Time Wasted...

Have you ever had one of those moments when you pass by the television as you're getting ready for bed and suddenly, something catches your eye? You know, like a dog headed in one direction until he or she detects some interesting smell that will send them running in the opposite direction?

I don't know if it is some type of heady subliminal messaging from the commercials I've seen for months before this television "event" occurs or if I've been brain washed from the onslaught of life played out on television as "reality" or a simple lack of focus and that if I had stayed on track, I would have completed my nightly rituals and gone to bed. And I would have received two additional hours of sleep! Whatever the case is, I can honestly tell you, I will never get back those two hours I just lost watching this ridiculous show.

Mind you, this two hour "event" held me captive, as if I had been forced to undertake this loss of time. As if I were strapped to a chair, completely unable to move, with a television set placed 6 inches from my face. I spent two hours, TWO HOURS, staring at the television with my mouth hanging open half of the time, and the other half was spent in a variety of somewhat insane behaviors. Talking to the television as though the people can actually hear me. Laughing out loud, somewhat hysterically, while watching someone cry their eyes out on live television. Walking away shaking my head and muttering to myself...only to nearly break my neck running back into the livingroom when I hear the commercials end and the show begin again. Good grief!

I have such an intense day at work tomorrow, and now...I'm still awake at this late hour, focused on this dumb show because now I'm WRITING about it! OMG! What madness I am participating in.

Yes...you may be thinking to yourself...don't turn on the television. I hear you loud and clear. Tomorrow that will be a probable solution. Tonight, however, it is time already wasted.