observations and a 'why'

Today is a quiet day. She's over the worst of being sick and just trying to get back into the eating groove and get her strength back. It's amazing what just one day of being sick can do to a girl. And she's such a thin little thing anyway, so she just looks gaunt very quickly to me when she's sick. I hate that.

So today is all about observations.

Homework isn't any fun when you'd rather just lay around and try to start feeling better. Of course homework isn't fun on any day. But you know what I mean. Not feeling bad enough just to lay around, but not totally with it either. This is where we are today.

And yesterday was a 'kid tv' watching sort of day. Oh joy.

She watches iCarly sometimes on Nickelodeon. It's not my faaaavorite show, but other than benign humor and corny put down sort of stuff, I haven't ever seen anything baaaaad. I guess I haven't been listening hard enough. I caught parts of two episodes yesterday when I wasn't busy taking care of her.

And it made me very sad. I know that I 'know' tv isn't the best and I 'know' I should be more on the alert for trash, but sometimes the reality of it takes me by surprise. I guess that's where I was yesterday.

I won't bore you with plot lines here...because face it.. there isn't much to speak of LOL... and because it's not that important. But I will attempt to discuss a couple of the alarming things I heard/felt while she watched. One of them was about a boy that had never been kissed. A girl mentioned to others that he had not been kissed and he got laughed at at school. Finally the girl goes to the boy and tells him she's never been kissed either. They proceed to kiss, even though they dislike each other and cut each other down in every episode. That just made me sad. Affection and something that perhaps could be shared only with one true love was thrown around like it was brushing up against someone's coat on accident or something. It really disturbed me. And the other weird thing was a thing where, Carly, the girl in the show, is trying to give out prizes or something and mentions this list of strange things but included in the list is a picture of a man that get's pregnant. Hmmm... snatched that one right out of the headlines. I just about died. Boo caught that one too and made a comment that it was a pretty nasty thing to say. But I just kept thinking...why??? Why did they have to say that rather than something else that was just plain ol' silly?

I tend to forget that there is an enemy that is out to get her soul.

It made me wonder.... what else has she heard in that show that I've missed. I haven't sat down and watched every episode of this show with her like I did with Hannah Montana.

Maybe I should.