Jon & Kate Plus 8

I've been watching this show long before it became a media obsession. There is something absolutely fascinating about this family with its gaggle of children...and I don't even like kids!

This last episode was a tense hour of watching while we (the viewers) were waiting for the 'big announcement' which was inevitably a divorce. They seemed to talk around it for quite a while although we all really knew what was going to happen.

What I found the most disturbing is that while I was watching I couldn't wait to figure out what was going to happen. Figure out the mystery and then you realize -- these are real people. This isn't some scripted drama without consequences.

And I feel bad for Gosselins. Yes, I do think they let their semi-fame get to their heads and yes, I think that it could have been a big reason for their impending divorce but they are still real people. And now they are being criticized by people who know nothing about them. Kate has always been such a bitch and Jon has always been a passive guy and they haven't changed that much (except they both got prettier...but that's what money does!).

So really I just think its sad. If you didn't watch before, I think you should leave them alone! Get them out of tabloids and let them be!

Movie of the Week

Just finished watching & loved it. Its a good one!

Blogging

Last night at approximately 1am I start typing away a new post for my blog after an especially touching moment with my dog and cat (more on that later), and as I start to reach the point of near completion, I go to capitalize a letter in what could-have-been the final sentence...or paragraph... my finger slips and BAM all gone. So I sit in stunned silence for a moment...when i see the auto save blink, showing it auto-saved the blankness. And I think DAMN. If only I had reacted sooner I would still have it. So then I say...well, maybe it is miraculously saved anyway...so I go into my post and see the Untitled one and click on it...crossing my fingers and hoping against hoping that there was a glitch and the written blog was still saved and the blankness was not. (I assume you know the outcome of this since you are reading this blog and not the one from last night) Nope. Computer glitches only work when not in your favor.

So here I type about the blog-that-could-have-been.

Speaking of blogs, I love to read blogs from random, semi-famous to want-to-be-famous people. Their creativity is so amusing. And random. And funny. Much more so than the average-joe blog writers (with the exception of the Gersen descendant bloggers of course). Sometimes when I am bored I just click that 'Next Blog' button at the top of the screen and randomly go through and read excerpts from random peoples blogs. Its amazing how boring some people are. And how much they like pictures. Then sometimes you stumble upon a truly entertaining one, and mean to save it somewhere to check back in a month, but never do.

Anyway, semi-famous people...thats where I was going. I recently found Jorge Garcia's blog, (I did not just happen across it because that would be too cool, I read about it in an article somewhere) he plays Hurley on LOST. Its just so entertaining to read the random happenings of his life...and how kinda normal he is, but in a funny way.

I also started reading a blog for Southern Gothic Productions (who have since moved from here to their own fancy-dancy website) which is a starting out production company from Wilmington (oh- how I miss thee) and owned by one of the stars of One Tree Hill. The posters on that blog (because there are many) are also so creative in their writing, and witty and genuinely amusing. And I want to be like them. I want to be random yet coherent and creative and smart.

So, I may not a have real job, or any real income, or do much of anything really...but I have a goal. To write witty, fun and random blogs.

And some day I will.

But not too soon because the used bookstore down the street (that I can walk to!) has a sale right now...All hardcover fiction is $1. Needless to say, I now have a lot of reading material.

And as I spell check this blog, with tentative fingers since my failure from yesterday is still looming, I realize that the word BECAUSE its ridiculously hard to type correctly. I don't think I did typed it correctly once...and I use that word a lot...BECAUSE ima explainer.

If only they had a grammar and punctuation checker too...like a little man who sits on your shoulder and tells you when a sentence makes sense and is properly formed...