I was supposed to go to college today.  Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling well enough to travel all the way to Manila with my ginormous laptop: Bad headache + itchy, painful throat + lethargy.  Say NO to work.  I feel slightly guilty though, but I promised my partner I'll make up for it.  Plus the lateness of salary is not making me happy, so I'm not killing myself for them.

Latest obsession is the series Pushing Daisies.  Have you heard of it?  GO WATCH NOW. 

Basic plot points:

There is a guy.  His name is Ned, and he's a pie-maker, owner of the Pie Hole.  Ned has special powers, one touch and he can bring the dead back to life.  Unfortunately, if the now-alive-formerly-dead-person remains alive for more than a minute, another living thing (of equal life value) dies.  Once he brings something back to life, he can't touch it again, else that something dies.  First thing he ever brought back to life was his dog, Digby, when he was just a kid.  He therefore couldn't touch Digby at all anymore.  He found this dead-alive-then dead again in an accidental experiment with his mom.  His mom had a stroke.  He touched her, she came to life.  A minute later, Chuck's dad (we will get to them later) died.  When his mom kissed him good night, his mom died.  Again.  This time for good.

For the first few episodes, I thought he couldn't touch anyone at all.  But apparently he could touch never-been-dead people.  It's just the dead and used-to-be-dead that's the problem.

Back to Chuck.  Chuck is Charlotte, Ned's next door neighbor when they were kids.  After her dad died, they moved out, and never saw each other again unil Chuck died.  Obviously, he brought her back to life.

Now, aside from being a pie-maker of Pie Hole, Ned is also an associate of a P.I. guy, Emerson Cod.  How does this partnership work?  Basically, Cod gets a case (preferably some person being murdered with murderer unknown), they go to the morgue, Ned touches the dead person and brings him  back to life for a minute, asks who killed him, then touches him again to permanently kill him.

Another character in the story is Olive.  Ned's assistant who not-so-secretly pines for him.  Unfortunately, even though Ned and Chuck can't touch, they still kiss with a plastic sheet in between them (isn't that the sweetest? yes, and slightly mental).

Another reason to love Pushing Daisies is Chuck's wardrobe.  Seriously.  That girl has the nicest dresses.  She's getting me hooked on buying more dresses.  Here's a few I love:

possibly my absolute fave

I know, how red, but still fab!

swirly pattern is love

I don't think I'd be able to pull off the cleavage though

maybe minus the black undershirt

Convinced now?