Showing posts with label soap operas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soap operas. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

It's OK Thursday...

I'm back for another It's Ok Thursday! It's been a frustrating week, but Thursday is here to remind me "it's ok!"

Its Ok Thursdays


It's OK...
To be REALLY annoyed with all of this Kony crap (call me heartless, but I got the message TUESDAY night... You can stop. You can also RESEARCH what you're copy-and-pasting all over the freakin' place).

To be ridiculously tired of the "Waiting Game" in the job search

To take breaks from friends

To take naps when the weather is yucky like today

To be sad that it's about to rain for about 5 days straight

That I have yet to watch a full episode of General Hospital since the Mannings arrived in Port Charles. I just can't seem to connect with anyone outside their current storyline.

That I never know what I want to eat

That when I do know what I want to eat it's wings (I'm on such a wing kick right now, too bad I don't have a boyfriend to be impressed haha)

To think HTML is way too complicated (I've been trying to make a button for my blog for about two days)

That almost all of my "It's OK" is stuff I'm annoyed with, but I guess that's why it's called "It's OK"

What are you telling yourself "It's OK" about this week?

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Hoover Fights Back

So as I'm sure most of you have heard, ABC is canceling two of their soap operas (All My Children and One Life to Live), one of which I happen to be somewhat invested in, thanks unemployment and my mom. Yes, soap operas are somewhat outdated - but how else can I thrive in the drama of others?! Reality TV isn't the same as a good old fashioned scripted drama in the form of day time TV: the soap opera. They're ancient - they were around BEFORE TV, guys. But they have HUGE followings. I personally, really like One Life to Live.


Anyway, Hoover is quite upset about this because their customers are upset. So what are they doing? Pulling their ads from all ABC programming. Can we say AWESOME? If other advertisers do this then this could really make an impact on ABC and they would have to change their minds about the soaps. I'd be much happier with 30 minutes of One Life to Live than none at all.


In addition to pulling their ads from the network, Hoover has set up an e-mail account (mentioned on their facebook page) for the soap lovers to e-mail their feelings and Hoover will make sure ABC receives every single word. It's pretty crazy stuff, but I think it's also pretty awesome.

I guess we'll just have to wait this one out and see if others follow or it blows up in Hoover's face. I hope other advertisers follow in Hoover's footsteps and speak up on behalf of their consumers.

What do you guys think?