The Unemployment Chronicles: Pass the Grey Poupon...it's Royal Wedding Week!

The job search has been suspended!

No, I have not found gainful, full time employment, but that will need to be put on hold.  And why?  It's Royal Wedding Week!

Just when I thought I had reached rock bottom in terms of my self-esteem and confidence as a business professional I have stooped to a new low.  I am officially sucked into all of this Royal Wedding-hype like some sick, demented middle aged British shut in.  Truthfully, I have not paid much attention to all the hoopla until the past few days.  I saw the headlines, caught some of the news stories, but I have been on the sidelines in terms of engagement (sorry for the bad pun there).

AND then...last night...it started.  Dateline was running a special on Kate Middleton.  Intrigued?  You betcha!

Maybe it's just that I was tired, bored and nothing else on T.V. that peaked my interest?

Wrong.

Awaken this dreary Monday morning with my usual self-loathing for having no real professional purpose when suddenly I turn on Good Morning America to find it is all-things Royal wedding.  Not sure how much time passed until I realized the shower was running, the kids were downstairs screaming and doing God knows what and  I was totally immersed in Robin Roberts reporting LIVE from jolly old England atop a double-decker bus.

Look in the mirror, slap myself in the face and I attempt to 'man up'.  I switch the channel over to SportsCenter, but, frankly, after about 6 seconds I was tuned back into some OTHER morning talk show discussing the pending nuptials of William and Cate.  I can't fight it.

I ask you, what is wrong with me?

I was completely enthralled with the review of who got invited and who did not? 
Mesmerised by the talk of the procession through London. 
Amazed by all of the planning, the pomp, the circumstance. 
I am loving it!

So, again, what is wrong with me? 

Have I transformed into some sort of "English muffin"?  Morphed into a "Queen" of another color?

I am following EXTRA's Mario Lopez on Twitter to make sure I do not miss one minute of the action. 
I have DVR'ed 7 specials airing simultaneously to guarantee I am on top of all of the Anglo-Saxon-action! 
I just spent 10 minutes arguing with my 4 year old because she wants to watch Little Bear and I  KNOW I am missing great wedding gossip from the ladies of The View!

Anyway, enough time babbling on this foolish blog.  It's almost Tea Time.

Pip, pip, cheerio!
Frank