"The rest is still unwritten"

I'll admit it. I'm addicted to a few things right now: Ice Cream & TV. Not a good combination. Sounds like the making of a couch potato. I'd like to go ahead and put to rest any roomers right now though. I am, in fact, not a couch potato. Neither have I gained 20 pounds since marraige. Maybe two or three, and I think those were just from 9 Coldstone visits in the first 20 days of marriage. We've only had like 4 in the two weeks since that point. Well maybe that's not so much better. Anyway, I'm addicted to my bowl of 2.5 scoops of no-fat vanilla ice cream with plenty of fat caramel and chocolate on top and a Rogers' Brownie on the side while sitting down to watch my two current favorite shows: Big Brother & The Hills (a Laguna Beach spin-off). Both stupid reality shows that suck you in. We find ourselves discussing the show at the end...what the contestants or kids should or should not do. While I used to only watch Scrubs and Big Brother on their first-run on TV, I'm now watching Big Brother, The Hills, Simple Life, America's Got Talent (whenever I get a chance) and still managing to catch quite a few re-runs of South Park on DVD.

The reason for this new rash of television intake? Well, one reason is we've got to do something while we eat our ice cream...and we DO have to eat our ice cream.

#2 is DVR (same as Tivo). With DVR we can watch the Hills in 22 minutes or the Simple Life in, well, 22 minutes. By the time an hour's passed we've almost watched 3 shows where we used to watch only 2.

#3 is that I no longer have video games. Haven't shot any MasterChiefs with my MasterChef since well before marriage. I haven't played Super Mario Brothers since my college days. My video game days are not over. I'm just on an unwanted and unnecessary hiatus. I actually received two games for getting married: The Godfather (thanks George) and Call of Duty 2 (thanks K-Hink and E.T.).

Nevertheless, a junky I am not. In fact, I'm going to run right now, even though it's almost 11 p.m. and remember folks - it's fat free ice cream.