I did it, I finally did it. I joined the local sports club. Some years back I had a membership at the club, as part of a physical therapy program after having to undergo surgery on my knee and Achilles tendon. It was the best part of the whole ordeal. Not only did it benefit me physically, but it did a lot to lift my spirits.
So I’m back in and I’m enjoying the hell out of the place. It’s a beautiful facility with swimming pools, tennis courts and all the newest in exercise equipment. I’ve only been working out for a week, but the benefits to my mind, body and spirit are significant.
My brain and butt have been numb from long hours spent working at the computer, but now that I have made this change, I’m hoping to be restored to normal brain function and regular posting at 10086 Sunset Boulevard.
Watching Desperate Housewives is not something I make a habit of doing, having tired of the series a couple of seasons ago, but last night I was ready to be a veg-head and watch all two hours of the season finale. There was a twist at the end of the show and the twist was that Desperate Housewives was over. No more seasons, going out while still popular. Brilliant.
All the loose ends were tied up nicely in the season finale. Lynette and Tom Scavo got rid of Kayla, the bad seed child from Tom’s drunken one night stand, Susan and Mike started a new family, as Susan’s teenage daughter goes off to college. Finally Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delaney) comes clean about her past and the mystery of Dylan was solved. Katherine’s villain ex husband, Wayne Davis, played by Gary Cole, gets his comeuppance after doing away with Ellie (Justine Bateman).
Then fast forward five years to Lynette and Tom having to deal with the police over their children, who have become juvenile delinquents, Bree as a Martha Stewart business woman with her gay son assisting her and Susan coming home to a man who was not Mike. A little glimpse of their futures.
It was a perfect ending, or so I thought. I read this morning that Marc Cherry has signed on to keep pumping out the suds for this soap until 2011, the seventh season. It is, after all, a money generating business and it’s not about being brilliant, it’s about milking those cash cows, sponsorships and syndication and there’s already so much garbage on television.
Thankfully, it’s summertime and a good time to step away from the Boob Tube and into the air conditioned movie theater, for what is shaping up to be a great year for action films.
Updated 5/9/08
Didn’t Sigourney Weaver look like this just before her eyes started glowing red in the movie Ghost Busters?
Tricia, of recent YouTube fame, is moving on with her life and getting rid of the old. Her wedding dress, a classic little silk number by designer Yumi Katsura, is up for auction on Ebay. The starting bid is $10,000 and the proceeds from this auction are to go to the Wounded Warrior Project.
You can also bid on that little chiffon beaded number, by designer Pamella Roland, the one that Tricia wore on the red carpet at the Tony Awards, as shown on her official website.
To read more about Tricia’s decision to put the dress on eBay, click here.
Update 5/3/08: The starting bid for the wedding dress auction has been lowered to $5,000.
Update 5/6/08: The starting bid has now been lowered to $9.95
Update 5/9/08: The auction ended today - bidding only reached $355.00 which was under the reserve price.
More Tricia here.
