Haven’t Done My Blog for A While

I haven’t done my blog for a while, lots of reasons, mostly silly ones such as not really feeling in the mood or feeling that I don’t have anything to say; it’s one of the reasons why I don’t think I could write a Daily Blog because my day mostly consists of things like: 1) My days are really very, very boring, 2) When I do get up early (ish) I have a very bad habit of playing games on my laptop – which isn’t very good and not very productive but at least I’m up 3) When I write I mostly write Fan Fiction, which I don’t like to talk about because it’s often vilified and, finally, 4) I haven’t really got that much to write about – certainly nothing that would hold a reader’s attention. On top of this I’m also less inclined to be vocal about my views these days – and you’re talking to someone who managed to get themselves banned from Twitter for 24 hours for wishing bad things to happen to a Mythical Being (Death if you must know.)

Sometimes I think that growing up sucks. I used to love TV Shows like Walker, Texas Ranger and even Diagnosis Murder but I have found them seriously wanting in recent years. Walker, Texas Ranger really started to grate when I saw how Trivette is treated during the course of the show is something I find very hard to take; he’s constantly the butt of jokes, he’s constantly belittled and his feelings are disregarded and it stops being funny (if it was ever meant to be) and I just can’t watch it because it’s neither funny, nor nice, nor kind and there’s a part of me thinking while I am watching the show, Jesus, Walker, this man is meant to be your friend, and your partner and you treat him like this? Now, maybe I’m overreacting and it’s all meant to be taken in fun, but as someone who spent a good portion of their childhood being disregarded and overlooked and generally the butt-monkey of everyone else’s jokes I can assure you that it is neither funny, nor fun, nor nice. I’m probably just being oversensitive again.

The reason I went off Diagnosis Murder has to do with the first season with Scott Baio, this has to do with one of the First Season episodes where the wife/widow of the murder victim believes she has been impregnated with aliens and is going to have a (half-) alien baby/offspring. The scan shows that she is indeed pregnant; although by the end of the episode the foetus has mysteriously disappeared – now it is fairly obvious for anyone with half a brain watching this that this young woman is suffering from a mental disorder and the hospital will treat her and that (hopefully) she shall be cured – after all mental illness is as much of an illness as a physical illness but Dr Jack turns around and and jokingly says, to paraphrase, ‘How stupid of this woman to believe she was impregnated by aliens!’ And I was suddenly furious, both with Dr Sloan – who should have taken his subordinate to task about inappropriate comments regarding any illness and with Dr Jack who should have known better, and shouldn’t have needed his superior to actually say anything in the first place. Again, I know I’m being oversensitive again, it’s all light-hearted fluff meant for daytime watching and isn’t meant to be taken seriously, my point is that people who watch daytime television often get their opinions from daytime television – and it also points to a more serious problem with how society views mental illness. Yes, I know, I’m being oversensitive again, I just find it hard to watch which is one of the reasons why I only watch it with half an eye now and sometimes turn off half my brain – someone else has pointed out that a lot of the Walker, Texas Ranger are just batshit crazy anyway (for example when Walker brings in this Power Motivator Team into the school you, not once but three times, and with all due respect who’s paying for this? As far as I’m aware schools don’t have an unlimited pot of funds they can just dip into whenever they feel like it; their spending is carefully monitored to make sure that they are actually spending it on things that are useful for the school – I’m not totally sure that this Power Motivator Team would count as that.) There are just episodes that are so, so odd that you just have to disregard them as a Fever Dream.

Not much of a blog this time, and it’s more of a rant than I usually go on, normally I don’t get so worked up about what are just Television Programs and they provide entertainment to millions of people (which they do) but it just occasionally that I think they often portray a one sided view of life and that the heroes get all the breaks (and if you’re a friend of the hero well you’ll get justice – if not, well, you’d better hope you have a really good lawyer, or that the Amateur who decides to investigate your case doesn’t make a mistake – and let’s face it even the great J B Fletcher has made a mistake on at least one occasion – and she never, ever seemed to regret it.) Now if I had been involved in something that had caused the death (mistakenly) of someone else, even if they were only an acquaintance I think that might affect me quite severely, so I agree with someone else who suggests that it’s Mrs Fletcher herself who is committing all the murders because she’s basically as sociopath (or is that psychopath?)

Okay, okay, rant over. You can tell been thinking about this for a while, which is probably why I’m delving into it now. And no I don’t know the reason for that either. Both cats are fine. Although, Dotty has taken to sleeping in some very odd places, mostly in empty cardboard boxes, while Percy has decided that sleeping on the lower shelf of the DVD Cabinet is his new go-to spot for hiding and sleeping. We were worried to start with, but he seems happy in himself and Edwin says that it’s fairly normal for cats to find places that they can sleep and feel safe and obviously both of them do in these new odd sleeping places. Cats – you’ve got to love them – even if they’re the weirdest species on the planet. I probably won’t be getting either animal a Christmas Stocking, there’s really no point and it has been pointed out (both on television and on the radio) that it’s a waste of finances; as long as both animals are fed, have extra Dreamies and a warm place to snuggle on Christmas Day they won’t care.

Well that’s about it for now, I’ve some Christmas wrapping to do later, admittedly one is a very, very belated Birthday present, and the other could hardly be considered a Christmas present since it deals with the Holocaust of all things; and I’m not sending Christmas Cards this year – hopefully I will feel more in the mood next year. Or at least that’s the plan. I doubt there will be many Christmas cards sent, but I shall endeavour to send a few to friends. And just to cheer you up, I'm posting up some photos of our cats, all I can hope for it that if reincarnation exists I get to return as a pampered one.