Low-maintenance or high maintenance??

--Okay, have been watching some of the morning-afternoon shows, which is perhaps part of the problem. So I've been watching Martha, Rachael Ray, (though her perkiness is way irritating) and other assorted chat shows. By the by, am stunned by how crappy some of the local ones are. Do I really need to see an interview with the character actress who's playing one of characters of Seussical the Musical? No, I do not. So, Martha was talking about the new looks for men's wear in Fall as well as how to hand-wash sweaters. She also gave men tips on romantic stuff to do for women, which I'm not opposed to, as some times there is much cluelessness going on. However, while I'm watching this, I reach the conclusion that I've never had sweaters that required hand-washing, I've never paid that much for jeans and I don't want fresh-squeezed o.j. in the morning. Coffee, yes, o.j. no. Was watching Ellen and she was talking with Dustin Hoffman who made the coffee when he got up at 4:30 a.m.(????) and how he gave it to his wife when she had to get up. I could cope with that.
--Over on Rachael Ray's upbeat central, she's talking about beauty and how people are becoming wicked obsessed with it. One girl had her first bo-tox injection when she was 26, and wouldn't leave the house without her makeup. I accept that I'm not typical about a lot of this, and perhaps some of this is that I was 26 in 1996, and it wasn't part of my "culture" to do this, but ye gods. I don't know whether the fact that none of my female friends were that concerned with it or what, but I doubt I knew what botox was at 26. I knew what chemical peels were around 26-27, and had my first facial around there. So the things that don't always register on me are more of issues for other women and men. Or so it seems.
--Something which sums up my belief system regarding this. Was washing an Indian tapestry that I'd gotten from WTN and that had come from NY and is what my stereo resides on. As I was setting up the "new" stereo that I'd gotten, I'd figured I should wash it. The tag said, hand wash, and my thought process was as follows: I will be damned if I'm going to wash something that a) I never spent money on and b) that I've never and have no plans on wearing. I washed it and then to de-mustify it, I used some febreze which seems to have cut down on the musty I spent five years in an upstate New York apartment smell. Yay.
--And I got in the mail coupons for Shabu Fondue which I've never tried, though am not opposed to fondue at all. And everytime I hear the name, Shabu, I think of the INXS album, Shabooh Shabaah, which I didn't even have, but one of my roommates did. I think the last fondue I had was in France when I was staying with a family that I knew whose name I have now forgotten. (It was a friend of a friend deal). 'Twas tasty.
--And happy early Turkey day!! Am flighting off to Omaha on Monday, as my namesake is having an 80th birthday celebration. I don't think I've gone anywhere on Thanskgiving for a good 8 years, and the last place I went anywhere was Buffalo which I drove to. I still remember going down the thru-way and blasting the Smiths' Strangeways,Here we Come. And chopping vegetables during the Xena-thon. Good times.