Loads of televison

I went to see my parents on the weekend. It was very nice to see them since it's been a long time since I saw my mom. Nothing had really changed but yet some things had or were going to. They'd bought a new refrigerator and freezer. They were in the living room still. I was like "finally!" since the refrigerator that's been in the house since it was built in like 1983 has been a trap of food. Really. For one it's really dark and has only two shelves and then like the lower part for veggies and such. And it's like a big cave where once you place something, it has quite a big chance of dissapearing only to be found in a completely different form a year or some months later. And it really isn't just the users that are causing this. Well anyways, it turned out they are redoing like the entire kitchen at the same time. So when I go back for Christmas it will most likely be loads better and I won't be able to find stuff. Not that I've been able to find stuff as it is since there's just way too much stuff. An accumulation of like 30 years of stuff plus some from before my parents met I'm sure. But it's still "home, sweet home". :)

Most of the weekend I think I spent listening to or almost watching television. It was weird since I don't really watch television anymore. (Ok so it seems on Monday nights me and the bnd have nothing better to do than watch this really ridiculous "Numb3rs" show on tv. At first I did not know which night it was on but we just seemed to watch a couple of times and then last Monday night I was like kind of tired and we had nothing to do and I was like "the numbers show is sure to be on" and it was. Amazing.) So since people kept turning the tv back on after I tried to switch it off (at least once) I sort of gave up and let it stay on. Then on Sunday morning I even turned it on myself (or come to think of it I may have jsut swiched the channel) and tried to watch something. Most the cable channels were showing for free so I ended up watching Discovery Civilization first about like "the genetic Eve" and then about how loads of people used to use Valium and doctors would just prescribe it for "almost anything" (at least in Brittain and the USA, that is). But I think I sort of get bored while watching tv even if the shows aren't that bad. I like start reading a newpaper at the same time or something. Television is just not enough to entertain my brain. But I did try to have a go at it.

The scary part was that I was totally feeling like a "better, more enlightened person" because I don't watch tv so much anymore. Then I was at home saying things like "oh, you are rotting your brains - can we not have an intelligent conversation instead". Scary. I really don't want to be like that. Especially since it's not so long ago that I watched loads of tv. I admit I even watched the first season of Big Brother in Finland. (Confessions, confessions.) And secondly, I'm sort of addicted to Facebook (well not really, really but I do check it everyday I get home from work but not at work) and I find that no better than watching tv.

But yeah. I did have time to still have "intelligent" conversations with my parents, even saw my little bro when he wasn't playing wow (mainly at the dinner table) and I made some excellent lasagne (as always when I make it). I even got home safe even though I had to drive for almost four hours in mostly really bad weather while listening to sucky radio stations.