Oprah, Nate and Surprises

Oprah is surprising someone in her audience - someone gets to take home Nate, cutey-pie designer Nate.  One lady is crying just at the mention of it.  Of course, I know what it's like to be surprised by Oprah and to feel like crying.  I felt like crying when I just got to see her live and she shook my hand.  Imagine how I felt when it was a give away show.  These surprise shows are easier to take now that I've actually had one.  It has lessened that gnawing feeling of "why isn't that me?"  Don't get me wrong.  It's still there.  TO have Oprah surprise me personally, now that is a dream.  

Oh gosh, not another skyper.  Well, it's kind of like having a surprise camera there.  At least this is part of the show.  Husband going to get a wife out of bed for Oprah to surprise her.  AWESOME! There is the wife,  Stephanie, and she is crying and yeah, I am too.  Just a little bit.  Oprah sent someone else to start the redecoration process and is going to finish by the end of the show.  It ended up looking pretty great for one hour's worth of work.  Not looking so great...the wife.  After the hour, she still looked exactly the same as when her husband got her out of bed.  I would have gotten myself so gussied up in that hour, you'd think it was my wedding day.  But that's just me.

Nate also finished Princess Fannie's home.  She lost it in Hurricane Katrina and had been living in a FEMA trailer.  Well Nate fixed that too, and he gave Fannie a gorgeous new home.  It even brought Oprah to tears.  And no one does it like Nate.  Love the surprises, O.  Keep it up!

UPDATE

Oprah said she has received the most vile and hateful emails of her life.  Why? All the child predators are mad at her for Monday's show.  Oprah shined the light of truth on their perverted and filthy ways and they are upset with her and her viewers.  That's right, we the viewers did not shy away from that difficult subject and we took action.  We stood up for children everywhere and let our senators know we want the PROTECT OUR CHILDREN ACT passed.  Since Monday, the bill has 27 new co-sponsors, democrat and republican.  340,000 plus have gone to Oprah.com to help fight for our children!  If you haven't, there's still time.  Don't wait.  Act now.  Tell all your friends to do that too.  I did and I know that my friends responded.

  One pervert wrote Oprah and said he's organizing his on line friend and he has 9,000 of them and they are all raping children.  If those low-life loser can organize to perpetrate this evil, we should organize to stop them.  Use your voice.  Stand up!

More Cheaters.

Oprah did a show last week with Mr. Neuman.   He wrote a book about why men cheat.  He didn't say it's because they lack the character to remain faithful; but rather that they need attention.  Wives aren't giving their men enough attention and mistresses do.  Hey, we all like attention.  I carry around my own personal spotlight.  It's magnetized to focus on me at all times.  I get that.  I even sort of get Mr. Neuman's point.  Men like to feel validated and cherished: important and special.  We all do.  When men don't feel it, they don't have the wherewithal to not cheat (according to the book; which also said more likely than not men won't tell or admit to cheating, so get a tracking device or an in home lie detector test). 

 Anywhooser, Mr. Neuman is back because woman are, well, irate.  They are sick of taking the blame and giving men excuses.  They are mad that women stand by their infidelity-loving husbands.  They let Oprah know it and she did a follow up show.  Oprah said this is just about trying to understand the why of cheating, not to validate it, and to give tools to make a relationship stronger and make it less likely to be a victim of cheating.  

Oprah is incorporating viewers from home via Skye - I HATE IT.  It's dumb.  It ruins the flow of the show.  We don't want to hear from these people.  Either have them on the show or let them watch at home like the rest of us, without interrupting the flow.  That's off topic, yes, but it's annoying.  And did I mention I HATE IT!  Oprah + Skype = Dumb.  

Back to the show....a husband agrees to take a lie detector test to determine if her husband is faithful.  Oprah reveals the answers on the show.  The man passes.  Pretty anti-climatic.  But hey, this isn't the Montell Williams show.  Oprah does shows about understanding and growing, not  sensationalism.  In the end, the wife gets some relief and Gary Newman says they can move forward.  Yes, they have problems if there is a need for a lie detector test, but it also a good sign because usually a husband will say yes to taking a test if he's not cheating.  

Bottom line: love and appreciate your spouse.  You can give it and then you will also get it back.  It can help in preventing an affair.  Marriage is a lot of work, hard work. Appreciation and validation can go a long way to help in that labor of love.

I Don't Really Want to Blog About This.

Do Something...that's Oprah's message today.  And we should.  Child Pornography and Pedophilia are out of control in this country and need to stop.  People don't want to talk about it.  I don't want to blog about it, but pretending it's not happening also needs to stop.  Screeners at the Center for Missing and Exploited Children spend their days watching child pornography in order to help stop it.  I could never do that job, but they do it because they believe in the mission of rescuing these children and putting the abusers in jail.  The latest trend is live, on demand rape.  I can barely type the words. How can this evil even exist?  Against children?  Against infants?  There's even an instruction booklet on how to molest and rape children, created by on line perverts and passed around to their pervert friends.  Again, this is evil personified.  Like Oprah's audience, my heart is breaking.  But Oprah's not flinching.  The message will be heard and we must respond.  

There's software that provides information on the who and the where, but there aren't enough law enforcers to keep up with the outrageous number of perverts; so their victims can't be rescued.  This internet connection empowers the molesters to continue.  It's a sea of drowning children and only one life boat to save a few.  What about the rest, waiting to be pulled to safety?

If your child is being abused, it's probably by someone he or she knows.  That's right, fathers are raping their own children and posting it on the internet.  Right in your own neighborhood. As Oprah says, stranger danger right in your neighborhood, right in your home.  

Oprah's action plan.  Legislation called Protect Our Children.  Let's get the funding behind what is necessary to catch these lowlife predators.  The Act is going before the Congress this month. We can't rescue these children without the money.  Tell the Senate to pass Bill #1738.  We can protect and rescue children and put the molesters behind bars - where they belong, away from other innocents. Go to Oprah.com and click on the link that says pass the PROTECT our children.  Urge your senator to vote yes!!  It's the least you can do for children.  It's something we can all do.  

IT'S A WHOLE NEW SEASON!!

Hi, Oprah Fans! It's that fabulous time of year.  Oprah's back.  Summer vacation (and the Oprah drought it brought us) is over.  Yes, there were some repeats worth catching for a second time over the summer months.  I even blogged about some of them.  Most noteworthy, of course, was the Favorite Things for Summer show.  It brought many fans a second round of pure joy to witness Oprah's generosity and watch her crazed audience leap from excitement and happiness.  Go to youtube for a hysterical video, if you want more....it's called OPRAH FREE STUFF.  

Anyway, back to this season.  Oprah on Monday welcomed our Olympic heroes.  All of them.  That's right - all of them.  Only Oprah.  And news flash- Michael Phelps: still amazing.  

Tuesday, Oprah brought back Charice, a talented teen who sang on her show and was reviewed on this blog.  Oprah was so impressed by Charice that she got David Foster, music guru, to help Charice.  Foster has worked with a few wannabes like Whitney, Barbara, Celine.  Celine Dion even surprised Charice and invited the young teen to sing with her.  It was all very emotional and all very Oprah.  She can make dreams come true.  It was also a show to launch Oprah's search for talented kids....so we'll see who else will have dreams realized via our gal, OW.  

Hopefully I will be watching Wednesday's and Today's show and blogging about them soon.  I will keep you posted.  I'm excited for a new season of Oprah.  Well, who isn't??