Discoveries

I have discovered that when all three of us are home all day - one of us earning a respectful living, one of us home from school sick with a cold, and one of us puttering around trying to discern her ultimate purpose in life - we generate one entire tall kitchen garbage bag of trash a day. I am not proud of this fact. In fact, I now feel personally responsible for the melting ice caps.

I have also discovered that there are some pretty whacked out commercials on daytime television. Like does anybody really believe that an ELEPHANT can be married TO A CENTIPEDE? I mean, what ad agency came up with that nonsense? And that Jaime Lee Curtis ad where she touts the yogurt that will make you regular in 14 days, and she says, "You're gonna love how the story ends!" is she actually getting excited about a bowel movement? Because I realize that she's at the age where she does in fact start to look forward to her bowel movements, and then shares the details of them with the people around her, but I would think she'd be above actually going on TV to talk about them.

I have also discovered that the actors and characters on "Young & the Restless" and "Bold & the Beautiful" are interchangeable. You could actually call the shows "Young & Bold" if you wanted or "Restless & Beautiful." Or "Restless & Bold" or "Young & Beautiful." Or any number of exponential combinations. The only problem with all this interchanging is that sometimes they play the same characters, and sometimes they don't. So even though that appears to be Y&R's Ashley and Victoria fighting over Storm's gun on B&B, it is actually Ashley and Katie. Because Eileen Davidson continues to be Ashley, who has simply traveled out to LA for a while, but Heather Tom is no longer Victoria. They have a new Vicky on Y&R. Heather Tom is now Katie Logan on B&B. So confusing, right?

One Soap Opera Rule that has yet to be broken in all the years I've been watching daytime dramas, and that has recently been proven yet again by Lily Winters on Y&R, is that 'Good' girls do not terminate pregnancies. If they are really good, and the pregnancy is really, really inconvenient, like say, if it's going to kill their blossoming modeling career, they will miscarry anyway. But only after they've made the heart-wrenching decision to actually have the baby.

Lastly, I have this SAH tip: When Kathie Lee & Hoda go racing for the plaza, it is time to switch the TV over to Gilmore Girls on ABC Family.