So. I sit down to enjoy Grey's....which turns out to be a musical episode. Okay, so its not AS bad as I thought it might have been when it started. Turns out some of the cast can really sing. That's the good news. The bad news is that singing in place of talking really does become awkward at times. And on TV it seems to be worse than it is on stage. Anyway, that's not my point. Callie is pregnant on the show. It feels like every show I watch these days has a pregnant woman featured. THAT is not my complaint. On the show, she's had a perfectly healthy pregnancy until she and her girlfriend hit a truck, crash and Callie flies through the windshield. Then they have to deliver the baby at 23 weeks. So now she's got a preemie that barely lived through this episode. GREAT. LOVELY.
A couple of weeks ago I was watching Private Practice and the featured story on the show was a couple who were having a baby who they knew would die shortly after birth due to a heart defect. And we watched them have the baby, and hold the baby, and know the baby was going to die. GREAT. LOVELY.
On Bones (a show I also love) Angela is pregnant. And she's happily moving along with her healthy pregnancy UNTIL they get some blood results back from a normal checkup. Oh, right. The baby could be blind because both parents carry some gene for a disease that causes blindness. GREAT. LOVELY.
Are you sensing my complaint now? Let me be clear: I want to see healthy, happy, uncomplicated pregnancies on TV. Yeah, I know they don't make great DRAMA, but it's what I want. Otherwise, I need to invest in more Puffs Plus for beside my couch. Okay. I think I can be done with my TV complaints now.....
ON TO THE IMPORTANT NEWS!
Andrew completed his triathlon and did great! Here are the pics to prove it:
Bike all set up and ready to go in the transition area:
He finished!:
No, really. He did great. I know it's tiny print, but I wanted to show you that he finished 8th in his age group!
Super proud. And he says he's addicted and wants to do it again soon. I can say with certainty that I will not be joining him.
2 comments:
I had to giggle at the "with great certainty I will not be joining him." I'm with ya! I'm all for the elliptical, but that Saturday morning relaxing time is much more my style! Well, minus all that drama. That's how it's been with books I've read lately. I really think maybe there should be a channel that's guaranteed to be tissue free!
I totally hear you about the TV thing. Right after Dad died I SWAER someone hung themselves or the Dad of the story died in every TV show or movie I watched or whatever book I read. It could not escape it. Someone told me I was just hyper aware but it was kinda happening more times than I can safely say is "normal" for typical tv/movie/book consumption.
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