No patience.

Unfortunately, the time I had this weekend to sit around and watch television fell during what I would call "dry" viewing times. As such, I was forced to watch shows that ended up really annoying me.

First off was Friday's episode of Oprah. It was a follow up with the families who Oprah had put on a "debt diet." She picked three families who were on the brink of bankruptcy and hooked them up with "the country's leading financial experts" in order to get them out of the holes into which they'd dug themselves. Annoying moment #1: listening to and watching to see how these families got into debt. Four cars for two drivers, three meals out a day, seven days a week, 96 inch televisions, mortgages beyond their means...I have no patience for people who do not think. If you're in debt because Uncle Sam helped you pay for your education, cool. So am I. If you're in debt because you thought a credit card was "free money" and you haven't, by the age of 40 (and with a spouse and several children) realized that is not, in fact, the case (and paying the minimum each month is not really "smart"), then I'm done with you.

Next up: WE's Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl. On this week's episode, I had the privilege of meeting Molly. Molly has absolutely no regard for money at all (think Super Sweet 16 ten years later). Her pets (to include horses and dogs) have names such as Prada, Coach and 'Sace (yep, short for Versace). She lives in North Lima, Ohio. Please. Of course, she wants to be an actress, so she decides to leave the 8,000 square foot estate where she lives to move to Los Angeles. But not before she throws herself a going away party (on Daddy's dime) that costs tens of thousands of dollars. Annoying moment #2: Don't complain about your daughter being a spoiled brat if you are an enabler. Don't act surprised when she spends whatever she feels like on whatever she wants. Don't wonder why she is so selfish and thoughtless when you have never before held her accountable for her actions. Children learn by example. If you buy her whatever she wants, she thinks she can buy whatever she wants. If you don't reprimand her for spending too much money and follow through with threats/punishments, her chances of "learning" are even lower. If you bankroll everything and buy her material things so she will love you...

And, finally, Dr. 90210. This episode was partly about Amanda, a 27 year old woman who thought that getting a boob job, lipo, lip implants, laser face stuff, botox, and a nose job would get her out of her rut, allowing her to date and lose her virginity. Because, obviously, it was because she was fat (she wasn't), flat chested (not so much), had freckles (big deal), etc. that she was in the position she was in and not because, as she herself seemingly proudly proclaimed her days consist of: coffee, tv, hanging out on the couch with her family, more tv. Annoying moment #3: Blaming outside forces for your problems rather than blaming yourself. Maybe, Amanda, if you got off your butt and maybe went to a job, or exercised, or just got out of the house you wouldn't blame other things for your "problems" and you wouldn't be spending thousands and thousands of dollars (and months of recovery time--and at such a young age!) on plastic surgery. Annoying moment #4: Dr. Rey's wife "trying to get healthy" by...wait for it...eating. Wwwwahhhh, Hayley, I'm sorry you're so stressed (because your husband is making millions of dollars and you have to pay all the bills) and you just can't eat. Annoying moment #5: a stage mother who wanted a boob lift and augmentation. You should have gotten your annoying quotient on that one from the words "stage mother"--she said she hasn't paid herself from her childrens' salaries but, instead, has invested them. How noble.