With my son and daughter at a park on Mother's Day

Sometimes I feel like my brain is constantly seeking potential SNL skits.  My preteen son has joined me in this and sometimes when we are left alone, we come up with amusing scenarios.  This occurred recently at a strip mall while my husband left to get a few items from a store, leaving me in the car with my son and toddler daughter.  One of the shows I tease my son and sometimes my husband for watching is “Survivorman.”

It is a reality show about a man surviving for a week at a time in different challenging circumstances, such as the ocean or the Amazon.  I told them that there should be a show called “Survivorwoman,” which I would gladly be the star of.  In this show, I would have to endure trying out top class hotels the world over.  I would be shown comparing the best food, the best massages, the best spa treatments, you get the picture – I would have to survive all such scenarios…

Anyway, as we waited at the strip mall, we wondered what “Survivorman” would do in such a scene.  It would be called “Strip Mall Survivorman.”  We imagined him waking up in the parking lot, surrounded by a chinese restaurant, Kmart, a liquor store and various other stores.  He would of course do a pan on his camera of the scene.  He would explain to us how he would eat lunch at the chinese restaurant, and what he would eat.  We would then get to see him eat it.  He would then potentially get some alcohol at the liquor store…you get the picture.  Exciting show!  As exciting as watching me enjoy spa treatments on “Survivorwoman,” a show every woman would want to try to survive on…