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Get ready…this is a list of some of my all-time favorite reads – and it’s a long one!😁 Most are romance, but not all…and they’re not in any particular order, either. (Sorry about that.😋) A handful of non-romance titles start the list, simply because they stand out from the rest. And in places they might be in alphabetical order by author’s last name, but otherwise they’re added as I read and find new books worthy of becoming “Keepers.”
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have! 💖📚

• The Great Good Thing – Roderick Townley  (Oh, so good! This is a kids’ story, but like the Harry Potter books, it’s great for young and old alike. It’s a book within a book—I’ll leave it to you to read and find out what that means—and if you look closely at the cover, you’ll notice that the little girl isn’t peeking out from between a forest of trees, but from between the pages of a book! Did I mention this one is oh, so good?)
• Blueberries for Sal – Robert McCloskey
• One Morning in Maine – Robert McCloskey
• Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
• Fortune Cookies – Albert Bitterman  (Such a cute, sweet children’s book.  Read it; truly, you will not be sorry.  Especially if you have kids to read it to and/or love cats.)
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey – Susan Wojciechowski
• PAWS for a Moment with God: Devotions Best Enjoyed in the Company of a Cat
• I Could Pee on That (and other Poems by Cats) – Francesco Marciuliano
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone … Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets … Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban … Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
• The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose … The Power of NOW – Eckhart Tolle
• The Four Agreements – don Miguel Ruiz
  

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• The Outlaw Hearts – Rebecca Brandewyne (One of the very first historical romances I remember reading…and still one of my favorites. I think I’ve read it something like six or eight times. Wonderful!)
• The Rogue Prince – Margo Maguire
• This Perfect Kiss – Melody Thomas
• Second Chance Love Song … Million-Dollar Mix-Up – Jessica Lemmon
• Annie’s Wild Ride – Alina Adams
• A Fire in the Heart – Katherine Sutcliffe
• Darkling I Listen – Katherine Sutcliffe (Really good romantic suspense!)
• Love at First Sight … All Out of Love … Somebody to Love … Christmas at Twilight – Lori Wilde
• Baby, I’m Yours … Be My Baby … Baby, Don’t Go … Head Over Heels … Hot and Bothered – Susan Andersen
• Annie’s Song (such a tearjerker, but well worth the tissues) … Keegan’s Lady – Catherine Anderson
• My Man Pendleton – Elizabeth Bevarly
• Fanta C … Adam’s Fall – Sandra Brown
• Charade … Fat Tuesday … White Hot … Chill Factor … Tailspin … Seeing Red – Sandra Brown
• Emerald Nights – Virginia Brown
• The Princess Diaries … All-American Girl …When Lightning Strikes … Code Name Cassandra … Safe House … Sanctuary – Meg Cabot
• Lord of Scoundrels … Scandal Wears Satin … Don’t Tempt Me – Loretta Chase
• The Perfect Victim – Linda Castillo
• Silent Run … Silent Fall – Barbara Freethy
• Undead and Unwed … Undead and Unemployed … Derik’s Bane – MaryJanice Davidson
• The Wedding Raffle – Geralyn Dawson
• The Taming – Jude Devereaux (I chuckle just thinking about some of the scenes in this one!)
• The Runaway Heiress … Someday My Prince … That Scandalous Evening … Some Enchanted Evening – Christina Dodd
• Storm of Shadows … Into the Shadow … Into the Flame … Chains of Ice … Chains of Fire …  Wilder – Christina Dodd
• Bridal Favors – Connie Brockway
• Guilty Pleasures – Laura Lee Guhrke
• “Stephanie Plum” series:  One for the Money … Two for the Dough … Three to Get Deadly … Four to Score …  – Janet Evanovich  (The early ones in this series are the best!)
• “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” series:  Guilty Pleasures … The Laughing Corpse … Circus of the Damned … The Lunatic Cafe … Bloody Bones – Laurell K. Hamilton (Okay, so a friend told me I should try this author. Um…no, thanks. They’re horror and fantasy and gory stuff; I’m not into that. Oh, but you have to try them—really, truly. I’ll send you one of mine to read so you can let me know what you think. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read the whole thing. All right, said I; I’ll give it a shot. Holy hot sauce, Batman! It didn’t take me long to get hooked. Highly recommended, even though I’ve fallen a bit behind with the series and the later books aren’t nearly as good as the early ones.)
• “Meredith Gentry” series:  A Kiss of Shadows … A Caress of Twilight … Seduced by Moonlight … A Stroke of Midnight … Mistral’s Kiss … A Lick of Frost … Swallowing Darkness … Divine Misdemeanors … A Shiver of Light – Laurell K. Hamilton (I’m really liking this series, too. My favorite installment so far is A Lick of Frost. Awesome, sexy, emotional…I didn’t want it to end and am positively rabid for the next installment.)
• “Tall, Dark, and Dangerous” series:  TITLES – Suzanne Brockmann (I’m sure I don’t need to say much about these…after all, they’re the reason Suz is famous. But no author has ever made me love the Navy so much—and my dad was a sailor! Every time I read another of her SEAL  books, I want to find the nearest naval base and pop a tent outside, just waiting for my ship to come in—literally.)
• The Kill Box – Nichole Christoff
• Tennessee Takedown – Lena Diaz
• Too Much Temptation … Say No to Joe? … Murphy’s Law … Jude’s Law … “Bringing Up Baby” … “Do You Hear What I Hear” … “Luscious” – Lori Foster
• The Perfect Husband … The Next Accident … The Survivor’s Club – Lisa Gardner
• Castles … Ransom – Julie Garwood
• Simply Irresistible … It Must Be Love … The Trouble with Valentine’s Day … True Love and Other Disasters – Rachel Gibson
• One Wore Blue … And One Wore Gray – Heather Graham
• A Handful of Heaven – Kristen Hannah
• Fire and Ice … Ashes and Ecstasy – Catherine Hart
• A Thin Dark Line … Dark Horse … Ashes to Ashes … Dust to Dust – Tami Hoag  (If you haven’t seen it, the Harry Hamlin/Valerie Bertinelli made-for-TV movie of Hoag’s Night Sins is awesome!)
• Stealing Shadows … Hiding in Shadows … Out of the Shadows … Haunting Rachel … Touching Evil … Sleeping with Fear … The First Prophet … Blood Sins – Kay Hooper
• A Kiss in the Night – Jennifer Horsman
• Acts of Passion … Acts of Love – Deana James
• Dream Wedding … Christmas Wedding – Pamela Macaluso
• Beast – Judith Ivory
• No Greater Love – Katherine Kingsley
• Because You’re Mine …“Surrender” (Ooh, ooh, ooh! This is absolutely the best novella ever. I read it just about every Christmas and it hits me the same way every year. I even got a friend to start reading it every Christmas with me…and she’s Jewish! LOL) … A Wallflower Christmas – Lisa Kleypas
• Kill and Tell … Cry No More – Linda Howard
• The Wildest Hearts … Sharp Edges … Sizzle and Burn … Fired Up … In Too Deep … Secret Sisters …  – Jayne Ann Krentz
• Gentle Rogue … Once a Princess … Prisoner of My Desire … Man of My Dreams … A Loving Scoundrel – Johanna Lindsey
• Untamed … Forbidden … Enchanted – Elizabeth Lowell
• Jackson Rule – Dinah McCall
• Charming the Prince … Yours Until Dawn … Some Like it Wicked … Some Like it Wild – Teresa Medeiros
• Lily and the Major … Daniel’s Bride – Linda Lael Miller
• Garters … Wild Oats – Pamela Morsi
• Forever in His Arms – Penelope Neri
• Falling for You – Julie Ortolon
• It Had to Be You … Heaven, Texas … Kiss An Angel … Nobody’s Baby But Mine (The Lucky Charms scene in this one is a hoot!) … Dream a Little Dream … Lady Be Good – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Mistress … With This Ring … Burning Lamp – Amanda Quick
• One Perfect Rose – Mary Jo Putney
• Island Flame … Seafire – Karen Robards
• Hunter’s Moon – Karen Robards
• Sea Swept … Rising Tides … Inner Harbor … Chesapeake Blue … Key of Light … Key of Knowledge … Key of Valor – Nora Roberts
• Divine Evil … Carolina Moon … Montana Sky – Nora Roberts
• Surrender to the Night – Evelyn Rogers
• Half Moon Bay – Meryl Sawyer
• A Place to Call Home – Deborah Smith
• Hummingbird – LaVyrle Spencer
• Nightfall … Moonrise … Ritual Sins – Anne Stuart
• Unforgivable– Tina Wainscott (This is one that kept me almost literally on the edge of my seat…I was reading it on a plane, and think if I hadn’t been surrounded by fifty people in broad daylight, I would have wet myself.)
• Ashes in the Wind – Kathleen Woodiwiss
• Claiming King’s Child – Maureen Child (and so many more; basically any and all  Silhouette/Harlequin Desires by Maureen Child……heck, anything and everything by Maureen Child!)
• More Than She Bargained For – Lori Copeland
• Anyone But You – Jennifer Crusie
• The One That Got Away – Emma Darcy
• A Single Rose – Barbara Delinsky
• An Outlaw for Christmas – Lori Handeland
• A Sheriff in Tennessee– Lori Handeland
• “Rock Creek Six” series: Reese … Rico … Nate – Lori Handeland and Sullivan … Jed … Cash – Linda Devlin
• A Whole Lot of Woman – Anna Hudson
• Mackenzie’s Mountain … Mackenzie’s Mission … Mackenzie’s Pleasure … A Game of Chance – Linda Howard
• Body Guard – Stephanie James
• Miracles – Mary Kirk
• Hunted … Everyday Hero … Truth or Dare – Jo Leigh (Jo Leigh is a truly talented wench…I’m green with envy, and as much as I enjoy her Blazes, I really miss her Intimate Moments.)
• Too Hot to Handle – Elizabeth Lowell
• The Bounty Hunter’s Baby – Jule McBride
• Murphy’s Law – Marilyn Pappano
• Wedding Bell Blues – Heather Graham Pozzessere
• Christmas Knight – Carin Rafferty
• I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus – Debbi Rawlins
• Night Shift … Nightshade … Captivated … Entranced … Charmed … The Return of Rafe MacCade … The Pride of Jared MacKade … The Heart of Devin MacKade … The Fall of Shane MacKade – Nora Roberts
• The Husband She Couldn’t Remember – Maggie Shayne
• Twilight Prophecy – Maggie Shayne
• Bad Attitude – Tiffany White (There’s a phone sex scene in this one that cannot be rivaled.)
• The Pregnant Heiress … Jacob’s Proposal … Luke’s Promise – Eileen Wilks
• Please Say “I Do” – Karen Toller Whittenburg
• The Bride’s Protector – Gayle Wilson
• Marching Orders … Christmas Rescue at Mustang Ridge … Santa Assignment … Branded by the Sheriff … The Mommy Mystery – Delores Fossen (Wonderful books by a wonderful friend. If you’ve never read Delores’s work, do so immediately…you won’t be disappointed.)
• Black Magic … “Playing for Keeps” – Cherry Adair
• Hunting Midnight – Emma Holly
• Jackson McCall … Bloodlines – Dinah McCall
• Scent of Danger – Andrea Kane
• Break the Night … “Kissing Frosty” – Anne Stuart
• Season of the Sun … Night Storm … Devil’s Daughter – Catherine Coulter
• Ricochet – Jessica Andersen
• “The Fourteen Million Dollar Poodle” – Nancy Warren
• Raintree: Haunted – Linda Winstead Jones
• Hell’s Belles – Jackie Kessler
• “Lords of the Underworld” series:  The Darkest Night … The Darkest Pleasure … The Darkest Whisper
• Wicked Nights … Beauty Awakened … Burning Dawn … Last Kiss Goodnight … Black and Blue … Dark Taste of Rapture – Gena Showalter
• “The Black Dagger Brotherhood” series: Dark Lover … Lover Eternal … Lover Awakened … Lover Revealed … Lover Unbound … Lover Enshrined … Lover Avenged … Lover Mine … Lover Unleashed …  Lover Reborn … – J.R. Ward (OMG, what an amazing, fabulous, seriously wonderful series!  I can’t even pick a favorite, they’re all so good, and it’s been ages since a book—or books—have sucked me in the way these do. Can I have a Brother for myself? Pretty please?!)
• Pandora’s Daughter – Iris Johansen
• Close Your Eyes … Sight Unseen – Iris and Roy Johansen
• A Hunger Like No Other … “The Warlord Wants Forever” – Kresley Cole
• “A Rare Gift” – Jaci Burton
• “Shifting Sea” – Virginia Kantra
• “Here There Be Monsters” – Meljean Brook
• How to Marry a Warlock in 10 Days – Saranna DeWylde
• Strong and Sexy … “Bah, Handsome” … “All He Wants for Christmas”  – Jill Shalvis
• “He’ll Be Home for Christmas” – Rhonda Nelson
• Ripped – Sarah Morgan
• The Difference a Day Makes – Barbara Longley
• Unbreakable … The Samms Agenda … The Beach Alibi … “This Time Next Year” – Alison Kent
• “When I Met My Duchess” – Caroline Linden
• The Downfall of a Good Girl – Kimberly Lang
• The Devil’s Footprints – Amanda Stevens
• “The Wedding Knight” … “A Christmas Charade” – Kathryn Smith
• Sex, Lies and Mistletoe – Tawny Weber
• “Broken Hallelujah” – Toni McGee Causey
• Where There’s a Will – Stacy Gail
• “Mistletoe and Margaritas” – Shannon Stacey
• “A Mistletoe Masquerade” – Louise Allen
• “Lethal Lessons” – Colleen Thompson
• Passions of a Wicked Earl … Just Wicked Enough … In Bed with the Devil … Midnight Pleasures with a Scoundrel – Lorraine Heath
• To Pleasure a Prince … Let Sleeping Rogues Lie … “When Sparks Fly” … “Ten Reasons to Stay” … Silver Deceptions – Sabrina Jeffries
• By Love Unveiled – Deborah Martin
• “Mommy for Rent” – Lori Handeland
• The Art of Seduction – Melanie George
• Return of the Rogue – Donna Fletcher
• Ice Cold – Tess Gerritsen
• Last Night with the Earl – Kelly Bowen
• Just This Once – Mira Lyn Kelly
• Christmas Conspiracy … Christmas Justice – Robin Perini 
• Wicked and the Wallflower … Brazen and the Beast – Sarah MacLean
• How the Dukes Stole Christmas anthology (and I mean all the novellas in this one) “Meet Me in Mayfair” – Tessa Dare … “The Duke of Christmas Past” – Sarah MacLean … “Heiress Alone” – Sophie Jordan … “Christmas in Central Park” – Joanna Shupe
• Till Dawn with the Devil … After Dark with a Scoundrel … All Afternoon with a Scandalous Marquis … Sunrise with a Notorious Lord – Alexandrea Hawkins
• Obsidian Prey – Jayne Castle

Movies

Who doesn’t love movies?😃 I may even love them a little too much. But while I want to see everything, I can be a little picky. Then again, I probably love a few that others think are terrible. What do YOU think?🎬

• Don’t Tell Her It’s Me / The Boyfriend School (I love this one! So cute and funny, and about a matchmaking romance author, to boot.)
• X-Men …  X-Men United … X-Men: The Last Stand … X-Men: Days of Future Past …  X-Men: Apocalypse (Wolverine…Hugh Jackman as Wolverine…need I say more?)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine … The Wolverine (Even more Wolverine! *pant-pant*)
• The Matrix (First film only; the other two in the trilogy—ick!)
• My Cousin Vinny (Freaking funny! *vbg* And, I’m sorry, but the edited-for-television version just isn’t the same—all the swearing is what makes this movie so hilarious.)
• Ever After
• Moulin Rouge (*sob, sob*—but still worth watching)
• The Waterboy
• Soapdish
• Deep Blue Sea
• My Best Friend’s Wedding
• Outrageous Fortune
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Desperado
• Major League
• Ace Ventura:  Pet Detective
• Sister Act
• Young Guns
• Jennifer 8
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Housesitter
• Bird on a Wire
• I Love Trouble
• The Ring
• Seven
• Scrooged
• Annie
• Galaxy Quest
• The Court Jester (“The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace is the brew that is true.” It doesn’t get any funnier than scenes like that!)
• A Few Good Men
• Die Hard … A Good Day to Die Hard
• The Golden Child
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (I like this one, but it is somewhat depressing, considering Patrick Swayze makes a prettier woman than I do. *snork*)
• Mission: Impossible … Mission: Impossible II … Mission: Impossible III … Mission: Impossible–Rogue Nation … Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol … Mission: Impossible–Fallout
• Air Force One
• Kull the Conqueror
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark … Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom … Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Six Days, Seven Nights
• The Wizard of Oz
• Annie (The original, thank you very much, not the remake.)
• Overboard
• Three Fugitives (This is one of my and my mother’s favorites; Martin Short is hilarious and the little girl is so adorable!)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery … Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me … Austin Powers: Goldmember (Goldmember is my fave of the three, though😋)
• Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo
• Bio-Dome
• Jury Duty
• Son-in-Law (What can I say? I get a huge kick out of Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Pauly Shore, and Rob Schneider.)
• Bedazzled
• The Mummy … The Mummy Returns
• Wimbledon
• The Jerk
• The Man with Two Brains
• Miss Congeniality
• Up Close and Personal
• Wild Wild West
• Speed
• Anastasia
• Liar, Liar
• Tremors
• Toy Story 1 … Toy Story 2 … Toy Story 3
• Finding Nemo
• Monsters, Inc.
• The Rescuers
• Shanghai Noon
• The Lost Boys
• Dirty Dancing
• What Lies Beneath
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Finally, a film that makes history fun!)
• America’s Sweethearts
• Shrek … Shrek 2 … Shrek the Third … Shrek Forever After … Shrek the Halls … Scared Shrekless
• Elf
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• ‘Twas the Night
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Men in Black
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• All of Me
• Maverick
• The Dream Team
• Stuart Saves His Family
• Victor/Victoria
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
• Jumanji … Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
• Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
• Clue (A fabulous, hysterical movie based on the board game; my brother turned me on to this one and it’s now a mutual favorite)
• Hercules (Disney version)
• Aladdin (Disney version)
• Beauty and the Beast (Disney version…and also Broadway play—fabulous!)
• I, Robot
• Clueless
• 50 First Dates
• Hidalgo
• Serenity (Follow-up film to the television series Firefly, which we all know I adore. Need I say more? My only complaint is that a couple of key characters die, and that’s just wrong. )
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Team America: World Police (You may have to be a fan of South Park and South Park-esque humor to like this movie, but luckily I am and thought it was hysterical!)
• Cellular
• Resident Evil:  Apocalypse … Resident Evil:  Extinction
• The Italian Job
• Blade II … Blade: Trinity
• Walking Tall
• Hellboy
• The Ring
• RV
• The Cave
• Gridiron Gang
• Just Friends
• Father Goose
• Ella Enchanted
• Déjà Vu
• The Game Plan
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Jumpin’ Jack Flash
• Legally Blonde
  
• Hocus Pocus
• Practical Magic
• Hello Again
• Matilda
• White Chicks
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Made of Honor
• Wild Hogs
• Stardust
• Evan Almighty
• Wrong Turn
• The Hills Have Eyes
• House of Wax
• Déjà vu
• While You Were Sleeping
• Four Brothers
• Tootsie
• Norbit
• Transporter … Transporter 2 … Transporter 3 (But mostly Transporter 2…I only list them all because I’m willing to watch Jason Statham in just about anything :-p)
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Tooth Fairy
• Music and Lyrics
• The Love Guru (This is not as bad as everybody says, thank you very much.)
• My Bloody Valentine
• The Da Vinci Code … Angels and Demons
• Transformers … Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen … Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• Get Smart
• Igor (The first ten minutes of this movie are so cute…and how can anyone resist such a great Heidi character? *g*)
• Death Race
• Next
• Race to Witch Mountain
• The Princess and the Frog
• Tangled
• Home
• Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax  (Not just a fun, animated film, but a documentary from the future, if we’re not careful. :'()
• The A-Team
• Taken (Have I mentioned how much I love action/revenge movies?  Liam Neeson kicking ass with that accent. *sigh* I also love it when a hero says, “I will track you down and kill you,” then does it. Oh, yeah.  Not that I’m bloodthirsty or anything.)
• RED … RED 2  ([RED = Retired – Extremely Dangerous] Love it! One of the best action flicks I’ve seen in a while.  Part romance, part shoot-’em-up, it’s smart, funny, edgy…and did I mention Bruce Willis lookin’ fine? Hubba-hubba.  And the sequel is just as good as the first, which you don’t find very often.)
• All About Steve
• When in Rome
• You Again
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• Hoodwinked! … Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
• Despicable Me … Despicable Me 2 … Despicable Me 3 … Minions
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Knight and Day
• Sherlock Holmes … Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Megamind
• Battleship
• Man on a Ledge
• The Avengers … The Avengers: Age of Ultron … The Avengers: Infinity War
• Thor … Thor: The Dark World … Thor: Ragnarok
• Black Panther
• Robin Hood (Russell Crowe version…they played fast and loose with the better known Robin Hood legends in this one, but it was actually very good; I maybe liked it even better than the RH storylines I’m more familiar with)
• Tower Heist
• Wreck-it Ralph
• The Frozen Ground
• Total Recall (the Colin Farrell remake, of course😘)
• Trouble with the Curve
• Star Trek … Star Trek: Into Darkness (I’ve never really been a fan, so it took me a while to get around to watching these, but I was duly impressed; brimming with sexy (hello! Chris Pine, Karl Urban, and Chris Hemsworth?), action/adventure, and much funnier than I expected)
• White House Down
• Love Happens
• The Heat
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• The Conjuring … The Conjuring 2
• Annabelle: Creation
• Safe
• Homefront
• Jupiter Ascending  (I really liked this one, even though it was a bit long and needed a much better ending)
• Hotel Transylvania
• Australia
• The Three Musketeers
• R.I.P.D.
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• Jurassic World
• Whiteout
• Dream House
• I, Frankenstein
• Non-Stop
• Silver Linings Playbook
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (a terrible, terrible movie—so many bad things, I may go to Hell just for watching it; but oh, my gosh, is it funny!)
• The Other Woman
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier … Captain America: Civil War
• SPY
• The Blind Side (I waited a really long time to watch this one, because I knew it would make me cry…but it was worth it)
• Sisters
• The Shallows (Okay, so, I never really wanted to watch this one, because I thought it was going to be two hours of watching some gal float in the water, being pestered by a shark. Boring, right? Oh, hell, no! This was a great movie…and I’m still wondering: WTH is that shark’s problem?!)
• Split
• Glass
• HappyDeath Day … Happy Death Day 2 U
• Insidious … Insidious: Chapter 2 … Insidious: Chapter 3 … Insidious: The Last Key
• Captain Marvel
• The Unholy
• A Fish Called Wanda
• The Huntsman: Winter’s War
  

Television

TV. TV, TV, TV. Running nearly 24/7, I’m surprised mine doesn’t overheat and explode.😜 But even though I know I should cut down, I just…can’t…look…away! And these are more than a few of my favorite shows.🤩

• Firefly (So angry this was cancelled. So excited about the film. Was in the store the day of the DVD release to buy the collection—and a DVD player so I could watch them, since I didn’t own one yet.)
• Eyes (They better not cancel this one!) (Okay, they did.  Grrrr.  Now I have to hope the few episodes they aired land on DVD soon.  Double grrrrr.)
• Numb3rs (Just about the only time in my life I’ve found math entertaining.)
• NCIS
• The Commish
• The Pretender
• The Profiler
• Married with Children
• Will & Grace
• Friends
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
• Diagnosis Murder
• Vengeance Unlimited
• Greg the Bunny
• The People’s Court (This is one of my guilty pleasures. I love watching Judge Milan put those people in their place…and it’s also where I’ve learned just about everything I know about the law. Which isn’t saying much, except that I do know you have to get a receipt for everything, just in case.)
• Judge Judy
• Wings
• Veronica Mars (series and movie—though watch the series first for the full VM experience)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Simpsons
• Family Guy
• Silk Stalkings
• Sweating Bullets
• Dark Justice
• The Outsiders
• Young Riders
• NewsRadio
• JAG
• John Doe
• Midnight Caller
• The Magnificent Seven
• The Big Valley
• Night Court
• Blind Justice
• South Park
• Airwolf
• The Sentinel
• War of the Worlds (with Adrian Paul—anyone remember this show?)
• Soldiers of Fortune, Inc.
• Hope and Faith
• Less Than Perfect
• Space Rangers
• MacGyver  (original and reboot…they’re both pretty good👍)
• Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place (later Two Guys and a Girl; early Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion–yummy)
• Highlander: The Series
• In Living Color
• The Newz (a little known sketch show, on late at night and quickly cancelled, but so funny!)
• Mad TV
• Saturday Night Live (well…sometimes SNL…the funny comes and goes)
• Arrested Development (the first three seasons that originally aired; I haven’t seen the Netflix seasons yet)
• Futurama
• Kindred: The Embraced
• Designing Women (that Suzanne Sugarbaker cracks me up; I also think we may have been separated at birth)
• The Golden Girls
• The Closer
• Major Crimes
• Picket Fences (the first couple seasons, anyway, when it was really peculiar and fun)
• Boomtown
• Hawaii (very short-lived, but we’re talking Michael Biehn in Paradise, doggone it!)
• Monk (and not simply because we have so much in common, it’s scary :P)
• Hercules, The Legendary Journeys
• Due South
• Riptide
• Chicago Sons
• Killer Instinct
• Simon and Simon
• Criminal Minds
• Two and a Half Men
• Burn Notice
• My Name is Earl
• Raines
• Kevin James:  Sweat the Small Stuff
• Drive
• Psych
• Cops
• Jail … Las Vegas Jailhouse
• Marshal Law:  Texas
• Cold Justice
• Pushing Daisies
• Reaper
• Just Shoot Me
• Reno 911!
• Project Runway
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• The Ex List
• Gary Unmarried
• Eleventh Hour
• Top Chef
• Flashpoint
• Leverage (I could kick myself for not watching this one from the beginning…but thank God for reruns and DVDs!)
• The Good Guys (so mad this one was canceled; have I mentioned lately how much Fox sucks?)
• Hot in Cleveland
• Raising Hope
• Mike and Molly
• White Collar
• Covert Affairs
• CHAOS
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• 30 Rock
• Hawaii Five-0
• Person of Interest
• Supernatural (Only the best show ever! Maybe second best or first best tied with Firefly. But it is awesome and I love, love, love it. Also, Dean is mine. Don’t challenge me on this, because I will cut you. And then I’ll salt and burn you so you can never come back.)
• The Big Bang Theory
• Whitney
• Grimm
• Once Upon a Time
• The Walking Dead
• Missing (so upset that this was cancelled after only one season; brilliant, riveting action-adventure…Ashley Judd and Sean Bean…I describe it as Taken with a female protagonist.  The folks at ABC are idiots.)
• Titus
• Christopher Titus: Normal Rockwell is Bleeding … Neverlution … Love is Evol … Voice in My Head
• Common Law
• Elementary
• Sherlock
• Zero Hour (Really good, and a lot like Missing, which they also cancelled. Clearly ABC is clueless.)
• Hannibal
• The Middle
• Super Fun Night  (Pffft on ABC for canceling this!😠)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Dracula
• Almost Human
• The Last Ship
• The Strain
• Salem
• Whitney Cummings: I Love You
• Forever
• Stalker
• Constantine
• Benched
• The Librarians
• Galavant  (A musical medieval comedy series…who’d have ever thunk it? But I’m glad they did—it’s totally creative, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!)
• Bob’s Burgers
• Zoo
• Houdini and Doyle
• Angel from Hell
• Stan Against Evil
• Trial & Error … Trial & Error: Lady, Killer
• Mom
• United States of Al
• Rebel
• Clarice
• Evil
• Ghosts
• The Equalizer (with Queen Latifah…though I enjoyed the original when it was on, too. ;))

Miscellaneous

• CASH (of the cold, hard variety, thank you very much)
• Stetro Pencil Grips  (these things are great!  I used to like the foam ones, but these contour to my fingers and are not only comfortable to hold, but I find myself gripping my pens and pencils a little less tightly, causing less pressure on my fingers.  I didn’t like them at first though; they took a bit of getting used to. ;))
• Food Should Taste Good chocolate tortilla chips
• Popcorn, Indiana Dark Fudge Kettlecorn & Dark Fudge Peppermint Kettlecorn (holy crap—why didn’t I think of this?  the dark chocolate is yummy enough, but the dark chocolate/peppermint is like Christmas in your mouth!)
• Henry’s Hard Cherry Cola
• IZZE all natural fruit-flavored soda (pretty much any flavor, though the Sparkling Grapefruit and Sparkling Lemon are my faves)
• Smirnoff Ice – Green Apple and Triple Black
• Cosmopolitans … Apple-tinis … Mamma Mias (I’m not much of a drinker, but I do believe I could happily become one if I sat around sipping these all day
• Sheila G’s Brownie Brittle (holy freaking crap—I really need to stop discovering all these new, clearly not-good-for-me snacks! But this stuff…I’ve only tried the plain Chocolate Chip ones so far, but day-um!
• Pepsi and/or Coke-flavored lip balms — this includes Sprite, Mountain Dew, Cherry Coke, Orange Crush, root beer… (if it’s a soda-flavored lip balm, I want to smear it all over me)
• just about anything Pink Grapefruit scented or flavored (is there a better taste or smell in the whole wide world? I think not.)
• Bodycology Pink Grapefruit body cream
• blue corn chips
• AlphaSmart 3000 and AlphaSmart Neo (OMG, I could not do my job without this! It is a gift from the heavens and I thank God every day that it was invented!)
• DishNetwork and DVR technology (seriously, what did I do before these came along?)
• airpop popcorn
• just about everything Red Tango (I own nothing personally, but I just love that adorable cat design!)
• Happy Bunny
• Winnie the Pooh
• Corky and the Juice Pigs (If you’re a fan of the early MadTV days, you’ll know who this is…and if you miss them as much as I do, you can sing along with them on YouTube)
• Kitty Girl perfume and body lotion (a knock-off of Katy Perry’s Purr, but I honestly think it smells better than the original; oh—but I do not care for the Kitty Girl Pink at all)
• Garden Veggie Straws
• Sweet Barbecue Potato Straws
• Wise Honey Barbecue otato Chips
• turkey burgers (Butterball and Jennie O are my favorite brands)
• SoBe Life Water  (Cherimoya Punch and Macintosh Apple Cherry most of all)
• ZzzQuil (I don’t use it very often, but when insomnia comes a-knockin’, it is a Godsend.)
• White Cloud Green Earth toilet tissue (did you know that most companies use “virgin” trees—often from rainforests—to produce their various paper and tissue products? This is NOT GOOD. White Cloud’s Green Earth products (as well as Marcal and a few other brands, if you do your research) are 100% recycled. Which doesn’t mean it’s recycled toilet paper, for heaven’s sake! It’s made from recycled paper products. And in case you think that would make it the consistency of sandpaper, it’s not; it’s actually great toilet tissue…and paper towels…and facial tissue… Highly recommended for both personal use and helping to save the planet!)