Trading Spaces
I am addicted to Trading Spaces. It’s on at 4:00 every day, and while I don’t watch it every day, I do watch it often enough that I’ve seen most of the episodes. I think I’m going to go crazy once I have a house, planning to repaint all the walls and things. They are now selling the Trading Spaces shirts at the Discovery Channel store in the mall. I’m very tempted to get one. I think I might if I’m ever planning on painting anything. Daniel pointed out to me the other day that Trading Spaces is a “reality show”. Since I have professed to hate all reality shows, I have to explain that the TLC/Discovery Channel/History Channel shows are vastly different from the network reality shows. Admittedly, Trading Spaces has very little, if any, educational value. I have learned how to make an ottoman out of a garage-sale coffee table, and how NOT to decorate a room, but those aren’t exactly essential skills in life. However, Trading Spaces (and similarly Junkyard Wars and other shows like that) is not pure trash like Survivor or The Bachlor. I don’t think the network shows even TRY to have any substance. They just use sex and money and people fighting with each other to make people watch. Also, they’re ALL THE SAME. One Survivor thing was a hit, and so they keep doing it over and over and over. Plus, they bill all these shows as reality shows, but they’re not really all that real. I mean, it’s not exactly real to have a bunch of spoiled Americans out in some foreign place with “nothing” having to play really stupid games and then vote each other out. The only thing real is that it’s not scripted. Maybe they should call it an improv show. But then, that might taint Whose Line is it Anyway, which is another of my favorite shows.
Oh, on a totally unrelated note, I can now put smileys into these entries. 
Isn’t it cute?
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