Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Monday, October 13, 2008
Oooo, new fall TV shows!
But, it's mostly after the kids go to bed (except for football which lucky me, is now on Thursdays too). Which is good because at least they're not watching TV and for me, the choice between sleep and TV helps me cut down on tube time. I do have shows backed up in my DVR though, and I haven't even watched the premiere of Grey's Anatomy. I've got to admit though, I am anxiously awaiting the premiere of Eli Stone (tomorrow!) and keep checking my DVR to make sure it's set to record. I love that show. And, we do keep up with The Amazing Race. It's a good show to just watch & chill out with the husband.
But the TV is still off more than it's on, which is a huge accomplishment for us! I can't even remember how we fit TV into the schedule. It's like that space just filled up with other things. Like in the morning, when it's a mad rush out the door. Or at night when it's the dinner, bath, bedtime race. Or when we're doing homework (whoever heard of homework in kindergarten!) Or when we're chasing after our now 1 yr old toddler!
Monday, October 6, 2008
And they didn't even say Hi!.... The Amazing Race 13
It always cracks me up how people go on the show to see whether they should continue their relationship or not (i.e., separated couple Ken & Tina). Hmmm, let's take 6 weeks of really stressful traveling, stunts, competition and intense athletic activity to figure out our relationship... or is it the hope of winning $1M at the end?
It's all very entertaining anyway. We love The Amazing Race, always have. Something about seeing the world and the adventure racing aspect of it.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Back to Basics
However, I must say, due to a series of events over the last several weeks at our house, we’ve watched maybe an average of only 1 hour of TV a day. Which is amazing in our household. These events were, the Olympics ending and having nothing interesting to watch, and our 4 year old having her TV privileges taken away (which were only 1 hour per day for the summer anyway). So, in our wired world, you’d think we’d all turn to our computers and the internet and youtube, right? Well, throw in technical difficulties with our internet being down for a week and we were back to basics, literally.
But you know what? We didn’t miss it. I didn’t miss it. My daughter found other things to do and I actually started reading again! Oh, I used to love reading, before law school and practicing law totally killed any desire I had to read since I was researching and reading cases, articles and legislation all day. And this wasn’t just listening to audio books as I’ve done over the years in the car doing errands and commuting. This was an actual live book with pages to turn and everything. I read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert in about a week and I’m hooked on reading again. I can't believe I've actually made time to read again. We go to the library now so I can check out books too (which as an aside, I absolutely love the library – big fan, always have been). And, for all you readers out there who want to exchange out some of your books, check out this very cool website, Paperback Swap!
So for now, I'm in a little happy reading place and currently reading Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albrom. Check back in October though, when the fall TV lineup starts again...
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