three things distracting me

Or I guess I could call them addictions if I want to be brutally honest with myself.  I am not endorsing any of these highly obsessive behaviors.  And don’t blame me if you lose your job or don’t have any clean clothes or there’s no food in your fridge to feed your kids.  NMP – not my problem.  I’ve got enough problems of my own (Level 45! See below.).  And don’t say you haven’t been warned….

1) Candy Crush I have no idea how this happened.  I do not play games on my phone or iPad.  I’ve never flung a bird into a bad pig.  So when Colin, (who is every marketers dream…he regularly tells me the benefits of attending ITT Tech) asked if we could download Candy Crush, I stalled for a few minutes until he said – it’s free.  “Fine, but I have to play first, to make sure it’s six-year-old friendly.”  Famous. Last. Words.  Sure it’s six-year-old friendly, but to get a chance to play my kids would have to rip the iPad out of my death grip. When Tetris was big, I would go to sleep seeing shapes fall behind my eyelids.  Now it’s candy and jelly and falling nuts and cherries.  I’m stuck on level 45.  Has anyone ever beaten it?!?!  It’s impossible.  I’ve been trying for two, make that three, going on four days.

2) Bad TV Everyone loves summer. The weather, the longer days, blah, blah, blah.  I love summer because that’s when bad tv really heats up.  Have you seen Bravo’s line up?  I mean come on – Chef Roble & Co, Newlyweds First Year, Princesses Long Island, Eat Drink Love and Below Deck?  That doesn’t even include the primetime classics like The Bachelorette and So You Think You Can Dance.  And no, it’s not a rumor, I’ve seen the live SYTYCD tour – twice.  Now that all of the classy shows that I watch are pretty much over for the season, I can focus in on uncontrollable tears and screaming matches and the uninhibited rich.  And that is why, I love summer.

3) Old TV Sometimes the balm I need to sooth my Candy Crush defeats is from a much slower and simpler time. I tuck myself into bed with the iPad and the year is 1988 and the show is thirtysomething.  If you don’t remember thirtysomething, the premise surrounds the couple Hope & Michael and their group of friends.  And it takes place in Philadelphia (bonus points!).  It covers all the basics – marriage, parenthood, friendship, career, mommy and daddy issues, being single.  It’s amazing how little things have changed for us thirtysomething’s in the last 25 years.  I’m only about halfway through Season 2, but that’s the wonderful thing about old tv  – it moves at a much different pace. It doesn’t have that same “must watch it now” vibe that so much of tv has today. Sometimes I throw it on for a few minutes while I fold laundry.  You can turn it off in the middle of an episode without feeling deprived or even watch them out of order. It’s oddly comforting knowing that Hope and Michael will still be hosting impromptu dinners for their friends in their half renovated house wearing old college sweatshirts.

Since I recently learned that I do have regular readers, I just wanted to let you know that I usually post on Tuesday’s and Thursday/Friday.  I try to post on Facebook once a week as a reminder.  And if you leave a comment, I always write ya back.