A sad Monday...

Dear TV Reality fans and readers of this site,

Today I had a very sad moment, well 2 actually. The first occurred when I realized it was Monday and I had forgotten to tape The Next Food Network Star. What? How? you ask...I know, it is crazy, really. For all of you DVR and Tivo users you may wonder how some one like myself (who watches way too much TV) could possibly make such a mistake, especially since both machines have the wonderful ability to be set up to record shows for the whole season. Well, my previous DVR was becoming a bit unreliable and as we didn't want to run into the same problem as AJ...we turned our DVR in for a newer one and I have yet to take the time to put all my shows into the season pass. Sunday night was the premiere of BB10 and in my excitement to get that show onto the new DVR's season pass, I forgot about TNFNS...I am truly sad, as I missed the final four in Vegas. I will be searching for a rerun so I can see the food competition, however, I have read that Kelsey (our little cougarette from BYU) has left the show. We are now down to Aaron, Adam and Lisa. I have decided that, although, Lisa annoyed me at first, she is now my fav to win.

My second sad moment of today was much worse then the first. It finally dawned on me that I will not only miss the viewing of SYTYCD...but I will also be unable to vote or watch the kick-off show. When I agreed to attend camp with the girl's in my ward, I did not realize the sacrifice I was making in my tvrealitycomp. I am completely devastated, as I had finally moved up in the standings. However, there have been voters in the past that have gotten perfect scores without even watching (AJ)...so I think I will pre-vote....Jo-Dan, you will need to tally the votes again this week! And hopefully I won't fall too far behind. (Bottom 6: Courtney, Jessica & Kherrington/Mark, Will, Gev.  Going home: Jessica & Mark)  

So to all you fans out there in TV reality land...wish me luck as I spend the next 3 1/2 days without my reality TV...guess I will have a lot of catching up to do come Saturday night!

Open Letter

Dear DVR;

You are an amazing device. Your virtues are touted loud and long. Commercials are a thing of the past for me now. With ease I can back up a scene to catch something I missed or something worth seeing again. Fast forwarding through "boring" parts of shows is great. My favorite thing is how I tell you what I want to watch, then you keep those shows safe for me to watch when I want to watch them (usually later at night or the next day). Oh how I love you!

Last night when I sat down at 10:30pm to watch SYTYCD, I saw you played a trick on me. Why must you betray my love? Why do you refuse to record certain shows I REALLY want to watch? There is no reason. None. And then, with a heavy heart, I started to watch a show you did record..."The Baby Borrowers". I was not sure I liked this show. And before I could even make up my mind about it, the show stopped. It seems you didn't record the whole show. Why? Why must you taunt me? Why?

How will I ever vote and win a tacky trophy when you don't record my shows? Will our love mend and heal this gap?

Digitally Disappointed,

AJ