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Finally getting to my post on my perspective on Young Sheldon (as a life long and proud Texan).

 It is Sunday and Bubs is going to take the kids for breakfast at a local place called "Jerry Bob's." Not only am I not hungry and feeling a little crabby, but I kind of feel like we moved to more cosmopolitan Arizona to get away from places called "Jerry Bob's." I told him that I was going to stay at home and get some blogging done. He "joked" that he can't wait to be bored by it later. Enjoy your greasy food from Jerry Bob's asshole. And bring me back French Toast.  So I have been promising this post for literally months now and kept getting sidetracked by my fragile emotions, life events and the best haircut I've ever had (I can literally curl my hair every day now--it's incredible). But one of my long time readers asked me to talk about how realistic the show Young Sheldon was from a life long and very proud Texan.  So first things first, my family and I loved that show. I think it's kind of bittersweet because it's the ...

As a Texas girly, my very biased and unprofessional review of the newish show "Landman."

 So I have several blogs kind of in the works but some are very emotional (i.e our house is being packed up this week and Bubs and I had a pretty emotional last marriage counseling session) so I've been distracting myself by watching the Paramount show Landman. For those who are unaware, it's apparently written by the same guy who did the Yellowstone series. Although, I have only seen clips of Yellowstone apparently Landman has a very similar feel and tone.  I am very protective of my home state so I always go into shows like that with some trepidation because there are so few that actually get Texas correct. Most of the time, we are presented as this overly racist, backwoods group of hillbillies that can't get along with anyone else. I actually have no problem with depictions like that, I just chose to turn them off because all I can do is pick them apart with how wrong they are. I think the best way to look at Texas is more like a microcosm of the US. We have huge cities ...