Fighting words
I figured out one of the things that I hate about reality television. I made this discovery while trying to watch "The Salt-Pepa Show" (yes, THAT Salt-N-Pepa.)
Millionaire Matchma ... Oh, sorry, I fell asleep
So, I have had the opportunity to watch pieces of a few different episodes of "Millionaire Matchmaker," a show on Bravo that is exactly what it sounds like.
Item No. 2
So, it is time for me to reveal the other reality show I like. It's one that is of the absolute worst format, where they just put a camera in a house with a couple of people who live together. But the difference is that these kids are funny.
It's your turn
Hey y'all, it is Music Video Thursday, but I did not have time to dig up a good one today. So I am asking you, my adoring fans, to submit your picks for Music Video of the Week. In the unlikely event that more than one person posts a video, I shall pick a winner, and the winner's taste and improved status will be revered right here on my blog.
Bring the funny
Seems like it's time for some online comics.
Here's one from xkcd.com that I got a chuckle out of: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png
Here is a good one from Ctrl+Alt+Del: www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic
Project find a dissenter
This TV blogging thing may end up becoming more than weekly. It's fun for me. So consider yourselves warned.
So continuing the topic of reality television, I have this theory: Everyone likes "Project Runway." I mentioned earlier that I like two reality TV shows. "Project Runway" is one of them. When I first started watching it, I was a little embarassed because I generally have an extremely low opinion of reality TV in all of its incarnations.
Reality check
Today begins my weekly TV blogging. Now, as a rule, I don't generally like reality TV. This has become quite the problem lately because of the fact that a majority of programming seems to fall into that category. The writers' strike did not help matters.
Back to the music
All right, kids, I'm bringing Music Video Thursday back. Also, starting tomorrow I will be doing another weekly feature.
It's like he's reading my mind
Sometimes all it takes is a Toothpaste for Dinner comic to remind me that somewhere out there, someone understands.
toothpastefordinner.com
Thanks, Drew!
That ain't legal
In today's paper, in the Idaho Records, it lists a man who was arrested for "attempt to take simulated wildlife." This, for me, drums up images of some dude at Cabela's deciding he'd like a stuffed cougar of his own and trying to make off with it.
More likely, my new favorite phrase, "simulated wildlife," refers to deer decoys that are set up on the sides of roads to catch people hunting from their cars. In which case, I would love to meet the dude who tried to steal a fake deer.
Love, golf and asteroids
Right about the time I got sick and tired of being on crutches, I got sick and tired of writing about being on crutches.
So, basically, I need a new topic for my blog. Who knows how long that could take. Please let me know if you have suggestions.
Bloggin' time
I hate it when people who have nothing to say update their blogs anyway. Unless it's me.
But other people have things to say, so I'll put their stuff.
Duct tape? Right next to the shampoo
Seven days, 13 hours and 44 minutes. That's how long it is until I get my hard cast off. I will still be on crutches after that, so not much will change, but I will get a removable boot cast, so some things will.
Wouldn't that be handy
For those of you who do not have windows, you should know that it has snowed a foot in the past 24 hours in Spokane. This prompted not one but two people to give me the same advice today: "You should put a ski on that thing," referring to my cast.
Kangaroo pouch!
So a few days after I "moved out" of my friend's apartment, I realized that I am a total dumbass. Because if you are on crutches you should always, ALWAYS, be wearing a sweatshirt with a kangaroo pouch. You can thank me later.
On the job
I mentioned earlier that I had a change in job assignment. So at the same time I've been adjusting to life on crutches I've had a new schedule and totally different job.
Wide load comin' through!
After "the incident," my first venture out of my apartment, for something other than work, involved going to the grocery store. It also involved being tortured at an urgent care clinic, but I'll skip that part. There's no need for people to know about the horror-movie-style screams I let out because of a half-inch-long cut on my finger.
Down will come baby, crutches and all
The day fter I left the hospital, my dear old mum decided to send me flowers.
I feel sorry for my parents. After I got hurt they called me two to five times day, worrying about everything from my pain level to whether the nurses were nice. If I didn't answer my phone they called the hospital to get an update on my condition.
I know how they felt. Something bad had happened to someone they love, and from eastern Oregon there was nothing they could do. So they sent flowers.
The touchy-feely part
You've all heard the story. Person has bad experience and tragedy turns to a blessing when victim develops new appreciation for life.
Granted, these stories usually follow near-death experiences, but the fact that my experience was nowhere near the tunnel with the light or my soul looking down at my body is part of what provided the silver lining to my ankle-breaking experience.
So, because I make up a big part of my audience, and it's time for me to tell my "how my accident changed my life for the better" story, sit back, relax and bear with me. Both of you!
Say no to pills
I mentioned before that I spent my first couple of days in the hospital on a morphine drip. Over the next few days, trial runs of percocet and dilloted proved that morphine was the only thing that would keep me from crying like Mariah Carey reading a "Glitter" review.
New year, new life, new blog
I rang in the new year in a hospital bed. So that's why I've been gone for a while.
I broke my ankle in three places, had to have surgery and spent Dec. 30 - Jan. 2 at Deaconess.
The first couple of days weren't too bad, thanks to an IV that steadily dripped morphine into my system.
Not a joke
I think this comic: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a_simple_plan.jpg from xkdc.com has a valid point.
Music Video Thursday
I got an e-mail from Tom Bowers yesterday that said "Two music videos by Battles. They're insane."
Here they are.
"Tonto"
Channukah zombies
I made another good discovery from the list of online entertainment I've been sorting through. Break a Leg TV, which is listed as "Brought to you by the acclaimed viewers of Arrested Development, Scrubs and The Office,"
So I guess I'm just going to post cartoons about blogging today
Always a good day when I can make fun of blogging on my blog.
I swear, I'm not...
