The more I look at my vision board, the more I like it. I was going to hide it behind closed doors in our office, but I think I'll leave it out in the living room for a while. I will see it more often that way. (When I awoke this morning, I checked to see if my abs looked like the picture of those I pinned to my board. Not yet. I'll check again tonight.)
Today's show was a hodgepodge about different types of families. First, Holly Robinson Peet and her husband Rodney Peet made an appearance. While they did not display Seal/Heidi Klum's shiny-perfect-happy-everday-glow, they were close. I did enjoy seeing that they work hard to keep the romance sparkling in their lives. I found that encouraging as my husband and I are coming up on our fifth anniversary this weekend and sometimes my idea of romance is seeing him do a load of laundry without me asking. Seriously. I think it's hot. Especially when he folds it afterwards.
A promo for Monday's upcoming rerun made me shudder. It's basically an "everything you wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask" type episode. Usually, I enjoy the dirty topics quite a bit, but I'll be watching this one with my parents in New Hampshire next week. While my folks and I are quite close, we don't discuss anything that could take place in the area between the hips and knees. I'll never forget several years ago, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to take my mom and grandmother to the movie, "Y Tu Mamá También." My mother is a Spanish teacher, and for some reason, I thought it'd be a great family film we all could enjoy together. While I actually really liked the movie, with the explicit sex, I could have saved money by renting a Ron Jeremy film we could all watch in the comfort of my living room.
Back on topic...Oprah shows about sex are hard to watch as Oprah seems so freaked by them. I mean, let's face it, she's a 54-year old woman who calls her genitals her "vajayjay." And since she's the catalyst through which we experience her show, if she's squirming, how can we relax?
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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I never find the sex shows she does as revealing as they're hyped up to be. I don't know. It's day time TV. There's only so much they can talk about. Good observation re. Oprah's reaction to the sex talk. I always assume she's trying to deflect her discomfort by trying to insert laughter and humour in an otherwise serious conversation.
came across your blog the other day, my sister sent me your link. i have for a long time thought that oprah bases her program/advice/topics on three premises:
do it
read it
believe it
there doesn't seem to be room for any cracks, if you know what i mean. for realities. i will watch your blog closely, occasionally i may even watch oprah, and then visit you. great stuff. thanks.
You are making me laugh! :) Thanks!
I'm dying laughing picturing three generations watching "Y Tu Mama Tambien"! I felt like I needed a shower after watching that movie...I can't imagine the added squirm-factor of having blood relatives in the room. I've since decided that I like my movie sex highly glamourized and unrealistic, thankyouverymuch.
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wandering coyote, it's so true. i always want them to go far deeper than they can on a day time talk show. great point about the deflection!
margie, YES YES YES! there is a huge disconnect between the advice AND reality. i am experiencing that personally these days. thanks so much fo checking in.
michelle, gracias! (my mom cringed when she read the post, by the way!)
jenn_ky, it was so CRAZY. i bet my mom was in the worst position, having to watch the movie with her mother AND her daughter. now that's being caught between a rock and a hard place.
anonymous, two words: HOLY. CRAP. thank you so much for sending this. i can't believe it!
g'day y'all!!
xoLO
Re: keeping the romance alive.
Finding romance in a husband doing laundry is definitely valid.
My husband did the ironing one time. It was a beautiful thing. It even made my co-workers jealous when I bragged about it the next day.
Thank you for giving me Oprah's squirming vajayjay.
I shall sleep badly tonight.
liana, my husband won't iron. he reacts to the idea of it as if he's a cat that's been thrown in water. it's SO over the top! i wonder if he was attacked by an ironing board in his childhood?
dave, yeah, sorry 'bout that. sweet dreams.
xoLO
I don't watch much Oprah at all but I have seen her mention that she was promiscuous as a girl. She said that with some regret in her voice and I can understand that feeling like you have to have sex to have value is a sad thing. But I was irked by the potential message that having a lot of sex (with a lot of different people) is by itself a bad thing. I don't get the impression that Oprah's feelings about her sexuality have evolved much past the bad old days when she was sleeping around.
You definitely need to read my posts about "The Hunt for the Vacuum Cleaner Gene" ... maybe start here.
julie, really good point about oprah's past. thanks for adding that to the discussion. as much as we grow as people, i guess we can't entirely let go of the past...although with oprah's dedication to her spritual path, who knows, maybe she'll transcend Freud!
andrew, you are too funny.
best,
LO
Yes, but how about those families that adopted all those kids from Liberia. I found that extremely touching.
i loved both those adoption segments. it's always nice to see the kindness of good people in the world. xoLO
I rearranged one of my vision boards this week too. It helped alot. It expanded my sense of what is possible. And, it helped me clarify where I want to be going.
-Cynthia
I found your site recently, can't remember how, and have been reading the archives ever since, it's so interesting to see the discrepancies with Oprah and her show. This post reminds me of a boyfriend in College who loved to iron, seriously, would iron his t-shirts and jeans every morning, it was a beautiful site, especially when he offered to iron things for me as well.
You are laugh out loud hilarious! Y Tu Mama Tambien for the family??? WhhhhaaaaaaaahhhH!!!
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