April 2009 - Janelle's Blog

With an upcoming video shoot at the NBCF Headquarters in a few hours, the timing was unacceptable to have a sinus cold. As I awoke with head spinning and blurry eyes, I thought, I'm going to have to stay in bed a while longer this morning to shake this loose.

11:00 – I forced myself to get out of bed to start getting ready. The shoot was at 2:00 p.m., so I had plenty of time.

1:00 – While walking around my house in slow motion and still not ready, I finally sat down and called the office to postpone the shoot until the next day.

1:30 – I flipped on the TV while buttering an English muffin. If I'm going to stay in this afternoon, I might as well watch some day-time TV, I thought.

A long-standing soap opera was playing. "I haven't seen this in ages," I said aloud. "I remember this guy. He hasn't aged in 20 years." Then I noticed his face was stretched so tightly that he never changed expressions during the entire dramatic scene.

I thought about all of the soaps I have managed to dodge during the past few years: The Guiding Lies, The Botox and the Beautiful, The Not-So-Young and the Rested.