Last night I heard on the news that a local hardware store publicly offered former President Bush the job of greeter. All I could do was laugh, and hard. That’s a job even Bush couldn’t screw up!

Can you imagine a hardware store with the Secret Service for security? Ha! Maybe that was the idea and Bush being there is just gravy…

I also wanted to talk a little more about something I’ve been doing lately that I am really excited about. Listening to books on tape. I’m “reading” Four Blind Mice and looking forward to two more books I have to read after this. Let me tell you why I enjoy this so much, I’ve always been an avid reader, anything I can get my hands on that is interesting to me I will read, recently I used coke points won from McDonalds during their Monopoly promotion to get a year subscription to Conde Naste a travel magazine.

Of which I’ve gotten two containing amazing pictures that all too clearly remind me how broke I am right now…I told myself I was ordering the mag to inspire us to save money for a beautiful, magical wonderful vacation to one of these beautiful destinations. Vacation fund so far – $ 0.23, we’ll be vacationing in Tahiti in 2050 at this rate!

Anyways, I’ve always been someone who enjoyed reading to the nth degree, but in the last five years or so my time to do so has completely given way in the face of schoolwork, this website, my full time job, social networking (the little I have time for) and my family, in no particular order.

The solution to this is books on cd. EXCELLENT IDEA! For those of us that commute to work, someone was thinking of us when they came up with this idea. I’ll sometimes hang out in the car for a few minutes after I get home just to get to the end of the chapter. Just like when I read a physical book, I can’t put it down.

James Patterson is my focus at the moment, I used to read his books a lot more often when my son was young and I had less going on in my life, I stopped reading however around 2001 when my life became hectic, and has not yet slowed down.

So it’s nice to get caught up with my favorite character, Alex Cross, played by Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls. I’m looking forward to the next two books I have waiting for me.

Have you ever listened to a book on tape or cd? Have the Amazon Kindle? What do you read and how do you make it work for you, so that you can still enjoy the activity?

I’m sort of watching Confessions of a Teen Idol, albeit with an air of fascination. Can I first say, this is SO lame. These people are doing their bestest to get back into the limelight to reignite their careers.

I think this is so sad, is there a Celebrity Unemployment Office? An unemployment office for the beautiful people or something? I understand that people have problems and all, but aren’t we all just a little tired of hearing famous people bitch about how hard it is for them?

The real trip is the guy running things is a has been, he was the big brother in the Wonder Years. I’ve always thought he had a strangely shaped head. Weird to see him on TV again. Some of these people you can tell are really sincere about entertaining people and really could give a shit about notoriety. I have always appreciated those stars that are more private, because when I’m watching a movie, I don’t want to even for a minute have a reference to a sex tape, a relationship, a bad breakup, a divorce, a tantrum in public, or worse. I want to see those actors doing what they do, acting, don’t make them real to me because then it stops being entertaining.

I’m all for this reality tv stuff because I love Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen and Cops and The First 48 and Cold Case Files and I know it’s saving the networks millions of dollars in scripts, actors, etc. But come on, isn’t it defeating the purpose of a reality to show to involve actors?

Celebrity Rehab is a show I can understand, and oddly enough most of the people on the show I had no idea even existed really so, I don’t care that I’m hearing about their addictions, problems, etc. you expect celebrities to have celebrity problems, going to rehab seems to be the cool thing to do lately, so hey I don’t mind watching, it’s kind of entertaining.

It’s mostly sad though.

I guess we all have our own preferences and ideas of what is entertaining and what’s not, that stuff just isn’t to me, but then again, I don’t read the star magazine’s and crap because I really don’t care what goes on in the life of celebrities. I care about them about as much as they care about me. Watching this stuff is like going to a museum, you yawn the whole time knowing you should be interested because it’s history or something, but you’re just not. Something about the smell or the way it looks, it’s just boring.

What are your favorite reality TV shows?

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