TV-land

I've been watching North American TV in the evenings here at the cottage and I have to say that I am appalled at the of the adverts sposnored by the drug companies. For 30 seconds they try to promote some new drug, but 12 seconds out of the 30 is taken up with warnings of risk and possible side effects. 'Lunestra', a sleeping pill, was the most amusing, with warnings to "be in bed" when taking it. The untold story here is that if you take it standing up - you'll fall over like a ton of bricks a few seconds later. You could be anywhere, doing anything at the time. I could see Orest coming into the kitchen the following morning finding me with my head firmly lodged in the refridgerator, with the rest of me sprawled behind. Pretty strong stuff! Some of the other drug adverts are plain scary. When you hear "possible liver damage" or "anal leakage may occur", would that induce anyone to take these things?
Another major difference in television over here is the timing of the commercials. In London, I'm able to load the dishwasher or make myself a drink during the breaks. Here, I've just gotten up from the sofa and the program's started already.So the dishes have suffered, because the soap keeps caking on before I have a chance to rinse them during the break. I'm sure by the end of the summer, I'll have this licked. Or, worse still, I'll get it so speeded up that I'll have to sit through more advertisement crap in London. Horrors!
The girls have been out of camp for a full week and for one reason or another we've stayed at the cottage the whole time. This has made staying clean a bit more difficult, due to the amount of unwashed clothes around here. Already, I've been forced to do a laundromat run and purchase new knickers at Walmart to save having to launder them all again.
We've had lots of visitors - Marta, Peter (my bro) and Tom. We've also had a chance to reconnect with lots of friends whose kids are at the camp: Zaraskas, Dmytryshyns, Kos's and Dubczaks for example. But it's transient in nature and eventually we all have to go back to the city, for work, or in my case, clean clothes.