2004-10-21

* * * Fred and I watched The Biggest Loser last night (it was on Tuesday night, but we can hardly stand to watch real-time TV unless we’re desperate, so we DVR’d it). When it was over, we debated whether we wanted to keep watching it, and decided to watch one more episode of it, and decide from there. There were things that happened that left a bad taste in my mouth – for instance at the beginning, when they did the initial weigh-in, there was no reason on god’s green earth that they needed to put their bathing suits on. It was humiliating for them and the only point seemed to be “Oh, look! Look at the FAT people!” You’ll notice that they weren’t wearing bathing suits for the weigh-in at the end. The temptation room (or whatever they called it), where there was a refrigerator under each of their names with their favorite foods in it was unnecessary. Fred tried to defend it, saying “You come across temptations like that in real life!”, but I pointed out that “We don’t keep the crappy food we’re tempted by available 24 hours a day in our own house.” It’s a gimmick, so that when someone cracks and runs for their favorite food, the cameras can play the dun-dun-dun music while someone stuffs their face. What I really didn’t like is how overboard the trainers went when it was the day before weigh-in. Did I hear right? Did some of those people exercise for FIVE HOURS? That just doesn’t seem healthy. What seemed the most unhealthy – downright dangerous – is that three people lost around 20 pounds in one week. Now, granted that a good part of that is simple water weight, but 20 pounds? In one week? Not healthy. Someone’s going to end up collapsing, mark my word. Also, is it just me, or are hosts becoming more and more unnecessary? Caroline Rhea was there just to pop up and say “Come weigh!” or “Your trainers will be here tomorrow!” I think the trainers could have served perfectly well as hosts. I don’t know – like I said, we’re going to give it another try, and we’ll see whether we decide it’s worth continuing to watch.

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I watched A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff yesterday. (Shaddup) I sure do like that cute little Hilary Duff, but why do the female leads always end up with the boring and bland Prince Charmings? She’d’ve been better off with her cute little best friend. All in all, not a horrible movie. In fact, I’d probably stop and watch it again if I was flipping channels and it happened to be on.
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I had my hair cut and colored Tuesday morning, and for the first time ever when I walked into the salon and sat down and looked at myself under those bright lights, I didn’t take one look at my hair and cringe. I don’t wash my hair the morning I have it cut and colored, because what would be the point of that? It’s going to get washed after it’s done being colored, and washing it beforehand would be like scrubbing the floor before the cleaning lady gets there to clean, right? Anyway, Monday morning after I got out of the shower I just happened to put some cheap styling product in my hair and blew it dry, because it’s starting to get cold around here and walking around with a wet head is a surefire way to end up piled under six blankets on the couch, shivering, while bitching about how cold I am. Come Tuesday morning I rolled out of bed, put my hair up, took my shower, then brushed my hair when I got out of the shower, and it looked just fine. I get so bored blow-drying my hair, though. Sometimes I bring a book into the bathroom while I’m blow-drying, but it’s hard to hold the blow-dryer, wield a brush to style the hair, and try to read all at the same time. I need to win the lottery so I can hire someone to come to my house every day and style my hair while I read.
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So, I’ve started doing this very annoying (to me) thing. Back when Things I Hate About You first started and they showed the show with Renee and Patrick (still far and away our favorite couple), there was this part where Renee was singing to her dog Samson, and the song went “Sammy-Sam! Sammy-Sam! Hot-diggity-dog, it’s Sammy-Sam!” Then recently we were watching Extreme Makeover and that adorable Sam Saboura came on, and out of the frickin’ blue, Fred sang “Sammy-Sam! Sammy-Sam!” and that little song lodged itself in my brain and I cannot make it go away. I sing it to everyone and everything. “Freddy-Fred! Freddy-Fred!” I sang the other night. “Stumpy-Stump! Stumpy-Stump!” I sang to Meester Boogers (I also sang “Booger-Butt! Booger-Butt! Hot-diggity-dog, it’s Booger-Butt!” to him). “Pooty-Poo! Pooty-Poo! Hot-diggity-cat, it’s Pooty-Poo!” You get the idea. It’s driving me out of my fucking mind, because it’s up there zinging around, and I just know that one of these days I’m going to start singing it at an inappropriate time. “Afterglow! Afterglow! Hot-diggity-dog, it’s afterglow!”
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Hey, did you know that the cheese-alicious The Swan is coming back next week? You know I’ll be there, ’cause I’m a sucker for a makeover show!
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Pet store kitty pics from Monday are here.
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“Heddo!”
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23 thoughts on “2004-10-21”

  2. I could not BELIEVE that guy on the team who voted the gal out had lost sixteen pounds in one week. I couldn’t get over it. I kept saying to Paco, “What? Did they really say SIXTEEN? In a WEEK?” And I must admit, though, that even though I know that’s really dangerous, I was all, “Well fucking shit! What do *I* have to do to lose 16 pounds in a week?”

  3. I don’t know how I feel about The Loser show either…these people aren’t learning anything about how to live healthfully in the long term…and I think a few people will be visiting chiroprators soon, due to the injuries that they’ll surely develop.

  5. You can get a blow-dryer stand… it holds the dryer for you, and you can style and read at the same time.
    I’ve thought about getting one just because holding the dryer and styling the back of my hair sucks! lol

  7. Cute Lenny, um, Spanky pic.
    Up in arms myself about the loser show. I definitely wouldn’t want to be on the red team with that female trainer. The temptations I guess are there to remind them what got them there? Maybe if they learn to turn down such enormous temptation then it will be a “piece of cake” in “real” life..pardon the pun. I don’t know. Learning how to eat and NORMAL excercise programming would be the proper way.This Hitler program is ridiculous. If just one comes away thinner and healthier and learns from it I guess it will be all good. I just hope noone is hospitalized or traumatized from it.

  8. Caroline Rhea could be one of the contestants. She look alittle hefty to me. I think the first week was exagerrated. They probably feed them like they were cattle before the show started, to get some dramatic results the first week. How is it possible that someone like the one who got kicked off, who just needed to lose 30 pounds, could compete with someone like that really big guy who needs to lose in excess of 200 pounds. I was looking forward to this show, but I too was disappointed.

  10. Well if I’d have been on that show and had to kick someone off I wouldn’t have kicked off the girl that they did, it would have been the older guy who seemed to have a very negative attitude. I don’t think in the long run it is supposed to be about who loses the most amount of weight. The really big guy might not lose as much as everyone thinks particularly if he eats more than what he should or attacks his refrigerator. Frankly I’d love to have that female trainer get me to move my butt.

  11. That is my favorite Spanky snapshot yet–but the Lenny “Heddo” comment doesn’t fit. He looks wise prestigious in that pic. I >heart

  13. I don’t think I will be watching the Biggest Loser anymore either. It’s not helping these people to exercise them to oblivion, make them face temptation every day and then vote them off at the end if they haven’t lost a lot of weight. I thought it was going to be a show where they gave these people the tools they needed to succeed and followed them along the way and then showed us what worked and what didn’t and who did the best. I hate this show.

  15. Me again…I wrote the rant above before I saw the petstore kitties. Vail reminds me of a thin Tubby! Also, that little grey kitty just makes me squeek with his cuteness!

  16. Hahaaaaaa!! That song “Sammy-Sam” is from a show on Animal Planet “Most amazing animals” Or something like that. Their version is “Ani-mail, Ani-mail, hot diggitty dog it’s ani-mail!” It is an annoying little tune, isn’t it? I get two annoying tunes stuck in my head from cartoons… one is “Food around the corner, food around the corner, food around the corner for me, hallelujah brother!” and the other is the ever perturbing “Happy happy joy joy” from Ren and Stimpy.

  17. Gack! Et tu, Robyn?? Hilary Duff makes me want to yack. I hate that little squealy voice and that goody two shoes persona. Gag me with a dead smurf! Im a much more into Lindsey Lohan. Give me the bad girl anyday. I have loved her every since she was in The Parent Trap.

  18. Best. Photo. Ever. Of. Spanky. Serriously, with the red house behind him. It sets him off and he looks so dashing.
    I’d so buy some swag with that photo on it.

  21. Kath – I had no idea that song was from Animal Planet – but it makes sense! 🙂
    Ami – I like Lindsey Lohan, although when she does the fake tanning thing and she’s bright orange it hurts my eyes. She’s so much better looking without the tan – someone needs to tell her that!
    Diane – I know! I can’t wait! 🙂

  22. The Biggest Loser show is in the loser column for me. First, it’s a take off on Survivor, but adding the weight loss is just too wierd. If I could finally muster the commitment to lose weight, I don’t want to worry about being voted off just when I was doing it!

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