I have about a lot of these Marvel Movies is that as amazing as they are... sometimes the ends are a little bit lacklustre. It isn't like it's a bad finale scene or something... but for the most part... they're very open ended. Obviously... you pro...

Okay... so right now it's June 18th and right after The Bachelorette ends- a show called The Proposal starts... and I'm confused as to what it's about. So I'm going to talk about it... discuss why I think we're being subjected to this and... then maybe review it? I'm sure its not on by the time I post this... so I don't think I'll actually give it a review... but you bet I'm watching it! Lol. So this seems like one of those bizarre decisions that I don't understand. Like last summer they had a show that Mario Lopez hosted where people would play Candy Crush for a half hour... and I'm like... okay but I would rather see anything else... So that was a thing people thought would be a good idea. Anyway now there's this show which is like a pageant... but at the end there's a proposal by strangers. Or maybe they aren't strangers because they mention "A Secret Admirer" and they keep emphasizing that these people will be ma...

So I had a particularly fun weekend and I thought that I would share a little bit about it! I'm writing this on June 18th and my family just celebrated My Mom's Birthday and Father's Day... so I'll explain what happened. Friday Night: Mom's Bday Party  This was fun. We went out to a restaurant we frequent at least once a week and we had some of our friends and our family with us. It was a lot of fun. My sister and her husband were there with their baby- and she's just a ton of fun and my best buddy.... so we ate at the restaurant and then we came home for cake and she was just having fun and walking all around. We watched some Sesame Street... it was all really good! I had really good tortellini and then the dessert was my mom's favorite chocolate coconut cake. Saturday: A Day Inside With Guests  Saturday was a little more of a lazy day. We didn't really intend for it to be a lazy day... but we were waiting for my sister to come over for the da...

Yesterday I reviewed the first season of a show on TBS called Search Party... and today I kind of want to do a little bit of a character breakdown of everyone and I want to explain why everyone is so important. I think maybe there are some more characters in Season 2 that I don't know yet... but I haven't seen season 2 as of when I'm writing this so I'm just going to talk about Season 1 of corse! Spoilers! Keith  Keith is a pretty great character because we still don't really know what his deal was. A lot of this season was about Dory blindly trusting things and following her instincts and Keith is the ultimate example of them I guess. She doesn't really know anything about the guy- she asks for no proof... but she trusts him and that proves to maybe be problematic... although it did ultimately lead her to Chantal.  It also led her to break up with her boyfriend Drew... and for Drew to end up murdering him.  So yeah maybe we will find out a littl...

Alright I've been meaning to check out some of TBS's comedies but I wasn't sure if there was a way to catch up on them or not. There is! You can watch this show and probably others on demand if you get TBS and you can watch it from their website- so that is easy and I watched this On Demand! And I realize that I spoil the end of this... so I'm just going to say that I loved this show and I would recommend you check it out and then come back to read the rest of this... I think I'm going to do another review on the characters because I loved them so much too... it's just a really good show that's a very funny dark comedy. I don't necessarily know if there's tons of suspense in this... but the characters do kind of make it! After seeing Alia Shawkat in Arrested Development Season 5 I really wanted to see more of her and see a show that she actually starred in... and she was great in it. This role was perfect for her because it wasn't an ordinary...

Okay, yesterday I talked about my Fall Out Boy action figures and today I wanted to mention why I love fall out boy and when I started to love them. I think I'm going to do one of these types of posts once a month- that way you can understand a little bit more about me. So I remember one day in 7th or 8th grade maybe I wanted to get really into music because I didn't know too much about music at that point. I was really into movies- but not so much into music. Fortunately back then there was a cable channel that was called MTV Hits I think and they played all music videos all the time and it was awesome. I don't know if they still have it... but I really liked that. Plus there was a regular music network that had hit channels... so whenever nothing was on TV I turned those on!  So one day I turned it on and it was the music video for Sugar We're Going Down  I thought Patrick Stump was really cute. I thought the hats were kind of cool and different and I re...

So I was rearranging things on my DVD shelf recently... and I thought I would post a little picture of my "Shelfie." And talk about it a little bit! So I've kind of arranged my DVDs into different sections that way I know where I can find what I want to watch. I have one shelf for Romantic Comedies, Horror and Action, Kids movies, My favorites, TV, and Comedies... not in that order! This shelf has the Comedies. So you'll see some good comedies there! The Hangover, Horrible Bosses, Superbad, This is The End... you can probably see some of them! So I got these Fall Out Boy action figures for Christmas when I was a Teenager. Fall Out Boy was my favorite band... and my dad found out that they made these, so he got them for me and for a friend of mine... and I really still like Fall Out Boy a lot today- so I've kept them on my shelf of corse. I really like them! I also love Minions... so I have some of  the minions... I thought it would be funny to put the on...

Okay so I've been trying to watch this movie for several weeks... and it isn't that I haven't been loving it... it's mostly that I start watching it at 1am or something and then I get too sleepy to finish it. I feel like there are sooooo many Spider Man movies and I feel like my biggest problem with the first Amazing Spider Man movie was that it was similar to the first of the Toby Maguire's Spider Man movies. This one is good because they don't really go into anything that they do in any of the other spider man movies... You know that he was bit by a spider- you get the feeling that something maybe happened to his uncle... you get pretty much the full story without having to sit through the same thing for a third time... which is good. It gets right into the story and the action. I feel like the action is pretty well paced alongside setting up the actual story of who Peter Parker is outside of Spider Man and what makes him who he really is. It sets up the h...

You guys know I love the show Friends. I've seen every episode multiple times- I watch it in syndication all the time... it's one of my absolute favorite things... and I've watched it forever pretty much. The one episode that definitely stands out as the worst is The One With The Invitation. This is a flashback episode... I don't understand why they air flashback episodes in syndication. It's maybe a good thing to watch if someone is like "Ohh I've never seen Friends where do I start." But this one is just kind of cut together... badly. It's all about Ross and Rachel's relationship... but I feel like the clips they use are too long and out of context... and there's not enough story in between for it to even feel like a regular episode of Friends. It's just not that good at all. It also wouldn't be a great episode to show someone who hadn't watched Friends before because the clips don't have much context and they're...

Alright- so my sister recommended this book to me. She had heard about it and ended up buying the book... she works with kids and likes to keep up with what they're talking about. She let me and my mom borrow this and it was one of the cutest, most creative easiest reads I've read in a while. So this is a graphic novel for children and it focuses on these sisters. The older sister is named Catrina and the younger sister is Maya. Cat and Maya have to move to this spooky town in Northern California because Maya is sick with cystic fibrosis and this town is better for her health. Although Maya is very sick, she is very positive and adventurous and she immediately wants to go out and explore the new town. Cat is a little more afraid to explore and when they meet a boy giving Ghost Tours, Maya is over the moon excited while Cat is incredibly scared of these ghosts! The main theme of this story I guess is Dia de Los Muertos. When my sister got this book, she said "Ohhh t...

Here we go! Another new favorite- especially for summer: Nicholas Creamery. This is probably the best Ice Cream store in NJ... and I loveeee it. My dad found out about this place because his favorite restaurant is Restaurant Nicholas... which is a great restaurant. If you go there for a date night- it's very fancy and impressive and delicious... anyway my dad gets emails and mail about this stuff and a few months ago we found out they were opening up an Ice Cream Shop and we couldn't wait to try it. I've been there a few times now... and I could probably do more posts about this- but I want to talk about the only thing I've ordered twice on the menu- which is the Caliente Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Sundae. This has their Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream and it's got Spicy Peanuts, Hot Fudge and brownies in it... ohh man does this have a lot of stuff I love in it! Lately I've been loving Spicy Trail Mix and the best part of that is the spicy pea...

Okay... so you guys might know that I watch my niece a lot and she LOVES Sesame Street... and I had been watching her a little bit more this week in particular... and I thought I would talk about what I think the funniest episodes are if you're an adult that has control of the remote but no control of what's on the tv. Anyway- there's one little girl Monster named Zoey. I know that she was a character when I was little... I don't know if she was an original character or not- but I think she might have been the first or one of the first girl characters... not sure if it was her or Rosita or if they were around the same time. I don't think Zoey is on the show as much anymore... but she is on occasionally and she's pretty funny. She has a pet rock named Rocco and she talks to Rocco like Rocco is a person. So that's funny in general... but Elmo just does not understand Zoey's relationship with Rocco. And I can only describe it as his sassiness level is o...

Okay... so I feel like I have a few stories to tell... a lot of random funny things have happened this past week or so and I just feel like telling them... so yeah. Hope these are interesting. The Penny Pincher  This actually happened a while ago. And some backstory: My mom and I babysit my niece on weekdays and my niece is a toddler- who is pretty easygoing- and I don't really mind watching her on my own...but somedays it gets a little long and it's nice to have 2 people there. Anyway she had to go to the grocery store to get a tomato sauce... and we like a particular kind of tomato sauce... some woman actually took that tomato sauce out of her cart and put the generic version in her cart because "this woman knows tomato sauce and this stuff is the same." It really wasn't the same at all... the type I think had diced tomatoes and that isn't what we needed for the recipe or something like that. The tomatoes were different and it wouldn't have worked wi...

Okay... so this is something a little new for me! You guys might have seen a recent post I did that was  3 super easy no effort diys ... and this is sort of like that... but this is more about the process of the Crayolagraphy or Caligraphy that I've been doing and a couple very high effort DIY's that I did for it... so without any further ado- let's just talk about it! Why Did I Want To Start Caligraphy?  I like to Bullet Journal. I haven't done this in a long time... but I always see people doing fancy banners and lettering for their bullet journals and I wanted to start to do that! So when I saw that Target had an expanded art section and they had some caligraphy sets... I wanted to try one! Why Did I Get The Crayola Set?  There were a few sets that I had heard about... but the Crayola one seemed the most beginner friendly. It comes with tags and things that you can fill out and kind of a guide to do calligraphy. I didn't actually know much about calligrap...

Okay... here I have my first "Marvel Theory" of sorts and that is... Do the Marvel heroes really need their superpowers? Obviously the powers help a lot... and they do kind of save the day. Thor and Doctor Strange can travel through dimensions and stuff... Doctor Strange saves the day by controlling time... those are obviously using their superpowers pretty well... and that's true but that isn't really why they save the day. They save the day because of the clever way that they think and their personality. I'm going to use kind of a silly and possibly annoying example... but what if Justin Bieber was the one with Doctor Strange's powers. Do you really think that he would be able to come up with the time loop idea to come up with trapping and eventually bargaining with the monster destroying the universe? Probably not. How about if he were Thor and his hammer was broken... do you think he'd get over that easily?  Heck- even if someone like Peter...

So if you read my post from yesterday- you know that I love The Disney Store, but it is unfortunately closing. I did pick up some things from the store that I thought I'd share with you guys! I did get a couple of t shirts. One is a Star Wars shirt, which is technically a men's shirt but I thought it looked really cool and I don't like that Disney doesn't carry the same things for men and for women. For the most part they look unisex to me and a lot of their men's stuff has characters I like better. Like the star wars shirt for women was grey with pink lettering and had no pictures, but the mens shirt had a really cool metallic silver logo on black clothing with pictures of all the new characters and Luke inside of the letters... much cooler! So I got that! The other shirt I got is really funny and it has Sleeping Beauty on it and it says "I Woke Up Like This." Which I really liked! Super cute and funny and my niece likes it when I wear shirts with c...

So my local Disney Store is closing... and there are still going to be a couple opened nearby... but this is the one that I grew up with and it's special to me. Here are some pictures of what The Disney Store looked like in the 90s... So this isn't actually from the 90s based on some of the characters I see in there... but my store had a stuffed animal tower like this that I would always climb in... probably super unsanitary... but fun! Lol.  They were filled with statues of the different Disney Characters... mostly the Fab 5... It looks like they have some other princesses in there too... and it was just a lot of fun. You could pre-order the videotapes and they would come with special toys or lithograph pictures or something. They also always had buttons that you could get when new movies came out. Even when I was a grown up I got one of my friends an Avengers Water Bottle because I knew that was her favorite movie and she used water bottles a lot... anyway they ...

Alright so I'm kind of changing my "Scribbles About Food" because I don't really want this to be a review if it's from a local restaurant... I think if I try something from a big chain I'll still give it a review... but idk if I'm the most qualified person to review food... but I do like to review things... so I'm going to review some things other than just movies and TV... lol. Anyway this a restaurant my dad found out about. My dad does the actual research before going out so he looks up the quality of the meat and stuff so that he knows this isn't just something we could make at home. He's good at finding stuff. Lol. So I don't actually know this stuff... but my dad knows what's up and when we went here the first time... we loved it and knew we had to go again. So last time we went towards the end of May for my parent's anniversary. This time we went for my Mom's birthday... I know I'm like third-wheeling my parent'...

So I did this around Mother's Day where I talked about some movies that I got for my mom... and it was her bday recently... so I thought I would talk about what I got her for those as well... and I just got some other DVDs recently too... so I thought I'd talk about them here and let you know a little bit about them. Black Panther is one that should be coming up soon in a Marvel Monday. I wanted to see this while it was in theaters... but it was during the terrible cold and flu season... so I didn't really want to get sick... I think I got the flu anyway... but whatever! I still wanted to see this movie when it came out on Blu Ray and I was really excited about it! We actually went out before a big rain storm to get it- which was kind of funny. I did watch this movie and I really liked it... but I'll save that for a Marvel Monday... unless I already posted that Marvel Monday because I might have! Lol. Another one for Marvel Monday is Spider Man: Homecoming. I saw th...

Since I mentioned my favorite Reality Show yesterday... I thought I would mention my favorite vloggers on youtube because I like Vlogs on youtube more than actual reality tv shows... I think these seem a little more real to me... and I just kind of want to let you guys know why I like these youtubers so much! I've done posts like this before... but I think I feel a little differently and I have some new people... so yeah! Justin Scarred  Justin Scarred is probably my favorite- but I have not been watching his videos recently at all. He does a lot of travel videos... I first discovered him when I was looking up Disneyland Paris videos, and I found a full ride through of his channel explaining Disneyland Paris' The Phantom Manor... which is their version of The Haunted Mansion... and that was really cool and pretty scary. I don't think that that was on what is now his main channel- I think that was on his channel Live Fast Die Poor. His new channel is just called Justin...