I stopped watching Extreme Home Makeover earlier this year. Turned it on tonight because I’m sick of my movies atm and there’s nothing else on. And then I remembered why I stopped watching the show: it’s emotionally draining. I’m an emotional wuss to begin with but when the first five minutes of a TV show have you sobbing uncontrollably maybe it’s time to pop in a movie – any movie. Jeesh.<\/p>\n
To be fair this one was about a father and his three girls, and the young mother died of a pulmonary embolism and the father found her dead in their bedroom, alone, and the oldest child (6 years old) kept crying and ugh, I was a goner. My mom’s death hit me hard just then. Pulmonary embolism. Dying alone. And I’m a goner again.<\/p>\n
So now I’m watching something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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