sobbing into my moving boxes

so there i was last night, tuned into abc to see the season premiere of "extreme makeover: home edition....and i was sobbing. crying quite heavily as i packed up my dvds and candles and books and shoes. have i mentioned this show? i'm sure i must have. okay, so i know the producers aren't very subtle about the whole "pulling on the heartstrings" thing. they choose families with sad stories. like the family with the son who had just been paralyzed in a car accident and who had to stay in one room of the house because everything else wasn't wheelchair accessable. or the woman who chose to adopt kids who no one else wanted but could now barely make house payments. or the family like last night. the mom had died a few years ago very suddenly and now this widowed father was raising their 8 kids. 8 kids people! and he was so in love with his wife. and they showed all the cute little kids crying and the dad looking at his wife's old desk and there was no stopping the tears. and then ty pennington (hot) and his team of designers and construction workers built a new house in a week! can you believe it people? when the family saw their new house it was just too much. i can't believe a show on abc is getting to me like this. i'd expect that maybe from cable.....but from network? jesus christ. i'm such a sap.