you know you're watching too much daytime TV when...

... the tunes you can't get out of your head are ad jingles. Right now it's the acoustic guitar from the "Lite and Easy" commercial.

I'm still fighting off the bug I've had for a few weeks now, and my husband has also come down with it. A household of mild misery. Am off to the doctor tomorrow to see about some antibiotics.

Today I felt indebted to the advice from one of the youth group girls about daytime TV, namely that the midday movies are a great pick. So I put my feet up, set my mind in neutral, and watched a B grade movie about a young college student who gets caught up in organised crime. He learnt many valuable moral lessons from the experience and won the heart of the honest and beautiful daughter of the head of the organised crime ring. Ahh!

Now I'm about to settle back and watch "Stockinger", the daggiest detective on TV. The show is set in Salzburg, where I lived for about eighteen months. I love it.

Hope to write something a little more meaningful soon. Also hope to be watching a lot less TV : )

unwell penguin

I've caught the dreaded lurgy. Well at least some kind of virus that has left me largely contained to the couch. It isn't all that spectacular in symptoms - sore throat is the main one - but it has sucked away most of my energy. Mentally I'm still reasonably with it so daytime TV is not particularly alluring - on a recent Oprah episode I saw a family being told that they were all overweight because their house was too cluttered! An interesting, if somewhat implausible, chain of cause and effect...

Hope to be better and a fully functional penguin soon.