secret addiction.....

ok so i have to admit it.......it's just too much to keep a secret anymore.......since i've become a stay-at-home mom i've developed an addiction......

my name is courtney and i'm a wife-swap-aholic.......yes.......it's sad, but true......very very true......everyday in time for casey's 3 o'clock feeding i get us all comfy on our bed, flip on the lifetime channel for the daily wife-swap viewing......i watch it through the feeding, after which 99.9% of the time she falls asleep, so she sleeps in my arms while i watch the show till 4......

ah......there......it's out there.......

i'm not proud of this at all, but i'm not quite ready to stop......it's the silliest show out there and to be honest, they're very cookie cutter - lazy, rich, demanding, spoiled wife swaps houses with blue-collar cow-milking, log-cutting, bus-driving, hard-working wife - there's the inevitable horror on the part of the rich wife upon seeing this "dump" she'll be living in for 2 weeks, and the inevitable horror on the part of the blue collar wife upon seeing how clean and perfect the house she'll be living in for 2 weeks is.......then they're all friendly with their "new" families for about 10 minutes.......then they have to play by real wife's rules for a week - which always goes badly, wives break the rules all the time, fight with their "husbands", complain about how differently things will be next week.......then in week 2 the wives get to make new rules in the rule-change ceremony and everyone is supposed to live by them, which inevitably leads to disbelief on the new families' faces, but really it doesn't matter because most of the new rules get broken too......then when they're all at their breaking point, time to go home and they miraculously make up with their new families in time to leave them......then the dramatic reunion with their real spouse - complete with them tearily running across the parking lot to each other (because the only two limo spaces available are on opposite ends of the lot apparently).......it's pretty pitiful all around, but i can't seem to break from it.......there's some small nugget of appeal it has to me and i can't let it go.......

i do always wonder though why the wives are surprised when they go to the new home - i mean they're not gonna put you in the same situation you were in - of course they're gonna do the opposite.......they'd put me with an organized, structured family with no dust in the corners and no piles of laundry to be done.......i know this, and i'd expect it if i were to go on the show.......and if a family watches like 900 hours of tv a week, why are they surprised that one of the new rules is that they get rid of the tv??.....duh people.......