Fort's Cancer Sux!!

Another year, another seasonal obsession with “The Bachelor”. What joy it brings to countless women to watch beautiful, talented women get shot down. This show is one of the few places we can partake in such a guilty obsession.

As I had mentioned before, I moved the TV in to what Im now calling the “Scrapbooking Room” or the “Blue Room” – Ive got pictures of that too that Ill try and post tonight if I can ever get off my butt and get over to Stacy’s and pick up my camera…

So I was really only half-watching the show while I was prepping my pages for Scrapbooking Weekend so here’s the main points I remember. This guy is an Italian Prince, which gives him about as much influence on world affairs as J-mac. Maybe less. The women are all gorgeous, and I must confess, the “hook” for me, was the beautiful blonde Texas “socialite” (that’s what they put under her name in place of a profession, which is the politically correct way of calling her a spoiled, ungrateful, stuck-up, self-obsessed, helpless, hopeless excuse for an American Woman. Did that come off as angry? I just want enough money for a new kitchen and a finished basement…dammit Xeloda!! Sorry, I get carried away sometimes.)

ANYWAY….The guy has to eliminate half of the women and I really didn’t have any real opinion on his choices with the exception of him choosing this girl. Honestly, I don’t think he really knows them all well enough yet and what the hell, its gonna be great for ratings….my guess is they’ll try to keep her on as long as possible because the Average American woman will tune in with the sincere hope that in some way or another, the little princess will get, for the first time in her perfect twenty-some years, a disappointment. Or maybe that’s just me.

I think it all started when, in the beginning of the show, they had cameras following the ABC people who knocked on doors and informed the bachelorettes that they were going to have to pack for Rome…..TODAY. They show Erica (the socialite) opening her front door, and what seems to be a foyer the size of a small gymnasium and looks like a museum behind her. All of the women were excited except for Erica, who seems smug in her interview. She explains that she really wasn’t surprised that she was chosen, because she just assumed that she would be a great match for a wealthy bachelor. Good on ya, Erica. Gotta love the confidence.

(Oh yeah...did I say she was ungrateful? I lied. She DID say how fortunate she was that both her mother AND her maid were there to help her pack. Thank Goodness for that.)

Then for the intro episode, she wears a ball gown and a tiara. Just to ENSURE that the guy knows that’s she’s ready for Princess-dom. I once tried to convince myself I was ready for a relationship with a guy in college and maybe more, because his last name was Fortman, and there really wouldn’t be much involved as far as a name change if we got married. He didn’t agree. I also once tried unsuccessfully to start watching the X-Files because a guy I liked was really into it. It pissed Angie off something bad (we were roommates with one little tv) and we got into a huge fight over the fact that I was going to watch X-Files and after I had her absolutely irate with me…I decided 15 minutes into the show that I really wasn’t into it. She hasn’t let me forget about that and its been 10 years.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah. So tune in every Monday to see if Erica gets her heart broken and sent back to Texas. I will be.

I wish they’d just stop making frozen entrée’s with peas in it. Its ruining a perfectly good Healthy choice meal ive got warming up right now…(IN A NEW MICROWAVE MY BOSS PURCHASED THIS MORNING….)

Sayanara. More pics up tonight…if you’re lucky…
What the HIZZY?? Im trying to post some pics of this girl and they're not posting...this blogger is weird sometimes. go to www.abc.com and search it yourself....