The Tudors.

Mr.P hates television programing. He loves his TV, but isn't a big fan of watching it (weird, I know). I love television, but I try to limit how much I watch. I have a select list of shows I always DVR, and I rarely just sit and channel surf (since we got dish tv, it's hard to channel surf, too many channels!)

I have successfully gotten Mr.P hooked on my two favorite sitcoms (The Office and How I Met Your Mother). Now he is obsessed with not missing an episode of either of those. He'll watch America's Next Top Model occassionally (his excuse is our house is too small, but really he could go in the other room and close the door. I think he finds the show interesting but doesn't want to admit it).

I recently ordered "The Tudors" from Netflix. When I heard that Jonathan Rhys Meyers played King Henry in this series, I couldn't resist. I am not one of those women who goes ga-ga over celebrity men, but Jonathan Rhys Meyers is sexy. He has beautiful eyes and an amazing Irish accent...but I digress. The other night I put the disc in and at first Mr.P grumbled about watching it, but after the first episode he was intrigued. We're down to one episode left on the first disc, and tonight he asked if I wanted to watch it. Ah ha! I've succeeded in getting him hooked on another tv show :-)

I'll air some dirty laundry.

I know, it's summer, I should enjoy the outdoors. Believe me, I do. However, being a 5 on the 0-5 allergy scale for grass allergies, it's pretty damn hard to go outside without having a reaction since somewhere nearby there is always someone cutting their grass. So I've resigned myself to taking a vitamin D supplement, working out at the gym, and sitting on my ass in front of the TV rotting my brain. Mr.P says I watch too much tv. It's his fault really, he's the one who insisted on buying a 46" LCD tv as a housewarming gift to ourselves.

Several friends are having babies this summer, so I've committed myself to designing and handsewing them each a unique baby quilt. I'm frantically trying to finish one in the next few days and get it off in the mail before their baby is born. Quilting is a good activity for sitting and watching tv. Rather than really watch the tv, I'm listening to it.

I think Mr.P's concern over my viewing habits are that I watch what he deams to be poor quality tv. We all have our vices, mine is reality tv. America's Next Top Model, Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for the Next Elle Woods, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Farmer Wants a Wife. Those are the main ones that kept my interest in the past few months. Unfortunately, they are now over and I am hard pressed to find some quality reality tv to fill that void. I did find "Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood" which is growing on me. But it's a mere hour per week, I need at least one or two more hours to fullfill my weekly fix.

This may sound weird, but I have always had a bit of an irrational fear of little people. As in, dwarfs (don't use the "M" word, apparently that term is not acceptable anymore). Yes, I will admit that I am frightened by them. It's not in my top three fears (bunk beds, giant spiders, railroad crossings) but likely in the top five. I can't even really explain why, but in the rare instance I encounter a little person at the mall, the grocery store, or wherever, I causally move in the opposite direction. Perhaps my fear stems from a childhood fear of the movie "The Wizard of Oz." There are a lot of little people in that, so maybe that is the manifestation of my fear. It really is stupid I understand, seeing as how they are: A) normal people, B) probably nice people, C) at least a foot and a half shorter than me. At the gym the other day I was watching Oprah, and on the episode she was interviewing the family from the show "Little People, Big World." In hearing their stories and seeing them interacting, I was very interested. I'm thinking that I should set my DVR to record some episodes of "Little People, Big World" to watch while I wait for some good reality tv to come along.