Let's hear it for Max's (almost) girlfriend.

Mmmm... This was nice. I mean, I'm not gonna lie, some of the acting and writing is not as up to par as usual, but there were still some really nice moments.

I love Max's girlfriend's character, it just gets better and better, and even though I love and miss Haddie, I like her as the Haddie replacement. Omigosh when she wanted to watch the movie with Kristina and she put her head on her shoulder, oh man! I could just feel that moment (from Kristina's perspective - even though I've never been a mom, but maybe it's all the babysitting and/or working with teenagers).

Also Drew. I just love Drew all the time lately, and that scene towards the end where he tells his girlfriend that trying to help his sister IS his life, oh MAN. For real. Can we all just become like this, where we don't have to change our lives to help other people because helping other people is our lives?

And Amber helping Hank's daughter, that was a good scene - the first time I liked the daughter character, but I guess that makes sense. Oh but that "celebrity" game they played, that was SO well written, I totally know that feeling because I'm usually on the side where I don't know anyone famous's name or about pop culture and it feels awful. I sort of hate that game for that reason.

I guess this was the episode Joel and Julia didn't get to be on (every character this season I think has to miss two episodes so the show's less expensive).

Oh, and Max's girlfriend, gosh what is her name -----IMDB check----- Dylan, right.. when she's playing with Nora with the doctor set, omigosh she's getting so into it, and it inspired me to be better at that when I'm babysitting. I just get so bored with that kind of stuff, ugghhhh, but I need to not and start taking better interest, so that was a little moment for me.

Fluid Affection Scales

Omigosh everyone is dating on this episode! I actually thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm too tired to talk about a bunch of details though. This has been a crazy week for me - I mean I didn't even watch the latest P.Hood till today, and I can't believe it's almost two in the morning and I'm still up. - And I didn't really eat today either, which is weird. Like I ate so little that I was shaky and then there came a point when I passed some kind of hunger threshold and wasn't hungry anymore and the thought of food sort of weirded me out, so yeah, that's a new experience.

Oh man though, when Joel shows up at the barbecue, I was like, F#@$^#&&@. But I didn't feel bad for him. The writers are doing a good job of making us like Chris I guess, and I was definitely shocked by the kids' initial response to him, it's like the first time I've seen Sydney happy in a while, so that was cool.

What else. Oh man something, some line made me laugh really hard and I always think about writing it down but I don't want to ruin my TV-watching experience so I say if I don't remember it at the end then it wasn't important enough. But I want to remember it! Ugh. What was it? I don't know. I'll have to come back and add it.

The fluid affection scale thing was funny, and I was like, Oh man SERIOUSLY, we do need to have that scale and just ask each other, that would make things way more clear when you're at the beginning of a potential relationship. Omigosh and I love how you both have to be at a 5 for marriage to work out but then Kristina starts saying it's still fluid after you're married and that Adam was going down to a 3.5 HA. Oh man. I have no idea what it's like to be married, but I imagine the scale goes down all the time for each other, and that just sounds terrible. Or not. I mean maybe it doesn't. Or maybe by the time it does you just don't even care anymore anyway. I don't even know. Life is crazy.

I need to go to bed.

Aspergers is only negative when you give it a negative connotation.

I was a little bored at this one, but I think it was mostly because I'm tired. I went on a spontaneous vacation to Arizona to meet some friends a couple days ago and left at 6am this morning to make it back here in time for my acting class, and yowza I'm tired.

I like the Max and Dylan story. I like that girl. (I like her lines anyway.)

And man, every time Syd starts to cry about her parents, it really, really gets me.

Besides that I was kind of like, Is this almost over, I need to go to sleep.

Oh no, wait! I really did like the scene when Hank talks to his x-wife. WHAT is that woman from?

--IMDB check

Ohhh, she's in a billion things, but I know her from The Michael J. Fox show back when I was trying to get into that.

Omigosh I'm so hungry!

Tell that truth.

Oh MAN the scene with Drew and Amber was SO good. Like so good. I was like, "Drew you tell it." Tell that truth.

Seriously. I just love truth. Goes back to one of my first blogs, I don't know, something about a truth mocha. (By the way I haven't had a mocha in like a week because I'm trying to give up sugar, but anyways..)

Also I'm glad Sarah and Hank are now just together so the plot line is no longer about their potential romance but about other things. Man, that daughter is annoying. I feel like I was probably like that a little in high school though, not the stealing part but the attitude. Oh man and her mom! I mean, the writers are obviously really trying to make us not like her now and I guess it's working, I feel a little bad for characters when that happens because it makes them so one-dimensional, but what are you gonna do, the show's gonna end soon, and we need everyone to be on the same page.

CROSBY!! Oh Crosby. It was a little funny when he first got on his bike because it felt a little overdramatic, but I like how his whole big accident thing turned into him saying hardly anything about it, that was an interesting surprise.

And Oliver Rome! Oh man, Ashes of Rome (is that their name I forget), I miss them! I want to see them again not just hear about em.

I was just about to be like, Kristina wasn't even in this episode, but then I remembered that that was the deal, like each main character can only be in eleven of the thirteen episodes or something so they can save money? I don't know, every show, every job has weird things and drama. My restaurant just closed down without giving anyone any notice, but I've been thinking about it, and it's not like this type of thing is going to change when my career is acting. There's weird stuff and bad stuff that happens everywhere. I think it's when you think no bad stuff can ever happen once you have _________, that you start to turn to drugs and stuff because you realize there's no answer. No worldly answer anyway. (The answer is Jesus.)

But anyways, back to Parenthood. Actually, no I don't think I have anything else to say about Parenthood. If you want to know about me though, I'm taking the next couple weeks to edit and update my reels and IMDB page and resumes and everything and then I'm going to hopefully start getting more auditions and an agent which I will be looking for pretty actively pretty soon here.

For now, I'm about to meet a friend at Whole Foods (across the street. Whole Foods is across the street from my new apartment in case you were wondering about if my apartment is awesome or not). So I must be off to go drink my carrot / orange / ginger drink. I hope you have a fantabulous day.

Zeek and Amber

Omigod I love this SHOW.

How beautiful that nobody can convince Zeek to have the surgery, but then when he hears from his granddaughter that she's pregnant, that is what makes him want to live longer. And all she needed was someone to encourage her and be happy for her, and Zeek was that person. They were both exactly what they needed to be for each other, just by being themselves.

Gosh, so much of our lives we spend trying to take control of things: fix other people, fix ourselves, fix our circumstances, when really when we just get our eyes off all that and be fully present as ourselves in our situations, that might actually be what's the best thing to propel us and others forward into our God-given purposes.

And it's funny that we could do that even in our messed-up selves. Maybe we got pregnant in a way that's not ideal. Maybe our health's been bad and we're suffering the consequences of that now. We all have issues, none of us is perfect, and yet we can still be used to love and help one another if we can just settle into the moments we've been given.

Life is made up of beautiful moments. We don't have to have a perfect family like the Braverman's to realize God has given us people to listen to and share with, and He places these people in our lives at exact, specific times, and it is such a beautiful thing once we really begin to embrace it. So take the time today to look around at who's around you: ask them how they are, share with them about you, really connect, and watch what can happen when we start living life for more than just ourselves.