Washing Grey's, do you need a separate load?

Blog 23/5/12

And so the second week with no washing machine continues and my pile of dirty clothes grows bigger and bigger. We've been doing had washes every so often but when it takes four days for things to dry, you just get sick of looking at panties and socks drip drying everywhere.

Luckily the weather seems to be turning warmer, so I don't need as many layers as usual, but still, it's a freakin' ball ache.  A guy came to look at it last week, was there for like two minutes, tested the motor, said we needed a new one and that hopefully we'd have it by this week. Of course we haven't even heard if they've got the part yet, let alone if they're free to fit it. Bloody indesit!

Do they really think we can last much longer. I was just lucky that I'd managed to get all my jeans washed after the holiday, but I am wearing them repeatedly and just hoping I don't get paint all over them. Ha. In my job that's near impossible. I just walk near the creative area and suddenly there's some on my elbow, a swipe across my hand. It's bizarre. I'm a paint magnet.

Anyhoo, we might have to send off to one of those washing services or go to a laundrette, which is weird. I ain't never been to a laundrette in my life. I hope it's not like the one in Eastenders. Eek. I think that's where my negative view of laundrettes comes from. (not that I've seen Eastenders in about the last 7 years, but I seem to remember it being a pretty drab place, with dot cotton and Pat Butcher and all the rest of it. Eeshk. I'm not on board with that.) Or perhaps Indesit will get off their lazy arses, order the damn part and sort us out.  My parents are coming at the weekend for God's sake. I'll be lucky if we've got clean sheets and towels for them. Urgh!

Anyway, enough about my lack of clean clothes........I am a huge fan of Grey's Anatomy. I love it. I think it's really well written, the character explorations are fantastic and yes it's uber depressing, which I LOVE! But yesterday, they plummeted hugely in my estimations and I actually wished the whole cast were killed off.

We're watching Series 7 and I don't want to spoil it too much for people that are fans and haven't got that far yet (I think on normal TV - as in, not sky - they are only up to season 5. Though I must add we don't have sky, I just have an extremely intelligent boyf who can figure out how to get US netflix. Genius.) So yeah, I won't spoil it but just to say one of the main characters gets herself into a right tizz. Her life is literally hanging in the balance. Shock. I know. The build up was incredible, but then she starts having this out of body experience and starts singing. Yes, Singing.

So A and I are like......right. But surely it won't continue. Oh but it does, throughout the entire episode. And this is cringe worthy stuff. Not only is she singing but all the other doctors, whilst treating her, are singing. And Badly!! I know I'm a musical snob, but music degree and ex-singer means I can be as snobbish as I want towards other singers. I'm sorry that's just the law.

So, most of it was auto tuned, but it was the bits where they didn't even bother auto tuning it that were making me want to turn it off. And believe me, I never want to turn a Grey's off. It reminded of the time Joss Whedon did the musical episode in Buffy. It's just cringe worthy television and unnecessary. (N.B. Also massive fan of Buffy! Whoop! But was never impressed with the musical episode.)

But what was riling me up even more was the fact that it ended up completely ruining the subject matter. Their friend and colleague was dying before their very eyes and they were leaping around singing freakin' Snow Patrol and loads of other songs that had featured in Grey's over the years. It felt like it was almost poking fun at the situation and that made me really angry. But the worst one was when they were singing about the summer of their life (or something, you know what I'm like with recent music. I live in the past.) and they were all essentially fuckin' their prospective partners and rejoicing at how lucky they were, whilst their friend was dying in the next room. Lovely!

A stopped watching half way through and I started writing my report for my manager about our trip to the science museum. It was way more fun. Oh yeah, and after all that crap, unnecessary singing and probably the most cringe worthy forty five minutes I'd experienced in a long time, she didn't even die. Bloody hell!

It really changed my view on Grey's. Let's just hope they NEVER, EVER do that again.

But if you enjoy a bit of cringe worthy television, please check it out. I'm sure there's probably a snippet or two on YouTube or something, if you don't have access to the actual episode. You will wish the character dead. I know I did. (It's only a character, it's not like I'm wishing the actress dead, though it did feel like it was some sort of launch into singing for her as she was the only one with a decent enough voice. God, I hope not. Stick to acting love, you're usually pretty good at it.)

I'm hoping the next episode will be back to it's usual depressing sound track and combination of comedy, relationship crap and bizarre medical emergencies, or I may have to give up on it.

Enough Helen. Enough. You've winged long enough.

And what about this weather, Britain? Nice hey? Don't get your hopes up, it'll probably be raining again at the weekend.

Ha, Happy Wednesday. Middle of the week already. Whoop!