Hi, my name is Karina and I'm a Netflixer

So one day, you're sitting there, wondering what to do. For whatever reason you have nothing to do on a Friday night, or you have forgotten everything that needs to get done. You reach for your remote and then see the Nexflix icon on your screen. You move your remote over to click on it and then begin to scroll through the many shows they have available. You decide to just try one out, something you heard about, something a friend told you about...something that you recognize. You go to Season 1, Episode 1 and watch the first show available....

The next thing you know it is 2am on a Monday and you have to get up in 4 hours to get to work. 

You have been Nexflixed. You have entered into a time-space dimension where reality ceases to exist except for your latest addiction. 

The thing is, Netflix is like a drug pusher. Sure, you can watch almost an entire show all at once...that is the ones that are available. Then you reach the end of the last available episode on Nexflix...and you are now stuck with a conundrum. If you happen to have cable you now desperately search to see if you are lucky enough to have found a show that you are able to continue watching. 

However, if you don't have cable, like many of us, or you do not have the channel you desperately need, you have choices. None of them really all that pretty. You can illegally download the episodes, or buy them from iTunes or Amazon, or become really really good friends with someone who has awesome cable channels. 

Either way you are now stuck with the reality that time is so damned slow between shows.

Then a thought occurs to you...there is this other show you heard about...maybe you can quell the time between shows by starting another show. 

It's a little like throwing flaming bales of hay to stop a conflagration. You are not sure why it seemed like a good idea at the time, but it certainly made sense when you thought of it. 

Don't feel bad, it is the reality of Netflix. So far I have Netflixed Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, The League, Dr. Who...it's like the endless cycle of madness. One that I am not willing to stop any time soon. I type this as I am watching Walking Dead again....you see, this weekend it starts again, and I must be "caught up"...and by "caught up" I mean just reinforce the Netflix addiction. 

I know, I know...it is a sickness....And I hope to make the next meeting of Netflixers Anonymous....then again, there is this show I heard about....it's supposed to be really good....


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