The Last to Know

Why is it that I never find out about the good stuff until everyone else already knows about it?? I hate missing the bus carrying all the cool kids!

Case in point, my recent obsession with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. I LOVE HER. She is so smart and funny and adorable... I love her so much that I can tolerate the Keith Olberman filling in the Rachel sandwich every night (three hours of MSNBC is an awful lot and sometimes his point is lost in his endless rambling). I'm starting to think that I will even look her up on talk radio just to get a little more Rachel in my day (I hate talk radio, especially AM talk radio - it makes me feel like I should be driving around in a 30 year old car in the desert, with the windows down because there's no a/c, getting all dusty, smoking cigarettes and drinking yesterday's coffee). Poor Heather, the only time she can watch tv during the week and I'm monopolizing the tv to watch my crush.

Then there's the Twilight series. Granted, when I first read the reviews, I didn't think it would be for me. A "tamer, sexless vampire novel aimed at a teen audience" - um, no thanks, I can just borrow the kids Judy Moody books if I need something tame and sexless. But, not wanting to be left standing on the side of the road to Coolville, I broke down and bought the first one....and proceeded to read all 498 pages in one night. The subject matter is not anything I am generally interested in, but she is a great writer! It's kind of like Harry Potter - I avoided those for as long as I could but eventually I drank the kool-aid and enjoyed it.

So, I'm ordering the books one at a time so that I can make them last longer and I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to have to start tivo-ing Rachel. But ONLY so I can get some housework done. If I don't do some laundry soon, my kids are going to have to wear their jammies to school. Although, I'm sure their teachers would understand if I told them I had been obsessively watching Rachel Maddow and reading the Twilight series.