"Switched at Birth"

{Photo from http://abcfamily.go.com}

I can't believe it's already been three months since I moved to a new city/state (no, not a city-state like Monaco...don't I wish ;-P).  And I moved into my new apartment two months ago.  Generally I don't bother with getting a landline phone set up or cable TV.  Attempts at being a frugalista.  All the TV shows I like to watch such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives" could be accessed at no additional cost with rabbit ears/antenna & a digital converter box (yes, for shame, I don't have an HDTV yet ;-P).  Well, when I called the local company to get Internet service set up in my new apartment, I was astonished that the monthly fee for that is $59.99 plus tax.  I'm used to paying like $19.99 or $29.99 a month for Internet.  So at the time of this phone call, I thought it was a wise decision to just bundle and get cable, landline phone, and Internet for just a wee bit more.  Oh, cable TV, you will be the end of me. Especially the Food Network channel. ;-P

Where am I going with all this?  If you couldn't tell by the picture above, there's a new TV show on ABC Family called "Switched at Birth".  The following is a description of the show from the ABC Family website: "Switched at Birth, a one-hour drama, tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital.  Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood.  Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls." 

The show premiered on 6 June 2011, and tonight the fourth episode aired.  I'm voluntarily watching this show as part of my 'professional development'.  I've only taken a couple of classes on communication sciences and disorders, but I had a really great professor for those classes and learned a bit on Deaf culture.  It's interesting to watch what may be Hollywood's twist and society's perception of those who are hard-of-hearing, particularly the younger population.  The show has proven to be both educational in a sense and entertaining.  In addition, I may not have been switched at birth, but I was adopted at a young age yet old enough to remember it all.  I actually know my biological family and remember having to leave them.  I didn't speak English at the time so that didn't help matters.  I took ESL (English as a Second Language) for a year in grade school, and now years later, I'm a blogging fool. ;-P  Heh, heh.  Anywho, it's also been interesting watching the dynamics of the two families and what the two girls are going through. 

You can catch full episodes of "Switched at Birth" on-line at http://abcfamily.go.com.  And you can catch me here where I'm "Hear 4 U Always".  Ah - gotta love Google...found a picture of my favorite animal signing the word 'love'.  Sending y'all love and best wishes (insert Paula Deen's voice ;-P...I did say I've been watching A LOT of Food Network...heh heh...Paula sends y'all "best dishes"!).