I bought myself a present

Am on an austere savings course right now. Like, 'REALLY' austere.

So I used my credit card for the third time this year... wahoo!

DARING. And madly spent twenty Euros.

Because I found a web-site, and I like it... and it's from SWEDEN... or someplace up there...

The place is amazing. Good quality. Everything I like to watch.

And youse guys are guessing porn, right, right?

It isn't.

I get all the up to date Soaps and series running on US TV for three months at a low cost.

Can keep up with the Ven's stories much sooner than heretofore, and hunting and being frustrated, and check out things I can't get here, or don't know much about.

Good deal. If I get my calculator out... Let's see... over the past two days, I watched the full last season of Desperate Housewives. Getting them on DVD would have cost me up to fifty Euros, with the frustration of getting only half of one every four months.

And I went through the second season of Glee, and am caught up with the current third season.

Would have cost me another fifty Euros for the second, and half that again for the first half of the third. None of which I can afford at the moment.

Now.... this has no drawback. If I especially like an episode, I can view it any time I feel so inclined.

So I thought about it for a week or two. Am not in the mood to splurge. And could test drive it, and got 72 minutes of viewing here, and then it would tell you you have to wait about an hour, and can continue.... which was frustrating.

I'm incredibly stingy with myself.

So have had an interesting Thanksgiving weekend getting rectangular eyes. Quality is good, it's in English, I don't have to mess with buttons on a remote control. What could a boy wish for otherwise?

And I know some people think I am sort of a wuss, watching Desperate Housewives. I love watching it since day one. The writers and the plotting keep things coming out of left field you hardly ever see them coming. Season Six, they really stepped it up, and there were three villains in the 'hood' and you never knew what would happen next.

The current season is murky still. The murderer from season one is back, and out for vengeance. They have a new substitute for the dead Edie, Vanessa Williams being the vamp and sort of evil so far. I predcict... Mike will get killed in an oil rig disaster in Alaska. Am pretty sure of that. Susan's escapades on a web site will be exposed to the community, and she would probably move away.... although she didn't do anything nasty, she needed money, and Lainie Kazan gave her an opportunity to make money.

BTW.... that woman spread out in her back yard in other words hiney.... wow. I remember her very differently.

It's gonna be bloody.

What really got me in the current season were two episodes regarding Tom Scavo's mother. Linette gave unexpected birth to the last of her twins, the first of which she miscarried when a plane crashed on the street. And Tom wanted his mother to take care of her so Linettte could go back to work... and they realise she has beginning dementia.

Ow, wow. Those scenes were so real, I sprang a leak in my eyes, and had to blow my nose, and was otherwise useless for the day. And then talking about assisted living, and her response.

I had to leave the room. It came close. Too close.

For whoever thinks that series is a piece of fluff... or thinks it is a Soap... you are wrong. They change people's perceptions. It's not a silly series about four women in a suburb.

There is SO much more to it. And entertaining. And as much as I love Glee... The ladies on Wisteria Lane..... just rock. And it isn't a soap.