Once upon a time Charming and Snow White....WHAT!!!!

So heeeeeeerrreeee we go rant!

Netflix has many tv shows available and true to my binging nature I've been watching through most of them. One show that is very popular is "Once Upon A Time". This show is all about fairy tale characters in the real world and magic and intrigue and dirty secrets and all that jazz.

Sound cool right?

That's what I thought. So I tried watching and getting into it about a year or so ago but then I just found myself really not liking it. More than just not being interested. I really didn't like it. At that time I didn't explore the reason behind it and just stopped watching the show. Well, I tried to get back into this year and I got a little farther than I did the first time I watched it. But then again, I hit a point where I just had to stop watching. I realized the reason behind it though and thus the rant on my blog.

So the whole show is about twoo wuv.

The writers come up with interesting twists with show that not all the good guys have true love and that the bad guys can have true love too. Fascinating right?

....Until the "Oh. I'm going to leave my wife because I'm not truly in love with her." And "It's ok for us to have an affair because we just can't stay away from each other because its true love."

THAT'S the Snow White story? If you get bored with your wife cheat on her til you find your "true love"?

...um. No.

But its ok on the show because in the magic world they were actually married so in the curse he was just married to the other girl because the evil queen made it that so its all ok right? Because it was never real? it was never true love?

I say again. No.

Then we have good old Rumpelstiltskin. Fascinating character who is able to play both sides and really begs the question: is he good/is he bad? Great writing there.

Until of course they hit the second season and find out that his wife left him for Captian Hook because Hook was just so much hotter right? Oh what and he was more interesting. Not like a son or a family could tempt her to be loyal no. It took adventure and jewels and extravagance to tame her heart. But its ok right because it was twoo wuv.

 Excuse me while I go throw up.

NO! Really people? We are condoning cheating and disloyalty with two completely misunderstood and over used words!

True love does not inspire someone to break a loyalty. True love does not inspire secrecy. True love definitely does not inspire some one to run off and hurt so many people in order to fulfill their selfish desires.

True Love is not about yourself.

So there is my number one issue with the show. And then here came the second one.

Elsa.

So, Frozen is a recent Disney movie (and it was a good movie don't get me wrong) but now they're putting her on the show. Here is my issue with that.

At first I thought that the show would be an interesting contrast to the Disney movies to show different settings or takes on the same fairy tales. Until of course I realized that ABC has a deal with Disney to use the Disney characters, not just the characters from the stories. I realized this when they stuck Mulan in there.

Really? (Personally I think they lost out on the chance to bring in Shang, who would have been a totally kick butt awesome character but that's just me)

But after I get over the fact that they are using Mulan, who is pretty cool, I see that they are ADVERTISING their use of Elsa in the new season.

So let's just forget the fact that every episode they've got about four story lines anyway, which can get pretty annoying and confusing. Oh, and forget about the fact that they have AN ARMY of characters. In fact they had so many characters they just randomly drop some in the middle of the season.

No. They're not worried about story. They are worried about keeping their Disney audience.

Elsa wasn't even the Snow Queens name in the original story! Seriously?

ABC isn't worried about giving us a good story, they are worried about shoving as many Disney characters as they can through the show so that they can pull in the viewers and the money.

So at that point I washed my hands. I am done. What I thought was going to be an original, interesting, swashbuckling series turned out to be nothing other than a magic excuse of a grownup Disney reality show.

Disclaimer: Seeing as how I am not turning this in for a grade, I do not expect to be judged on my use of grammar. A blog is an emotional out burst or family update. A blog is not an academic paper. I do not expect for it to be treated as such.

I'm not passive aggressive at all.

We Do Hard Things

Life is hard.

Many times I look at myself and the mistakes that I make and think "Really? I just did that?" Other times I look at my failures and think "Why can't I do this? I'm a strong person. I am capable. I should be able to do this no problem. This should be easy."

Lies.

Life is HARD.

Most of the time when people ask me if playing the harp is hard I say "Not really" because I've been doing it so long that I can't really tell if it is difficult. But then I played in a concert this past weekend with a harp score that I really struggled with. Finally I had to look at it and say "This is HARD" not "I can't do it".

And I did it.

I just spent the last week without my husband. I look at other women who's husbands are deployed or in training for months. My husband was gone for ten days. In comparison what I went through was easy-peasy. But life isn't comparison. This is the first time my husband and I have been separated since we have been married. This was my first real experience without my husband. And it was HARD.

I couldn't go to sleep until 2:30am most nights because its odd trying to sleep without him there. I had to beg attention from friends and family because I had no one to talk to in those dull moments in between responsibilities (and some of those were long moments). One morning I actually got scared to go grocery shopping.

Who gets scared to go grocery shopping?

I did.

But you know what?

I did it any way.

My husbands training is very difficult. I cannot explain it because I myself do not understand or know everything he goes through. All I know is that when he walks in the door he looks ragged and worn and I know he's been through some very tough situations.

But he did it.

We do hard things. Life will always be hard. And what may be easy for some people is hard for others. We should not compare our lives with others because we all have different challenges. I can look at other army wives and say "My challenges are nothing compared to yours." Or, I can look at my own life and say "This was hard for me, but I did it. And I can do more."

I can look at others and admire what they go through. At the same time I can look at myself and admire what I go through.

This isn't about saying "My life is harder than yours". That is possibly the most selfish thing any one could say to another person. That statement invalidates someones life and all of the challenges that they ever have, are or will go through. Our trials should not be a source of pride to hold above other people to prove that we are strong.

I need no ones approval but God's, my own and my husbands.

We do hard things.

But we still do them.

I am proud of you.