Lost It

Ok, I know this isn't the best self-portrait I could have done, but I'm lucky I got one done at all tonight, with it being the season finale of Lost...(TV viewer warning: Don't read this if you TiVo'd or videotaped Lost & haven't watched it yet - I don't want to bear the responsibility of blowing anyone else's viewing pleasures! And I have no idea what I'm going to say, I'm lost here, people).

This show is my Wednesday night vice...I know, you probably thought I sit around improving my mind with NPR or at least PBS, night after night (lol), especially since I've told you that I don't even have Cable - but we do have an antenna, and living on a hill, we're able to pick up the quote unquote  local stations from L.A. (over 60 miles away). And there are people who know me in real life, that think I don't watch TV, because they'll mention something that everyone in America knows from television - for instance, who shot J.R., and it's been what - 15 years or more? and I still don't know who shot J.R.!  I think I've heard  rumors that the whole season was all a dream but maybe I'm getting that confused with the Bob Newhart Show (which I did watch). Or whoever the current season's Survivor or American Idol is, and it could be a Martian for all I know. I did love Arrested Development and Malcolm In the Middle, but they've both been cancelled now  - which is another reason I dread to give my heart away to a TV show - it's almost guaranteed. If I love it, they will kill it. I probably shouldn't even be telling you about this show - I could be dooming it to mid-season cancellation...But I'll take a chance; this one's too popular (crosses fingers) to die easily.  Anyway, I'm digressing all over the place...

My point (if I have one at this point!) is that I do watch some television; I'm just not a huge TV viewer. But every couple of years, I'll get hooked on a show.  X-Files was one. Before that,  I think it was Northern Exposure. Now it's Lost.

People who really know me, know not to call me on Wednesday's after eight pm. Unless it's an emergency (and I do mean an emergency!); or during a commercial break and you're calling to find out about an important Lost plot development and I can give you a synopsis in 3 minutes flat, because I will hang up when the commercial's over. It's cold, I know. But you can talk to me any other night of the week*. Lost is only on Wednesdays, people!

With past TV show obsessions, my family understood - they were co-dependents. This time I watch alone. They've tried for the sake of family unity to join me - but for whatever reason, this one just doesn't interest them. They never got it. Poor lost souls! So I watch alone; while they go on about their lives, reading, visiting friends; whatever the heck it is they're doing in the other room; and leave me to my guilty viewing pleasure.

If you were to pass the den tonight, while I was watching, you would not realize this. You would think there must be some other extended family member or a visiting friend in there with me, from all the vocalizing going on in here, the cries of:
"Desmond! You're kidding me!"
"No, Locke - what are you doing?!?"
"Run, Charlie, run!"
"Kate! Watch out!"

Et  cetera, etc.  If my  Southern grandma were still around to comment, she'd have said, "That girl's done lost her mind!"

Exactly - that''s the point I was trying to make!

*OK, I lied. I'm almost as obsessed with Desperate Housewives. Almost, but not quite. I will  let you finish your sentence before hanging up when the commercial's over on Sundays. I know, I'm pathetic.

Comments

[violetismycolor]

I had to tape the season finale of Lost for Adam, who flies home today. He is a huge fan. Bonnie and I are doing a Gilmore Girls marathon, though.

[Caroline]

Your self-portait made me laugh - and I've not see Lost at all...

I'm like you in that I watch the odd thing but not like you in that I only remember to watch any of them if Jim is here and watching too...

[Kai]

I've been an addict from Day 1 of this show. I dont take calls, comments nothing when LOST is on.. It's my escape!!

:) Im glad im not the only person who is nuts about this show..lol.. :) Peace, Kai

[Marilyn]

I've never seen "Lost," but I know many are hooked. :) We didn't have cable in Portland and I didn't have it in San Francisco either...one of the secret (antenna) joys of living in cities. ;)

[artzyjudie]

Tinker, I am the same way about Survivor when it is Survivor season. Do NOT call me on Thursdays between 8 and 9 p.m. Do NOT knock on my door. For that one hour in my life, I am entitled to be rude, and you have to handle your own emergencies. LOL Later.........