In preparation for the big adventure we want to take where we plan to spend a year traveling the world as a family, we are working on saving money.  This means tightening our belts and cutting back the budget including downgrading our cable plan.

If it were up to me I would cancel cable all together except for the month of July (Tour de France), but Andy likes his Deadliest Catch and other Discovery Channel programs and now we have Belén’s considerations as well…Dora is on Nickelodeon.

Not that not having Dora on the DVR would be the end of the world…it certainly would help my sanity on those days when I get “I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m the map. I’m THE MAP!” stuck in my head.  Those Dora songs really are terrible.  I would love to see the Barenaked Ladies rewrite the songs on Dora.  Have you heard their children’s CD Snacktime?  It is fantastic, complete with Crazy ABCs

and 789.

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Anyway, I digress.  My point is our cable plan was cut back (and will be cut back even further) which found us watching MTV on a Friday night after Belén was in bed.  By the time I started paying attention, we were watching a documentary on 50 Cent…a misunderstood rapper, gangsta, yo!  On a commercial break there was a request for people to send in videos to become the next MTV VJ (video jockey…not that they every show videos anymore).

There are certain moments when you know you have become a grown up.  Of course having a child is one of those, but you can also lump in buying your first house, meeting with a financial planner, realizing that the hottest young actors would make you a pedophile, etc.

Another such moment was when we were watching MTV and they asked for people to submit their videos for VJ, rather than thinking, “oh, I should get my video in” like I would have when I was 19, I started envisioning myself in the board room at MTV, watching all of the best submitted potential VJ videos trying to determine which young VJ-star/starlet-to-be would resonate best with MTV’s target demographic.

So ya, yet another way you know you are an adult, you want to be in the boardroom at rather than a star of MTV.

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