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T.V. Love

Maybe this explains why I’ve always loved fish ‘n chips

Another day, T.V. Love

I really can't express how much I would rather eat a chocolate chip cookie than the orange I'm about to eat. In fact, I think I'm starting to have chocolate chip cookie hallucinations. The other night I saw a small Ziploc full of Quaker Oat Squares and for a moment it looked like a large cookie sitting on the kitchen counter. I almost pounced on it in my excitement. But it was Quaker Oat Read More

I also may have wanted to be Laverne DeFazio

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Just when I thought it might be a waste to have over two hundred television channels, P and I discovered a show called Truth Behind the Sitcom Scandals on the Bio channel. We have spent the last hour learning that George and Weezie Jefferson learned their show was cancelled when they read it in the paper and Pinky Tuscadero was arrested last year for shooting out the windows of two cars in her Read More

A post about television because I have nothing to say

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You might think I'm exaggerating when I tell you that my mind is a total blank right now. But I'm not. I am not exaggerating. Because I NEVER exaggerate. I think the problem lies with the Benadryl I took earlier in the day. And, yes, I know there are other medications I can take for allergies but they all make me feel like a slightly better version than death so I might as well dance with Read More

It all started with the singing telegram

Another day, T.V. Love

Yesterday morning after I dropped Caroline off at VBS (It is Crocodile Dock for those of y'all who knew what she was talking about when she referred to Skeeter and skunk spray. Well done. I am impressed with your VBS knowledge.) I drove straight to Target. Ever since the Target moved an extra seven minutes and three stoplights away, I feel as though I must plan my trips to ensure maximum Read More

I’m resisting the urge to use the word “aboot”, eh?

Capital P, T.V. Love

Today I'd like to give a huge shout out to my DVR. There was a dark time in the not so distant past that it would have been practically impossible for me to watch four hours of television shows in one evening, but the DVR makes it all possible. Especially considering that a two hour "Bachelorette" only lasts about twenty minutes when you fast forward through all the commercials and Chris Read More

And so I’ve been reduced to this

Just for fun, T.V. Love

Well since I already admitted to watching Beverly Hills 90210 on Saturday morning, I'd say it's a safe bet that our weekend didn't really involve anything that would qualify as exciting. Basically it was a whole lot of nothing. But I'm not complaining because other than having nothing to write about, non-eventful weekends aren't a bad thing. I know y'all will be relieved to know that P was Read More

I am but an optimistic fool

T.V. Love

< Several of y'all have emailed to ask what I thought about last night's episode of The Bachelor. I wasn't going to talk about it because my feelings for The Bachelor are similar to how you feel when you keep telling your friends you're going to break up with a loser boyfriend but instead keep going back to him. Not that I'd know anything about that. I've just heard that some girls in Read More

It’s a veritable sea of television riches

T.V. Love

About a week ago, Gulley informed me she had purchased the new special issue of TV Guide featuring the scoop on all the new fall shows. Her exact words the next day were "I was up until midnight trying to power through the fall schedule". And I laughed. But that was before she loaned me her copy of TV Guide and I, too, had to power through it. This happens every fall. After the long Read More

Here she is, not Miss America

T.V. Love

Summer television makes me sad. Back before I had a child I didn't really notice how bad summer T.V. can be. I mean, who cares about T.V.? Let's go to the movies, or out to dinner, or whatever. Oh, but now I find myself flipping through the channels hoping that Lifetime will air some quality, quality movie about a woman who was taken advantage of, but fought her way back to the top, and got Read More

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Melanie ShankleMy name is Melanie and, in some strange twist of fate, I’m also known as Big Mama because I started this blog in July of 2006 when my daughter, Caroline, was not quite three years old and I was in the process of convincing her that BIG girls use the potty and BIG girls don’t have pacifiers, thus she thought BIG was the highest compliment in the land and began referring to me as BIG MAMA.Read More

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Well, that was anti-climatic.

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Wow, Georgia! What a comeback!!

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