{"id":262,"date":"2009-01-28T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-01-28T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:25:48","slug":"and-so-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/and-so-it-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it goes……….."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0This is me.\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

Don’t you love the mornings that begin with vomit in three different places and that’s just from the\u00a0cat? \u00a0And one of those places\u00a0is dead center in the middle of your desk?<\/p>\n

\u00a0I am beginning to really question parents who run onto the indoor soccer field at 9:30\u00a0on a Saturday\u00a0morning to yell at their 7 year old child for missing the goal.\u00a0 And it’s not just the dad.\u00a0 I’ve seen a ca-razy mom do the same thing.\u00a0 It’s recreational soccer people.\u00a0 Get another hobby and\u00a0STOP YELLING\u00a0AT YOUR CHILD!!!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am beyond pissed off at people who feel they are entitled to whatever they want but they don’t want to work for it.\u00a0 Most of these people sit on their ass and wait for the check to arrive in the mail-and then go spend it all on cheap crap they think they need…..I know people who make more off the government,doing nothing but\u00a0watching Jerry Springer and drinking a Big Gulp-than I do going to work every day.\u00a0 These are the same people who rip a stove out of the wall to scrap for cash and then wonder who is going to get them a new stove.\u00a0And these\u00a0people keep having children.\u00a0And they see nothing wrong with\u00a0a 22 year old having her second child-when she can’t afford the first- or the 19 year old who just had his fourth-with yet, another girlfriend.\u00a0I am beyond being sympathetic to these people.\u00a0 And I am a very sympathetic individual.\u00a0 But enough is enough.\u00a0 Get off your ass and work and stop having children.<\/p>\n

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Real Housewives.\u00a0 I watch it.\u00a0 It is like a bad accident and I can’t turn away from it.\u00a0I watch it with true disgust and amusement.\u00a0I Tivo\u00a0to watch\u00a0when I know I can’t stay awake. \u00a0BRAVO has gotten my attention.\u00a0 Damn it.<\/em>\u00a0These women can not be real.\u00a0 How did Bravo cast these collective groups of desperate women hanging on to something someone in TV Land\u00a0invented.\u00a0 Please tell me BRAVO sent out a wide casting call to find idiotic women willing to sell themselves short and appear\u00a0so vain and unfunny.\u00a0Or\u00a0worse, forced funny. \u00a0Was it all for money?\u00a0 What was the trade off ,to trade in your very being- or is this your very being on display?\u00a0 Please tell me no.\u00a0 Are there more of you like this out there and you all just represent this subgroup of women who have always\u00a0secreatly\u00a0wanted to\u00a0be Alexis or Crystal? \u00a0They have got to have a script they are following-please tell me-\u00a0carefully crafted that makes them appear so very shallow and surreal.\u00a0Yes, I know this is the new brand of “star”-but trust me when I tell you- if there is a camera rolling, there is a craft service table, make-up and hair close by for close-ups, everyone’s agent re-negociating original negociations, someone counting the money, someone selling airtime and someone\u00a0keeping the camera rolling. \u00a0This is show business.\u00a0 The new show business….\u00a0which makes me hate this business even more than I do at this moment in time.\u00a0 I know we are in trouble when a student says to me\u00a0she wants to be a reality star. Forget formal training.\u00a0 Who needs it anyway?\u00a0 Yes, I know it is all about ratings and getting people to tune\u00a0in- to watch the drama unfold-all dressed in silicone and prepaid outfits….and has anyone else noticed how much they drink in each episode?\u00a0 God knows they must have to to quiet the teeny tiny voice buried inside\u00a0that is begging them to getout now<\/em> before they further\u00a0damage whatever level of self respect is left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would I do it, you ask?\u00a0\u00a0 No.\u00a0 A very solid no.\u00a0 And the truth of the matter is BRAVO would find my housewife life- or any of the other real, real housewives I know too terribly real and uninteresting to document.\u00a0 Who really wants to watch us in our real, real lives-minus the liquid lunches, Botox appointments, PTO meetings, getting from here to there for soccer games, groceries, school, work and anything else that is so very crucial to our beings-but so very unglamourous.\u00a0I mean, I do know some Bravo real housewives right here in this very town where I live-but we all laugh at them-or worse,\u00a0feel sorry for them because we know how miserable these women are and we know it is all they can do to\u00a0maintain.\u00a0 I have personally felt the wrath of one-it was not pretty-or worse- it was pathetically sad. She doesn’t like me-she has made that clear.\u00a0 I don’t\u00a0dislike\u00a0her-but I can’t stand to be in the same room with her without wanting to\u00a0either shake\u00a0her out of her unreal or worse, laugh\u00a0out loud at her demands for attention. I have heard she’s real fun at parties.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I’d take all the women I know who are real housewives and put them up against those Orange County bitches any day.\u00a0 Let’s see them stack wood, work, tend to our husbands without shaming them, worry about real life, desperately care about our children and their well-being-all this without a single camera rolling or\u00a0taking a mid afternoon break for a\u00a0cocktail.\u00a0\u00a0 Wait, maybe a cocktail-and for sure a glass of wine-but not at 1pm. \u00a0Bring it on OC…and get real.\u00a0 Really, real.<\/p>\n

“And So It Goes” will be a weekly post to bitch about the things that are making me scream.\u00a0 Feel free to send me your contributions and I will post them as well.<\/p>\n

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