Air it out

I have some thoughts that I would like to get off my chest. And since my husband is nowhere to be found (i.e. somewhere on the ICU floor of St. Vincent's Hospital), and since Noelle is napping, I am just going to air it out right here.

1) I find Jennifer Hudson's weight loss via Weight Watchers to be incredible. However, her obnoxious, exaggerated rendition of "Feeling Good" on the commercial really, really annoys me. I mean...wasn't she an Idol reject?

2) The amount of celebrities getting pregnant lately is super annoying-- not because they aren't allowed, but because 90% of them are not married and are continuing to glamorize unwed pregnancy. In the real world, you don't have enough money to pay for 3 nannies, expensive baby equipment, and the best health insurance. It is hard enough to do it married...let alone by yourself. In the real world, no one has a camera in your face taking a picture of how fabulous you look 35 weeks pregnant and how equally amazing you look 2 weeks after having a baby. Why? Because normal people DON'T look that fabulous and no one cares about you...obviously. Things happen...people get pregnant...but I just don't understand why we continue to make it appear to be the easiest thing in the world to bear a child and then raise a good human being...when it clearly is the most difficult, challenging, (albeit rewarding) experience responsibility you could ever take on. And...no matter how much MTV tries to steer girls away from teen pregnancy by showing the hardships these girls on Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant face each day, they still can't deny paying these girls $280,000 per season and giving them the avenues to wind up on the covers of magazines. Not normal. Not fair. Not helping the situation at all.

3) I am really astonished at how many people my age are going through or have gone through a divorce. I learned of three couples who have called it quits just last night in one dinner with a friend. For one girl, this will be her 2nd divorce...and she is my age. What's the issue? Are we really getting married too young and then simply growing up and growing apart? Are we getting married for the wrong reasons? Are we not well-versed in communication skills? Are we allowed to give up too easily in other areas of life and then it just translates over to the marriage? I also wonder if maybe this is a side effect of my generation growing up with a lot more divorced parents than the generations before us. Of course there are situations that arise that definitely warrant filing for divorce. I am not trying to say you should stick it out at all costs, no matter what, but I am just overwhelmed with sadness as I can still see the couples' wedding pictures floating around on Facebook...and they seemed so happy. What happened between then and now?

OK. I feel better.