A Very Random Post About TV

(Also? Searching "new girl" gets some odd results.)

Does anyone feel far too invested in TV? Like when it’s the start of a new week, you get really excited because new shows will be on and you can’t wait to see what your favourite characters will be up to next? And when it’s a repeat – like Castle was last week – you feel as though your day is incomplete?

I love TV. There, I said it. I watch it a lot and sometimes I become too invested in the characters’ lives. This morning I’ve watched Whitney and New Girl and have laughed along with them, wished I was there, and decided that I share more than a little bit of similarities with the main characters. And I've fallen in love with the men in the shows. I think I feel like I’m actually a part of the characters’ lives. Like they’re my friends. I think I need to get out more. I need to learn that I am not Whitney or Jess, nor will I ever be. And if I move in with 3 men, chances are I won't fall in love with one of them and become best friends with the others. It probably would have an ending much more sinister. And I don't want to be a victim that would be found on Castle. No, I want to be Beckett. Which is why I once went to an information session on how to become a cop because I thought that, naturally, I would become a detective and work with a man like Castle and we would fall in love and I would be super cool and run around in 4 inch heels with a gun.

Oh, see? I did it again. My life is not a TV show. I am not exciting enough for that. But I think I would make a fantastic actress! In what other job can you be all kinds of things in a lifetime? That's it, I'm moving to LA.

Ahem. In review, I tend to get carried away with...well everything. Especially my TV watching. And poor CD got the overflow from that today, as I shared the funny stories with him, and I’m pretty sure he’s humouring me by laughing along with me. Bet he didn’t count on this side of me when we became friends. Heart you buddy! (I also told him he was going to be in this post, so I had to give a shout out).

Also, I need to stop talking to the characters on the TV shows. I just told Nick to kiss Jess. Guess what? He can’t hear me. None of them can. That shouldn’t make me sad. But it does. I think I’m living vicariously through them. I might need to start therapy again…

Love,

Bella