“Chocolate-covered Potato Chips and 90210” for Fandango’s Flashback Friday, Nov 22, 2024

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For Flashback Friday, Fandango has asked us to rerun a blog we published on November 22 of a previous year. Mine is from 2014!

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Chocolate-covered Potato Chips and 90210

Thanks be to God for TV that’s evolved beyond Godzilla.
And thanks to him for frozen cream—both praline and vanilla.
Another pleasure is writing in bed. It’s how I start my day.
With no spouse or kids to feed, it’s where I get to stay.
I know that grandkids would be nice, but still I’m rather grateful
that being childless cuts to nil the chances they’ll be hateful.

Chocolate and potato chips, together or alone
are two more guilty pleasures for which I must atone.
I try to limit quantities that pass between my lips,
for if I eat too many, they’re displayed upon my hips.
Another guilty pleasure that’s high upon my list
is a stupid TV show that somehow I just missed

the first time that it came around and which I must admit
is really superficial, although it was once a hit.
Still, I can’t stop watching it when I am all alone—
a guilty pleasure for which I’ve found ways I can atone.
I only watch it from the pool as I do exercise—
computer balanced within view while I aerobicize.

The show I watch is Beverly Hills Nine-Zero-Two-One-Oh.
And that’s about as far as this confession’s gonna go!
I’m sure I’m shrinking brain cells, but I grow them back again
by reading hours of Marcel Proust, and then Anais Nin!
My ending comment must be this sincere beatitude:
for friends who like me as I am, I have great gratitude.

Guilty for my sins and the excesses that are mine—
grateful for the friends who still insist that I am fine
if I never turn out perfect both in looks and my behavior,
I guess the fact that they’re not perfect either is my savior.
Guiltily and gratefully, we all pass through this life,
pudgy from our excesses and battered by our strife.

But that’s how life is patterned, and we all are lucky still
that of our guilty pleasures we’re allowed to have our fill.
Thanks be to our compulsions and life’s excesses of pleasure,
for all our peccadillos end up as life’s greatest treasure.
So, thanks be again for naughty things. We both love and revile them.
With some of them we stuff our mouths. With others, We just dial them.

3 thoughts on ““Chocolate-covered Potato Chips and 90210” for Fandango’s Flashback Friday, Nov 22, 2024”

  1. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

    Great narrative poem Judy, it says a lot but I never did much watch 90210 because I agree that it was superficial. Like my reading, I feel that there is enough problems and troubles in this world without watching such on TV…..but my “man cave” is decked out with great sound in both my sauna and my hot tub, even with a special place to plug my laptop in the sauna. But great relaxing music is mostly my limit.

    My favorite being either Jazz or classical according to my mood.

    You may have put the idea of a narrative poem of my day into my head, I will do that. Thanks for a helpful hint, everyone should do that. You also may have given me the idea of listening to audio books, and I am going to try that while sitting in the doctors office instead of music. I hope it will make those three hour treatments go faster.

    SAM

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