Okay, I admit. I watch Reality TV. One of my favorites is Big Brother 10, http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_brother/. The half-million dollar candidates this year are:
Jerry - 73 years old retired marine, and he's in the final three! Damn, how did that happen? Usually it's the old who gets the boot first on these things so that the youngins can be left to make out and have their "show-mance"...by they way, he's the same age as McCain, except his teeth aren't as yellow...
Libra - the sister who left her 4 month-old newborn twins and 4-year old daughter for a summer sequestered in the Big Brother house. People gave her so much flack on blogs it's unreal! Me, Millennium Mommy - I have mixed emotions:
1) It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be on TV. The camera comes on and you're in a trance, and it's all about the lights, camera, action! Not to mention, we're talking $500,000 dollars on the line. And her husband and mom are a great help and supporting her dreams all the way.
2) But leave my babies? My newborn twins at 4 months? I don't think so.
Life is too short - and once you make the decision to be a mommy, nothing but nothing else matters your life must PAUSE, period. Unless it's life or death, why would a mom choose to leave her babies at such a vulnerable age? I guess I really don't have mixed emotions at all, I couldn't and wouldn't do it...but I'm not judging...maybe she just had a huge bout of postpartum depression?? Back to the candidates for a half million bucks...
Ollie - Howdy Doody brother - literally, a preacher's son from Iowa who had a "showmance" with the blond-haired April. He was so smitten, he slept on his game in the beginning and got played like a sucka in the end. I was SO embarrassed for him!
Then there's the Hooter's girl, the Portuguese real estate woman with crazy attitude, a couple of frat boys and then the gay rodeoman (uuuuh - yeah I said it). Renny - the wild hairdresser in her 50's from New Orleans who wears glitter on her eyelids! Another millennium mommy if I ever saw one. There were a few others but who cares - do you?
That's why I love these shows. I know most of them are tired and scripted, but when the camera is on you 24/7, there's no way you can be "on" all the time. And that's when it happens, the moment when the character slips out of the performance and gives you the real. It happens all the time and it's those moments that make it all worth while. REAL LIFE DRAMA - someone else's - just enough to let you slip away from your own for a moment. It's addicting.
Jerry - 73 years old retired marine, and he's in the final three! Damn, how did that happen? Usually it's the old who gets the boot first on these things so that the youngins can be left to make out and have their "show-mance"...by they way, he's the same age as McCain, except his teeth aren't as yellow...
Libra - the sister who left her 4 month-old newborn twins and 4-year old daughter for a summer sequestered in the Big Brother house. People gave her so much flack on blogs it's unreal! Me, Millennium Mommy - I have mixed emotions:
1) It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be on TV. The camera comes on and you're in a trance, and it's all about the lights, camera, action! Not to mention, we're talking $500,000 dollars on the line. And her husband and mom are a great help and supporting her dreams all the way.
2) But leave my babies? My newborn twins at 4 months? I don't think so.
Life is too short - and once you make the decision to be a mommy, nothing but nothing else matters your life must PAUSE, period. Unless it's life or death, why would a mom choose to leave her babies at such a vulnerable age? I guess I really don't have mixed emotions at all, I couldn't and wouldn't do it...but I'm not judging...maybe she just had a huge bout of postpartum depression?? Back to the candidates for a half million bucks...
Ollie - Howdy Doody brother - literally, a preacher's son from Iowa who had a "showmance" with the blond-haired April. He was so smitten, he slept on his game in the beginning and got played like a sucka in the end. I was SO embarrassed for him!
Then there's the Hooter's girl, the Portuguese real estate woman with crazy attitude, a couple of frat boys and then the gay rodeoman (uuuuh - yeah I said it). Renny - the wild hairdresser in her 50's from New Orleans who wears glitter on her eyelids! Another millennium mommy if I ever saw one. There were a few others but who cares - do you?
That's why I love these shows. I know most of them are tired and scripted, but when the camera is on you 24/7, there's no way you can be "on" all the time. And that's when it happens, the moment when the character slips out of the performance and gives you the real. It happens all the time and it's those moments that make it all worth while. REAL LIFE DRAMA - someone else's - just enough to let you slip away from your own for a moment. It's addicting.
The one thing I don't like about these shows is that the network and producers have the final call. They cut and paste everything together to create their own show! It's really the miracle of editing that we're watching and not necessarily the crazy antics of real folks gone wild. Keep that in mind when you're watching these things.
I don't want to bore you with details about a show that you may or may not even watch. The point of the matter is, when you want to get away from the thoughts in your mind, we all know the most mindless thing to do is to watch TV. The millennium has taken the boob tube to a whole new level giving us Reality TV and way too much of it. But it's my thing, a world away from my own Reality. Hey it beats rubbing those stupid stress balls or hitting the bottle (although that can be fun too).
I don't want to bore you with details about a show that you may or may not even watch. The point of the matter is, when you want to get away from the thoughts in your mind, we all know the most mindless thing to do is to watch TV. The millennium has taken the boob tube to a whole new level giving us Reality TV and way too much of it. But it's my thing, a world away from my own Reality. Hey it beats rubbing those stupid stress balls or hitting the bottle (although that can be fun too).
Peace - millennium mommy
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