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I’ve been monitoring the Blogosphere stats today and thought I’d comment on a few things I have found. I noticed that I had a visitor from Namibia (I believe that is in Africa and where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had their baby) who found my site when searching for information about Grey’s Anatomy. Funny! So, either Brad and Angelina are back in Namibia surfing the internet or someone in Africa digs Grey’s as much as I do.I installed the same statistics program on Nana’s blog and she loves to look at who is visiting and from where. I have had to explain a few times the difference between a hit and a visit. A visit is most important. A visit is counted each time an individual IP (or person) comes to your site. A hit is any piece of information that is downloaded from your site (i.e. a page, a photo, etc). So you can technically have 1 visit but have 10 hits at the same time. Well, I noticed 1 IP address had ONE visit and SEVENTY hits! I was like, “What the??” I checked it out and this IP address comes from an ISP in Washington D.C. So…what does that mean? Frankly, I don’t know… it could be a search engine but I don’t think it is because search engines like Google, Yahoo have their own set of IP addresses. Or it could be a really bored politician because in one visit, they pretty much visited every single page on the Blogosphere. They read the whole thing. Maybe it was the secret service! Ooh! Intrigue! Maybe it was Hillary! Boo! Hiss! You suck, “lady”…. Well, whomever you are, I am glad you stopped by and took the time to read everything. Maybe you can come back and actually leave a comment or two.Stockholm, Sweden has been back a few times this month! Thanks for the read! Leave a comment next time. I don’t care if it’s not in english!  Rochester, NY was interested in my trip to Nauvoo – TWICE. So, welcome back! Richland, WA…I think I know who you are! Why don’t you write??Well, anyway…it’s fun to see where all the traffic comes from. It seems that lots of folks are interested in Grey’s Anatomy and that’s cool. So am I. Let’s get a dialogue going, shall we? Because Isaiah Washington is off the show and has not been quiet about why he thinks he was let go. And TR Knight appears to be a catalyst which is interesting because his character of George, although one I like very much, he’s NOT the show. I mean…um, HELLO! It’s not George’s Anatomy. Sheesh.

This is a bunch of crap. Where’s the forgiveness? What Isaiah said (he called co-star TR Knight a f*gg*t) was bad, yes. But he owned up to it, apologized, sought counseling and met with gay groups. What else was he to do? So is he to be villified for the rest of his career for saying something stupid and cruel? I just love the double standard out there…Rosie O’Donnell can call our military terrorists and she escapes without a scratch but Isaiah Washington can’t make a vocal mistake of his own, apologize and seek help and still get fired? ARGH! Isaiah says he’s mad as hell and he should be. What’s happened to him is wrong. What this does to the show is wrong. His character was a very important one not only because it was important role for an African American but because his character impacts others. Cristina just lost her dynamic equal. This sucks!

In a nutshell, the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy left nobody happy. Not a single character had a happy ending. The chief told each candidate that he/she didn’t get the job. We find out at the end he actually offered it to Derek but Derek didn’t take it because he felt that Seattle Grace just wouldn’t be the same with out the chief as chief. Gee, never saw that coming. Edelle, the chief’s estranged wife who was pregnant - surprise! It was the chief’s kid – a boy. Well, she miscarried and decided that the attentiveness that the chief showed her was enough to make her rethink leaving him. I’m not sure if that’s a happy ending or not. Christina was tortured through out the whole episode of having to endure the wedding stuff when all she wanted to do was cut someone open. Burke exposed his heart to a roomful of women during surgery when he practiced his vows on them. He left them all swooning, including Izzie who decided to declare her undying love for George. George finds out that Callie wants to have a baby but in reality she only wants the baby because she fears losing George to Izzie. George fails his intern test but nobody knows except Bailey who thinks she failed him and she’s down in the dumps because she lost out the Chief Resident job to Callie – CALLIE!!! Ugh. I am starting to dislike her as much as Izzie. Alex is in love with Ava who is really Rebecca who has a doting husband. But Ava/Rebecca wants Alex to admit it and give her a reason to leave her husband. Alex won’t give her one but feels like a total dork when Addison tells him that basically, he’s a dork. He runs back to the hospital to find Ava/Rebecca gone. No happy ending for him, either. Addison practically begs the chief for his job because she needs it. He pretty much tells her to get lost so she will. She’ll leave Seattle Grace so she can go be on that other show with more beautiful doctors. I’m not sure if she’s happy about that. Meanwhile, Derek tells Meredith  that he flirted with a girl at a bar. She thinks he’s trying to break up with her and tells him to do just do it. He can’t because he declares her to be the love of his life and the the only one doing the leaving is her. Naturally, she wouldn’t be Meredith if she didn’t bail on him right there. She does and uses Christina’s wedding as an excuse. Meredith wants a sign. She wants Christina to have a happy ending so she can believe that she deserves one to. Well, no can do, Dr. Grey. Burke realizes that Christina is having a freak out moment and much to his smug mother’s delight, he goes to “free” Christina from the bonds of matrimony. He takes his trumpet, lucky scrub cap and leaves her with painted on eyebrows. I’d be pissed. Christina cries and I am not sure if she’s happy either. It doesn’t seem like a happy moment. Lucky Meredith has to tell all the wedding guests to leave and Derek keeps giving her this “oh crap…this does not bode well for us..I should have hooked up with that bar chick afterall” look. George has decided that in no way is he doing his intern year over. So he cleans out his locker while the new interns come in and act all stupid about the smell of the locker room and how exciting it will be to see the caferteria. Really, do new doctors really think about stuff like that? One of the new interns sticks around to get some wisdom from George who says he has none. She tells him her name is something…I can’t remember but the kicker is that her last name is GREY! Oh boy..if he wasn’t so gay..he’d be all over her. He just may re-do his intern year after all…and so the stomach churns….Grey’s little half-sister will now be working side by side with her so we’ll get more of her pathetic father hanging around the hospital and more of Meredith’s emotional void and parental angst.I love this show….

Lots going on and only 2 more episodes left – boy, they wasted too much time last week with all that Addison stuff! This week tried to make up for all we didn’t get to see last week. Meredith’s dad totally freaked on her and blamed her for step-mom’s death. Subsequently, she ends up uninvited to the funeral and goes into a psychotic state and doesn’t answer one question on the oh so important intern exam. Chief Richard tries to comfort Meredith who promptly puts him in his place by telling him that although he had a relationship with her mother, he is most certainly not her father. Duh. They look nothing alike. So, it appears that she’ll end the season with her future up in the air but George to the rescue! He’s got a position at some other hospital so he can get away from the temptress Izzie and that sinful elevator but George has one more goal to accomplish before he leaves Seattle Grace and that is save Meredith from ruining her life. He enlists Izzie’s help but she tells him that he can help Meredith by not leaving and that he has no reason to leave because she has no feelings for him. She runs off to cry over her huge lie and leaves George to try and talk some sense into Meredith. George isn’t really good with words and Meredith shoos him away to go tattle on her to the Chief.Meanwhile, the Chief’s estranged wife Edelle has come into the ER due to a car accident and confesses to Addison that she is PREGNANT! She’s 52 and pregnant. It’s assumed that it’s another man’s child and she is adament that Richard not know. The Chief is clueless about his soon to be Ex but is eager to make sure that Meredith takes her test. He has her brought to a private room and tells her that she has 2 hours to take her test. She again proclaims him to NOT be her father and the proceeds to break down in his loving fatherly arms. Awww.It’s the day before Burke and Christina get married. Christina is obsessed with her test and has no interest in writing her vows. Burke is all about the traditions but is aghast when he finds out that he is without a Best Man. Enter Derek who’s being a huge jerk lately and looking for reasons to dump Meredith. UGH! All he wants is to be Chief and he’ll not only lose that chance but lose her as well and he’ll deserve it.Callie wows the other doctors by operating on 3 formerly stranded hikers with frost bite and body parts falling off pretty much at the same time. McSteamy thinks she’s giving Bailey a run for her money as chief resident which gives Miranda (Bailey) a huge wake up call – Hey! She’s not the chosen one! Uh.. RIGHT. As if. Callie vs. Miranda? That’s a no brainer. Meanwhile, Callie announces to Addison who is bemoaning the fact that she is baren, that she wants to have a baby. Blech. But then while the bridesmaids  are chilling with Christina during her last night as a free woman, Callie has an epiphony when Izzie chides them for taking for granted their true loves and how she would love to be like them. Uh oh, Lizzie loves George! Callie better get knocked up and quick!Finally, the chief spots Edelle run into the ladies room and is totally freaking out when he finds her passed out on the bathroom floor bleeding out her well….you know.Then the previews show for next week’s seaons finale… Callie announces her intention to George to be with child, Izzie confesses to George that she is head over heels in love with him – oh what is a gay man to do? Christina’s new mom-in-law decides that she needs to wax her eyebrows and she ends up without any on the day of her wedding! Very frightening. Of course there is bound to be lots of 2nd, 3rd and 4th thoughts about whether or not to take the plunge. The question is will the wedding happen and can they resolve that in an hour or do we have to wait until September? I love this show….

I feel cheated. Last night’s Grey’s Anatomy was pretty much a commercial for the new spin off series for the Addison character. For the first hour I felt pretty disappointed. We were subjected to watching Addison’s road trip, as if we cared, to California to meet up with her friends whom we are supposed to care for but since we do not know them, have no time invested in getting to know them and therefore do not care one ounce for them. Interspersed between all this stuff we don’t care about, we have snippets of the real characters. The 2nd hour I was a little more forgiving. Part of the spin off had a little charm – such as the talking elevator which we find out at the end isn’t really a talking elevator but some security person who has a bird’s eye view. I would have rather not found that part out and had Addison have this relationship with the elevator since she so clearly has issues with them. I did like seeing Tim Daly again and Ty Diggs is not too shabby to look at. But they all work for a private “self-help” earthy/hippie/yuppie weird clinic type of place in California, not some hospital where we get to see the nitty gritty type of stories that have made Grey’s so enduring. I can see the California cliches and stereotypes now and it won’t be pretty.Meanwhile, what little we did see of the “real” Grey’s cast included seeing Christina tortured by her mother and soon to be mother-in-laws who want to plan her wedding. This sub-story really has the makings for some really fun dialogue but the scenes were forced and rushed and before you knew it, she had asked Callie (!!!) to be a bridesmaid. Then Meredith’s step-mom comes in to the hospital 3 times, the first with hiccups, the 2nd with some sort of infection so they give her antibiotics and the 3rd with cramps. Each time Meredith has no clue what is wrong and her dad is freaking out and she is calmly saying that things will be fine. Mind you these are short little 2-3 minute segments and it all leads up to step-mom getting sepsis and dying on the operating table. Dad slaps Meredith and she runs off. What the heck?! We could have had our chance for Meredith to open a can of whoop-*ss on her Dad and really tell him all that she’s been bottling up. I mean, she has a new lease on life right? She almost died earlier this season. Step-mom’s health issues were never fully explained and I am still trying to figure out how she can come in with hiccups and by the end of the episode be dead. Had we not had to put up with the Addison crap, the writers could have explained this. Instead, we are now going to be faced with more of Meredith and her parental angst and she’ll be all screwed up some more because she will feel responsible for her step-mom dying. Can’t this girl do anything right?So, in a nutshell, ABC blew it. They teased us with a fleeting moment of passion between Izzie and George and then threw us back into the other show so we could see the some surfer dude without his shirt on and three middle aged women making goo-goo eyes at him. B-O-R-I-N-G! Two episodes remain this season. I hope they don’t waste more time on the new people and get back to the characters we really want to see. 

I started watching Grey’s Anatomy about half way through Season 2 and was immediately hooked. I’ve watched it religiously this season. I persuaded the hubby to get me Season 1 & 2 on DVD. I just finished watching the first season last night. What a fun show! Even my 17 year old nephew who wouldn’t be caught dead watching a soap opera has been sucked in which is hilarious. Dr. Bailey is my favorite. She doesn’t take crap from anyone. More about this later…I just wanted to get it started…