Bravo is going to start broadcasting Moonlighting starting next January. This is a show that I really liked, but got into it later so I missed most of the first season. It has great stories and dialogue, with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd doing a great job acting. So I'm looking forward to watching this show again.

What hooked me on the show was the Taming of the Shrew episode. My 8th grade English teacher brought a tape of it and showed it to us, to see an interpretation of one of Shakespeare's plays. After that I started watching it more and that was it.

I was watching Crook and Chase, which is a day-time talk show out of Nashville. They had Sherrie Austin on, who is an Australian country singer. Anyway, this was one of the rare times when I could sit through the musical act. But that's not the point of this paragraph. Afterwards, Lorianne and Charley talked with Sherrie for ten minutes or so. This is one of the differences between daytime and latenight talk shows. On the Tonight Show, the musical guest does a song and that's it, Jay usually doesn't talk afterwards with the musical guests. Now, I'm all for music, but I'd rather see an interview than the performance.

I was talking with a friend on ICQ and she told me this last year but I must have forgotten because I was once again surprised to hear that she and her family didn't celebrate Christmas. Now, I can see that if you're not of one of the many Christian faiths, you might not celebrate the Holiday. But it's a great Holiday no matter how you feel about the religious aspects. Most everyone is deliriously happy, you give presents, you get presents. It's truly one of the happy times of the year.

She countered with the higher suicide rate during the Holidays and the blatant commercialism that almost forces people to buy lots of stuff they can't afford. Although I do agree that the Holiday season is particularly depressing if you have no one to share it with, if your answer is to commit suicide rather than trying to make friends, then you're not really cut up for this world.

As for the commercialism, I have no problem with it. Adults are free to buy themselves into poverty, they have to be responsible for themselves. Personally, expensive gifts that I can't really afford are the best to buy. I don't feel like it's a real gift unless it hurts my pocketbook. Well, not quite that dramatic, but closer than not.

I told her that she should concentrate on the good in life, if you concentrate on the bad you'll just depress yourself and become a depressing person. See the good, be happy, and you'll also make other people happy which makes the world better. True, there are problems and I do contribute when I can, but I'm not going to help the world by trying to solve every problem and running myself ragged.

I don't really like fat free versions of food. I'm cooking dinner with this healthy cream of mushroom my mom gave me. To compensate I just added more oil to the mixture. It still doesn't come out exactly the same, but it's closer.