Abbie's Real Life Blog

And it’s STILL the same damn week!  Can you believe it?  It just feels like the past two weeks have been six or eight months… on NEPTUNE. 

As in, it’s been a long damn couple of weeks.  I mean, seriously.

Tracy and I have been watching a lot of reality television lately.  (Hey, she’s recovering from major surgery- we can soak up a little crap TV because of it, ok?)  We’re watching HGTV’s Design Star and we’re really into it.  We’re rooting for Matt, the architect/engineer/designer, because he seems to have his shit together.  We’re also watching, but are less into, Next Food Network Star, America’s Best Dance Crew, So You Think You Can Dance, and Shear Genius.  I like the reality shows when they’re made up of talented adults who show off carefully honed skills. 

I’ve also been watching a lot of No Reservations, the Travel Channel show hosted by Anthony Bourdain.  Tracy finds it appalling because of the seemingly endless focus on various types of meat, but I find the show fascinating and I’m interested in what people eat in other cultures (fermented shark in Iceland!).  Anyway, I find Bourdain kind of insufferably insecure, yet I also started his book Kitchen Confidential last night.  What can I say?  I’m conflicted.  He’s certainly not Gordon Ramsay, whose BBC show Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares we loved.  (Not the American version, the British version.)  I love Gordon Ramsay.  He is not lacking any type of confidence or security in himself, but yet he does give a shit about these restaurants and wants to help them succeed.

But Generation Kill starts this weekend on HBO and I’m very excited about that, plus the second season of Mad Men in a couple of weeks.  We also have the first disc from The Corner at home, so there’s plenty to watch if we can tear ourselves away from the reality TV.

I saw Wall-E when I was in Anaheim.  My one tribute to the Disneyness of the place: seeing a Disney-distributed film in the Downtown Disney District.  I carefully calculated the best time to see the film based on the number of kids in proximity to the theater and the fact that it was opening weekend for the movie, and ended up in the theater at 5:30pm on a Sunday night (figuring that there would be less people in the park on a Sunday than on a Saturday or Monday, and that most people would still be in the park at that time, not yet ready for a movie).  Anyway, I am such a huge fan of Pixar.  They knock it out of the park every time.  Even the less-good Pixar movies are far and away better than any other animated fare from the major studios.  But Wall-E was great, just wonderful.

In other news, I bought new sunglasses last night but didn’t update the prescription in my regular glasses.  I figured I could wait until next week for that, and then I will reconsider getting new frames in the winter or the next time I feel like I should update my style in some way.