WHY & R

WHY do I keep watching The Young & The Restless??  I ask myself this almost everyday yet I keep viewing that darn soap opera first thing when I come home from work.  Some of the characters and storylines are completely uninteresting to me but I keep coming back for more! 

"The Naked Heiress."  Really?  A teenage rich bitch who's trying to become popular by exposing herself in public and putting the vidoes online.  Not interested! 

A woman who wants to remarry her controlling ex-husband for the fourth time?  Get some self-esteem and self-respect, used-to-be-stripper! 

A woman scorned who started a blog (ahem...) about the "tramps" in her hometown after her husband left her.  Yet she had an affair with said husband when he was married to someone else.  Who's the tramp?

Victor, who professes his love for family yet turns his back on his daughter on her wedding day -- actually has her arrested for something HE did.  Adam.  Where do I even begin with Adam??  Pretending to be a homosexual to gain his gay attorney's trust, trying to drive his stepmom crazy, causing said stepmom to have a miscarriage only to convince her that she didn't, taking his future wife's baby (telling her her baby was still born), and giving that baby to his stepmom.

And, I know this is nitpicky, but I hate the show's hairdresser!  The women on the show are always needing to flip their flat-ironed hair out of their faces.  My anal retentive self is starting to count how many times this happens in each episode.

So why do I watch?  Well, Y & R does have some riveting and relevant storylines like teenage drunk driving, cancer, and surrogacy.  And I was rooting for Sharon and Nicholas to reunite until the writers dragged it out too long.  Now I'm rooting for Billy and Victoria, even though Billy has been mostly a good-for-nothing, happy-go-lucky kind of guy.  I think his character can be charming and he brings some comic relief to the show.  Like when Billy wanted to get "Victoria" tatooed on his back but the tatoo artist keeled over from a heart attack after only writing "Victor" (who is Victoria's dad and happens to despise Billy).  And when Victor saw this, even he smiled ... and then paid another tatoo artist to finish the "ia."

Thankfully I have a DVR so I can fast forward through the boring segments of the show.  A part of me wishes I could stop watching (after all, I did stop watching Days of Our Lives after the storyline about demonic possession).  Maybe it just makes me feel better about my life.  Maybe I just need to get away from reality for a little while.  But until the day that I can just say "no," I'll faithfully turn on the DVR when I come home from work and curse at the television when Sharon doesn't just walk away from Adam or Victor yet again alienates his children.  Is there a 12-step program for soap opera junkies???

A hui hou!
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Picture Day

Those of you who know me, know that I don't wear make-up everyday.  I like make-up, I love to buy new make-up, and I have a lot of it.  But when it comes down to it, I get tired of putting it on and taking it off every day.  I'm really low maintenance at heart.  (At least when it comes to make-up and hair!) 

Today was picture day at school so I did the unusual and put on make-up because, in addition to being low maintenance, I am also vain!  Especially when it comes to having my picture in a yearbook that will be around for years and years.  And I knew what to expect from my colleagues and students.  "You look so pretty!"  As if they are shocked that I can sometimes look okay.  I know people mean well when they say that, but what I hear in my head right after that is, "You look crappy-to-mediocre every other day."  Oh well, I just accept the compliment for what it is.  And know that the following day I will not wear make-up and not get any compliments.

At least they don't tell me, "You look tired."  To me, that may be the only thing worse than "You look so pretty." 

A hui hou!
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