I'm a sucker...

First of all, Jen and I were doing some work with the TV on last night, watching "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (EMHE) and I come away with these facts:

1. It's not a 'makeover,' they knock down a house and build a new one, roughly in the same spot. I guess they didn't want to use the title "We Knock Down a House and Build a New One in 1 Week."
2. You NEVER want to qualify for the new house in EMHE, you have lived through some serious crap if you do. I've seen families with a dead or dying parent, parents of kids with extreme diseases, people's whose houses are rotting death traps, etc. If you qualify, you've been through some rough times.
3. The houses they build are ridiculously huge and probably consume copious amount of resources to heat and cool. Not everyone needs the huge professional range (though I admit it is aesthetically pleasing). Even when they built an "environmentally friendly" house (with some solar panels), it was still huge (I mean all of these look like they are at least 4000 sq ft of living space).
   
4. Despite my philosophical problems with this show from a sustainability and false concept of the 'makeover' (I assume actually making over the house has to be more energy efficient), I'm a total sucker for this show. I'm amazed at all they do, as quickly as they do, and the stories are so poignant. I usually can't help but getting a little teary-eyed.

So there you have it, one of my guilty pleasures...