Three Beautiful Things: HGTV And Foggy Bottom Edition
1. Many of you know that I don’t own a television. Many of you also know me for my anti-television rants. Here is a potentially damning confession:
I watch TV on-line.
I used to watch 6-8 hours of television as a kid. It would start when I got home from school, with Ducktales, Looney Toons, and the like. Towards 5 or 6 o’clock Don’t Just Sit There and You Can’t Do That On Television were on. 7-8pm? Game shows galore. At night, I would watch Macgyver, or Nick At Night. TV guides were memorized a week in advance. My knowledge of 80’s and 90’s television trivia/theme songs/episodes can easily fill a 1 terabyte hard drive.
Suffice it to say, television makes me a zombie. Now you understand why I do not own one. I think they are evil. These days, when I am in the presence of a television, the shows I watch have some practical use in my life. (Read: All I did on my vacation in Chicago was watch HGTV).
In doing so, I saved my sister from the horrible mistake of buying green curtains for an already grayish-green room in her house. I encouraged her to warm it up with a red or orange-hued curtain.
She went with orange and thanked me for saving her from a design flaw that would have likely caused her serious mental anguish. Beautiful thing number one? Me. The younger brother with aesthetic intelligence. Ha!
2. Beautiful Thing Number 2? The comment that will inevitably appear under this post from Zosha, my sister, putting me in my place.
3. After the ridiculous amounts of snow that fell on Chicago in recent weeks, massive snow throwers and plows would make their way through my sister’s neighborhood. They would ‘throw’ the snow with so much force that the top of my sister’s mailbox kept getting blown off. As long-time fans of Macgyver, the obvious fix for this problem was duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.
Watching my sister completely cover her mailbox in duct tape while sitting on a huge mound of dirty snow was quite entertaining. End result? A foggy bottom!
Bonus Beautiful Thing:
4. The comment that will inevitably appear under this post from Zosha, my sister, asking me in a not-so-polite manner to take down the photo of her getting a foggy bottom.
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Zosha at 23 February 09 :: #
How could I resist? I wouldn’t mind the photo of me being a dork, except that it looks like my bum spreads out around me like an inner tube. I guess that’s down for you—warm, but not so flattering. Unlike my orange curtains, which cheer me up even when neighborhood cats take to peeing under the back porch. Life’s rough in the Chicago winter, you gotta get your comforts where you can. Anyway, not to be vain, but why can’t I, all by myself, be a beautiful thing? :)
HijabMan at 23 February 09 :: #
HAHAHAHAHA. I really wondered what your facial expression would be as you read/saw this.
How’s everything?
Lowe,
hijboo
gotta run to my nursing interview. WHAT DO I WEAR
Zosha at 23 February 09 :: #
A suit and tie, wear a suit and tie!