Pegleg Starfish

That’s right.  If you don’t watch LOST, I really don’t think that we can be friends.  We most likely wouldn’t have anything in common, and therefore we’d have nothing to talk about.  Sure, we could talk about the weather or our pets, but eventually we’d run out of meaningless things to say.  I’d tell you to have a nice day, but deep down I’d be telling myself how lame you were because you aren’t a fan of the greatest TV show ever. 

I haven’t always been a LOST fan.  I didn’t start watching it until it was in it’s third season.  If you actually watch LOST, you know that it is not the type of show that you can just start watching in the middle of the third season.  Truthfully, I watched the first two seasons on DVD so I could catch up.  I have to blame this waste of my life on T.  We had always said that LOST was a stupid show and too complicated and unrealistic to waste our time watching.  We had more important things to watch, like Wife Swap.  T’s Mom was a fan from the very beginning and every now and then we’d catch a few minutes of some random episode.  We just told her how stupid it was, and that we wouldn’t enjoy watching it.  Polar bears in the jungle?  Come on! 

But…then we moved to Houston.  We didn’t (and still don’t) have any friends to hang out with.  No family to go visit.  And you can really only spend so much time surfing the Internet.  Life was pretty boring.  And then…T had to go to Germany for a long time (like 3 months?).  I missed him terribly and cried for a week straight after he up and left me in the scarily huge city all by myself.  I was pretty pissed.  I never left the apartment except to go to work (at a job that I had just started), rent movies, and get fast food.  And I don’t care how much you love someone, talking to them on the phone just plain sucks.  I don’t really like talking on the phone period, but talking to T got old after a while.  “How was work today?  Oh, work was good.”  What did you do today?  How’s the weather?  Do you miss me?”  Once in a while we would have phone sex, but for the most part the conversation was pretty dull.  

Then one evening, T called me from his tiny little hotel room.  He had big news!  “I started watching LOST online.”  WHAT!  LOST, that stupid show your Mom watches?”  T replies, “Yeah, it’s pretty cool-you might like it.”  And that ended our existance in society for the next couple months.  T sat in his tiny German hotel room watching poor quality episodes of LOST.  I sat in our lonely Houston apartment watching LOST on DVD.  Hours upon hours upon hours were spent trying to watch the first two seasons.  There were like 22 episodes per season! 

Suddenly, we had something to talk about on the phone!  It was amazing.  We would discuss what we liked or didn’t like about certain charachters.  Talk about the craziness of the plot.  Express our shock when something interesting happened.  There’s nothing like sharing the love of a television show to spark good conversation. 

But for all you non LOST fans out there.  Don’t worry!  There’s hope.  We used to listen to people talk about LOST and how awesome it was and think, “Those people must not have anything better to do than watch that stupid show.”  But we were converted after the first ten minutes of the first episode.  We were so obsessed with the show that we would watch upwards of like 5 episodes a day.  We couldn’t watch it fast enough.  When I finally caught up with T and we were on the same episode I made him stop watching until I came to visit him in Germany.  I was lucky enough to have a free trip to Germany for a week to visit him, thanks to his company.  You’d think that we would spend our time doing what German tourists do.  Exploring the city, sampling native cuisine, blah blah blah.  Well we did do some of that, but we also watched a lot of LOST on his laptop.  How sad is that?  We were together in another country and we were laying on a bed watching LOST.  Hmm…  But to tell the truth, the city he was in was pretty boring in my opinion.  And the food wasn’t all that great.  And the Diet Coke tasted funny.  It was cold.  It was rainy.  No one spoke English.  Am I complaining?  I love traveling really, but Celle, Germany is pretty dull.  So our first ever trip to another country was taken up by LOST.  And we were OK with that.  

The reason I bring this up is because the LOST hiatus is over.  Stupid writers strike jacked up the season right in the middle.  But it’s back baby and DANG was this weeks episode good!  Thank god it’s back, because T and I were running out of things to talk about again. 

Here’s my favorite charachter and my secret boyfriend:

Here’s T’s favorite charachter and his secret girlfriend:

Too bad they are both DEAD! 

Just kidding! 

I promise not to blog about LOST too much, but it really saved our long distance relationship.  If it weren’t for LOST, T and I would  still be talking about the weather.  Go rent the DVD of Season 1 and take a month off of work and try to catch up.  Then you too, will be hip and cool like me.  And maybe we can be friends again. 

J