"If your wildest dream came true, would I be in it?"

Ah yes... Finally a night at home by myself...with cable TV. Surprisingly this is the first time it's happened since we've moved. It was a good night full of shows I hadn't seen in ages: Dharma and Greg, Seinfeld, Friends, Home Improvement, Andy Griffith, Full House and Whose Line is it Anyway. Now, I wouldn't like to make that a lifestyle... but it was so nice just to chill out and relax for awhile and have complete control of the remote. When Mom has it she watches Mash and Matthew watches Paintball or some cartoon or Comedy Central, and Jen likes TLC shows, like What Not to Wear and some fashion thing or other. Dad watches sports or the History Channel. I'm pretty laid back, but a few months of all of that can get kind of wearing. Usually I only get to watch TV on the weekends and no regular shows are on and I get stuck with, "Mrs World Pageant," and "Little People: Big World," and "Drake and Josh." Nothing I can get excited about.

But I promise to get myself back to the written word. I finished Much Ado about Nothing and I'm currently reading, Artemis Fowl, David Copperfield, and True at first light by Ernest Hemingway. I like EH- his style at least. The Old Man by the Sea was too depressing but I like the tone of the book that I'm reading right now. Its so real and the way he describes things make me go, "Oh yeah! Thats exactly how I feel." So its good. And I think sincerity of how the world really is, is what alot of Christian authors are lacking. Dickens is really good about that too.

I also watched To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck and it was REALLY good! So I don't feel too bad about watching some TV this summer. I am still getting a lot of good things done. Oh, oh, and I cleaned the kitchen, made dinner, did the ironing and put together two bookshelves while watching TV, so my hands were busy. Why am I still trying to justify myself?