A Year In Pictures Following The Break-Up

I love television. Sure, most of it's crap, but when done well, I enjoy nothing more than a good serialized story. Still, when May hits I'm glad that most of my shows will be done for a while, and I won't have to keep up with quite so much television.

The same goes for this blog. With less than a month left, I'll be sad to see it go, but I'm also ready for a break. A hiatus, at least.

I get asked a lot how it's going to end. I don't know. Nick suggests it should end with me selling the ring.

If this were a television show, it would probably end like most season finales, with either a cliffhanger or a wedding. Maybe N would be getting married. That would be a nice ending. As she walks out of the church, and bubbles fill the air, she drops her cane. She's cured! No more MS!

And there would be a slightly bittersweet but mostly hopeful music montage of all the people who have appeared on the blog this year. Josh and Andrea raising Josh's brother in Arizona. Brett feeling a kick from Natasha's belly. My parents share an appetizer sampler platter at Cheddars. The Teenage Prayers and the 1900s play a double bill. Meador gets a tattoo of a centaur punching an asteroid. Bella, the cat who might have diabetes, eats bravely from a cat dish. Grandma Anne coldcocks Uncle Kenny and jumps on a riding lawnmower with Wentworth Miller to make her escape. Zach the Nad changes his IM handle to something more reasonable. Everyone lives where they want to live.

As the music swells, I step out of my apartment building and past the Mini Flea (which is packed with customers) and look up as a plane flies by. I smile. It's a good day. I cough a little into my handkerchief (I don't have a handkerchief, but go with it). I look at it. There is blood.

BOOM! Cliffhanger! See you in the fall.

# posted by Arnie : 6:44 PM