HGTV - Inspirational in so many ways!

Lately I have been watching a lot of HGTV. As in, to the point where if Bear walks in the house and I am not perched on the edge of the sofa, leaning toward the television to see "the big reveal", he heads off to the medicine cabinet to get me something, as I am obviously ill.

Since becoming addicted, I have put up shelving in my storage room, re-arranged all the pictures hanging in my living room, bought a new chrome dish drainer and chrome goose-necked kitchen faucet, and I have been to Lowe's and Home Depot several times to get faux-paint how-to pamphlets and color charts.

So you see, it has its productive side, my addiction. But, as with most good things, there is (bum-bum-BUMMMMMMMM!!!!) a dark side. There are other, insidious things that motivate the addictions of all women between 30 and 55 to this home improvement, Do It Yourself Haven that is HGTV... and I have proof!

Vern Yip, of
"Deserving Design"

David Bromstad, of
"Color Splash"

Scott McGillivray, of
"Income Property"

Marc Bartolomeo, of
"Save My Bath"

Emmanuel Belliveau, of
"My Parents' House"

And don't tell me that they're gay, because honey, it just doesn't matter. They're fun to watch, they sometimes screw up projects just like we do, they're hysterically funny, and most of them have really tender hearts... they make over rooms for people in need, or people who have spent their lives giving to others.

I often get a tear in my eye watching them get kids involved in projects to give their parents a beautiful bedroom that they would never spend the money on for themselves, or seeing a couple that spends their lives working in non-profit charity organizations and existing on granola and a few kernels of corn get a new living room. It's so damn touching!

Very touching.... touching... sorry, got distracted there for a moment.