The Emmy Awards

In addition to fun medleys, this years Emmys holds a special place in my heart. So this year they did a special award for "Most Memorable Moments on TV" for Comedy and Drama. Now, these awards weren't chosen by an academy but by actual viewers votes. Each category had 20 nominees to begin with and went through a semi-final stage (down to ten) and then a final stage where the top 5 were show as the nominees on the Emmys. The winners would be award during the telecast. The shows ranged from anything from Seinfeld to The X-Files to I Love Lucy to Roots. If it was on TV at some point in time, it was up for grabs.

The great bit was that two of my favorite shows from the late 90s-early 2000s won these awards. Friends won for the Comedy Most Memorable Moment for "The One Where Ross Finds Out". But the great moment for me was the winner of the Drama award. Now, as most of you know I' m a big "cult" show fan. I love Xena, Daria, Lost, Fringe, and I'm even a bit of a fan of Star Trek (Voyager specifically). Because these shows don't necessarily target the masses, they generally get overlooked for Emmy's. It's only once in a blue moon that they actually win anything, no matter how high quality the production of the show actually is. So when I found out that the winner of the Drama award, I was a particularly happy girl. This "Most Memorable Moment" went to the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for the season 5 finale episode "The Gift" where Buffy dies (for the second time that is). Here's where you can find the full list of who was up for the awards: Most memorable Moment Nominees. But to finish off this post, here's the Buffy Clip! (Sorry it's the best version of the scene I could find...)

Warning Warning... Nastiness aproaching

First off, don't read this post if you have just eaten or plan on doing so shortly. I can not promise favorable results if you do.


So for the few who read this blog and don't already know, on my birthday I got a not so nice birthday surprise... I was told I was going to need to have minor foot surgery before I headed back to New York. I had this crazy wart on my foot that I was trying to get rid of for a while and it just wouldn't heal so the foot doctor said it had to be cut off (the nasty growth thingy, not the foot itself.) Anyway, the next day I got to go to Jewish Hospital South and have surgery at 8:30 in the morning. I spend the rest of the day sleeping and resting so I could be well enough to make my 9am flight to New York the next morning.

This whole weekend I've had to deal with the aftermath of the surgery. This basically entailed wearing a blue foot guard/boot thing when I was walking, and tons of gaus and medical wrap the rest of the time. Not very fun. The worst part of it was that I also had to move out of my old apartment at the same time. Thankfully I had my cousin Kimberly here to help me out. I didn't have to move much myself, but I still did more than I should have.

Because of all the walking I had to do, a lot of the gause shifted throughout the weekend. Now ti wasn't enough to expose anything or hurt my foot in general, but it was enough to drive me crazy. Well tonight I got to take the wrapping off my foot. My mom asked to see what it looked like, so for you viewing pleasure, here is the nastiness that is my stitches. Enjoy...

My feet while they were wrapped up.

Here is me starting the unwrapping...

Now the gause...



And here's the nastiness... They really didn't make it look very nice at all. No wondering it doesn't feel too good to move my big toe.