how i met your new extreme wife

i am officially a tv addict. i suppose i knew this already so its just official to you. anyway, its at low points like this when it hits home. i am sitting here watching wife swap because i like how i met your mother at 8:30. the more troubling part is that i am riveted. one of these mothers is a pageant mother and the other is a health food non-make-up wearing artist.

in case you don't know the premise of the horrible show that i might love, the mothers switch houses and live by the original mother's rules for one week and then the new mother gets to institute her rules. its insane. i am sure that they always pick extremes. i am also sure that every week the mothers and families learn valuable lessons about how their extreme lifestyle can use a little of the opposing family's extremes.

so, week one, over. switch it up and now little haley can't do pageants, brush her hair or watch tv and little lucy gets a big screen tv in her room and has to do a pageant for a little "healthy competition" - ever hear of sports? crying ensues. except when the big screen tv comes.

its insane. it makes me feel like i might not be a bad parent after all.

i thought i was done but i just cut over during a commercial to see little lucy in the pageant. she really liked it and it made me sad. oh, maybe pageants aren't evil after all.

let's not get crazy.