Vascoozie TV Fall Preview

Warning: We are TV people. You can have baseball. You can have crafting. You can have college basketball. You can have cooking. We have TV and right now is our "draft." I don't remember a time in my life that we have not devoured the "Fall Preview TV Guide." As we have gotten older we use many sources: TVline.com, Entertainment Weekly, and of course the TV Guide. We now have our official guides to this important time.

Here are our main guidelines when picking new shows:

1. What shows interest us?

2. What shows will be the new "water cooler" topic?

3. Which shows will fit within our dvrs? (We do NOT watch live TV period!)

People keep asking so we're sharing our top picks, so here they are:

1. Persons of Interest: CBS, Thursday, 8:00 Central, Sept 22

This show had us at produced by J.J. Abrams (our fave!) and stars Jim Caviezel. Added to that, it has this great futuristic, crime storyline. When we heard about this show in June, it felt like we won the lottery. If you take one show from us that you should watch, THIS IS THE ONE. If you needed further encouragement, it made the "Top 5 List" on both EW and TV Guide.

2. New Girl: Fox, Tuesday, 8:00 Central, September 20

We started seeing commercials during Idol last year and it stopped our DVR fast forwarding really fast. We are fans of Zooey Deschanel. I loved her in "500 days of Summer" and Snae's favorite show is Bones so she has a loyalty to the Deschanel family. Honestly, we don't know much but the commercials made us laugh so count us in!

3. Unforgettable: CBS, Tuesday, 9:00 Central, September 20
I was a big "Without a Trace" fan so hearing that Poppy Montgomery was going to be in a new show was very exciting for me. I love the idea that she has this ability to remember everything. I was completely convinced that this show would end up on my dvr. But after viewing the preview, Snae was also hooked. So living room dvr it is! This show has gotten the weakest reviews of these three, so we're hoping for the best.

We are picking up many other shows. We have a tendency to pick up lots of shows and finish out with very few. They either get cancelled or we decide they're not worth the time. Last season, we picked up at least 10 shows, and only one of those made it to this year's Vascoozie grid ("Hawaii 5-0"). The new TV season will officially begin on the living room dvr with "Anderson." Wish us luck! We're hoping for a great year and that our three shows make it to the Super Bowl and by that I mean, next year's dvr grid.

What shows are you most excited about this year? We can be easily swayed unless we've already decided we hate it.

Waiting for my Stephenie Meyer moment

So I consider myself an avid reader. I try to read a lot and a variety of books. Several years ago, I was more than a little skeptical to read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It was a book about vampires but my sister was very adamant. About a chapter in, I was addicted and continued to enjoy the rest of the series. It also started me reading more young adult books.

But what really fascinated me, was Meyer's story. I couldn't imagine having a dream about a vampire and a girl and then writing a book from it. It's easy to think about now, because we know how wildly successful her books become. But I can't help but remember that when she wrote this, vampires weren't trendy and how crazy she must have felt.

My confession is that ever sense I've heard her story, it's made me more aware of dreams. I used to be an elementary student who wanted to write books but never really have a good idea. Lately I've had two reoccurring dreams. I can't help but wake up wondering if I've just had my Stephenie Meyer moment.

The first dream, I like to call the "thriller dream." Most people would probably call it a nightmare. It involves a friend and me and my friend has really bad taste in guys. She's dated this guy who turns out to be a stalker and I'm usually running around trying to lock doors and windows. Last time the guy's dad was involved and he was creepy too. I had this dream last week and I woke up pretty startled. But I promise within five seconds, I was thinking "I don't think I could write that." It doesn't seem quality at all, more like a Lifetime movie. So I have to look for another Stephenie Meyer moment.

The second reoccurring dream involves registration at high school. It sounds pretty normal but then it gets weird. The people involved spread across the spectrum of my life: high school, college, adulthood. It's just odd and I'm sure that one could mean something and I would hate to figure it out. Still, no Stephenie Meyer moment.

So my plan is to keep sleeping and looking for my Stephenie Meyer moment. . . .on a side note, I've now read the Sookie Stackhouse books and Meg Cabot's books about vampires. Oh, how times change.