Pink cadillac

Today I am wearing a pale pink tank top.

This is a momentous occasion.

I haven't owned anything pink since I was about 12, other than one pair of obnoxious hot pink jeans (with zippers at the ankles!) in grade 9. I hate pink, which is not surprising, considering that until I was 10 I wouldn't wear any other colour (usually in dresses -- I was a supreme girly girl as a kid); I think I overdosed and had to go cold turkey. I have also had a deep-seated belief that pink of all shades looks terrible on me, given the vaguely orange colour of my hair and the pale but often bright red nature of my skin.

But last time I was out shopping with starfishchick, the sales woman at one store brought me a new size of a shirt, and brought it in a pale pink that she swore would look great on me. I laughed and mocked, but tried the shirt on, and it looked...okay. Possibly even good, although I was too scared by the colour to admit that. And then a few weeks later I was in that same store, buying tank tops which I loved but came in very few colours that I could imagine wearing (because it's summer, and I can't wear anything in the stores right now), and after telling myself that there really is a limit to the number of black and various red-like tops that one person can own, I found my hand inching to the pale pink.

I probably stood there for 5 minutes, debating the colour with myself. But the need to own more tank tops won out, and here I am. Of course, I had to balance the sweetness of the pink with a black skirt, black tights, grey and black striped knee high socks, and black Docs. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have made it out the door this morning.

Aggravating Bastard Corporation

I am so annoyed with ABC.

Those of you who aren't Canadian might not know of the glory that is simulcasting, but basically what that means is that Canadian TV stations pick up the rights to American shows, and broadcast them with Canadian ads and Canadian promos etc. If they run them at the same time as the American show, then it covers up the signals from NBC, ABC, etc., which means (among other things) that generally whenever a show runs long in the States, it has a few less commercials here and fits right in the hour, and everyone is happy.

Except.

CTV has Lost at 8, which ends at 9 like it's supposed to, at which point they switch over to Fox for American Idol. None of the Canadian channels has picked up Alias, so we switch back to ABC, getting the overrun of Lost, because ABC is stupid and runs the shows over the hour. (It also means we get two different "Next week on Lost"s, which is interesting, because sometimes they are completely different.) The problem being that this means that Alias also runs long, except that at 10, the New VR comes in and starts simulcasting with ABC, so we miss the last few minutes of Alias EVERY SINGLE TIME.

If the previous part looked too dry and complicated, here is the important bit: The last few minutes of Alias never get aired and it's driving me batty.

And I can't figure out who to complain to, because I'm sure the American ABC affiliate doesn't care if Canada isn't getting the show properly, but there's no Canadian station to complain to because no-one has picked it up! I think I'm going to have to just blame it all on American Idol for existing in the first place, because otherwise CTV would have stuck with Alias like they used to.

Also I taped the wrong channel and missed Gilmore Girls last night, but I really can't blame that on anyone but myself, try though I might.