She plays the MOM now!?

As someone who's high school evenings were spent basking in the birth of the teen prime time drama, I can honestly say my evenings are STILL spent basking in prime time teen dramas.

While I am writing this blog, I am re-watching Veronica Mars. Love this show from beginning to end. Yes, it's over 10 years old, (Kristen Bell is still adorable today), yet I don't feel old watching it. Not a guilty pleasure, but an all around great tv show.

However, I do feel old, and guilty, while partaking in Tuesday evening high drama with Pretty Little Liars. This show, while fun, highly dramatic, and inane at times, makes me feel like I am 190 years old. Need some reasons why? Here are just a few.

1) The actors are all in their late 20's and playing teenagers. (Not unlike Steve and Andrea on the original 90210) And I'm STILL 10-14 years older than their real ages.

2) What 90210 and Melrose Place had in common was their definitive 90's vibe. People harassed each other in person and on a kitchen phone. Now it's all cyber stalking. So easy to harass from miles away behind a computer screen. Kimberly Shaw would have loved that.

3) (The kicker) The women I loved on TV in the 90's and early 2000's were people like Laura Leighton as crazy badass Sydney Andrews on Melrose Place, Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell on Charmed. (And of course Shannen Doherty straddled both realities). I also adored Lisa Rinna on Days of our lives, Melrose Place, and Veronica Mars. What do these people all have in common?  They are now the MOTHERS on Pretty Little Liars or Real Housewives on Bravo. When did we become the age of the parents?!

I know time is said to "fly" but I feel like I have aged as fast as the the Concorde flew. ANOTHER reference to make me feel old.

What's next? I'll be 50 and flipping through channels to see that the children of the MTV Teen Moms are now preteen moms? Masterchef Senior Citizen? The girls from Pretty Little Liars are grandparents of the Little Pretty Little Liars? The Muppet Babies are Muppet Ghosts?

After seeing bad news after bad news, or hearing negativity all around me, I've decided that I'm too old for bullshit. I've tried cutting negative people out of my life, switching jobs to one that not only satisfies me, but helps others. I'm even researching a welcoming church where I can re-explore my relationship with a higher power. I guess with age comes even more desire to learn about ourselves and find more ways to be happy. Just in different, more well rounded and important ways than we did when we were younger.

So I've decided to embrace my 90's self and enjoy being the age of the prime time parents. However, I'm still going to watch my teen dramas. At least when their hour of overreaching dramatics have come to a close, I can shut off the tv. Now I just need to work on shutting off the TV of dramatics in my life.

By the way, Steve Sanders is REALLY the only one who can save us from tornadoes full of sharks? Who knew the curly mullet in Z. Cavaricci high waisted pants and a silk shirt would come so far?

Until next time....same Pat time...same Pat channel. Oh crap...that's even older!