HBO

HBO

The one thing in my pathetic so called life that brings me great pleasure is the show TRUE BLOOD. Yes I kno its about vampires, and werewolves and all things that are not real but I secretly wish were. I started watching true blood because of a certain beautiful import from Sweden called Alexander Skarsgard, but as I started watching I got wrapped up in all the characters and the 800 different story lines. When the show went on hiatus I was upset but I wasn’t that worried because I knew they would show reruns every Sunday night until the the season 3 premiere . One can imagine how upset I was when I found out my father decided to cancel HBO bc "those bastards(cable company) only want to steal my money.” the state of shock I was in was not a normal one. Yes I could watch it online, yes I already watched season 2 and season 3 doesn’t start till june. That however, was NOT THE POINT. The point is the one thing that I actually looked forward to every week was taken away. WHY? all because my father didn’t want to pay the extra 67 dollars.

My dad does this every once in a while. He will be mad about something else, anything really and he takes it out on the cable company. He can be mad about what was made for dinner but mad enough and he lets the cable company have it. I feel sorry for the one person from dish network who gets to listen to my father rant for a good 15 to 20 mins.2 reasons I feel this sympathy 1. They probably cant understand him through his thick sri lankan acccent and 2. He makes them feel bad by saying things like “you, the company is making my blood pressure RISE with these high bills!“ the poor customer service representative who answered the call must be going through a range of emotions that first start out as guilt and slowly work towards anger. This seems to be a pattern with him. Every few months he will cancel MY favorite channels. I think its because secretly he wants me to be miserable.

I have become so wrapped in the show that I started to read the books. There are 9 books out. Each book is more or less based on each season of the show. I read all 9 books in about 5 days. This did not make my mother happy. she couldn’t understand what was so important in this book that I couldn’t put it out for 10 minutes to help her clean the floors. Needless to say when I tried to explain to her about the importance of “sookie and eric finally telling each other how they feel” she looked at me like a BELONGED in a mental institution. I tried to get her to read the books and all she told me was “ I dnt have time to shave my legs, you think I want to read ur damn books?’