I feel like there is a lot of pressure to give this blog a topic. For example, some people blog exclusively about travel - where they have been, where they're going next, what there is to do and see at "x" location, what restaurants to avoid, what airlines have the most pleasant attendants, and so on. Other folks blog about gardening, cooking, pregnancy, politics, children...whatever. I want to start off by saying, this blog is not about one thing. Please intercept my ball if I start posting about some particular thing EVERY day. Please don't let me tell you TOO much about lactation, or stretch marks, or my pee cycles, or any of that; I don't even want to know that stuff, and I'm living it. I just want to write about stuff that happens to me, or that occurs in my every day life, or the lives of the people and places around me. It would be great if some of this writing turned out to be entertaining on some level, but, let's not butter our bread before it's toasted.
I actually feel like a pretty wide open and entertaining topic, if I had to choose one (I'm not! I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, I'm not picking a topic, buuttttt, if I HAD to...), is commercials. TV commercials are getting insane. Or were they always ridiculous and I was just out to pasture? Since when is Nutella nutritious!?! Just becaues there are trace amounts of hazelnuts in the chocolate butter paste doesn't mean that it's nutritious. But damned if that commercial doesn't insinuate that it is. Lies! Also ridiculous are minivans. Not just the commercials FOR minivans (no, a minivan is NOT cool, even if you throw the word "swagger" in front of it, FYI!), but minivans themselves: really, your kids need not ONE, but dual view DVD screens in the back of your boat!? Give me a break! What happened to kids looking at the scenery around them!? What happened to playing "I spy" while driving to Grandma's!?! What happened to THE GLORY DAYS!?!?! Craziness. There are other commercials that I can't turn away from; yes, I'm talking about you ASPCA commericials featuring Sarah McLachlan, and Hallmark commercials featuring the elderly widow who goes to her empty mailbox for weeks at a time before a lovely card is placed in there by her adoring neighbor. TEARS! And then the nutella commercial comes on, and I am fuming again.
Point being - and I do have one - this blog will take twists and turns, and rights and lefts, and spins and kicks, and won't be one thing or another. It will be many things, one of which is hopefully entertaining.
And don't forget all the commercials with music that makes our eldest canine son HOWL like a wolf under a full moon! We definitely need to video that some time and post in on YouTube!
ReplyDeleteOkay, commercials are ridiculous--especially the Cialis (I think it is) with two people holding hands sitting bath tubs on the beach watching the sunset!! Right!!
ReplyDeleteHOWEVER, why attack minivans?? When you and Jeff have to transport multiple kids to soccer practice with all their gear and their friends, you will probably want one. (I do agree with you about one mini-van thing--they are NOT cool in and of themselves!) But ask Jeff about Matt (what was his last name?)that teased Mike about his mom driving a mini-van? The same mini-van that allowed 5 of them to go to the bowl game in Shreveport, LA and then to New Year's Eve in New Orleans? Jeff's mom was pretty cool to let them do that!!!