An evening with the boob tube…

November 23, 2007 /

 

First off, who amongst you goes out shopping on Black Friday?  I have some family memebers who run out at 6am to get the best deals, and are home and toasty warm before we even get around to breakfast.  It’s a fun tradition that they cherish.  Other family members consider this a day to stay the hell home, safe from the hoards of crazed shoppers.  Then there are others, like me, who could go out, maybe, if we take BART so I don’t have to park anywhere, but could easily be convinced to stay home with a good book or a few episodes of Buffy.

Now, here’s a stupid little blog post I jotted down almost 2 weeks ago, just my thoughts while channel surfing one Monday night, that never got fleshed out into its own post, because, um, it’s too dumb.   Not too dumb to post, apparantly, because here I go, but too dumb for its own post entirely.  What?

1. Dancing with the Stars.  I really don’t care about this show, no matter how impressed we all should be that after practicing for 6 hours a day, every day, these people can actually dance, especially later in the season.  I suspect that if I got paid big bucks, I might be able to dance with that kind of time and hard work too.  Wait…maybe we’re supposed to be impressed because of all of the time and work?  Um…they’re getting paid, right? Why is no one impressed by my mad tax compliance skills?  Anyway, I watch sometimes this season, because Jennie Garth is on, and how can I not vote for Kelly from 90210? Yes.  I actually voted.  4 times.  All for Jennie. (Update, since I wrote this awhile ago…people suck, and Jennie was voted off in favor of Marie Osmand.  I have nothing against Marie.  Heck, Py was on a TV show pilot with her way back when, so probably my heart should be with her…but no.  My heart is with Jennie/Kelly.  Even with her perfect score on Monday, she was voted off by the stupid people who watch the show.  And no, I didn’t vote this week.  I suck.)

2. Some show on Food TV, Unwrapped perhaps?  I learned that the original Uncle Ben was actually a black rice grower.  Truth in advertising?  Isn’t that against the law? Oh, wait, Wiki says Uncle Ben was indeed a black rice grower, in Texas, but that he had nothing to do with starting the company or anything like that.  It’s just named for him. Hrm.

3. Colorsplash, on HGTV.  I love this show.  Yes, the designer is excited about winning and getting to be on TV all of the time, and yes, he used to be known for taking his shirt off, which he apparantly no longer does.  Anyway, he does some awesome work, and I like most of his designs.  This particular episode was a ‘very special’ episode where they remade a bedroom for a boy with a very rare blood disease that converts any tiny bruise he gets into bone.  ACK!  That’s too freaky to comprehend.  And I don’t mean that in a cruel, “this little boy is a freak” way, but just the idea of it is horrid, and I felt for the kid.  But what I remember thinking was how much extra attention this boy’s condition requires from his family, how much it will always take, and that I kinda wished they had gone all out and made up his big sister’s room as well.  She’s surely deserving of some attention as well.

OK, that’s it. A rambling, mostly dumb post about TV, almost 2 weeks late, whatever.  I’ll try to do better next week, OK?

~DoSoEvAyMo
1. Thinking maybe some leftovers and Buffy are in order today. Nothing big. Oh, and a nice long walk, since we’re having beautiful weather here. 🙂
2. Also thinking of making a dent in my book today, maybe an hour or two of reading would be lovely.

10 Comments

  • Joan

    November 23, 2007 at 6:38 am

    I’ve never gotten the appeal of Dancing with the Stars. Honestly I don’t watch much t.v. I usually catch episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and The Office on their respective network channels using the instant viewing feature. My daughter is into Hannah Montana. I’ve seen more episodes of that show than I care to admit.

  • bibliomom

    November 23, 2007 at 7:54 am

    It’s Black Friday and I’m sitting on my sofa after making muffins for breakfast and tossing together a loaf of beer bread for my families post-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving tonight. I hate shopping.

    Good luck with the reading dent. I did that yesterday.

  • Autumn's Mom

    November 23, 2007 at 8:34 am

    Happy Black Friday? If given the choice between shopping at 6 AM or coming into work (which is where I am now) I’d have happily chosen shopping! I dropped Autumn off at her Aunts so they could do just that.

    I wish I’d have watched Dancing with the Stars for Jenni, although I’d be pissed right now since she was voted off. Stupid America, What are they thinking!!! The Bachelor pissed me off this year..all I have left now is Idol. They better not EFF with me! I’m a woman on the edge.

  • Dee

    November 23, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Hmmm..you don’t like dancing with the stars and yet you voted for Ms.Garth. Aren’t you loyal:)

    Anyways, I have a post for you to write, if you’d like.
    I am tagging you on my recent post..”Giving thanks” to write about Kiva. It is for a really good cause..I do hope you’d play along!

  • Gina

    November 23, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    No BF shopping for me, thanks. My sister and I might go out tomorrow.

    I didn’t like any of the stars this season, so I have hardly watched!

  • Cherry

    November 24, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    I had woken up at 3:30am randomly and considered getting dressed and to the stores, but then since I hadn’t at all planned that I would have found myself wandering about with 100’s of crazed people who HAD planned and were tearing around for their specific items. So I went back to sleep. 🙂

    I watched the first episode of DWTS because of Kelly/Jenni, but I didn’t get past that one.

    I used to watch Colorsplash because we watched DesignStar when David won, and I thinks its cool that lots of his work is local to us, but then him and his color assistant chick got kind of annoying, so we just watch the reveals now.

    Happy Weekend to you! Enjoy your Buffy!

  • amuirin

    November 26, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Project Runway, season 4 has kicked off. So often when I’m watching, I wonder why I watch that darn show, but it’s like a wednesday night date. Tradition. Habit. And there might be another firecracker like the wicked Santino, you just never know.