I have an embarrassing habit. It’s very PG, so get your mind out of the gutter.
When I have time to myself in the morning, I watch a popular teen-TV series on Netflix. (OK, so a couple.) I don’t just sit around, watching random shows all day. I just work-out to them before my kids wake up. We don’t have a treadmill or a fancy Elliptical machine. Just my running shoes, some free weights and Netflix. Very 1980’s of me, I know. But it’s how I sweat when I don’t have time to hit the pavement or a Pilates class. I do some Jane Fonda-style moves and burn calories before anyone wakes up. (Running in place, leg lifts, planks, etc.) Yes, I may sound like an octogenarian in a leotard, but it helps me stay in shape. Sometimes, I have only 25 minutes to spare, but 25 minutes of “feeling the burn” is better than nothing, right?
After so many mini-workout sessions to the teen show……(and here’s where I whisper-yell like that woman in St. Elmo’s Fire)…..Gossip Girl… I’ve figured out that I have some questions that other fellow GG fans can understand.
Please note that I realize how pathetic I am for watching this show. I get that I’m in my 40s. But the story line is so addicting, it helps me forget that I’m burning calories. And so do the shoes and handbags! Hey, we all have shameless habits. I don’t smoke or do drugs. I work out to Gossip Girl. Sue me.
Questions that I find myself pondering as I’m running to Gossip Girl:
1) Someone please tell me, when do Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen have time to work out? B probably weighs 95 pounds in the rain.
2) I never see them getting out of the shower or blow drying their own hair. Do you?
3) When do they have time to style their hair and make it look professionally blown out?
4) Does private school in Manhattan start at 10 a.m.? How else can they be dressed from head to toe in Versace (with a matching headband) and manage to beat morning traffic?
5) How is it that the same day someone decides to throw a party, everyone miraculously shows up at 7 p.m.? (On a school night!) It takes me weeks, sometimes months to plan something with my girlfriends!
6) Besides Carrie Bradshaw, who has that many cocktails dresses? With coordinating designer shoes? (That aren’t straight from the sale rack? Oh, the horror!) I would probably repeat the same dress 10 times in one year, (mixing up the shoes and jewelry, of course)…and this alone would land me smack on the cover of Gossip Girl!
7) Besides Don Draper and his Mad Men cohorts, who really drinks scotch in the middle of the day? Or two glasses of cognac and can still stand after a “last-minute” white party on Blair’s terrace?
8) How does Lily Bass have the strength to wear diamond dangling earrings when all she consumes are crumbs of Rufus’s waffles, an occasional spoonful of yogurt or three glasses of champagne?
9) When exactly did Serena…develop? Age 12? Honey, I’m still waiting for mine to come in!
10) How can Chuck Bass run his father’s multi-billion dollar empire? Didn’t he just graduate from high school?
11) How can a college student go from interning for ONE day to being promoted at a top fashion magazine? Especially after she got fired? Excuse me, but I don’t recall her even taking a writing test!
12) When will Lily stop looking so put-together? She wakes up looking like she’s ready for the opera. Never do I see her in a t-shirt and yoga pants.
(Let alone Wellies and comfy leggings, which just so happens to be what I’m wearing right now as I sit in a café venting all of this out on my laptop.)
You know you “get” me, moms…XOXO – Jackie
Jennifer / Multiple Realities Blog said:
I’ve never seen Gossip Girl either. But I am completely up to date with Pretty Little Liars. I watch it every Wednesday on my laptop (because we don’t have cable). Seriously. And I have the same question about their Rosewood high school starting at 10AM!
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Jackie said:
Jennifer, you rock. I watch PLL too sometimes too…on NETFLIX! Too funny. I honestly think these people go to school at 10 a.m. Who eats a hot breakfast in a cute outfit without having some sort of panic attack about a missing thermus??! And we haven’t had cable in about six years! Isn’t it the best??!!
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Kristin Wheeler (@MamaLuvsBooks) said:
I’ve never seen it!! =)
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Jackie said:
Kristin, No way!!! For realz? So, what tv show is your guilty pleasure?? 😃
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Jane - MomGenerations.com said:
Can you believe I’ve never seen an episode of Gossip Girl!? Believe me, I have plenty of “guilty pleasure” shows in my tv-watching line-up, though! These questions had me cracking up, though. Just taking one look at the photo you posted of the characters, I can see where all your hilarious questions come from! Love your writing, Jackie!
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Jackie said:
Jane, no way! You might want to start watching it during late-night feedings come February! xo Thank you for your sweet comment love. Always… XO
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Chelley / AisForAdelaide said:
Hysterical. I love the wellies… in fact, I’d rather a pair of those than Versace heels anyday!
I love crap shows on Netflix- they make the morning workout all that much more worth it (getting rid of those chicken wings while drowning in Dawson’s Creek 🙂 )
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Hannah said:
But have you seen bogs!!! You must get these boots next. Anti gossip girl, but awesome.
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Jackie said:
I love Bogs!!! 😉
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Shell said:
Sounds very indulgent- perfect for a work out! OK, so I have never seen this show- but now I am definitely going to watch it!
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Hannah said:
Okay, I am on SEASON TWO and it was either read the bolg post on GG or watch GG. I think I’ll do both 🙂
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Katey said:
LOL! love this post! LOVE GG! I was also upset when it ended!! 😦
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Jackie said:
Katey – thank you. I love your site by the way! I have had various forms of withdrawal through the years (kids growing up too fast, trying to give up chocolate for 24 hours, etc.) and I have to say GG ending is up there. 😉
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Jessica @ Keeping Mommy Sane said:
Loving this!!!Here’s my GG question: What the heck was the point of the Nate character (besides being some eye candy)??? Either way, this is how I feel about SOAP Network reruns about Beverly Hills, 90210 (the old-school series, not the reboot). I think I hear a 90210 post calling my name 🙂
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Jackie said:
Jessica – You CRACK me up. Why bother having NATE on the show? I’ve pondered this very question many times, while watching his Mcdreamy eyes.,,,uhm what? 🙂 He was a bit meh. And poor Vanessa. She was gorgeous, but her character was a little meh too.
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Heather @ Kraus House Mom said:
First of all let me say how DEVASTATED, absolutely DEVASTATED I was when Gossip Girl ended. I think I might have pouted for a month. Second, how long do they get for lunch since they’re always on the steps of the Met and last, anything is possible if you have a Darota.
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Jackie said:
Ah, yes, DAROTA! She is the queen of queen B! That is HOW! Hugs, Heather. (I was DEVASTATED TOO.) 🙂
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When the Kids Go To Bed said:
Hilarious yet again Jackie! It still baffles me that on every show I watch everyone is all put together in the morning and eating a hot breakfast at the table…no one is yelling, “I told you to get your shoes on, we’re going to be late!!!!”
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Jackie said:
Sheri – Thank you, lady! OMgoodness, so true! Every morning, they sit idly eating hot waffles and an aisle worth of fresh produce in their pearls! They NEVER rush or panic while looking for that missing shoe!
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