Quick Update: Really hard lately to get my posts in. My mom was in the hospital battling pneumonia for 2 1/2 weeks then she went on to a physical rehab for 3 weeks (due to her being weak from the pneumonia) and she just got home last Friday only to be back in the hospital today for another 2 days for surgery. I've been busy taking care of my dad and running back and forth to the hospital to check on mom.
School work is getting really really really hectic and I'm struggling with the fatigue from being pregnant. Just tired guys and stressed but I promise to get up to speed with the shows over the weekend and update the blog.
My schedule is tight but I'll get those RealityTvMePlease posts in this week.
What's shows are on my list this week to blog about: Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo) Basketball Wives (VHI) Mob Wives (VHI) and Triple D: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (Food Network)
My Reality is another new section I'm adding to my blog and it chronicles what is going on in my everyday life.
This week has been tough because I'm battling an allergy induced sore throat. This is day 3 and nothing seems to be working so I'm definitely going to the hospital tomorrow so that I'm okay before school starts on Monday. I'm taking Benadryl elixir for the watery eyes and Tylenol extra strength for the sore throat but there's not much else I can take over-the-counter because I'm pregnant. The Benadryl makes me very sleepy so I'm a little behind on my RealityTvMe bogging but I promise to get caught up in the next day couple of days.
I think my next two blog entries will be about Mob Wives and Basketball Wives both highly successful reality shows featured on VHI.
This is a new section of my blog I'm introducing called Reality Randomness. Reality Randomness is just random topics that I want to post to my blog that have nothing to do with reality TV. Whatever is on my mind that just came out of left field, sometimes the random topics will be serious, other times funny, or silly. Today on RealityTvMe we are celebrating Reality Randomness!
My mom has been in the hospital for the last two weeks battling pneumonia and issues associated with her diabetes. She’s been so down about her illnesses and it seems during hospital visits that’s all she focuses on is her dialysis, pneumonia, and her out-of-control diabetes. So to lighten the mood yesterday, I decided to focus her attention on something other than her illness. We first got on the topic of sports and that seemed to brighten her spirits quickly and immediately sent my mother into the discussion of the Patriots. One thing you need to know about my mom is she’s a diehard Patriots and Celtics fan, if you want to get her going then talk about the Patriots and her love for the players (past and present). As a matter of fact she’s still reeling from the Randy Moss trade from a few years back and the recent Super Bowl loss which she swears we would’ve won if Randy was still there. Don’t ask me why and I’m not even sure how we got on the topic of the Star Spangled Banner but we did and my sister, mom and I were discussing the top 2 best renditions of the Star Spangled Banner we’ve ever heard in our life. The two selections were easy ones for us, Whitney Houston’s 1991 Super Bowl national anthem and Marvin Gaye’s 1983 All Star Game national anthem but choosing who was number one and two become a heated debate between the three of us. The battle of the top spot got so heated that even the nurses assigned to my mom’s room got into the mix and casted their vote for the best amongst the two. My mother and sister thought Whitney Houston then Marvin Gaye and I thought the reverse Marvin Gaye and then Whitney Houston. Okay let me give you my reason why I put them in that order.
I chose Whitney as number two because her rendition of the national anthem was purely patriotic (which it should be and is suppose to be). She sang the hell out of the Star Spangled Banner! When we YouTubed her video on my Smartphone, gosh it brought tears to my eyes. I know it sounds corny but I felt so proud to be an American and she brought that feeling out of me. I remember the press and the media going crazy for Whitney’s rendition and again it is a fantastic rendition and one that does deserve respect but the top spot? In true Whitney fashion "Hell to the Naw"!
However, Marvin’s version was pure fucking electric sex, an R&B rendition that just makes you want to party. This man turned the Star Spangled Banner out! He brought it to a level of sexiness that I can’t even describe. He even changed the beat to it (who does that?). His version sounded like it could be a top ten hit on an R&B or Pop station right now. I was too young then but if I was the age I am now, I could see myself with a bottle of wine and some lingerie about to get some good loving off his national anthem. He brought a uniqueness in sound and rhythm that I haven’t heard from any other anthem performance (that I can remember). He wasn’t trying too hard he was just being Marvin. What artist say, he had that IT factor, pure charisma, and natural swagger. Even his physical appearance at the show said he was dressing for a ladies concert not a sports event. With the mean three piece suit, with the pocket hankie, dark classes, crisp haircut and newly lined beard. I’ve never seen a national anthem where the ladies are screaming I love you and the people clap like their at a musical concert. It’s just a beautiful thing to see and again just so DAMN SEXY. This is why I just have to put Marvin Gaye at number 1 on my list.
However, if you time in your busy life I hope you can review the two videos and post what you think about the National Anthem performances by Whitney Houston and Marvin Gaye.
I came across this show tonight by accidentally sitting my fat pregnant butt on the Direct TV remote. The Show is on the National Geographic Channel and the premise of the show is to showcase the lives of ordinary Americans who are prepping for the end of the world as we know it. They are preparing for things like nuclear devastation, US financial collapse, over population, food or oil shortages. I've never ever heard of this show and I watch the National Geographic Channel pretty regularly so I was intrigued when I saw it. It comes on Tuesday nights at 9 pm so tonight's episode was a repeat.
Watching this show I was floored by the dooms day preparation going on. I mean these people aren't playing around, they mean business when it comes to preparing for the end of the world. The prepper's are creating self-sustaining compounds that will keep their families afloat (for some) up to 10-15 years. They're housing warehouse supplies of dry food, water, can goods, paper products like toilet paper, guns and ammunition, making homemade soaps and toothpaste, teaching their children tactical weaponry skills to defend themselves just-in-case the compound/shelter is breached.
Others are creating self-sustaining farms where they are growing their own dairy, meat and vegetables. They don't use anything from the outside world like electricity, food or even fertilizer and they live like this everyday. This particular self-sustaining suburbia has linked with another doomsday prepper who is an engineer and he created a vehicle that runs on burning wood. WOW! His purpose for this is that if the world is collapsing around us the fuel supply is going to dry up. Those of us (the regular folks) are going to be up craps creek because of our dependency on natural fuel supplies that are going to be too expensive to purchase in the collapse or are simply going to run out.
In tonight's episode they had a guy who created this weapon called the Croval. His purpose for creating the weapon is that sooner or later no matter what you do as a prepper or non-prepper your going to run out of bullets for your gun so you need to have a weapon that you can use to protect yourself and your doomsday bunker/suburbia/compound. This thing is straight BADASS! It takes 13 different tools and turns it into just one. Think of it as a cross between a shovel, Rambo knife, hammer, bayonet, saw, machete, pick ax, crowbar, etc.. and it only weighs 5 pounds. It will literally will cut through almost anything. The prepper who created it in this episode tested out his new weapon on a pig because from what he says a pig's flesh is the closest thing we have to human flesh.
The whole show was really interesting so I think I'm going to start checking it out (when I can) but here is a quick clip of the Croval weapon. I wasn't able to find the clip on Youtube so I'm going to post a link to National Geographic's short clip of the Croval here. In order to view it just cut and paste the link into your address bar.
Looking at the show definitely makes me start thinking about preparing for the worst (maybe not on that level but at least something). What do you think, should we (regular folk) start making some kind of preparation for a doomsday? Let me know what you think.
