AWKWARD

Here's the scene: the members of the Shapiro family are all sitting nicely around a coffee table playing scrabble and Grey's Anatomy happens to be on tv in the background.

I'm not exactly paying attention to which episode it is, figuring it's like last week's or whatever. little do I know Erica is about to have her crazy emotional COMING OUT cry-fest with Callie. I mean really!!! So my father's watching and trying to figure out who she's sleeping with cause he obviously doesn't watch Grey's and he's a little taken aback seeing as how his semi-out daughter is sitting to his right. So I keep texting on my phone trying to pretend I'm oblivious to the RAINBOW FEST that's playing "out" on the tv about 2 feet away from me.. when... I happen to look up and catch my sister trying to guage my father's reaction. LIKE HELLO. I know what that look means. She sees me watching her and immediately goes back to typing on her laptop obviously telling one of her friends about the drama unfolding.

THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME.

Seriously, I decided early today that I wanted to try and make my family less World War II-esque and more Brady Bunch... for what reason? 19 years later means its long overdue. There's enough family drama between my cousins and aunts to last me a lifetime, let's try to keep it "all in the family" if you know what I mean. Either way I figured it be nice bonding time playing scrabble, which it was, until... the gay celebration trampeded right through.

So yeah... it totally made things awkward, especially since lil sis doesnt know I'm out, although she's probably guessed by now. I'm also thinking she's dawning some rainbow stripes too. So EPIC fail to that attempt. SERIOUSLY.

Raising the Bar, Raised the Bar

Alright so I watched a show on TNT that I've never seen before called Raising the Bar. I guess it's your stereotypical law show about a firm and the people that surround it - the lawyers, the defendants, the victims, the judge, etc. 

What struck me as WOW was the fact that one of the judiciaries is GAY. Yes, that's right a successful MALE, is now fully portrayed as a closeted gay. Not that the closeted part is groundbreaking but the way in which it was handled was impressive. After Mr. Closet's boyfriend is arrested for distribution of E, he asks his lawyer best friend to take the case, who obviously says yes (awww to best friend love). After the best friend jumps through hoops and gets the bf off with barely any consequences, Mr. Closet breaks up with flaming bf in a very heartfelt and respectful way. Lawyer best friend drags Mr. Closet up the roof, and tells him to be real, that he's jeopardizing his career by not publicly admitting he's gay. Mr. Closet sheds some tears, and lawyer best friend gives him a really cute hug. (awww to best friend love). 

Now that's all cute and everything but there was a whole other scene that made me go ape shit for the show. Cute, nerdy lawyer guy has a major crush on his boss. Now the whole interracial stuff makes it cute too, cause he totally looks past it but the line he feeds her... babe, eat your heart out. So here's how it breaks down.

She sees one of his past young clients flirting with him. He goes to talk to her and she mentions that he shouldn't get involved. Conversation dwindles and he walks away... Later that day he invites her to drinks with the rest of the firm and she declines. He then says I'm not sure if I catch onto everything, but did I perhaps, not catch onto you being jealous before? She naturally says he's wrong. and as he puts on his jacket and walks out the door he turns around, melodramatically, of course, and says: "Just for the record, if you told me you were single, you'd be the only girl that existed" and I....died. It was just so intolerably cute.

Now that's all folks. Loved the show.