Monday, September 14, 2009

Preparing for the worst and expecting the better?

Good news for me! My A1C was all the way down to…..6.2! That means I don’t have diabetes…yet. I am still pre-diabetic and so I will just have to continue on this current route of exercise and eating carefully what is healthy.
I believe it must be the pool exercises mostly though since I have been eating fairly the same. I do suppose the pool workout is providing more help than I thought which of course is great!

We were going to also go to the grocery on our way home but I was pooped out and besides we had enough in the house for dinner anyway. And so we returned in time for my catching up with the only two Soaps I have watched for nearly forty years on and off between jobs and children et all, One Life to Live and General Hospital. If any of you out there will admit to watching them too you know that on Fridays for years they have been initiating they’re cliffhangers so you just ‘gotta’ tune in on Monday to find out how it all turns out, you know what I mean?

I can remember in the old days when they wrote in the credits, you know the roll that would come at the end of the then half hour drama they would always mention who provided the clothes along of course with hair and makeup. Little did I know that I would someday be working for one of those clothing stores, Orhbachs? And I did for quite sometime as well as Lord and Taylor who also provided clothing for many of the soaps and still does I was so proud then and returned to my catching up fulltime watching when I semi-retired for maternity leave to have our first son way back in 1972. Which in those days some went back to work but some of us didn’t, I did for a few months just before our next son was to roll along. After he was born I had pretty much bankers hours choosing jobs with their school hours in mind and then eventually have our own businesses where my hours were my own or for a few years I even had a home office; the best of both world’s. The restaurant at first was a great family business but we never could leave and we sort of lost touch with the real world, too many hours seven days a week, but the boys would come by bicycle after school.

So you can only imagine that at times it was great to have a touchstone to something familiar like OLTL and GH, a constant in my life, now more so with me home so much and the boys long gone. Hubby gets a break too, a two hour break they went to an hour each years ago, but I couldn’t tell you exactly when.

That’s why, although I don’t watch Guiding Light that has been around since 1937, would you believe, I felt their pain that it was now being cancelled, so truly sad, a real part of Americana.

Story lines for all the shows have been contemporary, hitting hard on every topic of human concern and emotions; nothing has ever been too taboo or too loony to experiment with either. Some were people returning from the dead, but also traveling to other times like going ‘back to the future’, etc. or having twins return to the show years later due to ‘contract negotiations originally breaking down and now all is smoothed over.. I wonder sometimes if not many prime time and movie consorts are not just watching to steal some of the ideas? Since we all know that in reality nothing is so original in any medium everything comes from somewhere.

Yes, we all know that Soaps have been around for years and years like the Guiding Light. Most of them did have their humble beginnings in radio and live TV, wild in those days I bet, but I believe in those days I was more into Howdy Dowdy and the likes, way back in the 1950’s.

It makes me confused on the fact why so many think it is wrong to watch TV or the Boob Tube as so many seem to believe it is. We are living in a very difficult time what’s wrong with taking the nasty bull by the horns and admitting that you enjoy what some would like to call mindless entertainment?
It can heal sad minds weary souls and be a friend to the friendless, why not claim it for what it is…a familiar form of private in home enjoyment that can sometimes educate, but mostly bring you home again around the fires of memories and of joy and of an easier time gone by…

On that bittersweet note I will wish you all a good night and to all be safe, take care and count those blessings and I will continue to search for mine.

Which way will the war go?

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