I just wanted to share that my IF-induced pregdar has officially made me nuts. (As if there was a question before?) I keep predicting fictional characters who are pregnant and then it PISSES ME OFF when I'm right! The final straw? Cathy. Yes, that's right, Cathy the comic strip. I saw this "I'll wrap it all up nicely by making her pregnant in the very last panel of the comic strip" coming from miles away and I was getting angrier and angrier as it got closer. Then, when it happened? I was angry, frustrated, anxious, depressed, sad. (Always fun when reading the Comics.) OK, maybe it's just because I'm about to ovulate and hormonal and I'm overreacting just a tad (ya think?), but it just pissed me off that the only way that she could see to wrap up her life was to have her be pregnant. Oh, thank goodness she didn't have to go on with life without a baby. That would have just been the end of the world. And, G-d forbid her mother would have to live her days without being a grandmother.
(OMG I'm so incredibly jealous of a comic strip!!!)
OK, I suppose I could look at it a different way and think that maybe they had some IF issues -- they've been married a while. Maybe they were trying and not telling anyone? I mean, if your life was presented daily in millions of newspapers would you really want to share that information? And, seriously, she must be a miracle of modern science. If the comic has been out for 34 years and she was probably supposed to be in her 20s when it started then she's almost 60 by now! That's wonderful!
(Possibly I've lost all perspective.)
Seriously? Have I become so bitter that I can't be happy for anyone who gets pregnant? Even in a flippin' comic strip?! Oh dear.
hahaha! I don't want to laugh at you but Rebecca, that is funny. I know the pregdar thing all too well, it blows.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Cathy in years, last I know she was obsessing about her on again off again BF. Easy way out, creatively lame.
I think I heard on the news that births are down this year or something, and I felt like calling the network and saying "you lie!" Because I feel like I am the only woman in my whole town that isn't sporting a baby bump or pushing a cute little child in a stroller down the street. The cooler weather has brought all these uber cute moms out to walk the streets (no pun) and I don't even want to drive to work anymore. I'm so effing suck of being infertile I could crawl under a rock. major ((hugs)) sweetie. I am in the trenches with you
ReplyDeletewow, clearly I haven't read the cathy comic strip in forever, i didn't see that coming. Very lame ending indeed.
ReplyDeleteOh -- I get this. I hated every stupid plot line of every stupid movie or tv show that had pregnancy, kids, grandparents -- pretty much any evidence of breedig just was shitty. I'm sorry you are in a foul mood about it all, but hopefully it will pass with ovulation.
ReplyDeleteAre you f'ing kidding me? She's pregnant? Of course she is... Just like every stupid movie out there. They always have to finish everything out the same - they lived happily ever after and got pregnant. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteHa ha I know exactly how you feel. Pete and I will roll eyes at each other in movies, etc... It's cliche.
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of tv/movie moms who get pregnant on a whim, so you go ahead and be jealous of Cathy.
ReplyDeleteI've been like that with TV/movie characters but I have to say not so much with the cartoons.... : ) What a lame-ass, cheesy way to end the strip!
ReplyDeleteHahaha! This post made me laugh! Your outrage is totally appropriate. That is a stupid way to end a comic strip. As though a baby is the only happy ending possible. Barf.
ReplyDeleteUGH! That is the dumbest ending ever. Good riddance Cathy!
ReplyDeleteTv characters drive me nuts...always with the baby in the end. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteHaha, love it! I totally think Cathy is too old and suspect secret use of donor technology--you know, like all the other late-40s celebs ;) I get really mad about the use of pregnancy as a plot device these days. Because I mean really, even the most fertile lady can only get pregnant one or two days out of the month. So either all these accidentally knocked up TV and movie characters are extremely unlucky (just happened to have sex on the one wrong day of the month, oops!), or they are having lots and lots of unprotected sex and thus pregnancy shouldn't be such a shocker. Like that new show Raising Hope, where they have sex once and of course, up pops a baby! (That show's been making me crazy, as an adoptive mom, because really they should place that baby with loving adoptive parents...but it's actually pretty funny, so I can't help watching it...ugh). Anyway--you are not alone in raging at fictional characters. I do it all the time :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a bitch, that Cathy.
ReplyDeleteI'm serious. What a bitch move to finish the comic strip. I don't blame you for being upset. I cry all the time at people getting pregnant in tv shows and books and movies. Why not comics? :)
Cathy should know better! Clearly that writer doesn't have much IF experience or they would never end the strip that way...
ReplyDeleteHappy ending = baby. The twisted thing about it is as much as I think that's ridiculous, it's [sob] true. So, I'm jealous of Cathy, too.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad.. I'm jealous of her too. I also analyze fictional characters .
ReplyDeleteLast night, while watching How I Met Your Mother.. I told my husband "Lily must not be pregnant because she's drinking". He didn't respond.
I find it all annoying too. The other season of The Office when Pam twisted her ankle and went into get an x ray I just KNEW they would make her pregnant. It was the last episode of the show that I watched. I was so annoyed.
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