The Royal Wedding

I have been making fun of the royal wedding for months. Especially in the past few weeks, things have gotten INSANE. Prince William and his bride have been on the cover of every magazine, every tabloid, every EVERYTHING. It's as if the entire world has their eyes on London. The British citizens got Thursday and Friday off as national holidays for the wedding. WHAT?! This is crazy! No one in Kalamazoo got the day off for MY wedding! I mean, Jake missed a baseball game, which I guess was a pretty big sacrifice, but it's not like they canceled the game in honor of ME. That's what they would have done if I were a princess. *huffy breath*

Anyway, why is everyone caring about this wedding when there are REAL issues going on in the world!? People are being bombed in Lybia! People are starving to death in Africa! People are still trying to deal with the fallout of Japan's earthquake/tsunami mix! Yet all everyone can talk about is "Ooooh...I wonder what her dress will look like?" or "Did you hear who's doing the flower arrangements?" Gag me. Who really cares about this stuff? Couldn't the millions of dollars spent on this wedding have gone towards something a little bit more productive?

Now THIS is a really unbelievable part - because of the time difference, people in the eastern time zone had to get up at 6:00 AM to watch the Royal Wedding on live TV. I mean, what - you can't tivo it and watch it later? I'm sure we'll be hearing about it and seeing recaps of it for months - do you really have to see it LIVE? Yet an estimated 2 billion people did just that. I didn't even know that 2 billion people in the world (a THIRD of our population - mind you!) has access to televisions or computers. This is COMPLETELY insane - all of this hype over two people. I have been very vocal about the ridiculous spectacle that is this wedding all week leading up to the "historic" event.

Yet somehow, when 6 AM rolled around on Friday morning...I couldn't stay in bed. My alarm didn't go off or anything, but it's like my internal clock said, "Stop fooling yourself. You don't want to be sleeping right now." I slithered out of bed and sneaked into our living room, where I sheepishly turned on the computer to ashamedly watch live streaming of the "ridiculously overrated" event. Rex must have woken up at some point, because he called out groggily from the bedroom, "Christine? What are you doing?" I called back in a desperate confession, "FINE! I ADMIT IT! I CARE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE ROYAL WEDDING!" He chuckled and said "Ha ha. You would." Then he went back to sleep. I felt somewhat liberated at divulging my true feelings on the event, but equally ridiculous for waking up at 6 AM to watch something that I KNOW is so completely overdone. I mean, who knows if they will even stay married? Celebrities never seem to stay married! But, according to 2 billion people around the world and 1 million people in the streets of London, none of that matters. We wanted to see the wedding anyway. Oh, well.

Congrats, William and Kate - on your new marriage, and for making me feel like an idiot. But your wedding was really nice.