My Kind of Television.
I was so excited to learn in the break-room yesterday at work that there is a a new (to me) cable channel known as WGN AMERICA . They have a lineup known as ‘”Out of Sight Retro Nights”. I got to watch 3 straight hours tonight of “ALF”
I don’t think I’ve ever shared about this topic before. But “ALF” was by far my favorite, favorite TV show as a child. I couldn’t wait for Monday nights between ages 5 and 9 years old. I used to memorize dialogue from ALF. It was my stupid human trick, really. Okay, maybe it still is. 
Memorization of dialogue has always come rather easily to me. My foster mother says about me,
“You have remembered every conversation you’ve ever had with any person in your entire life.”
She’s not really wrong.:) I do listen well, and relationships matter to me, so I take in conversations deeply.
I think I even used to pretend for a while that ALF lived with me.
I was sort of amazed at the dialogue that I did remember before they said it. I was just so stoked to be able to sit and enjoy one of my all time favorite shows.
Tomorrow, it’s supposed to be a marathon of “Family Ties”. Another show that many of us grew up watching. I will always remember the series finale of “Family Ties”. I was eight and I remember I was laying on my grandparents ugly green carpeting watching the finale with my whole family and my grandparents at their home.
Come to think of it, that was back in the days when it seemed like we regularly visited my grandparents home. Once Papa died, Grandma let the house absolutely go to hell. It took months to clean it and rehab it to even get ready to for it’s sale in 1999. My grandmother never learned to ever drive a car (despite the driving lessons her daughters purchased for her as a gift in the 1980’s.) but she refused to learn. She also smoked nearly 4 packs of cigarettes a day.
With Lifegroup tomorrow night, it may be hard to pull me away from Family Ties. That’s always a DVD of a season I’ve wanted to pick up and watch over and over.
Now, I am watching this fantastic show. Nothing like ALF or Family Ties, or any sitcom:
Intervention on A&E.
This show always pulls at my heartstrings. But since I’ve only had cable again for the 33 days I’ve lived in this apartment, it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it.
This episodes profiles a guy from her in LA. He lives and spends his time at the freeway off ramp panhandling to survive. He is a heroin addict and shoots up eight times per day. He has admitted that all of his veins are shot and “Houdini’d”(where they sink deep into the muscle to protect themselves from being poked all the time) So, he’s started shooting directly into the muscle, which has hardened and stiffened all his muscles. He’s even shot into his own neck to get a hit. His whole family wants to try to save him.
I wonder if I’ve even passed this guy.
In a weird way, this hits home for me. Because I see a homeless person at every freeway off ramp that I exit at nearly every single day. How many of them are addicted and just trying to make it thru the day? I am guilty that so often I don’t even want to look at them. I feel anger at them. Instead of spending all day in the hot sun, they can’t attempt to get a job to support themselves? They really think panhandling is a good way to provide for their own needs? How do they expect me to support them when I can barely take care of what *I* need when I work a legitimate job and pay taxes?
Your cat hates Alf.