January 3, 2005

  • I have to mention one more time that I love the show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".  The episode last night was really touching, in that the recipient family consisted of two deaf parents, a fourteen-year-old son, and a younger son who was born blind and diagnosed with autism.  The father worked on a car assembly line, and the mother worked with deaf people.  The show this week hooked the family up with necessities to help their autistic child develop and make the lives of the whole family easier, including video monitors so that they can sign to each other, computers that print in braille, a tracking device in case their youngest wanders out of the house, fire alarms that have flashing strobe lights, and even a $50,000 scholarship for the fourteen-year-old, who has taken on a role of interpreting for each member of the family his whole life.  It's an amazing thing.


    During the show, there were commercials for "The Bachelorette" and the featured bachelorette said that it's so hard to date all of those guys at the same time, but she'll do it to find the person she's supposed to spend her whole life with.  It's like hard core speed dating.  Maybe that's the right concept though.  Maybe we do have to go through a lot of people to find the one with whom we'll be truly happy.  Then again, I can think of a couple of couples who in their first relationship have found marital bliss.  So again, we come to the age old answer of "It depends".  It depends on the people, the circumstances, the time.